History Museum Offers Holocaust Webinar Series In December

Press release from the City of Greensboro:

Post Date:11/25/2020 10:00 AM

The Greensboro History Museum is offering a three-part Holocaust Education webinar series starting at 6 pm, Tuesday, December 1. All programs in the series take place on Zoom and are free of charge. Participants can register at this website.

The series is offered to provide context and connections for a planned Holocaust memorial to be dedicated in Greensboro. Downtown Greensboro’s LeBauer Park (next door to the Museum) is being requested as the site of North Carolina’s first women’s Holocaust memorial. The sculpture, by artist Victoria Milstein, will picture victims of a Nazi massacre of Jewish women and children in Liepaja, Poland, in December 1941 and honors the strength and resilience of all women.

The Greensboro History Museum’s Holocaust Education webinar series brings together different voices addressing trauma and healing across generations. The first program, “Sound of Hope,” takes place Tuesday, December 1 at 6 pm. It features Dr. Kellie D. Brown, Chair of the Music Department at Milligan University in Elizabethton, Tennessee and Director of the Milligan Orchestra. Her recent book The Sound of Hope explores how music served as “solace, resistance and salvation” during the Holocaust.

Author Elizabeth Rosner is the special guest for the second webinar, Tuesday, December 8 at 6 pm. Her 2017 memoir Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the year. In it, she connects her own family story to a broader examination of how atrocities can shape the memories of survivors’ descendants.

The final program, “Women of the Shoah: Art as a Social Sculpture,” on Tuesday, December 15, at 6 pm, shares the story behind the creation of the women’s Holocaust memorial in Greensboro through a conversation with the people behind it, including artist Victoria Milstein, Holocaust survivor and educator Shelly Weiner, Greensboro Jewish Federation’s Executive Director Marilyn Forman Chandler and Holocaust scholar David M. Crowe, Presidential Fellow at Chapman University and Professor Emeritus of History & Law at Elon University. Liz Alberti moderates.

All programs in the series take place on Zoom and are free of charge. Participants can register at this website.

The Greensboro History Museum – an AAM-accredited Smithsonian Affiliate – is a division of the City of Greensboro Library Department and operates as a public-private partnership with the nonprofit GHM Inc. In partnership with the community, the Museum collects the city's diverse history and connects people to that history and one another through engaging exhibits, educational programs and community dialogue. Located in Downtown Greensboro's Cultural District, the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 am–5 pm. Admission is free.

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