3GNY – A NYC-Based Group for Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors

3GNY Intergenerational Brunch
Sunday, April 29, 2012
12 – 3 pm
Congregation Chasam Sopher
10 Clinton St., Lower East Side, New York City

Price: $36 per person

Purchase tickets HERE

3GNY invites you, your parents, grandparents, siblings and friends to our fifth annual Intergenerational Brunch. We are honored to have special guest speaker Anna Pasternak, who will share her story of survival and perseverance. Enjoy a delicious catered brunch as well as a tour of the 150 year old synagogue Chasam Sopher.

Kosher Dietary Laws Observed

About Anna Pasternak:

Anna Pasternak was born in Zbydniow, a village in Southern Poland. In early October 1939, the Germans invaded, occupied the area, and a few days later Anna, her parents and two younger brothers were expelled from their home and ordered to go East. For eight months they lived in Janow, a small town near Lemberg (currently Lvov, Ukraine). In July 1940, Soviet soldiers came at night, loaded them into cattle cars and sent them to labor camps in Siberia together with thousands of others. After Siberia and some wanderings the family lived in Kazakhstan for four years. In 1946 they returned to Poland to discover the horrors of the Holocaust, yet the family never returned to their ancestral hometown. Anna came to the U.S. in 1955, where she became an active member of several Jewish organizations. She speaks several languages, has taught nursery school and for the past 30 years has been actively involved in the real estate business.

Featuring June Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered, A Celebration of Survival

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30 p.m.

The Jewish Museum
Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York City

Thank you for joining us for this wonderful evening!

The books purchased in advance will be available for pickup at the event, and books will also be on sale at the event. June will be autographing the books that evening. Proceeds from book sales benefit the Museum of Jewish Heritage and 3GNY.

Thank you for joining us for this delicious and lively evening focused on food and storytelling with June Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered, A Celebration of Survival. June discussed her book, including some of the stories, and there was Q&A following. Her presentation is tailored specifically for the 3G audience, so this is a special opportunity exclusively for our group.

After we heard from June, Executive Chef David Teyf of LOX at the Jewish Museum showed us how to prepare some recipes from and inspired by June’s book.

Recipes Remembered is a cookbook and collection of stories wrapped into one. To create it, June personally interviewed over 80 Holocaust survivors and their families. Along the way, she discovered remarkable and uplifting stories of strength and resilience. The recipes in the book are authentic and include culinary creations from all around the world. To learn more about June and her book, visit JuneHersh.com, or view a great Fox News interview from December 2011.

For more information, please e-mail info@3gnewyork.org or visit www.3gnewyork.org.

Dietary laws observed

December 17, 2010
Darna Restaurant

We had nearly 100 in attendance, so we thank all who joined us for a warm and moving Shabbat dinner featuring guest speaker Howard Sirota.

Mr. Sirota shared his story about fleeing Berlin in 1939. His family were among the 20,000 Jewish refugees who between 1939 and 1941 found shelter in Shanghai, China.

Friday, April 30, 2010
92YTribeca

Thanks to all who joined us for Shabbat as we welcomed guest speaker Masha Leon – a Holocaust survivor and columnist for The Forward.

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Masha Leon was born in Warsaw, Poland, where she survived the bombing of the city, hunger and disease. She fled Warsaw with her mother and they survived a Nazi firing squad and being shot at by the Russians on the way to Soviet-occupied Poland.

Her father was a journalist and political activist in pre-war Poland and was arrested in 1940 by the NKVD in Vilna (where he shared a prison cell with Menachem Begin). Ms. Leon describes her survival as a series of “miracles,” culminating in a visa issued by Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, whose 2,139 Visas saved 6,000 Jews.

She is a graduate of CUNY(City College-Hunter-Queens College) with a degree in Yiddish Studies, majors in English and French, and has been honored by Workmen’s Circle, Hadassah and the Israel Cancer Research Fund for her media accomplishments. Her articles have appeared in magazines such as Working Woman, Guideposts, and Ladies Home Journal.

Masha writes a weekly column for The Forward, called “On-The-Go,” which appears in both the paper and the online version. The column covers New York’s and America’s Jewish communities’ social, political and organizational events as well as New York’s benefit arenas including theatre, dance, film, music, etc.

Masha and her husband Joseph (who died in August 2008 after a long illness) have three daughters and five grandchildren.

Sunday, April 11, 2010
Temple Emanu-El

Thanks to all who attending the Gathering.

The Annual Gathering of Remembrance, organized by the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, is New York’s oldest and largest Holocaust commemoration ceremony.

This event brought together political leaders, survivors, and members of the Jewish community with Holocaust survivors and their families to fulfill the sacred obligation of remembrance.

Sunday, February 28, 2010
Bronfman Center

Thanks for joining us in making Purim baskets and delivering them to survivors. It was a unique and meaningful experience.

We also thank co-sponsors The Blue Card and iVolunteer

December 4, 2009
92YTribeca

Thanks to all members and supporters of 3GNY for joining us at what was a moving Shabbat dinner. Guest speaker and Holocaust survivor Bernard Gotfryd shared his story.

Mr. Gotfryd was born in Radom, Poland, and became interested in photography at an early age. When World War II broke out and schools were closed to Jewish students, Gotfryd found work as an apprentice in a photography studio. While working in the studio, he began aiding the Polish underground by passing on photographs taken by Nazi officers of war atrocities. After an unsuccessful escape attempt in October 1943, Gotfryd was apprehended and shipped to Maidanek. By the war’s end, Gotfryd had survived six concentration camps.

In 1947, Mr. Gotfryd emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a photographer and studied photojournalism. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1949 and going through basic training, Mr. Gotfryd was assigned to the Signal Corps as a combat photographer. In 1952, he married his wife, Gina. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where they raised two children, Howard and Eva.

Mr. Gotfryd joined the staff of Newsweek in 1957, where he worked for more than thirty years, photographing some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. It was while working for Newsweek, covering the Holocaust Survivors Gathering in Washington, D.C., in April 1983, that Mr. Gotfryd was moved to write about his own experiences. First published in Newsweek, his stories were eventually published as a collection, titled Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust.

Copies of Anton the Dove Fancier are available by calling 1-800-537-5487 or visiting this website.

October 25, 2009
JCC in Manhattan

We were happy to see everyone at our Third Annual Intergenerational Brunch. It was a beautiful day, with so many of all generations meeting, connecting and commemorating their family history. 

The event featured a presentation by 3GNY’s leadership, and guest speaker Amira Kohn-Trattner, C.S.W Amira 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.

Amira presented an excerpt from her forthcoming documentary film about an unusual small group of Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia, who emigrated to South America after the war. The film explores the lives of these close, life-long friends and the new threat they face.

June 14, 2009

Thanks to all the volunteers who came to the Coffee House in Washington Heights.  It was a successful program.  We were pleased with the turnout and with the noticeably positive effect we had on those with whom we spent time.

This Coffee House is a program of Selfhelp (http://www.selfhelp.net/index.shtm), which is the oldest and largest provider of Nazi victim services in North America.  Selfhelp wanted to convey their gratitude for our presence and our efforts.

June 3, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came to our Happy Hour.  We are proud to report that we raised $400 to benefit the June 14 Coffee House for survivors.