3GNY – A NYC-based Group for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors | PO Box 7690; New York, NY 10150
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Soho House
29-35 Ninth Avenue (betw. 13th and 14th Streets)
New York City
**The screening is SOLD OUT**
**Doors open at 7:15 p.m., the film will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.**
Join us for a special opportunity to view Sarah’s Key at a private screening with the 3GNY community. Following the movie, you are welcome to join the group at a nearby bar for conversation, drinks, and snacks (location TBD).
This award-winning film is about an American journalist who uncovers a secret researching a piece about the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942. With flashbacks, the film tells the story of a young girl’s experiences during this roundup, including the participation of the French bureaucracy, army and citizens in aiding and abetting the Nazis. It also tells the story about a farmer, his wife, and others, who hid and protected Jews from Vichy authorities, the Germans, and French collaborators. For further information, visit: http://weinsteinco.com/sites/
This event is SOLD OUT!
For more information, please email info@3gnewyork.org
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 5 E. 62nd Street (between Fifth & Madison)
Cost: $36.
Thank you for joining 3GNY and fellow grandchildren of survivors for a follow-up discussion with Amira Kohn-Trattner, a Licensed Certified Social Worker and leading analyst on how trauma is transmitted throughout generations. Amira continued our discussion on a very real and poignant issue surrounding all Third Generation descendants of survivors and addressed how the effects of the Holocaust can, and has, been passed down throughout generations.
Amira is an Israeli-born psychotherapist & psychoanalyst in private practice on the Upper West Side. She has been a consultant to the German government in restitution cases as an advocate to survivors, and has volunteered at international conferences for the US Holocaust Museum and the Shoah Foundation. Amira has extensive experience working directly with survivors as well as 2nd and 3rd generation descendants.
New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds 
A 3GNY and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s New York Next Generation Event
Monday, September 26, 6 p.m.
Private Suite at Citi Field
Flushing, New York
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Steven Vitto
Technical Information Specialist
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Leora Klein Werthenschlag and Daniel Brooks
3GNY Founders
Join 3GNY and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s New York Next Generation for an evening at Citi Field and learn about both organizations’ efforts to preserve the history of the Holocaust.
Before the game, Steven Vitto will reveal how the Museum’s partnership with Ancestry.com is enlisting the public’s help to make the Museum’s historical records more searchable online. Leora Klein Werthenschlag and Daniel Brooks will discuss WEDU (We Educate), 3GNY’s new educational initiative, which empowers grandchildren of survivors to bring stories and lessons of the Holocaust to school classrooms.
Registration is now closed. Your ticket will be held at the door. Space is limited, and tickets will not be sold
at the event. This invitation is nontransferable.
A light dinner will be served during the game, with dietary laws observed.
For more information, please email info@3gnewyork.org.
September 16, 2011, 7:30 pm
Eighteen Restaurant
240 East 81st Street (between 2nd and 3rd avenues)
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Thank you for making 3GNY’s sold-out Fall Shabbat dinner a great success. We shared an evening of great food and company, where we socialized with friends, met new people, learned more about 3GNY, its events, its educational initiative WEDU, and how you can become more involved. The dinner featured special guest speaker and Holocaust survivor Stephen Berger, who shared his story and answer questions in a brief Q&A.
About Stephen Berger: Stephen was born and raised in Debrecin, Hungary, where he attended elementary school and Jewish Gymnasium. After the German occupation of Hungary he was forced into the city ghetto. From there, he was sent to Strasshof concentration camp and then to a slave labor camp in Austria. After the liberation by Allied Forces, he briefly returned to Hungary, where he discovered the Germans and their Hungarian collaborators had murdered 26 members of his family. He joined the Zionist movement and left Hungary. He then worked to help European Jews immigrate to Palestine and contributed to
Israel’s war for independence.
June 22, 2011, 7pm
Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 5 E. 62nd Street, Manhattan
Free to attend
We thank all for attending the conversation with best-selling novelist Iris Rainer Dart about her latest work, the broadway musical ”The People in the Picture,” and the role the arts play in Holocaust remembrance and education.
About “The People”:
Once the darling of the Yiddish Theatre in pre-war Poland, now a grandmother in New York City, Bubbie has had quite a life. But what will it all mean if she can’t pass on her stories to the next generation? Though her granddaughter is enchanted by her tales, her daughter Red will do anything to keep from looking back. A fiercely funny and deeply moving new musical that spans three generations, The People in the Picture celebrates the importance of learning from our past, and the power of laughter.
Show’s website: http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/broadway/thepeopleinthepicture/
About Iris Rainer Dart:
Iris Rainer Dart is a best selling novelist, whose work includes The Boys In The Mail Room, ‘Til The Real Thing Comes Along, I’ll Be There, The Stork Club, Show Business Kills, When I Fall in Love, Some Kind of Miracle and Beaches, which was made into a film starring Bette Midler. Her co-authored children’s book Larry:The King of Rock and Roll was released in January of ’07.
She wrote episodes for many situation comedies and was hired in 1975 as the only woman writer to write “The Sonny and Cher Show.” It was during this time when Iris had the idea to write a woman character loosely based on “the no holds barred outrageous person” that she found in Cher. The character became Cee Cee Bloom in her best-selling novel Beaches later made into the iconic film of the same name starring Bette Midler.
Iris’s most recent project is a musical called The People in The Picture. “It’s my passion project,” she says. “I grew up in a hosehold where they spoke more Yiddish than English, and even though we had no money I never look back on my childhood as deprived. When I thought about why that was, I realized I always gave credit for the joy my family felt to the Yiddish culture. It’s so filled with humor and warmth and I love the language. I know the generation that spoke it fluently is all but gone, and my generation only has a passing relationship with it, and my children know very little. How can we let this magical language disappear?” The People in the Picture talks about how the Yiddish sensibility is an important factor in the Jew’s survival.
Please RSVP to Felice Cohen at felfish@aol.com
June 16, 2011
American Jewish Committee
We thank all who participated in the interactive conversation with documentary filmmaker Taylor Krauss. We thank Taylor for his work and the time he spent with us.
We also thank co-sponsors Dor Chadash and AJC’s Africa Institute
May 19, 2011
Fifth Avenue Synagogue
We thank all who joined us to discuss our unique family history and its effects on our families’ lives and ours.
We also thank Amira Kohn-Trattner, L.C.S.W., who led our discussion, as well as the Fifth Avenue Synagogue for hosting us.
About the speaker:
Amira Kohn-Trattner, L.C.S.W., is an Israeli-born psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. Amira works with individuals and couples and has extensive experience with survivors, 2nd and 3rd generation.
She has been a consultant to the German government in restitution cases as an advocate to survivors and volunteered at international conferences for the US Holocaust Museum and the Shoah Foundation.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Inc Lounge, Time Hotel
It was a great turnout. We thank all who joined us for an evening of cocktails and great company. Congrats to those who won the cool raffle prizes. The raffle proceeds benefit future 3GNY programming.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Commitment and Conscience: A New Generation Commemorates and Acts
On the 68th anniversary of the Uprising, we heard the background, details and significance of the largest revolt by Jews during the Holocaust.
After a candle lighting ceremony with survivors and their families, we heard a program featuring speakers and performing artists in their 20s and 30s — celebrating the vibrant Yiddish culture that was tragically cut short, as well as articulating a vision for how our generation commemorates the Uprising, and the Holocaust generally, going forward.
We ended the evening by participating in discussion groups where we grappled with these issues.
Co-sponsored by The Workmen’s Circle and The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
