We're excited to announce that the Southern Adirondack Library System will launch the Messages From Survivors exhibit in two libraries this September, and will send it to a dozen more sites over the following two years.

A haunting portrait of Anna Maria Steinbach is August’s Portrait of the Month. We chose it because August 2nd is Roma Genocide Remembrance Day. On that day in 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti people, mostly women, children and the elderly were sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anna Maria was probably one of them. She was nine years old.

June in Dallas is hot. We were told it gets even hotter. But heat and storms didn’t stop us from having a fulfilling and productive time at the 2023 AHO Summer Conference at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

In March 2023, we opened two exhibits at The Holocaust Resource & Education Center of Florida, including Finding Kalman and the world premier of Never Again — Again, which features testimony from six survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda alongside painted portraits of the survivors.

In January 2023, Memory Project Productions co-founders Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman launched the Messages From Survivors exhibit at the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) Winter Conference in Miami, Florida.

We were honored to participate in two events for International Holocaust Remembrance day this year.

A number of people have responded to our survey about “The Tomato Story.” This is helping us plan what to include in the exhibit that will go with these first-person videos.  We want to briefly answer some of the questions people had.

March is Women’s History Month. I’d like to spotlight three courageous women whose stories we share with students: Stefania Podgorska, Dora Rivkina and Edit Schechter.

Meir Weisblum is one of my heroes.

We love getting news from workshops around the country. Two exciting emails came from Shane Wiggs of Austin High School in El Paso, Texas.

On May 4th we held a workshop in partnership with the New-York Historical Society for a wonderful group of enthusiastic teachers. The teachers spent the day learning about using art as a primary source for teaching history through various activities, including our workshop.

Caitlyn Notaro teaches at Westmoreland High School, in a small town west of Utica in Upstate New York. She learned about The Memory Project Productions Face to Face program and received a curriculum kit at the New York State Art Teachers Association conference in 2017.

I met New York artist Roz Jacobs at a Valentine’s Day party in 1979, when she was 23 and I was 21 years old.

Laurie and Roz held a workshop at the Museum of Jewish Heritage for 60 students from PS/IS 128 in Queens

We recently heard from Stephanie Warchol, a teacher at Calkins Road Middle School in New York. She held a Memory Project workshop for her students who are collaborating with students in Israel.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. On November 9, 1938, Nazi officers and German civilians unleashed a campaign of violent demonstrations against Jews across Germany and Austria.

As someone who has had the privilege of knowing people who survived the Holocaust, I am keenly aware of what can happen when a government runs amok. The unfulfilled promise of “Never again” requires each of us to remain engaged in doing our part to defend decency and protect democratic institutions from eroding.

Our friends at the Auschwitz Jewish Center (in Oświęcim, Poland) recently got in touch to tell us that they have been holding Memory Project workshops regularly for students. They use the workshops as an opportunity to learn about the stories of prewar Jewish residents of the town.

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