Project Witness and the Museum of Jewish Heritage announce their jointly produced event, a groundbreaking symposium, The Untold Story: Religious Faith and Practice during the Holocaust.
Sunday, May 29th, 2011, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place New York, New York.
Highlights include:
- Women in the Holocaust: Faith and Courage in the War Years.
—Mrs. Ruth Lichtenstein, director, Project Witness.
- “Thirsty, but not for Water”: the Battle for the Jewish Book during the Holocaust.
—Mrs. Esther Farbstein, director, Holocaust Education Center, Michlala College, Israel, and author,Hidden in Thunder.
- “Wild Men”: Underground Hasidim in the Nazi Ghettos.
—Ms. Matty Lichtenstein, executive editor, Witness to History.
- Special exhibition tour: Artifacts of Spiritual Resistance.
For more information on this unique and transformational event, please contact: Project Witness at (718) WITNESS or via e-mail at info@projectwitness.org
Or
The Museum of Jewish Heritage at (646) 437-4202 or via e-mail at info@mjhnyc.org
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