Resources for Children of Holocaust Survivors
	Conferences

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Upcoming

2004

L’Chaim – To Life: The 2004 Annual International Conference of Child Survivors and 2nd Generation

Iin Denver, Colorado, Labor Day weekend, Friday evening, Sept. 3rd through Monday morning, Sept. 6th. Workshops for child survivors, second generation and spouses. For registration packets and more information, contact co-chairs: Eric Cahn at 303-322-4194, Kevinbcahn@aol.com Rudy Jacobson at 303-838-3654, emilyandrudy@earthlink.net.

Past

2003

• December 14, 2003, 2 - 3:00 pm— Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, Beck Rooms in Walsh Library, first floor. Viviana Grosz, 2G, discusses In Search of a Lost Generation: Family Correspondence from Hungary 1936-1941, paper initially presented at Second Generation Network Second Generation Trust Conference. London, England. For more information, contact dlcohen16@aol.com.

2002

• Chicago 2002 - Living the Legacy -- Association of the Descendants of the Shoa - Illinois, and Descendants of the Shoah.

2001

• Transcending Trauma Conference December 2001 Meeting Notes (PDF)

Presented by Penn Council for Relationships, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and The Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work

• From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Second Generation and the Shoah

  Presented by the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History

2000

• January 14 - 17 Washington, D.C. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - "Life Reborn:Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951 202/488-0414 e-mail: mgoldman@ushmm.org
  
  
• March 5 - 7 The Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches 610/667-5437
  
  
• June 4 -6 Kansas City, MO: The Association of Holocaust Organizations Conference - "Holocaust Education in the 21st Century" 718/225-0378 e-mail: hrcaho@worldnet.att.net. Please note that this conference is exclusively for representatives of Holocaust organizations.
  
  
• July 16 - 23 Oxford and London, England: Remembering for the Future 2000 "The Holocaust in the Age of Genocide" e-mail: RFTF2000@compuserve.com

• July 16 Survivors' And Second Generation Gathering London, England

1999

• http://www.comune.roma.it/cultura/italiano/attivita/2001/mostre/one_by_one/

• 24-26 January 1999 Washington, DC: Association of Holocaust Organizations Winter Seminar (no details available as yet)

• MARCH 227:30 P.M. A special evening with Second Generation writers Alan Berger (author of The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction and editor of Judaism in the Modern World); and Melvin Bukiet (author of After, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, and While the Messiah Tarries). Admission will be $5 for members. For location information, please check the 2G Hotline at 323-852-1763.

• April 11, Melbourne, Australia: New Play "Witness" by Len Radic, journalist and critic. Venue: Holocaust Centre, 4.00pm. Descendants of the Shoah Inc. The performance will be followed by an opportunity to meet Len Radic and the cast. (Joint function with Holocaust Centre and Child Survivors Group).

• April 14 - 16 The University of Nebraska at Omaha - Omaha, NB "The Legacy of the Holocuast:Teaching the Holocaust" 402/595-2345 e-mail: holocaust@ccs.unomaha.edu

• April 18, 1:45 P.M. Los Angeles. A community-wide commemoration of Yom HaShoah at the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument in Pan Pacific Park on West Third Street. Open to the community, co-sponsored and co-organized by Second Generation Los Angeles

• Fourth Annual Gathering of Holocaust Survivor Familes, April 25-26. 1998. Sponsored by University of Vermont (Burlington). Poetry by Judith Chalmer and Joseph Hahn, selections of music written by composers incarcerated in Theresienstadt performed by A Vermont Quartet. Sunday April 26 (open only to survivor families; each facilitated by a survivor, a hidden child, a child of survivor, a grandchild of a survivor, or a spouse of a Holocaust family) Morning: 1- Creative Expression, 2- Hidden Children, 3. Religion, Spirituality & the Holocaust, 4. German/Jewish Dialogue-Is it Possible, 5. Spouses & Partners, 6. Third Generation, 7. First Generation. Afternoon: 8- Creative Expression Project-mixed media, 9. Hidden Children (continuation), 10. Spirituality & Political Action as they Relate to the Holocaust, 11. German/Jewish Dialogue with the daughter of a Waffen-SS officer, 12. Partners & Spouses (repeated), 13. Open Discussion, 14. Giving and Gathering Family History. $18.00 per person. For brochure with complete Theme Group description, contact: David Scrase, Director of Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, A301 Old Mill, P.O. Box 54055 Burlington, Vermont 05405-4055 USA. 802-656-1492 802-656-1497 -fax. Michael Schaal, Gathering Coordinator 802-658-9590. Ginni Stern, Program Coordinator gstern@zoo.uvm.edu

• May 4 -7 The Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care - Toronto, Canada "A Time to Heal:Caring for the Aging Holocaust Survivor" 416/785-2500 ext. 2365

• May 5-7, Toronto, Ont: "A Time to Heal: Working with Aging Holocaust Survivors." (postponsed from October, 1998) A Multi-Disciplinary Conference sponsored by Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care For further information and for submitting proposals by September 22, 1998: Paula David, MSW Holocaust Resource Coordinator Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care 55 Ameer Ave. North York, Ont. CANADA M6A 2Z1 Tel. (416) 785-2500, ext. 2271

• May 7 William Paterson University - Wayne, NJ "Genocide Through Film, Video, and CD-ROMS" 973/720-2354

• May 6-8, Minneapolis, MN: "Creating the Other: The causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern Europe." Center for Austrian Studies 1999 International and Interdisciplinary Symposium Universityof Minnesota Minneapolis, MN. The Center's 1999 symposium will be interdisciplinary and consist both of presentation and discussion of papers and of workshops. The central aim is to foster a comparative inquiry into the root causes and dynamics of nationalist, ethnic and racist enmity. The primary regions to be examined will be Austria: The Hapsburg Monarcy, and East-Central Europe and the Balkans. Deadline for submission of papers was April 15, 1998, but you can contact: Center for Austrian Studies 314 Social Sciences Building University of Minnesota 267 19th Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55455

• May 16, Melbourne, Australia: Panel discussion: "Dealing with Ageing parents. Who do I turn to?" Descendants of the Shoah Inc.

• June 6, Melbourne, Australia : Diane Armstrong, Author of "Mosaic," journalist and child survivor. "How the pieces of "Mosaic" came together." Descendants of the Shoah Inc, joint function with Child Survivors Group

• June 6, 11 A.M.- 5 P.M, Los Angeles.. Tentative time and date for a program on "Art and the Shoah- Representation, by Local Artists, of the Shoah." Survivors, Second Generation, and family members willing to have their works on display for the public please call Annabelle Stevens at 323-761-8081.

• June 6-10 Location TBA: 6th European Conference on Traumatic Stress

• June 6 - 8, Pittsburgh, PA Association of Holocaust Organizations Conference - "Women and the Holocaust" 717/225-0378 e-mail: hrcaho@worldnet.att.net
  
  
• June 6 - 11 Florida Holocaust Museum - St. Petersburg, FL Holocaust Awareness Education for the 21st Century" 727/820-0100 ext. 242 e-mail: nbbtbhmm@aol.com

• July 18, Melbourne, Australia: Sharing Session with Dr. John Serry. Descendants of the Shoah Inc.

• August 15, Melbourne, Australia: Panel discussion with teachers and educators "Teaching the Holocaust to Children" Descendants of the Shoah Inc.

• August 27-31, Vienna, Austria: The Austrian Encounter, 13 - 15 people, sons and daughters of victims of the Austrian component of the Holocaust meeting with daughters and sons of perpetrators of the Austrian contribution to the Holocaust. meeting for intensive, open dialogue; non therapeutic; non religious; cost-free; private; not open to the public. Two places left. Contact: Samson Munn or fax in the U.S. (617) 327-8259. A summary of The Austrian Encounter is available to anyone, in English or in German.

• September 1 -3 University of Vienna - Vienna, Austria "The Presence of Absence:First, Second and Third Generation International Holocaust Conference" 43 1 606 72 16 e-mail: arche@arche.or.at

• October 1 -14, Jerusalem: 2nd Int'l Conference on Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, ISRAEL This conference will be held in conjunction with the opening of the new facility for the International School for Holocaust Studies currently under construction. The school will have 17 classrooms, a modern resource center, cafeteria and auditorium. Yad Vashem is also building a new visitors' center, underground exhibition center, computer stations and video theatres. 972-2-675611 web:yad-vashem.org.il

• October 17, Melbourne, Australia: AGM & Panel discussion: "Three Generations Returning Home" Descendants of the Shoah Inc. Melbourne, Australia

• November 13-17, Miami, FL: 15th Annual Conference, ISTSS

• November 21, Melbourne, Australia: Workshop and discussion. "Bridging the Generation Gap" (Joint function with Child Survivors Group) Descendants of the Shoah Inc.

• December 12, Melbourne, Australia: Humorous panel "The Lighter Side of Growing up as a Second Generation".Descendants of the Shoah Inc.

1998

• Kindertransport Association (KTA) 1998 National Conference, 5-7 at the Holiday Inn in Arlington, VA Speakers include Berta Leverton from London who founded the KTA, Stefanie seltzer, chairperson of the Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, a Klezmer Band and others. Workshops will include a KT2 group (2ndgen of Kinder). Kurt Goldberger, President of KTA, at mailto:markgkurt@aol.com or (516) 938-6084.

• Second Generation Holocaust Perspectives March 5, 1998 (Thursday) Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center University at Albany's Uptown Campus Dialogue at 4:00 p.m. - Reading at 8:00 p.m. This dialogue/discussion and reading will focus on the relationship between the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish writing by sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors.

1997

• Association for Jewish Studies, 29th Annual Conference December 21-23, 1997, Boston MA The Second and Third Generations: Where do we go from here? Lucia Ruedenberg-Wright. Write-up of a 20-minute talk on the psychology of the second/third generations at the Association for Jewish Studies, 29th Annual Conference December 21-23, 1997, Boston MA for the panel: The Second Generation and Holocaust Memory in America, Europe, and Israel. Chaired by Ephraim Sicher.

• Toronto's 2nd Conference for Children Of Holocaust Survivors "Generation to Generation: The Legacy Continues" Sunday, June 8, 1997 Lipa Green Building 4600 Bathurst Street North York, Ontario, Canada

• "The Aging Holocaust Survivor: Trauma Relived." March 20, 1997 Research Institute of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, Wasserman Building, Social Hall, 6121 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852. Dalia Sivan, director of the Haifa center of AMCHA. Adam Vana at (301)770-8459 or vana@hebrew~home.org.

1996

• A Gathering Of Generations Shoah Remembrance. Second Generation-Sponsored Event Set for May 17-19, 1996, Burbank Airport Hilton Sponsored by Second Generation of Los Angeles and the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation, A GATHERING OF GENERATIONS: Shoah Remembrance and Dialogue will consist of a weekend of diverse workshops and panel discussions, Shabbat services, shared meals, a documentary film and two evenings of entertainment, including a one-woman play.

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• teleconference dicsussion on art by COSes hosted by the New School

• Seminar on Legacy of Holocaust and Genocide Second Generation Trust (London) and Institute for History of Genocide (Berlin) organized a networking conference for groups involved in different ways with the Holocaust. Groups represented included those who dialogue with 2gs and Germans or Austrians, research organizations such as ICODO (Holland), Yad Vashem, Facing History and Ourselves (Europe), as well as represenatives of Roma and Sinti (from Germany).

• International Council of Jewish Women, Prague conference of about 200 active Jewish women in countries in Europe had as its topic, "Jews in Multicultural Europe." Speakers and panelists each provided perspectives from their various countries, and, although not officialy on the agenda issues relating to Holocaust survivors, memory and education, and hidden children, as well as second generatiion were very much in the forefront.

All Contents Copyright 1999
Last revised: 6/04