Through Their Eyes: A Next Generation Perspective

By Kara Goodwin

Register: Through Their Eyes: A Next Generation Perspective. November 12^th, 7:00 pm, Temple Israel

The acts of bearing witness, remembering the past, and recognizing resilience are ever more important as we face an unprecedented rise in antisemitism.

Recognizing the importance of testimony for the history of the Holocaust, CHES’ Through Their Eyes project empowers the Next Generation to share their family stories and adds their perspective to the narrative. Through Their Eyes participants are joining our Speakers’ Bureau to share their presentation in classrooms and in the community to help teach the Holocaust and to raise awareness of the consequences of hate. 

Join us for an evening that introduces Through Their Eyes voices and includes a presentation by Professor Jan Grabowski about the Long Shadow of the Holocaust and the importance of testimony. 

His talk will focus on the memory of the Holocaust and its rejection, as experienced in Eastern Europe, and especially in Poland. This rejection, a well-known phenomenon in areas where the Jewish tragedy happened, is at the origin of false historical narrative, which only survivors’ and survivors’ testimonies can counter. Following the trail of archival historical evidence, this lecture will present the Shoah-related history of several communities which today deny their own past and the consequences this form of denial entails. This, in turn, underlines the importance of Jewish testimonies which are still being collected from survivors who have not yet been heard from and from their descendants who have learned from their parents what happened to their close ones during the Shoah.