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SUMMARY:Samuel Bak: A Retrospective of Seven Decades
DESCRIPTION:Artist Samuel Bak began painting as a boy in the Vilna Ghetto. He and his mother were the only members of his family to survive the Holocaust. Mr. Bak spent his life wrestling with his experience during the Holocaust\, creating a legacy of testimony through his art. The exhibition\, curated by the artist himself\, will officially open at 2016’s To Life: To the Arts gala on February 18\, at which Mr. Bak will receive the Loebenberg Humanitarian Award. Click here for more information on To Life.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/samuel-bak-a-retrospective/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Screening of "An Unknown Country" Documentary at Sunscreen Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:The screening of An Unknown Country at The Sunscreen Film Festival is co-sponsored by The Florida Holocaust Museum. The Museum’s Executive Director\, Elizabeth Gelman\, will welcome viewers to the film and introduce the film’s Director\, Eva Zelig. \nThe documentary\, An Unknown Country\, tells the story of European Jews who escaped Nazi persecution to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador\, a South American country barely known at the time. The film follows the exiles’ perilous escape and difficult adjustment as they remake their lives in an exotic\, unfamiliar land. \nTickets are $8.00 and can be purchased through TicketLeap:http://sunscreen-filmfestival.ticketleap.com/an-unknown-country/ \nThe film will be screened at American Stage Theater.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/screening-unknown-country-documentary-sunscreen-film-festival/
LOCATION:American Stage\, 163 3rd Street North\, St. Petersburg\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Incident at Vichy Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:EXCLUSIVE INCIDENT AT VICHY FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION \nPost-Film Panel Discussion To Feature Director Michael Wilson\, Actor Richard Thomas and Scholar Brian Phillips \nThe Florida Holocaust Museum is thrilled to present the nation’s first public screening and celebrity panel discussion of the 2015 Signature Theatre Off-Broadway revival production “Incident at Vichy” – an original Arthur Miller play\, directed by acclaimed Broadway Director Michael Wilson and starring Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas – at The Tampa Theatre on Monday\, May 2 at 7:30 pm. \nDirector Michael Wilson and Vichy Scholar Brian Phillips will lead a post-film panel discussion for this special one-night-only showing of the BroadwayHD filmed play. Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas will participate remotely. \nFilm Synopsis: At the height of World War II In Vichy\, France – an area that was supposedly a “free zone” – nine men and a boy are rounded up under suspicious circumstances. As ominous reports of far-off camps and cattle cars packed with prisoners begin to circulate\, the men battle over politics\, philosophy and how to escape. \nThe New York Times has written three glowing reviews for three different installments of the play. The original staged production in 1964 was acclaimed as “a moving play\, a searching play\, one of the most important plays of our time\,” by Howard Taubman.  \nThe film screening of the 2015 Signature Theatre Off-Broadway performance is FREE and open to the public\, with donations gratefully accepted\, and will take place on Monday\, May 2 at The Tampa Theatre. The theatre opens to the public at 7:00 p.m. with the screening starting at 7:30 p.m. Sponsorship opportunities are available\, please call (727) 820-0100 x274. \nCURRENT EVENT SPONSORS \nWalter and Edith Loebenberg Family Foundation \nMel and Betty Sembler \n \n  \nCURRENT VIP SPONSORS \nJanie and Marty Borell \nJudy Genshaft and Steve Greenbaum \nDr. Fred and Emily Gurtman \nHelen Levine and Katee Tully \nAdam and Tiffanie Lopatin \nMichele Fleeter and Mark Miller \nEric and Lyris Newman \nPeter and Lois Pardoll \nDavid and Deborah Pearlman \nRichard Marc Rappaport \nJack Ross \nLisl Schick \nPeter Schorsch \nDebbie and Brent Sembler \nMark Sena and Linda Saul-Sena \nCraig and Jan Sher \n \nJennifer Steinbrenner Swindal \nYann and Susana Weymouth \nRachael and Don Worthington   \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/incident-at-vichy/
LOCATION:The Tampa Theatre\, 711 N Franklin St\, Tampa\, FL\, 33602\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Voices of Survivors (Sumter County)
DESCRIPTION:Testimony of a Local Holocaust Survivor \n \nThe Florida Holocaust Museum\, in conjunction with Sumter County\, invite the public to hear the story of a local Holocaust Survivor. This free program is open to the public and will take place on Monday\, May 2nd at 2:00 p.m. at The Villages Public Library at Pinellas Plaza.  \nThis program includes a live Skype presentation lead by The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Senior Educator\, Sandy Mermelstein and features the personal testimony of local Holocaust Survivor\, Mary Wygodski.  \nMary Wygodski was born in Vilna\, Poland and raised in a traditional middle class Jewish family. She was just 15 years old in 1941 when the Germans arrived and her family was sent to the Vilna Ghetto. She was separated from her mother and two sisters at a boxcar in 1943 and never saw them again. She endured forced labor and many other atrocities as she passed through a series of concentration camps to include: Riga (Latvia)\, Shtutthof (East Prussia) and Magdeburg (Germany). By the end of the war\, she was her family’s sole survivor. \nThis program will conclude with a remote Q & A session between Holocaust Survivor Mary Wygodski and the live audience in Sumter County. \nPlease RSVP to Villages Public Library at Pinellas Plaza at (352) 689-4580. 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/testimony-local-holocaust-survivor/
LOCATION:FL
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SUMMARY:Voices of Survivors (Escambia County)
DESCRIPTION:Testimony of a Local Holocaust Survivor \n \nThe Florida Holocaust Museum\, in conjunction with The University of West Florida Historic Trust\, invite the public to hear the story of a local Holocaust Survivor. This free program is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday\, May 4th at 2:00 p.m at the Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center. \nThis program includes a live Skype presentation lead by The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Senior Educator\, Sandy Mermelstein and features the personal testimony of local Holocaust Survivor\, Mary Wygodski.  \nMary Wygodski was born in Vilna\, Poland and raised in a traditional middle class Jewish family. She was just 15 years old in 1941 when the Germans arrived and her family was sent to the Vilna Ghetto. She was separated from her mother and two sisters at a boxcar in 1943 and never saw them again. She endured forced labor and many other atrocities as she passed through a series of concentration camps to include: Riga (Latvia)\, Shtutthof (East Prussia) and Magdeburg (Germany). By the end of the war\, she was her family’s sole survivor. \nThis program will conclude with a remote Q & A session between Holocaust Survivor Mary Wygodski and the live audience in Escambia County.  \nPlease RSVP to Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center at (850) 595-5840. \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/testimony-local-holocaust-survivor-escambia-county/
LOCATION:FL
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SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Yom HaShoah Commemorative Ceremony and Talk with Acclaimed Author Martin Goldsmith \nIn observance of Yom HaShoah\, The Florida Holocaust Museum\, in partnership with the Pinellas County Board of Rabbis and the Tampa Rabbinical Association\, will host a commemorative ceremony and candle lighting by Holocaust Survivors on Wednesday\, May 4th at 6:30 p.m.\, followed by a talk from Martin Goldsmith\, author of “Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance.” This program is free and open to the public. \nKnown more commonly outside of Israel as Holocaust Remembrance Day\, Yom HaShoah honors the memory of the more than six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. The full name of the day is Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah or “Day of the Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Heroism” as it also marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. \nIn his latest memoir\, Goldsmith traces the experience of his grandfather and uncle aboard the St. Louis. Filled with refugees\, the ship crossed the Atlantic in attempts to flee Nazi Germany\, but was turned back at every port. His relatives spent three years in a number of different settlements before ultimately being sent to their deaths in Auschwitz. Seventy years later\, Goldsmith followed in their footsteps to bear witness and reconcile his own relationship with the past.  \n“Martin’s journey and book offer a new perspective on the Holocaust; one that is typically missing from most books and films about the Shoah. . . . Alex’s Wake is a powerful and evocative memoir.”      —New York Journal of Books \nAuthor Q&A and book signing to conclude this program. Please RSVP to (727) 820-0100 x271.  \nFor more about Martin Goldsmith\, visit www.alexswakebook.com
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/yom-hashoah/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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