“I am Carrying the Holocaust in my Pocket” documentary screening & panel discussion with Producer & Director, Dr. Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 7pm-9pm

JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th St., New York, NY 10023

Event ticket: $36 per person — Purchase Event Ticket here

“I am Carrying the Holocaust in my Pocket” is a 1-hour documentary based on a ten-week therapy group for grandchildren of survivors led by Dr. Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg, a psychoanalyst and child of survivors, during the winter and spring of 2011. The film portrays the multiple voices of four third-generation women — a writer, dancer, singer and social work student — who speak candidly about their grandparents’ stories of trauma and survival, and the impact it had on their lives. The interviews are interwoven with clips taken from the women’s art.

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This is a special opportunity to join other 3Gs together to see a new off-Broadway play called “The Soap Myth,” about a young investigative journalist who works to unravel a story about the Holocaust and combat deniers. The show is a serious investigation of history, but it is also a very touching and human story about the friendship between the journalist and a Holocaust survivor.

We have a discounted group rate for our group, and after the play we’re invited to participate in an exclusive Q&A session with the play’s director Jeff Cohen. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

For more information on the play, visit thesoapmyth.com

Price: $36 per person

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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.

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

Friday, January 27, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Congregation Habonim
44 West 66th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
New York City

The dinner is now SOLD OUT!

Join the 3GNY community for its Winter Shabbat Dinner at a landmark rich with history and relevance. Congregation Habonim was started by German Jews who fled Europe after Kristallnacht, and the synagogue remains a vibrant place to this day.

Special guest speaker and Holocaust survivor John Keller of Mainz, Germany, one of Habonim’s long standing congregants, joined the temple in 1946 and is still very active there. Mr. Keller will speak with us about his experiences during Kristallnacht. Afterward, he escaped to the United States, fought in World War II for America, and then came back to settle in New York City.

We hope you can join us for this special opportunity.

If you have any questions, please e-mail info@3gnewyork.org.

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About Masa Israel:

Masa Israel, a joint project of the Government of Israel and the Jewish Agency for Israel, connects young Jewish adults to gap year, study abroad, post-college, and volunteer programs. No other organization makes it easier for young adults to have exciting, meaningful experiences in Israel.  For more information, please visit facebook.com/masaisrael.

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/sarahs-key/.

This event is SOLD OUT!

For more information, please email info@3gnewyork.org

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.