Upcoming Events
Thursday, Sept 4th, 2008 at 10:00 AM
B'nai Israel - Jewish Federation of Western CT
Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Training Session
Agenda:
- Names Recovery Campaign history and rationale.
- How to work with Survivors.
- Searching the Online Database of Shoah Victims' Names.
- Submitting Pages of Testimony Online via the Database.
- Filling out physical Page of Testimony forms.
- Questions about the Database (see Database FAQs).
- Have two volunteers act out the following steps for the benefit of the group: call a survivor, introduce the project, make an appointment and help a survivor fill out a Page of Testimony form.
- Questions and answers.
- Review and hand out these TOOLS: Blank Page of Testimony, Completed Page of Testimony, Volunteer Registration Form, Project Talking Points, Working with Survivors.
October 26th – November 9th 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Jewish Family Services of Ottawa (JFS), representing The Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project and in conjunction with The Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s Shoah Committee, will be on site at a variety of venues throughout the city to promote awareness of the Names Recovery Project. Pages of Testimony (POTs) will be available to the public and representatives from JFS will be on site to answer questions and make private appointments for those wishing assistance in filling out the POT.
Please contact:
Iris Beer, ibeer@jfsottawa.com
Shaina Lipsey, slipsey@jfsottawa.com
Tel: 613 722-2225
www.jfsottawa.com
November 7-10, 2008
Alexandria, Virginia, next to Washington DC
The Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project, represented by Allgenerations, Inc., will be on site at the upcoming 20th Annual Conference of World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Volunteers will be available to provide assistance with searching the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names and with completing Pages of Testimony (POT's) for Holocaust victims who perished.
November 21st, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Seminar and guided museum tour of Yad Vashem
The presentation will include:
- A brief historical overview of Yad Vashem’s colossal efforts to record the names of the Jewish Victims of Nazism. To date over half of the six million victims are documented in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names (www.yadvashem.org). Millions more will remain unknown unless we collect their names today.
- Presentation of outreach paradigms, best practices and tools for communal professionals; caseworkers and volunteers serving the survivor population.
- Q & A: discussion on how to implement this project in your community.
Tentative Seminar schedule:
- 8:30 Arrival
- 9:00 – 11:00 Presentation
- 11:00 – 11:30 Q & A
- 11:30 – 14:00 Guided tour of the Holocaust History Museum
The seminar is being offered free of charge, prior registration is required.
The presentation will be in English (no translation); resource materials for this project will be distributed at the seminar.
Please RSVP via email ASAP: debbie.berman@yadvashem.org.il |