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unday, 11:45 at the Terrace in Paramus, NJ.
The participating teens in the Eternal Flame Teen Fellowship program (See here) will be recognized and honored for their achievement at a wonderful luncheon along with the other teens of the Valley Chabad Teen Leadership Initiative.
Details and reservations to open soon. Please check back as the date gets closer.
A one-person play and lecture that examines one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War.
Participants of the Teen Fellowship will take a trip to Washington DC to get an up close look at the atrocities of the Holocaust. The teens will also be treated to a tour of the memorials and museums and the capital building. Shabbat will be spent in a beautiful DuPont Circle Hotel.
Open only to teens from participating in the Eternal Flame Fellowship.
Dr. Abraham Bichler of Fair Lawn, a retired Hebrew professor at Fairly Dickenson University, will share with the Eternal Flame fellowship teens his family’s story of survival in the Holocaust.
As a boy, Bichler and his family were taken from their home in Poland and shipped to the frozen Russian wastelands of Siberia and the Taiga, where they were enslaved in Stalin’s labor camps. Surviving the harsh winter climate was nearly as challenging as surviving in the camp—a torturous hell where arriving five minutes late to work guaranteed a six-month jail sentence. As the years passed, Bichler and his family struggled and encountered many hardships, but constantly searched for the “little miracles” that ultimately led to their survival and immigration to the United States. His book, “Little Miracles” highlights those bright parts of the hell he endured.
Bichler has focused on the Holocaust that has been overshadowed by the more familiar stories of Hitler’s concentration camps and Jewish ghettos, but one that is equally important and shared by many.
To learn more on the Fellowship or to register your teen visit eternalflame.org/fellowship
Bella Miller still remembers the day the tattoo was engraved on her arm.
She was inside a barracks at Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp in Poland, weeks after she arrived with her family in August 1944. Another inmate dipped a long needle in ink and punched the number into her arm. There were about three minutes of excruciating pain.
“You were not anymore a human being, you were a number and believe me that number will never leave my mind,” Miller says. “A24977: That’s what I was.”
Bella will be sharing her story of horror strength and inspiration to the teen of the Eternal Flame Fellowship Program at Valley Chabad.
Our first teen fellowhip session will be gin with a presentation by Sandy Rubenstein.
Sandy is a teacher at the Horace Mann School in New York. Teaching is her passion, what she loves to do and has been doing for over thirty years. She is also the child of Holocaust survivors. In 1996, her father, Joseph Horn, published his memoirs, Mark It With a Stone, the fulfillment of a life-long dream. In 2008, the book was reprinted in paperback, with an introduction written by Sandy Rubenstein from the point of view of a child of survivors.
Joseph Horn passed away in 1999. Now, his daughter, Sandy Rubenstein, speaks to middle and high school students and others. Teaching about the lessons of the Holocaust is a calling, a compelling force for her. As she relates her father’s story, sharing excerpts from his book, she intersperses video clips of her father speaking directly about his experiences: a powerful medium. Students are riveted and full of questions. She addresses the need for young people, our future leaders, to reflect on their own moral responsibilities to stand up against today’s hate, bigotry, and genocide. As survivors are no longer with us, Sandy Rubenstein’s presentation allows new generations to witness history first hand.
Click here to register.
Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss joins us at the on Monday evening, October 27, 2014 to share the story of the horrific experiences of her past. With two books published and having spoken to numerous crowds, Eva keeps the legacy of Anne Frank alive and seeks to spread awareness of one of the most tragic events in history.
Join us to watch this incredible film about a Polish man who returns home after the death of his father and unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village.
“That this film could be made in Poland with a Polish cast and crew has turned “Aftermath” into a significant milestone in that country’s ongoing process of wrestling with its demons.
Continue reading “September 28, 2014: Aftermath film screening”
Nicholas Winton was one of World War II’s most unlikely heroes, but thanks to his bravery and perseverance, 669 Jewish children escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia – and almost certain death – for the safety of Britain.
Born in 1909 into a London banking family with German and Jewish roots, by the late 1930s Nicholas was well placed to know about Hitler’s brutality.
‘Even though the true horror hadn’t yet emerged, we knew what was happening as we were putting up relatives and friends in our house. So I became convinced of the dire necessity to do something,’ he recalls.
This week, a new TV documentary reveals how the young stockbroker was the British equivalent of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Polish Jews during the war.
Sandy Rubenstein is a teacher at the Horace Mann School in New York. Teaching is her passion, what she loves to do and has been doing for over thirty years. She is also the child of Holocaust survivors. In 1996, her father, Joseph Horn, published his memoirs, Mark It With a Stone, the fulfillment of a life-long dream. In 2008, the book was reprinted in paperback, with an introduction written by Sandy Rubenstein from the point of view of a child of survivors.
Joseph Horn passed away in 1999. Now, his daughter, Sandy Rubenstein, speaks to middle and high school students and others. Teaching about the lessons of the Holocaust is a calling, a compelling force for her. As she relates her father’s story, sharing excerpts from his book, she intersperses video clips of her father speaking directly about his experiences: a powerful medium. Students are riveted and full of questions. She addresses the need for young people, our future leaders, to reflect on their own moral responsibilities to stand up against today’s hate, bigotry, and genocide. As survivors are no longer with us, Sandy Rubenstein’s presentation allows new generations to witness history first hand.
Program for teens participating in the Eternal Flame Fellowship program. Click here to register.
