October 2024 Newsletter

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Few Holocaust survivors can tell their stories with photographs, especially ones they took themselves. Rarer still are photographs taken by the partisan fighters of their experiences.


Perhaps the only Jewish photographer known to capture Jewish partisan resistance on film is a former partisan, Faigel “Faye” Lazebnik Schulman, who served in a Russian partisan brigade for two and a half years in the forests along the Polish-Russian border.


Her photography is the subject of Pictures of Resistance, on view until January 3rd, 2025.

See our resource page for additional information on Pictures of Resistance.

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'Survivors and What They Carry' is a powerful portrait series of Holocaust survivors by photographer and writer Barbara Mack that captures the essence of these remarkable people. The black and white portraits are accompanied by fascinating life stories of those pictured, as each survivor is holding a meaningful object, giving each portrait a deeper dimension. The work is the culmination of Barbara Mack’s seven-year collaboration with Holocaust survivors from Café Europa, a club sponsored by Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles.



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Tony Bernard - October 15 Zoom Postponed.

 

Growing up, Tony Bernard knew that his father, Henry, had been in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. He was familiar with the tattoo bearing his Auschwitz number—B1224—and the faint scar resulting from a suicide attempt while in a camp in Blizyn. As an Australian boy growing up on Sydney’s sunny Northern Beaches where Henry was a well-respected doctor, Tony simply accepted these facts. Only as a young man, on a trip to Poland with his father, did he begin to uncover the secrets that filled Henry with regret, anguish, and guilt. 

  

The Ghost Tattoo is a haunting, emotionally resonant memoir of war and its aftermath. It is also a singular account of resistance, resilience, and hope. Henry was eventually called to Germany to testify in a trial against Nazi murderers, where his evidence proved pivotal. After decades of silence, he seized the chance to bear witness—for history, for his family, and for those who did not survive. 


Please rsvp to the Jewish Federation at

760-324-4737.

Lynda Zionts and Fran Kaufman, co-chairs of Jewish Federation's Community Commemoration of October 7th invite you to jan event on the first Yahrzeit of the horrific massacres in Israel on October 7, 2023.

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Please join us for an in-person presentation at the Tolerance Education Center, on Tuesday, November 19th at 3:00 pm.

Faris Cassell, Inseparable


Faris Cassell was raised Christian in the years before the Vietnam War and married Sidney Cassell, a Jewish pre-med student from Mississippi. Years later, her husband brought home a letter from a patient that hit a deep nerve. Although she had married into a family of Holocaust survivors, they never spoke about what happened in Europe. But the letter’s futile cry for help, resounding across the decades, ignited her curiosity and compassion.


Cassell spent the better part of the next two decades contacting members of the family, painstakingly piecing together the stories. What she discovered was a story that has both inspired and haunted her, at times reducing her to tears in her study late at night.


Inseparable is the vivid account of one family's struggle to survive the Holocaust. Faris Cassell weaves a family’s personal memories and historical details into a gripping narration of their family’s heroic fight for their lives.


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760-324-4737.

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