FRIDAY SCHEDULE
Friday November 5, 2010
Location
1:00 – 7:00 PM
Conference Check-in
5:20 PM
Shabbat Candle Lighting
Outside the Paris Room
Ladies! Join us for traditional candle lighting
(Executive Wing)
and blessing. Gentlemen are also invited.
Stefanie Seltzer, President of the World Federation will lead.
5:30
Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Sam Biber
Paris
(Executive Wing)
5:30–6:00
First timer’s reception with Daisy Miller
Zurich
6:45-7:00
Kiddush: Rabbi Biber
Hamotzi: Leonie Bergman
Versailles
7:00-8:00
DINNER
Versailles
8:00-8:15
Welcome
Elaine Fox, Chair of the Chicago 2010 Conference
Stefanie Seltzer, President of the World Federation
8:30 PM - on
Survivors meet by Country of Origin
Austria, Hungary
Belgium. France
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia,
Lithuania, Greece, Palestine
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Russia, Ukraine
8:30 PM - on
Spouses and Partners – Get acquainted
Singles – Get acquainted
2Gs / 3Gs – Get acquainted
First Timers
Lobby
Vienna
London
Prague
Berlin
Zurich
Athens
Edinburgh
Milan
Cannes
Barcelona
Venice
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Location
8:00 AM -5:00 PM
Conference Check-in continues
Lobby
7:00 AM
Shabbat Service
Paris (Executive Wing)
7:30-9:00
Buffet Breakfast
Versailles
9:00-9:15
Welcome
Versailles
9:15-10:00
PLENARY SPEAKER— CHARLES STROZIER Ph.D.
Bringing Back the Shadow of the Holocaust
In Today’s World
Versailles
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM WORKSHOPS
Survivors Only
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
First Timers – Daisy Miller
Born 1932 or before – Carla Lessing
Born 1933-1939 – Stefanie Seltzer
Born 1933-1939 – Eva Metzger Brown
Born 1940-1945 – Chaja Verveer
Edinburgh
Barcelona
Prague
Berlin
Vienna
Second Generation
6.
Born in Europe after World War II
Facilitator: Henry Jelen (2G)
Florence
(Executive Wing)
Second and Third Generation
7.
Finding Happiness and Fulfillment in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Facilitators: Charlie Silow(2G) and Bonnie Stein (2G)
Milan
8.
First Time at a Conference for 2Gs and 3Gs
Facilitator: Isabel Alcoff (2G)
Paris
9.
Don’t Let the Light Go Out
Facilitator: Menachem Rosensaft (2G)
Cannes
Persecution Against Creative Expression by the Nazi Regime:
Degenerate Art
London
Open to All
10.
Presenters: Sarah Nelson and Susan Shapiro
11.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International
Tracing Service Archives: Opening the Past to Research in the Future
Presenter: Susan Goldstein Snyder
Athens
12.
Europe Yesterday and Today: Jewish Issues and Concerns
Panelists: Chana Arnon, Brigitte Bouhana, Max Arpels Lezer,
Henri Obstfeld, Nan Lefenfeld, Esther Lupyan, Dmitryi Selekov,
Moderator: Rene Lichtman
Monaco
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Movies
In The Shadow of the Acropolis
As If It Were Yesterday
Venice
12:30- 1:40
LUNCH
Seated by: Country of Origin; 2Gs; 3Gs
Versailles
1:40-2:00
Greetings:
2:00-2:45
PLENARY SPEAKER –STEPHEN SMITH, Ph.D.
Eleven Thousand Three Hundred and Five Children Speak: Child Survivors in the
Shoah Foundation Institute’s Archive
Introduction: Daisy Miller
3:00-5:00
George Van Dusen, Mayor of Skokie
Fritzie Fritzshall, President,
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Shahar Arieli, Deputy Consul General of Israel
WORKSHOPS
Survivors Only
13.
Aging: Its Challenges and Its Losses
Facilitator: Carla Lessing
Milan
14.
Abused as Children, Session 1
Facilitators: Dr.Alfred Garwood and Elisheva van der Hal Ph.D.
Florence
15.
Relationships with Our Children and Grandchildren
Facilitator: Stefanie Seltzer
Zurich
Survivors and Spouses/Partners
16.
Survivors and Non-Survivor Partners
Facilitators: Jim Getola and Chaja Verveer
Berlin
Second and Third Generation
17.
Resilience and Identity In Child Survivors: Exploring Holocaust
Narratives and the Implications for 2G and 3G Descendants
Moderators: Judy Kaplan-Weinger Ph.D.
and Yonit Hoffman Ph.D. (2G)
Prague
Spouses/Partners/All
18.
Until the Fires Stopped: The Child Survivors and 9/11
Presenter: Charles Strozier Ph.D.
Edinburgh
19.
Jews in Films: A Reflection of Our History
Presenter: Patricia Erens
Venice
20.
Dialogue between Generations
Moderator: Eva Metzger Brown
Vienna
21.
Art as Therapy
Presenter: Ava Schieber
Athens
22.
Film - Prisoner of Her Past
Introduction: Chaya Roth Ph.D.
Presenters: Howard Reich, Xan Aranda and Gordon Quinn
Discussant: Dr. David Hirsch
Monaco
23.
The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook Project
Presenter: Joanne Caras
Cannes
24.
The Omnipresence of the Holocaust in Survivor/Non-Survivor Barcelona
Relationships
Facilitators: Fred and Roz Lessing
5:20 PM
Mincha
Paris
6:50-7:00
Havdalah and Greetings
Versailles
7:00-8:00
DINNER
Presentation to Myriam Abramowicz
Introduction: Stefanie Seltzer
8:00-9:00
PLENARY SESSION—Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor
Performed by the ShawChicago Theater Company
Discussion of the Play in its Historical Context
Discussant: Menachem Rosensaft (2G)
9:00-11:00
Singing and Dancing
With Tanya Melamed and Band
Monaco
9:00-11:00
Movie
Gentleman’s Agreement
Venice
TIME CHANGE!
SET CLOCKS
BACK
ONE HOUR!
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
Sunday, November 7, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 AM Buffet Breakfast
9:15 – 10:00
Location
Versailles
PLENARY SPEAKER – DR. MICHAEL GRODIN
Care for the Aging Holocaust Survivor and Their Families: What do we know?
10:15 -12:15
WORKSHOPS
Survivors Only
25.
Art Workshop: A Journey of Memories
Facilitator: Tamar Hendel
Athens
26.
Dealing with Loss Once Again – Widowhood and Other Losses
Facilitator: Daisy Miller
Edinburgh
27.
Triggers from Our Past
Facilitator: Natalie Gold
Barcelona
Survivors & Second Generation
28.
Caring for the Aging Holocaust Survivor and Their Families:
What Can We Do?
Facilitator: Dr. Michael Grodin
Vienna
Survivors, Second and Third Generation
29.
Evolving Family Dynamics in a Child Survivor Family:
Passing of the Legacy
Facilitator: Mark Oberlander, Ph.D.
Second Generation, Spouses/Partners
Berlin
30.
Blended Families: Marriages Between Children of Survivors and a
Spouse Without a Holocaust Family History
Facilitator: Sheri Fox
Paris
Second Generation
31.
Children of Survivors Who Were Abused
Facilitator: Dr. Alfred Garwood
Florence
Second and Third Generation
32.
Telling Our Parents’ and Grandparents’ History
Facilitator: Isaac Kot (2G)
London
33.
“Voices of the Holocaust”, 1946 Interviews of Concentration
Camp Survivors
Presenters: Ellen Mitchell, Ph.D.; Christopher Stewart, EdD;
Ralph Pugh, Ph.D.; Christine McClure, MLIS- I.I.T.
Prague
34.
Current Anti-Semitism
Presenter: Lonnie Nasatir
Zurich
35.
Writing Our Own Memoirs
Facilitator: Eva Perkal
Milan
36.
A Multigenerational Family Discusses the Lessons and
Monaco
Legacies They Received
Discussant: Professor Peter Hayes
Panelists: Chaya Roth Ph.D., Walter Roth, Ari Roth, Judy Roth Ph.D.,
Miriam Raider-Roth Ph.D., Kate Schecter Ph.D., Sophie Roth, Mike Zeldes-Roth,
Emma Raider-Roth, Tema Zeldes Roth, Talia Raider-Roth
Open to All
10:15 – 12:15
Movies
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
The Hidden Child
Venice
12:30 – 1:30
LUNCH
Versailles
1:45 – 2:00
Awards
2:00 – 2:45
PLENARY SPEAKER—PROFESSOR PETER HAYES
Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century
3:00 – 5:00
Survivors Only
WORKSHOPS
37.
Children Who Were Abused, Session 2
Facilitators: Dr. Alfred Garwood and Elisheva van der Hal Ph.D.
Florence
38.
Issues Facing the Aging Child Survivor
Facilitator: Audrey Cantor
Zurich
39.
Life Under the Radar: Single Life as a Hidden Child
Facilitator: Marguerite Mishkin
Berlin
40.
Writing from Memory
Facilitator: Lillian Boraks Nemetz
Vienna
Second Generation
41.
Caring for Our Aging Survivors and Caring for Ourselves
Facilitator: Charles Silow (2G)
Cannes
42.
Planning Ahead: Helping Survivors Make the Best Choices—
How and When to Influence the Process
Presenter: David Bier
Milan
43.
Life in a Holocaust Family
Facilitator: Lynn Shyman (2G)
London
Second and Third Generation
44.
Film Presentation “Out of Faith”
Director: Mark D’Angelis and Discussion of Intermarriage
Venice
45.
A Survivor’s Life and Legacy
Presenter: Aaron Elster
Athens
46.
The Vision of Memory
Facilitator: Myriam Abramowicz
Prague
47.
In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade
In World War II (Including clips of film)
Presenter: Chuck Cooper
Barcelona
48.
Ethical Wills
Presenter: Stefanie Seltzer.
Edinburgh
6:30 – 7:30
DINNER
Versailles
7:45 – 8:30
PLENARY SPEAKER – CANTOR ALBERTO MIZRAHI
A Living Tradition: Music of the Jews Throughout the World
Monaco
Open to All
8:30 – 9:00
Awards Presentation
Presented by Stefanie Seltzer
Monaco
9:00 – 11:00
Music and Dancing with the Quartet of Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Monaco
9:00 – 11:00
Movie: The Great Dictator
Venice
Monday Morning, November 8, 2010
7:30 – 9:00 AM Sit Down Breakfast
Monaco
9:15 – 9:30
Presentation by Representative of Jewish Federation of Chicago,
Holocaust Community Services
Presenter: Mally Rutkoff
9:30 – 10:30
Plenary Session: Lives to Legacies: Making It Happen
Panel: Daisy Miller, Menachem Rosensaft (2G), Ari Roth (2G), Stefanie Seltzer,
Charles Silow (2G)
Moderator: Dr. Eva Fogelman
10:40 – 11:00 Solomon Schechter Day School Choir conducted by
Roz Ebstein; soloist- Judy Tellerman
11:00 – 11:30 Closing Ceremony
Speakers:
Elaine Fox and Stefanie Seltzer
11:45
Box lunch
12:30 PM
First bus departs for Post-Conference Visit to Illinois Holocaust
Museum & Education Center
Athens