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What: Out of the Ashes: The Legacy of the Last Survivors of the Holocaust
When: April 27, 2011
5:00 PM–7:00 PM
Where:

USC Hillel

3300 Hoover St.

Free Parking at HUC

3077 University Avenue 

RSVP: TrojanFamily@uschillel.org

Join the Trojan Family for a moving evening of film, music, and testimony by child survivors in memory of the millions of voices silenced during the Holocaust.

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Berenbaum

Dr. Berenbaum will reflect on the vital need to preserve Holocaust history and memory for this generation and the next. The former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute and former President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Dr. Berenbaum lectures widely throughout the United States and internationally.

Survivor Panel 

  • Dr. Henry Slucki: USC Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Marie Kaufman: President of the Child Survivors of the Holocaust 
  • Natalie Gold

USC Student Film Screening

See USC filmmaker, Sean Simerly's moving and award winning representation of the Holocaust. 

Musical Tributes and Poetry Reading  

  • Traditional Mourning Prayer
  • Violin sol featuring renowned USC student Lior Kaminetsky
  • Poetry reading of "Never to Forget" by acclaimed actor Alan Blumenfeld.
  • Songs of the Partisans by Michael Burstyn

*Reception to follow program*

 

Event Co-Sponsors: USC Hillel, Louchheim School for Jewish Studies, USC Office of Religious Life, Child Survivors of the Holocaust L.A., Chabad at USC, and the USC Casden Institute