Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for Summer Thursdays! This month’s program is presented in partnership with 3GNY and is focused on the 2G and 3G experience.
Full Schedule
5:15 PM: LILAC/BEZ Screening and Talkback
In a short experimental documentary told through still photos and an evocative soundtrack, an American woman and her two daughters search for the Polish shtetls of her grandparents, seeking to connect to a lost world.
In 1921 Julius Morowitz and Eva Judkowitz left their small shtetls of Chmielnik and Stopnica for the United States. None of their descendants ever stepped foot in Poland again. This short photo-film follows the return journey of their granddaughter, Laura. It explores the fundamental question of how we “return” to a place that exists now only in imagination, a place that must be mediated through memory and through art; you cannot go back and occupy a place that has become, like hundreds of other shtetls, a wound.
Following the screening, there will be a talkback with Laura Morowitz, Isabelle Schechter and Olivia Schechter.
6:30 PM: Guided tour of The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do
The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do is an expansive and timely presentation of Holocaust history told through personal stories, objects, photos, and film – many on view for the first time. The 12,000-square-foot exhibition features over 1,250 original objects and survivor testimonies from the Museum’s collection. The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do is a representation of this global story through a local lens, rooted in the objects donated by survivors and their families, many of whom settled in New York and nearby places.
This tour requires advance registration. If you would like to attend, in addition to registering for the program, please register for the tour here.
6:30 PM – 8 PM: Drop-In Creative Storytelling Session with 3rd Gen Collective
This workshop is designed to facilitate artistic exploration around our families’ stories. With stimulus questions and prompts, we will get you starting down the road to turn a testimony into a work of art, a practice of transforming pain into beauty.
