Opening Reception at the United Nations for "Generations: Survival and the Legacy of Hope" (January 25, 2010)

On January 25, at the United Nations in New York, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute hosted a reception for the opening of Generations:  Survival and the Legacy of Hope, a video installation which explores the impact of the Holocaust on four families across three generations.  Generations was developed by the UK Holocaust Centre.

Holocaust survivors Reli and Joseph Gringlas spoke at the opening reception, as did their daughter, Marcy Gringlas, and their granddaughter, Sara Greenberg.  “…with me not only lives the legacy of my grandparents,” Sara said, “but also all those who perished around them:  the great-grandparents, the aunts, the uncles, the cousins, and the 6 million others who did not make it out alive…  My generation is probably the last generation to be able to hear our grandparents’ survival stories firsthand.  We are heirs to their memories, their stories, and their witness testimonies, and we inherit the burden of keeping their legacy alive forever.”  Sara also showed a clip from her short documentary, B-2247:  A Granddaughter's Understanding, which she produced with footage from the interviews her grandparents gave to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, independent interviews that Greenberg and her siblings conducted, and footage from a 2005 family trip through Eastern Europe, revisiting the locales of her grandparents' childhoods.

Album posted on: February 1, 2010