Legacy Winter 2016 The Florida Holocaust Museum Newsletter
Inside this issue of Legacy Join us for To Life: To the Arts on February 18 — p 3 Museum volunteers participate in the Great American Teach-In — p 5 Join us at The FHM for upcoming events and exhibitions — p 6 & 7 Updates to the History, Heritage & Hope wall bring new technology to The FHM — p 9
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Hancock Bank Presents from the Permanent Collection Walter P. Loebenberg – Founder Amy Epstein – Founding Board Chair
Forging a Wartime Life
Board of Directors Nathaniel L. Doliner – Board Chair Marty Borell – Immediate Past Board Chair Renée Walter – Vice Chair Governance Rachael S. Worthington, Esq. – Vice Chair External Affairs Amanda Saft – Vice Chair Internal Affairs Brian Katz – Treasurer Ann Piccard, J.D., LL.M. – Secretary Renee Dabbs Anne Michelle Frey Eva Gerson Housh Ghovaee Steven Greenbaum Michael A. Igel, Esq. Helen Levine, Ph.D. Natarsha D. Nesbitt, Esq. Walter P. Loebenberg Toni Rinde Janet Rodriguez-Rocha Lisl Schick Marti Simon Robin Warren Advisory Committee Amy and Bruce Epstein Lois Pardoll Irene Weiss Mary Wygodski Matthew N. Gordon, CFP – Financial Advisor Michael H. Robbins – General Counsel Elizabeth Gelman – Executive Director Museum Staff Aimee Alvarez Baruch Erin Blankenship Scooter Bontly Dallas Collins Garry Deatherage Rick Doyle Mark Epstein Jan Hensley Jesse Jackson Maria Johnston Korri Krajicek Sarah McDonald Sandy Mermelstein Anna Olejnicek Kelly Oliva Leo Plankensteiner Rick Riley Elena Sanderlin John Sanguinett Monique Saunders Elias Senoner Keeley Sheehan Urszula Szczepinska Frances Villarreal Lenora Walters
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Featuring both government issued and forged wartime documents on the Rinde family. Learn more about the exhibit, now on display at The FHM, on page 7.
The Florida Holocaust Museum Leadership Council Leadership Council Rachael Worthington, Co-Chair Elizabeth Gelman, Co-Chair David Baras, M.D. Michael D. Bisk Frantz G. Christensen Benjamin Diamond Tony DiBenedetto Etta Donnell Maling Ebrahimpour, Ph.D. Ruth Ehrreich Carolyn Ellis, Ph.D. Judy Genshaft, Ph. D., Honorary Steve Gersten Louis Goldfeder* Gary Gould
Bryan Greenberg William Greenberg, M.D. Brenda Greenwald Rochelle Gross Adam L. Horn William F. Jeffrey Mary Johnson, Ph.D. Randy Meg Kammer The Hon. Nelly N. Khouzam Edward Kissi, Ph.D. Zena Lansky, M.D. John J. Loftus Mitchell Lowenstein, M.D. Catherine McGarry Nancy Paikoff Aakash M. Patel Joy G. Pollack Alan Rash Mary Anne Reilly Brendon Rennert
Jack Ross Marion Samson-Joseph* Calvin B. Samuel David Scher Mark Segel Debbie Sembler Jeffrey Shear Craig Sher Todd Siegel Gayle Sierens Tom Stanton Bonnie Stein Robert Stein, M.D. Linda S.Taggart, M.A. Howard Tevlowitz Dr. Mary Kay Vona Mark Wright *of blessed memory
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The Florida Holocaust Museum was created 24 years ago to honor the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. It only takes a few people with hate in their heart to devastate a community. We have watched so many communities be devastated by the horrific acts of terror throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East during 2015. Whether the perpetrators are Islamic extremists or white supremacists, the rationale for acts of violence remains the same: an ideology that allows them to see other races, religions or cultures as subhuman, as “the other.” With the surge of violence and terror around the world, the mission of The
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Florida Holocaust Museum has never been more relevant. We continue to collect artifacts and testimony and find new ways to educate our visitors about the lessons of the Holocaust. While we are unable to alter the past, our goal has always been to use these terrible lessons to provide a moral compass to traverse the challenges of today and create a better future. During the past year, Museum staff has created new educational materials that are available on-line free of charge to any educator. Some were created in partnership with research organizations, such as the interactive educational guide on the mass killings in Eastern Europe; some use the objects, artifacts and testimonies of Survivors and Liberators that we hold in our own collections. We continue to expand our Law Enforcement & Society program, having completed the training of 1,000 Tampa Police Officers in December and begin working with the St. Petersburg Police Department in January.
This spring will see pilot programs using technology to bring the Museum’s educators and Survivor speakers into communities throughout Florida that have few Holocaust resources. An extraordinary partnership between the Museum, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and Stetson University College of Law brings a Fulbright Scholar with an expertise in conflict and genocide studies to our area to teach and speak about current world conflicts. In the next few pages you will find the wonderful breath of programs and exhibitions the Museum has planned for the next few months. Thank you for your continued support for the Museum’s mission and for helping to ensure that the legacy of those who suffered and died in the Holocaust is a legacy of hope. Wishing us all a new year filled with peace and joy,
Elizabeth Gelman
Tickets available now for To Life: To the Arts on Febuary 18 To Life: To the Arts will celebrate the inspirational and healing power of the arts with guest speaker and internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak, who will receive the prestigious 2016 Loebenberg Humanitarian Award.
concentration camp. Mr. Shapira will perform his original work, joined by other instrumentalists and the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Proceeds from To Life benefit the Museum’s educational programs.
To Life: To the Arts will take place on Thursday, February 18 at 6 p.m. at The Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg. In addition to Mr. Bak, To Life will feature an original performance by violinistcomposer Ittai Shapira.
retrospective of his work, curated by the artist himself. To Life: To the Arts will be the official opening of that exhibition, which will open at the Museum on February 20 and run through July.
Mr. Bak’s artistic talent was first recognized during an exhibition of his work in the Vilna ghetto when he was only nine. The Florida Holocaust Museum is proud to present a
Violinist-composer Ittai Shapira’s original score The Ethics premiered at Carnegie Hall last spring to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Theresienstadt
Sponsorship opportunities for To Life: To the Arts are available. Please call Maria Johnston at (727) 820-0100 ext. 274 for details. Individual tickets for To Life are available for purchase online at TheFHM.org. Photos: Left, Samuel Bak, Right, Ittai Shapira. 3
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Learn more about The FHM’s permanent collection
For many Jewish families trying to escape the Holocaust, acquiring forged documents and passing as gentiles was one strategy of survival, though very dangerous. The wartime experiences of Rinde family from Przemyśl, Poland, offer one example. Maurice and Stella Rinde—along with their two children, John and Irene— successfully disguised themselves as a Polish-Catholic family between 194246, adopting the name Kroczykowski after a gentile family acquaintance. The artifacts and testimonies of their experiences comprise the Rinde Collection and form part of The FHM permanent collection.
Multigenerational in scope, the Rinde collection tells a powerful story of family collaboration, love, and resilience. Comprising original photographs, identification papers, and testimonies, the collection traces the Rinde family’s journey from pre-war Poland to their permanent settlement in the United States after the war. Selections of the collection are currently on display in the exhibit, Hancock Bank Presents Highlights from the Permanent Collection— Forging a Wartime Life.
documents in the Rinde collection. In August 1938, Stella received her pre-war passport in anticipation of a trip to Czechoslovakia. Four years later, while the Rindes were living in the Lvov ghetto, she decided that the family would acquire gentile identities. At great personal risk, Stella visited a gentile forger in Lvov in August 1942. The forger carefully removed Stella’s Jewish name from her passport and substituted Genowefa Kroczykowska’s name and birth data. The document bears the traces of that history. Over the next few weeks, the Rindes acquired additional forged documents in Lvov before moving to Lublin, Poland in September 1942 where they lived under the Kroczykowski name. Dr. John and Toni Rinde generously donated the collection to The FHM, cementing a long and fruitful relationship with the museum. Dr. Rinde is a frequent speaker and active docent at The FHM. His wife, Toni Rinde, is also a Survivor and serves on the Museum’s Board of Directors. Alia Levar Wegner, Exhibitions and Collections intern. Specializing in print culture, Alia recently received a master’s degree in Material Culture and History of the Book from the University of Edinburgh.
Featured here is Stella Rinde’s forged Polish passport, the earliest forged
Help The FHM Preserve and Share the Stories of Survivors and the History of the Holocaust The Florida Holocaust Museum is always seeking original material related to Holocaust Survivors’ personal experiences. Our goal is to impact our visitors through personal stories which can only be told through objects and documents used by Survivors and witnesses during World War II. Some examples of material the Museum collects are: diaries, toys, personal documentation (i.e., identification papers), Judaica, photographs and clothing. Please contact Erin Blankenship, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, at (727) 820-0100 ext. 271 to learn more about the Museum’s collecting efforts. 4
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Museum participates in Great American Teach-In November 18 was the Great American Teach-In. GATI is part of the annual American Education Week celebration. It is an opportunity to bring speakers from the Museum into local schools. Our Museum has participated in GATI for many years. Being able to send speakers to schools is one of the most powerful ways to teach our mission. This year we had our most successful participation. I sent out 12 speakers, covering the entire Pinellas County. Our speakers included Holocaust Survivors, members of our Generations After group of adult children of Holocaust Survivors, docents, and Education Department staff. I would like to thank the following volunteers who participated: Marie Silverman (pictured with students, right), Lisl Schick, Ed and Halina Herman with their daughter Diane, Jackie Albin, Jack Mayer, Herta Pila, Herb Cohen, Claire Shonter, Donna Gaffney and Harry Heuman. I think I speak for everyone that it was a truly rewarding experience for all of us. I represented the Museum at Clearwater Fundamental Middle School. I spoke about my parents’ experiences in Germany before World War II, coming to America
and building a new life here. The students were very receptive and asked lots of questions. I spent an entire day at the school and had an opportunity to interact with many students and teachers. During 5th period I was joined by Halina Herman and her daughter Diane who spoke together about Halina’s personal experiences during the Holocaust and Diane’s perspective of being raised by Holocaust Survivors and how being a Second Generation impacted her life. Halina also shared her postwar experiences and answered numerous questions about her life in Poland, France, then in Canada and finally in the United States.
We felt we truly made an impact and offered the students a chance to translate the history lessons into today. As always it is an honor to represent the Museum and I look forward to another successful Teach-In next year. Sandy Mermelstein, Senior Educator (pictured above right)
Join us for Pass the Plate: The FHM Spring Cook-off
The Florida Holocaust Museum invites the community to come together in a celebration of family, history, heritage and delicious recipes at the 2nd Annual Pass the Plate: The FHM Spring Cook-Off on Sunday, March 20th from 2 to 4pm at The FHM (55 Fifth Street South, Downtown St. Pete). The FHM Spring Cook-Off is free and open to the public, and honors the delicious recipes passed down from generation to generation. Flavors are as diverse as the cultures from which they
come, but the act of sharing food unites us. To honor our common love for food, we invite the public to enter a family dish, taste the traditional recipes of others, or both! The event will feature a cooking demonstration and sampling from Laura Frankel, America’s favorite kosher chef and an innovator of modern kosher cuisine. “I had the privilege of eating Laura’s delicious food regularly while I was working in Chicago,” said Elizabeth Gelman, executive director of The FHM. “She is a true Star in the food world, not only in the kosher section but in the sustainable food movement as well. She has a longstanding passion for organic, local, sustainable, and fair trade ingredients. And did I mention how delicious her food is?”
Got a favorite family recipe? Call Erin Blankenship at (727) 820-0100 ext. 271 to enter your traditional dish as soon as possible, because registration will be capped. You must register your dish ahead of time. Those in attendance will have a chance to sample dishes and vote on their favorites to award a People’s Choice Award, so participants in the contest are encouraged to bring sufficient quantities for the public to taste. Local celebrity judges will present a Judge’s Choice Award. Few dishes can win, but everyone will leave with an appreciation for the stories and recipes that connect us to the past and inspire us in the present. Chef Laura’s books are available for purchase at The FHM gift shop with part of the proceeds going to The Musuem. This event is free and open to the public. 5
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A Talk with Mark Weitzman The Debbie and Brent Sembler Florida Holocaust Museum Lecture Series January 25, 2016 at 2 p.m. USF St. Petersburg, 140 7th Avenue S, St. Petersburg Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, will discuss hate groups in America and the resurgence of antisemitism. Free and open to the public. Weitzman will also speak in Sarasota; check TheFHM.org for details.
To Life: To the Arts February 18, 2016 at 6 p.m. The Mahaffey Theater, 400 1st Street S, St. Petersburg Artist and Holocaust Survivor Samuel Bak will receive the Loebenberg Humanitarian Award. To Life is the offcial opening of Samuel bak: A Retrospective, on display February 20 to July 10. Also featuring a performance of violinist-composter Ittai Shapira’s The Ethics, which premiered at Carnegie Hall last spring to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The evening will also feature a performance of violinist-composer Ittai Shapira’s The Ethics, which premiered at Carnegie Hall last spring to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Theresienstadt. Mr. Shapira will be joined by instrumentalists and the Tampa Bay Master Chorale. Event proceeds benefit the Museum’s educational programming. Individual tickets are $200, and are available for purchase online at TheFHM.org. Sponsorships available – call Maria Johnston at 727-820-0100 ext. 274.
Dr. Kasaija comes to St Petersburg as Fulbright Scholar-inResidence through a unique partnership between The FHM, USF St Petersburg and Stetson University College of Law. All three institutions are hosting Dr. Kasaija in collaboration. Students at Stetson and USFSP are taking classes taught by Dr. Kasaija, who brings the groups to The FHM for tours and education. The general public benefits from his residency through the lectures Dr. Kasaija is delivering on human rights and genocide throughout the spring 2016 semester at USFSP and The FHM.
Bent, by Martin Sherman - A Staged Reading March 15, 2016 at 7 p.m. The Florida Holocaust Museum In 1934 Berlin on the eve of the Nazi incursion, Max, a grifter, and his lover Rudy are recovering from a night of debauchery with a SA trooper. Two soldiers burst into the apartment and slit their guest’s throat, beginning a nightmare odyssey through Nazi Germany. Produced with and performed by A Simple Theatre at The Florida Holocaust Museum. To purchase tickets, visit asimpletheatre.org or call (727) 864-7811.
Pass the Plate March 20, 2016 at 2 p.m. The Florida Holocaust Museum Celebrate family, history, heritage and delicious food at the 2nd Annual Pass the Plate: The FHM Spring Cook-Off. Free and open to the public, Pass the Plate honors the precious recipes passed down from generation to generation. Flavors are as diverse as the cultures from which they come, but the act of sharing food unites us. To honor our common love for food, we invite the public to enter a family dish, taste the traditional recipes of others, or both! The event will feature a cooking demonstration and sampling from Laura Frankel, America’s favorite kosher chef and an innovator of modern kosher cuisine. (for more info see full article on p.5) Want to bring a dish for the cook-off? You must register in advance by calling Erin Blankenship at (727) 820-0100 x271.
Save the Date: April 7 and 8, 2016
GHRAM lecture by Dr. Phillip Kasaija, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence March 1, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. The Florida Holocaust Museum Dr. Kasaija is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. His focus is on international law and conflict resolution. Dr. Kasaija has written extensively on the transitional justice processes in post-genocide Rwanda and has served as a consultant to the governments of Uganda and Somalia as well as regional organizations in the areas of promoting national security, diplomatic methods of peaceful resolution of conflicts, and the promotion of peace and national reconciliation. He received his LL.M. and D.Phil in International Law from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. 6
Hear attorney Don Burris speak at The FHM on Thursday, April 7th at 5:30pm, and in Sarasota on April 8th. Burris was the senior attorney in the trial featured in the film Woman in Gold. He’ll talk about the case, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and an arbitration panel in Vienna, as well as other art restitution cases. Visit TheFHM.org for more details.
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SAMUEL BAK – A Retrospective of Seven Decades Presented in conjunction with Pucker Gallery February 20 –July 10, 2016 On display at The Florida Holocaust Museum, 55 5th Street S, St. Petersburg Born in Vilna, Poland, in 1933, artist Samuel Bak began painting as a boy in the Vilna ghetto. The first exhibition of his work was held there when he was 9 years old.Mr. Bak and his mother were the only members of his family to survive the Holocaust. After World War II, they fled to the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp, and Mr. Bak enrolled in painting lessons at the Blocherer School in Munich. He and his mother immigrated to Israel in 1948, where he studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. His first exhibition of abstract paintings was held in Rome in 1959.Since 1959, Samuel Bak has had solo exhibitions at private galleries around the world, with large retrospective exhibitions held at numerous museums, universities and public institutions, including The FHM.Mr. Bak has spent his life wrestling with his experience during the Holocaust, creating a legacy of testimony through his art. To Life: To the Arts is the official opening of a new retrospective of Les Adieux, 1973, by Samuel Bak. Image courtesy of Pucker Mr. Bak’s work, curated by the artist himself, on display at Gallery. the Museum beginning February 20.
Hancock Bank Presents Highlights from the Permanent Collection Forging a Wartime Life The exhibit presents an extraordinary collection of wartime documents - both forged and government issued - that helped the Rinde family disguise themselves as a Polish-Catholic family between 1942-1946. The artifacts are greatly enriched by the written and oral testimonies of the Rinde family, wich provide robust narrative history.
Tempted, Misled, Slaughtered The Short Life of Hitler Youth, Paul B. Now through March 6, 2016 The exhibition shows how the Nazi state, through control of the education system and a massive propaganda effort, seduced the youth of Germany to participate in its destructive mission. 7
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A commitment to remembrance and education Rachael Worthington and her husband Don first became members of the Museum in 2011. They were friends with Warren Rodgers and Dr. Zena Lansky, who have also been very active supporters of the Museum, and introduced the Worthingtons to Holocaust Survivors who volunteer at The FHM. After learning that Rachael’s father, Thomas Scovill, had been a captain during World War II and had liberated a camp near Czechoslovakia, Captain Scovill was encouraged to share his story at the Museum. He was 91 years old when his testimony was recorded in November 2011.
“We were concerned it would be upsetting. He said, I know this is really important because there are people who deny the Holocaust and I want to give this testimony,” Rachael said. He passed away in June 2012, but his dedication to sharing his experience motivated Rachael to stay involved with the Museum. In addition to being donors, Rachael serves on the Board of Directors, helped form the Lawyers of Conscience, and has served several times on the To Life committee. She is also on the Membership committee and the Committee on Conscience, which examines the role of the Museum in speaking out about current atrocities. “It’s just such an important mission that we never forget the impact, and what the Greatest Generation did to win the war, and what people who perished in the Holocaust went through,” Rachael said. “We just cannot ever forget that.”
As the Vice Chair for External Affairs on the Board of Directors, Rachael works to connect the larger community with the Museum and its mission. The Museum, for example, in conjunction with the Sarasota Opera, held performances of music by composers banned by the Nazis, using a different art form to teach about that aspect of the Holocaust. Lawyers of Conscience had its first event on the Nuremberg trials and was instrumental in bringing Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum from the Department of Justice to the Museum for last year’s To Life: To Justice. The next event will feature a talk with Donald Burris, Esq., in April on the Gustav Klimt Woman in Gold case. “Hitler could not have gotten away with what he got away with if the judiciary and lawyers hadn’t been on board,” Rachael said. “It’s important in our profession that we stand up for what is right and what is moral.”
Eckerd students volunteer at The FHM this Fall Students from Eckerd College volunteered at the Museum this past fall, completing a combined more than 500 hours of volunteer service. The students volunteered in many different areas of the Museum, including the Development Department, the Gift Shop and Admissions, and with Security. They worked as gallery guardians, helped with Teaching Trunks, completed data research, transcribed Survivor testimonies, and assisted with mailings. The students then presented about the Museum and their volunteer service at Eckerd College. Pictured from left to right: Margaret Dean, Andrew Metzger. Jordan Brooks, Samuel Fisher, Anna Shaw, Shelby Hall, Amy Bryant. Not pictured: Lauren Monce, Megan McCoy, Brittany Good, Shannon Estes -Larkin, Melissa Nadal, Elena Madrazo, Rae Antenucci, Taylor Tippett, Nanna Adwoa Owusa –Nyantakyi. 8
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Creating a better future through education The Legacy of Hope Society is The FHM’s program through which people may make or pledge planned gifts to the Museum. Members of the Legacy of Hope Society include anyone, regardless of financial means, who remember The FHM in their will or estate plan, or as a designated beneficiary in their insurance or retirement plan. If you have already included The FHM in your will or estate plan, please let us know. Please contact Maria Johnston at (727) 820-0100 ext. 274 or mjohnston@thefhm.org. Your Legacy gift is essential to ensuring that children and adults continue to learn the lessons of the Holocaust, and receive the tangible tools to help create a better future for all. The Museum works toward this goal through its many educational programs, including Teaching Trunks, student tours, teacher training, the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award
program, Speak Up! Speak Now!, the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust program for law enforcement officers, and many other educational and commemorative events and programs.
programs and learn the importance of hope and understanding. Photo: Holocaust Survivor Lisl Schick shares her story with students in the Speak Up! Speak Now! program.
Your Legacy gift helps to ensure that people of all ages, in the state of Florida, across the country and the world, benefit from these essential
New updates to the History, Heritage and Hope wall bring more technology to the Museum
Technology has allowed the Museum to refresh the History, Heritage and Hope wall. The FHM has reprinted all of the photos that were already on the wall, and added many more that have been given to us by Survivors in recent years. We added new digital photo frames that not only offer a rotation of photos that are on the wall, but are captioned to identify the people pictured in the photos and tell a little bit about them or where the photo was taken. 9
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Above Left: Holocaust Survivors participated in a candle lighting ceremony during the commemoration of Kristallnacht on November 9. Above Right: After the commemoration ceremony, Holocaust scholar Wendy Lower, Ph.D., discussed her book “Hitler’s Furies,” about Nazism’s brutal and murderous feminine side.
Above: “For the Love of St. Pete: Emerging from the Past, Embracing an Inclusive Future” in November focused on St. Petersburg’s past and explored what a successful future community might look like. Panelists included Peter Kageyama, author of “For the Love of Cities,” Larry Biddle, a leading national fundraiser for nonprofit and political organizations, and Canaan McCaslin and Angela Leider, two of the leaders of the new think tank St. Pete Forward.
Above: The Museum and the Sarasota Opera held the panel discussion “Antisemitism Today” at the Sarasota Opera in November. Panelists included (from left to right) The FHM Senior Educator Sandy Mermelstein; Howard Tevlowitz, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee; Edie Chaifetz; and Richard Russell, Executive Director of the Sarasota Opera. The panel was held in conjunction with the Sarasota Opera performances of “Forbidden Music: Works Banned by the Nazis.” 10
Above: Holocaust Survivor Jerry Rawicki (left), with other community members, spoke to students at the new mural called Blue SUNnel, created by artist Ya La’Ford (right) in downtown St. Petersburg. Rawicki spoke to the students from Shorecrest Preparatory School about his experiences during the Holocaust. Earlier in the day, the students also toured the Museum.
The Museum held the annual Survivor Luncheon for Survivors and their families. Above right, Bonnie Stein, president of the Generations After group for the adult children and grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, spoke to attendees about the importance of the group and of 2Gs sharing their parents’ and families’ stories with others, to ensure future generations continue to learn the lessons of the Holocaust.
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The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. Visit The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 Fifth Street South St. Petersburg
The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Student and group tours available. Docent led tours are available with admission every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. For more information on admission prices and visiting the Museum, please visit us online at www.TheFHM.org or call (727) 820-0100.