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COMING UP: LAMOTH LISA JURA YOUNG PIANIST SHOWCASE
Application Deadline October 2   

We are now accepting applications for the 2015 LAMOTH Lisa Jura Young Pianist Showcase and Musical Ambassadors Program.  The Showcase is a unique opportunity for talented teenage pianists to learn about and advance the mission of Holocaust education and commemoration through their passion for music.

Participation in the Young Pianist Showcase is open to middle and high school students across California, and applications are due by October 2.   For more information, please visit our website.

THE WEEK IN REFLECTION: LAW ENFORCEMENT & SOCIETY PROGRAM
Torrance Police Department Visits LAMOTH
 
Officers from the Torrance Police Department visited the Museum this week as part of the Law Enforcement and Society program presented by LAMOTH in partnership with ADL and USHMM. The program examines Holocaust history, its implications for law enforcement, and law enforcement's important role as protectors of the Constitution and individual rights. One sergeant who attended the program said, "The message I received from the Museum was to never forget our history, we are lucky to be a free nation, and we need to ensure that is never compromised."
 

Holocaust Survivor and LAMOTH Docent Harry Davids

addresses officers from Torrance Police Department

 
SPOTLIGHT: REMEMBER US B'NAI MITZVAH PROJECT
Bar Mitzvah Student Remembers His Great-Uncles

Justin Wolfe with his mother, Michele Kalt
Through his participation in our Remember Us B'nai Mitzvah Project, Justin Wolfe learned about two members of his own family: his grandmother's twin brothers, Gyorgy and Laszlo Bornstein, who perished at Auschwitz. Justin will remember Gyorgy and Laszlo at his Bar Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel in October. LAMOTH's Remember Us B'nai Mitzvah Project allows students preparing for B'nai Mitzvah to remember a child who died in the Holocaust before reaching Bar or Bat Mitzvah age. You can read more about Justin's experience here, and more about the Remember Us Project here.
 
SPOTLIGHT: LAMOTH MEMORY POOL PROJECT 
Exploring Our Shared Heritage Through Family Photos 

3G at LAMOTH member Brian shared this photo of his grandparents, Miriam (nee Gilkstajn)and Louis Lesorgen on their wedding day in a displaced persons' camp in Landsberg, Germany in 1947. Miriam, from Schtemiscisz, Poland, was 18 and Louis, from Dombrowa, Poland, 25 at the time. Brian submitted this photo as part of a collection of family photos for the Museum to include in our interactive Memory Pool table in the World That Was gallery, which explores pre-war Jewish communities.
   
LAMOTH invites you to explore your pre- Holocaust family history and the way it fits into our wider communal narrative by submitting your family photos to our Memory Pool table. For more information, visit our website or contact Jordanna at Jordanna@lamoth.org.
 
THE LEGACY OF WOMAN IN GOLD:  
LAMOTH's Annual Gala Dinner 
Sunday, November 1, 2015   

Maria Altmann and Randy Schoenberg

The film  Woman In Gold , and the poignant narrative it recounts, will be at the heart and soul of our Annual Gala Dinner this year.  Woman In Gold  tells the story of LAMOTH President Randy Schoenberg's legal battle on behalf of Maria Altmann to recover a painting of Maria's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, that was looted by the Nazis. 
 
In 1998, 82-year-old Maria Altmann approached Randy, a young lawyer and grandson of her close friend, about trying to recover her family's art from Austria. Although Randy had no experience in art law and more experienced lawyers told Randy he had no chance of winning, he took on Maria's case, which ultimately went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Against all odds, a panel of arbitrators in Austria ruled in Maria's favor, ordering the Austrian government to return the paintings. In 2006 the paintings were returned to Maria's family. The famous  Woman In Gold (Adele Bloch-Bauer I) is now on permanent public display at the Neue Galerie in New York.

At the same time he was fighting for the return of Maria's family's art, Randy assumed a leadership role at LAMOTH, where he spearheaded the movement to create a permanent home for the Museum. In addition to contributing financially to the building of the Museum's permanent home in Pan Pacific Park, Randy was instrumental in its planning, personally designing much of the Museum's exhibit space, and serving as interim Executive Director during the search for current Executive Director, Samara Hutman. At our Annual Gala Dinner, we will honor Randy for bringing LAMOTH to its permanent home and for his ten years of visionary leadership.
 
For more information about our Annual Gala Dinner, click here.  
   
Museum Hours:    
Saturday - Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
Friday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM   
Admission is always free.

  Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust  
100 S. The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-651-3704 tel.

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