Thursday April 23, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco

As the events of the Holocaust recede in time, a series of urgent educational and moral issues present themselves for Holocaust education in the 21st century. How, for instance, do we make the transition from seeing the Holocaust as an event in living memory, to a historical event without any living witnesses? What is the appropriate role of film, literature and the arts in Holocaust education when no living witnesses are left to confirm or correct the details of their experiences?

In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the Contemporary Jewish Museum is hosting a panel discussion with oral historians Susan Rothenberg and Anne Grenn Saldinger, and Holocaust survivor Perry Scheinok, on the topic of "The Holocaust and Storytelling in the 21st Century."

Tickets: Free for Members and Youth 18 and under, $5 General Public
Tickets include Museum admission.
To purchase tickets in advance: visit the CJM website, or contact the CJM by email at info@thecjm.org or by telephone at 415.655.7800

The Panel:

Susan Gluck Rothenberg is currently an Affiliated Scholar in the History Department of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Ms. Rothenberg was educated at Hunter College and the University of Chicago, where she earned an M.S.W. from the School of Social Service Administration. She has used her training as a psychiatric social worker with a variety of populations. Recently, she has found a new niche in helping elders record their life experiences and editing those remembrances into a coherent tale, leaving their families and friends with far more than just a chronology of their lives.

Anne Grenn Saldinger is the Director of the Oral History Project at the Holocaust Center of Northern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley and has extensively researched the psychological effects of telling one’s life story for Holocaust survivors. Drawing on her research and her experience interviewing hundreds of survivors, Dr. Saldinger has presented numerous papers at international conferences on the significance of Holocaust testimony.

Perry Scheinok is a Holocaust survivor and member of the Holocaust Center of Northern California’s Survivors Speakers Bureau. Mr. Scheinok speaks to students and community groups about his family’s harrowing experiences during the Holocaust, which took them from The Hague, through occupied Vichy France, and ultimately to freedom in the United States. Mr. Scheinok is also a prolific writer, reflecting on both his experiences during the Holocaust and other topics.

Co-presented by the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.