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The FHM Reaches New Heights During Our
To Life: Reflections of Courage Annual Benefit Dinner
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The FHM's Most Successful Fundraising Event To Date!
The FHM held our annual benefit gala at The Vinoy® Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club on February 4th launching our yearlong recognition of the 80th anniversary of the rescue of 7200 Jewish men, women, and children by the Danish people.
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This milestone was marked by sharing the Museum's vital work and its future plans for combating antisemitism. The FHM's success will prove helpful as it meets the current and future challenges of the rise in antisemitism, changing technology, and the aging and loss of Holocaust survivors. Reaching both existing and new supporters, “To Life” attracted more than 600 attendees and raised more than $900,000, making this year’s event the Museum’s highest-grossing benefit to date! | |
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The FHM is thankful for this year's To Life: Reflections of Courage Committee chaired by Margot Benstock and Jennifer Garbowicz.
The FHM is grateful for its sponsors, their continued commitment and support made this event happen.
Visionary Sponsors
Sandy Mermelstein & Kent Bontly
The Sembler & Kamins Families
Champion Sponsors
Rothman Family Foundation
Rachael & Don Worthington
Humanitarian Sponsors
Selime & Bert Boksen
Corcoran Partners
Duke Energy
Amy & Bruce Epstein/Sandy & Jay Epstein
Dr. Judy Genshaft & Steve Greenbaum
Meg & Gary Moskovitz
Raymond James
The Raymund Family Foundation
Residences at 400 Central
The Schick, William Greenberg &
Madow Families
Silverman Family
Slide Insurance
Stephanie & Bernardo Stein
Irene & Steve Weiss
For a complete list of supporters click HERE.
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Dimensions in TestimonySM Featuring
Local Holocaust Survivor, Ed Herman Now Live
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USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony℠ enables people to ask questions that prompt real-time responses from pre-recorded video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide. The pioneering project integrates advanced filming techniques, specialized display technologies, and next-generation natural language processing to create an interactive biography. Now and far into the future, museum-goers, students, and others can have conversational interactions with these eyewitnesses to history to learn from those who were there.
Be a part of this cutting-edge technology and help us beta test Ed Herman's testimony as it goes live!
Dimensions in Testimony℠ was developed in association with Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, with technology by USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and concept by Conscience Display. Funding for Dimensions in Testimony was provided in part by Pears Foundation, Louis. F. Smith, Melinda Goldrich and Andrea Cayton/Goldrich Family Foundation in honor of Jona Goldrich, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and Genesis Philanthropy Group (R.A.). Other partners include CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
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Two New Exhibits Now On Display | |
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Embellished with symbols and inscriptions, Jewish tombstones convey information about the life of people, families, and entire shtetls (towns). How many matzevot were there before World War II at the 1,200 Jewish cemeteries in Poland? This is a question, which nobody can answer today. The number may have reached a few hundred thousand or a few million.
More than four hundred Jewish cemeteries did not survive the war times. They were rearranged to provide sites for housing estates, sports fields, garbage dumps, or sand quarries. The sand mined from them to build houses was mixed with human remains. Only a hundred and fifty graveyards still have more than a hundred gravestones.
During World War II the Nazi occupants used matzevot to pave the courtyards of their new buildings, lay roads, or erect walls. Poles continued this infamous practice after the war. Matzevot was used, for instance, to line a water pool for firefighters, a railway embankment, or a riverbank. They were used as building materials for furnaces, flooring, and road curbs. A visitor will find hundreds of grinding wheels made of matzevot, many of them still bearing Hebrew inscriptions.
|  | A survivor of the Holocaust, Toby Knobel Fluek (of blessed memory) became an artist later in life. Using her art, she illustrated a unique view of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during World War II. Fluek’s work introduces us to her village, to her family, and to the people among whom they lived, Jewish and Catholic. Her art shows us how they lived, and the Jewish customs and holidays that were observed. Through this exhibition, viewers learn about shtetl life and how it was disrupted and shattered by World War II, first through Russian occupation and then because of the devastation wreaked by the Nazis. | |
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THE LAST LAUGH film screening and conversation with
Producer & Director, Ferne Pearlstein
Free to all
RSVP Required
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Location: USF St Pete in Harbor Hall,1000 3rd St S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Parking - Lots 9 and 11A behind Harbor Hall
Special thanks to The Jack Chester foundation for co-sponsoring the event.
Part of The St. Petersburg Celebration of the Arts
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Lawyers of Conscience (LEGAL SEMINAR) – Afternoon
February 27, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Registration at 1:00
$150
Law Students - Free
Professor Jason Palmer will present "Moral Implications for Holocaust Reparations - In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland.”
Prof. Palmer was a Claims Judge at the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich and will discuss the historical background to reparations for Holocaust claims against Swiss banks and the resolution of those claims.
Attorneys Josh Magidson and Andrew Sasso will present “Representing the Client in a Reparations Case.” (Ethics portion)
Location: The Florida Holocaust Museum, 3rd Floor
CLE Approval: General 3 Credits, Ethics 1 Credit (3 Credits each in Civil Trial Law, International Law, International Litigation, and Arbitration) Register today by visiting www.TheFHM.org/Events
Sponsors: Rachael S. Worthington, Esq. and Jeanette Blanco, Esq.
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Lawyers of Conscience (public lecture) – Evening
February 27, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Professor Jason Palmer will present “Moral Implications for Holocaust Reparations” and his work on the Claims Resolution Tribunal. Palmer, who was a Team Leader and Claims Judge at the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich, Switzerland, will discuss the historical background to reparations for Holocaust claims against Swiss banks and the resolution of those claims.
Location: The Florida Holocaust Museum, 3rd Floor
$25 general admission
$5 FHM members
Students are free with a current student ID
Register today by visiting www.TheFHM.org/Events
For sponsorship information, please contact Erin Blankenship
eblankenship@TheFHM.org. Sponsor's names and logos will appear on all promotional materials, including program materials the day of the seminar
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Meant to Be
March 1 at 6:30 pm
Author Presentation With Author, Roslyn Franken
Free to all
RSVP Required
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Join us for a presentation with Roslyn Franken about her parents’ amazing story.
In Meant to Be, Author Roslyn Franken reveals the unforgettable true story of her parents, John and Sonja Franken- two unlikely survivors on World War II.
The GOLD award-winning book that is inspiring readers with the courage and triumph of two unlikely survivors of World War II who found everlasting love, against all odds, as told in their daughter’s words.
Seating is limited
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Testimony Through Art Panel Discussion and Exhibition Reception for Memories of My Life in a Polish Village by Toby Knobel Fluek
March 15, 2023, at 6:30 p.m.
Free to members
$9 general admission
Light refreshments will be served
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This multigenerational discussion will feature Professor Rakhmiel Peltz and Lillian and Steven Fluek Finkler and their children as they speak on their mother’s legacy and its effects on their family as well as her artistic legacy and what can be learned about the Holocaust from artwork as testimony.
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