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MorseLife NEXT GENERATIONS Holocaust

Living Learning Experience Announces

August/September Showcase Programming

MorseLife NEXT GENERATIONS Holocaust Living her brother Hans – former his doctorate with distinction in 1994 for his dissertation, “Work
Learning Experience announces its August/September events fanatical Hitler youth Makes Free”: The Hidden Cultural Meanings of the Holocaust;
in its annual showcase series. This showcase is one of the leaders, the latter arrested (Work Makes Free: English translation of Nazi forced labor
nonprofit’s programming developed to enlighten, cultivate for a teen gay relationship camp slogan Arbeit Macht Frei).
and encourage generations of up-standers to work individually – transformed uniquely To Life! A Magical Post-Modern Hasidic Tale Of The
and collectively to help eradicate bigotry and hate. to become the greatest Holocaust
The Holocaust Living Learning Experience offers live heroes of the German anti- Featuring Dr. Jud Newborn
and virtual multimedia events and workshops that share Nazi resistance. On Feb. Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.
lessons learned from the Holocaust. The lessons demonstrate 18, 1943, the siblings led Online: Virtual/Webinar
the importance and advocacy of diversity, inclusion, equity, the only public protest by Admission: Free, however, registration is required to receive
social justice, and human rights. All are presented in a Germans against Nazism an access link.
way that uplifts and transforms communities, helps heal ever to be staged. Mounting
generational trauma through understanding, and the truthful, a gallery high above the
poignant sharing of and honoring the lives and values of University of Munich’s
those who perished and the resilience and legacies of those vast atrium, they tossed
who survived this watershed period in world history. hundreds of leaflets upon
“We are pleased to continue providing an exceptionally the heads of astonished students, reading: “We will not be silent,”
powerful annual showcase series,” said Nancy Dershaw, their wartime leaflets declared. “We are your bad conscience. The
founder of NEXT GENERATIONS. “It is through long- White Rose will not leave you in peace!” Next, Newborn ties the
established relationships with premier experts and historians past to the present, sharing an array of inspiring “White Rosers”
on the Holocaust and human rights, museums, cultural today, abroad and at home, who risk themselves for freedom and
institutions, universities, as well as award-winning authors, our shared humanity. Finally, he relates the White Rose story to
filmmakers, and playwrights that we can bring impactful today’s most compelling current events and global issues – from
insights and experiences throughout the year to our greater America’s crisis of democracy and the rise of anti-Semitism to the
Palm Beach County community.” Mid-East conflict with China, LGBT rights, murderous attacks
According to Dershaw, the initial schedule of 18 live and on environmental activists, the Ukraine War, and more. Dr. Jud Newborn
virtual opportunities include: Born in 1952, Newborn is a New York-based author, lecturer,
“A Virtual Tour Of Auschwitz” cultural anthropologist, and curator. A pioneer in creating Dr. Jud Newborn returns to present this profound and richly
Led by Certified Tour Educator Jerzy Wojcik Holocaust museums, he helped build New York’s Museum of multimedia program that poignantly interweaves his own story
Wednesday, Aug. 31 at noon Jewish Heritage, serving as its founding historian and curator. (his adventures, determination, and triumphs in confronting the
Limited to the first 50 registrants He is known for his co-authored book, Sophie Scholl and the Holocaust) with the lost world of the European Jewish Shtetl –
White Rose (Oneworld Publications, 2006). He is now in a and the amazing tale of the first man to bring the news of the
third, special Anniversary edition marking the capture and Holocaust to the West. Revolving around the author’s thrilling
execution of the White Rose student resisters in 1943. A wide- discovery of Polish Bund Spokesman Szmul Artur Zygielbojm’s
ranging lecturer who has spoken throughout North America lost artifacts, Newborn tells a miraculous, life-affirming story of
and worldwide, he is recognized for his dramatic multimedia how three seemingly disconnected lives magically intersected
programs that set unsung aspects of the Holocaust, among other over time and space. Moreover, Newborn’s discovery links him
subjects, within the context of such compelling, contemporary by surprise to Zygielbojm’s surviving niece, a 75-year-old South
issues as the rise of extremism, oppression, fanaticism, and African champion ballroom dancer who “brings me under her
genocide, to inspire audiences to join in the fight for freedom spell, inducing me to dance – not to mourn, but to celebrate
and “our shared humanity.” Honored in 2018 by the Anne Frank Jewish survival.”
Center with their top award, the Spirit of Anne Frank Human Registration
Writes Award, he currently serves as the Emmy Award-winning To learn more and register for the MorseLife NEXT
Producer of Special Programs for Long Island, N.Y.’s Cinema GENERATIONs Living Learning Experience Showcase
Arts Centre, bringing in Nobel Laureates, Kennedy Center Series programs, visit www.NEXTGENERATIONS.
Jerzy Wojcik, who grew up just miles from the camp, “A Honorees, and Academy Award, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and org. To schedule community or school programming,
Virtual Tour of Auschwitz,” is recognized as the most faithful Pulitzer Prize winners to interview before live audiences. contact Leigh Routman, director, MorseLife NEXT
representation of a physical visit to the Auschwitz memorial site. Newborn was educated at New York University, Cambridge GENERATIONS Holocaust Living Learning Experience,
During this private, intimate meeting, all tour-takers can see each University, and the University of Chicago, which awarded him Lroutman@morselife.org, (561) 668-5961.
other in a virtual space. Wojcik opens a dialogue for questions
and discussion in real time about the former Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration and death camp as participants are transported to
the camp via session cutting-edge virtual reality tools officially
created by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Through the
technology of the Auschwitz Panorama’s 360-degree panoramic
images, participants can stand virtually in every spot normally
visited in person, making it possible to reach and look at even
the most distant places at the memorial site. Along with historical
footage, histories of former prisoners, visualizations, aerial
overviews, and contemporary filming, the tour guide narrates
the visit while sharing aerial videos and historical footage.
Wojcik, who still lives near the camp, works with several
organizations and institutions in Poland, among others, the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Center for Holocaust
Studies in Krakow, the Center for International Relations
in Warsaw, and the European Association of Israel Studies
and has run the Holocaust Memorial Partnership since 2015.
He is a graduate of international relations at the Faculty of
Political and International Studies and postgraduate studies on
the Middle and the Far East at the Jagiellonian University in
Krakow. He holds a Ph.D. in political science at the Jagiellonian
University in Krakow. Jerzy is a recipient of a scholarship from
Florentyna Kogutowska Fund at the Jagiellonian University and
a scholarship from the State of Israel for a nine-month research
fellowship at Tel Aviv University.
Speaking Truth To Power: The White Rose Anti-Nazi
Resistance – And Heroes Today In The Fight For Democracy
And Human Rights
Featuring Holocaust Historian Dr. Jud Newborn
Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m.
Temple Beth Tikvah, 4550 Jog Road, West Palm Beach,
FL 33467
Admission: $18 per person; free to Holocaust Survivors
During this live event, Holocaust Historian Dr. Jud
Newborn uses stirring theme music, 80 powerful images, and
suspenseful storytelling to recount how Sophie Scholl and