The aim of my talk is to better understand and give an overview on meanings of memories and memorialization in different political and cultural contexts.
The deportations of my great-grandmother and other relatives from Berlin haunted my experience of today’s modern, multicultural city and resulted in a new piece of artwork. Learning my family history has changed my awareness. I realized, when visiting Berlin last summer, that everything I experienced on the streets my relatives had walked, had an added lens. She left with one suitcase now I carry its weight I conclude my presentation with my speech, delivered at the United States General Assembly’s 2023 Holocaust Remembrance Program, where I return to the genesis of my work, which remains my family’s story. My presentation highlights my work as a public memory artist, addressing memory transmission to second and third generation descendants of victims and perpetrators, over two decades. Transmission of Memory as a Public Memory Artist and Granddaughter of Murdered Victims Utilizing new media platforms and emerging technologies, she creates interactive storytelling and dynamic content with an innovative approach to engage future generations in Holocaust memory. Her experimental cinematic work (in other films such as August 17, 1939, From Anne Frank’s Window, and A Boy in Auschwitz) explores additional themes of Holocaust iconology and universalization, as she captures a “girl” and a “boy" in coincidental encounters with iconic Holocaust imagery. Holocaust Memory: Past Forward to Future GenerationsĮxamining intergenerational memory transmission, Ornit's film Past Forward documents a Holocaust story as it passes from mother to daughter and granddaughter. How do we become matriarchs? How do we explore the inheritance of family Holocaust stories set within a wider Holocaust Narrative? I examine these questions on a personal level through creative narrative poetry about motherhood, my extended family, and a Holocaust inheritance. On Becoming a Matriarch: Motherhood, Family Stories and a Holocaust Inheritance People ask me: Why write a book about heroines of the Holocaust for young people today - and why specifically stories about women? I discuss the importance of Holocaust education and how my book Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust provides an alternative for young people to counter sexism, bigotry, and online disinformation. Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Teaching Young People about the Holocaust Each generation’s telling reveals more about the Holocaust and about the United States’ role in it. institutions, including the Roosevelt administration, the Jewish community and the press for their indifference to seeking a middle ground that would make more comprehensible and palatable the nation’s reaction to the cataclysmic events. response to the Holocaust has changed during the almost 80 years since World War II’s end: from emphasizing the greatest generation’s heroism while insisting Americans had little knowledge of the extermination campaign while it was happening to criticizing U.S. The Holocaust as an American Story: Scholarship through the Decades
HOLOCAUST PROJECT TITLE IDEAS PROFESSIONAL
Graduate Professional Studies (Online Programs)Ģ023 HBI Holocaust Research Study Group Titles and Presentations for Virtual April 18th Event Rabb School: Graduate Professional Studies
Heller School for Social Policy and Management
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