Friends of the Maltz Museum present Holocaust Education and Remembrance Day
Sunday, January 26. 12 pm to 5 pm with programs at 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm
Held at Maltz Museum
$5 admission to tour the galleries and participate in programs offered throughout the day. Free for Maltz Museum Members. Registration is required for each program.
Please note: admission to the programs is free with $5 museum admission. Please purchase general admission in advance or on the day of the program.
The Friends of the Maltz Museum present Holocaust Education and Remembrance Day on Sunday, January 26, from Noon to 5:00 PM. Enjoy $5 admission to tour the galleries and participate in programs offered throughout the day. Maltz Museum members are free.
Each year, the Friends of the Maltz Museum honor the memory of 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and celebrate the courage of those who lived to tell their harrowing stories of survival. Join us this year for a film screening of the documentary Lost Town and a fascinating discussion with Dr. Katya Oicherman about Czech Memorial Torah Scrolls that were looted by the Nazis and the Wall Hangings of Holocaust Textile Artist, Judith Weinshall Liberman.
12 pm to 5 pm: Explore the Maltz Museum’s galleries
Explore the Museum’s newest exhibition, DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art, see the treasures in The Temple-Tifereth Israel Gallery, share in the Jewish immigrant experience in An American Story.
12:30 pm: Documentary Film Screening of Lost Town
Lost Town’ tells the story of one man’s obsessive search to get closer to his deceased father by uncovering the story of his family’s town of Trochenbrod. First made famous by Jonathan Safron Foer’s ‘Everything Is Illuminated’, Trochenbrod was the only all-Jewish town to ever exist outside of Palestine. Trochenbrod’s 5000 Jews were obliterated by the Nazis, except for 33 townspeople who escaped the massacre there. This personal search triggers a resurgence of interest in the town and reconnects the few remaining survivors who hadn’t seen each other in over 60 years. ‘Lost Town’ utilizes contemporary documentary footage, original animation, and survivor testimonials to tell the story of how far one will go to claim their sense of identity.
2:30 pm: Memory activated: Czech Memorial Torah Scrolls and the art of Judith Weinshall Liberman from the collection of Congregation Mishkan Or
There are different paths to remembering the Holocaust. Congregation Mishkan Or chose to remember by adopting four Torah scrolls looted by the Nazis from the destroyed communities of Czechia and by providing a home to the textile art project Holocaust Wall Hangings by Judith Weinshall Liberman. Each in its unique manner, the two initiatives path their way to remembrance through activation and experience.
During this talk we will explore the history behind a Torah scroll from the Czech town of Kolin and why using the scroll in the synagogue today matters. Then we will discuss the artistic motivation behind five textiles from the Holocaust Wall Hangings series addressing the personal impact of creating art responding to such a difficult subject. We will draw connections between those two instances of remembering through doing and what they teach us about the nature of memory.
Dr. Katya Oicherman is a curator, researcher, and artist focusing on Jewish material culture, as well as historical and contemporary textiles. Oicherman is the Director of the Museum of Jewish Cultures at Congregation Mishkan Or, Beachwood, OH. Before joining Mishkan Or she was a resident artist-curator at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the chair of the Textile Design Department at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Israel). She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) with a thesis on 19th century German Jewish textiles.
Holocaust Education and Remembrance Day is presented by the Friends of the Maltz Museum
