Spring Women's Luncheon

Virtual Registration is available until March 8 at 12PM ET
by making a donation of any amount.

Patti Askwith Kenner, Kathy Gantz, Ann Oster, Stacey Saiontz, Minna Seitelman
and the Board of Trustees of the
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 
cordially invite you to the annual 

SPRING WOMEN'S LUNCHEON

featuring 

ELIZABETH BELLAK

Hidden Child of the Holocaust

in conversation with

MATTIE KAHN

Grandchild of Survivors and Writer 

Thursday, March 9, 2023

10 AM I Tour of The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do *

11 AM I Reception and Silent Auction

12 PM I Luncheon and Program

2 PM I Tour of The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do * 

Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, New York City

In-Person and Virtual Registrations Available

*Optional

LUNCHEON CO-CHAIRS

Patti Askwith Kenner, Kathy Gantz, Ann Oster, Stacey Saiontz, Minna Seitelman

LUNCHEON COMMITTEE*

Diane Schulder Abrams, Linda Adams, Claudine Bacher, Staci Barber, Denise Benmosche, Stefany Bergson, Rhoda Berley, Sande Breakstone, Elyse Butnick, Elyse Buxbaum, Debrah Lee Charatan, Anne Jeffries Citrin, Ida Cole, Iris Rainer Dart, Madeline Dreifus, Deborah Edell, Susan Erlich, Edith Everett, Bambi Felberbaum, Rachel Brandeis Feldman, Lauren Lebowitz Feldman, Tovah Feldshuh, Marian Klein Feldt, Nancy Fisher, Dr. Eva Fogelman, Kathy Franklin, Mona Golabek, Joan Goldberg, Evelyn Goldfeier, Maggi Sedlis Goldstein, Tamar Goldstein, Sandy Greenberg, Alyssa Greengrass, Celina Hecht, Shelley Erlich Holm, Tracey Jackson, Lauren Jacobs, Mary & Peter S. Kalikow, Suri Kasirer, Laura Kaye, Alice Kulick, Rita G. Lerner, Kathy Leventhal, Rita Levy, Amy Goldberg Michel, Michelle Ores, Amy Pack, Gail Propp, Sheila Pruzansky, Lois Rakoff, Julie Ratner, Marilyn Rosen, Janet Ross, Gillian Salama-Caro, Joy Sardinsky, Doris Schechter, Haley Schwartz, Bunny Shestack, Samantha Lerner Silverman, Marcy Syms, Elizabeth Szancer, Marilyn Tabak, Michele Cohn Tocci, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Rachel Yedid, and Deborah Zuckerman

*list in formation

Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors!

Elizabeth Bellak (nee Ariana Spiegel) was born in 1930 in Stawki, Poland. Before WWII, she was known as "the Polish Shirley Temple" and was a prominent child actress.

When war broke out, Ariana and her older sister Renia were visiting their grandparents in the town of Przemysl, Poland, where Renia was killed in July 1942. Ariana survived and made her way back to Warsaw along with a friend's father. There, she was reunited with her mother and Ariana was baptized with a new name - Elzbieta - and sent to play a real-life acting role as a Catholic girl at a convent school.

After the war, Elzbieta was in a Displaced Person's camp in Germany. She eventually made her way to New York via Austria and Germany, became "Elizabeth," and started a career as a schoolteacher. Years later, she was miraculously reunited with her sister Renia's wartime diary, in which Renia had documented their family's experiences and shared intimate personal reflections. St. Martin's Press published it in 2019 as Renia's Diary and it became an international bestseller.

Mattie Kahn is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Vox, and more. She is the former culture director of Glamour, where she edited and wrote features on politics and women's issues. Previously, she was a staff editor at ELLE.com. Her first book, Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions, is forthcoming from Viking.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York's contribution to the global responsibility to Never Forget and a memorial to the six million. We are a place of memory and education, where the lives of those who perished in the Holocaust are honored and the unforgettable stories of survivors are kept alive for future generations. Since opening our doors in 1997, we have educated over two million visitors - including hundreds of students a year - about the lessons of the Holocaust and the dangers of where hate can lead. For over two decades, the Museum has worked to protect the historical record and deepen the public's understanding of Jewish history and heritage through our exhibitions, permanent collection, and public programs that reach audiences around the world.