A very special Yom Ha Shoah program was presented this afternoon at American Jewish University, with Julie Kohner as the guest speaker. In honoring the memory of 6 million through the telling of not just one, but three personal stories from second generation survivors. With Julie today were her cousin, Illana Bloch, daughter of Dr. Gotfried Bloch, Hanna Bloch Kohner’s brother, and also a survivor of Aushwitz, and Rene Florsheim, daughter of Eva Florsheim, Hanna’s dear friend who had also survived the same four camps as Hanna.

Throughout the presentation, the emphasis continued to come back that it is up to the next generation to continue to share the legacy of the Holocaust. And one way to continue this is through contact with survivors and their children. Sadly, there are fewer survivors today, and the responsibility has to fall upon the next generation so the the words “we must never forget” continue to have meaning.

Show your support for Voices of the Generations. Share our program with family and friends. Come to the Yom Ha Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Program at American Jewish University, Sunday, April 27 at 4 PM.

Julie Kohner be the featured speaker at the AJU  Whizen Center for Continuing Education,  Dortort Center for the Arts. For tickets,  click on the link below, and share with family, friends and co-workers.  Please join us for this moving and inspiring presentation.

http://wcce.aju.edu/courseSR.aspx?fid=1228

On Monday, April 15, at 2 PM PDST (5 PM EDST), browse over to WMKV FM and click the “Listen Live” button at the top to hear a live interview with Julie Kohner, Founder of Voices of the Generations, on WMKV Union Terminal Time with host George Zahn.

George will interview Julie about her upcoming program at Cincinnati Museum Center on Thursday, April 17 at 7PM.  Cincinnati’s Union Terminal Building is the home of Cincinnati Museum Center. Every week, WMKV partners with Cincinnati Museum Center to share events and happenings, including rare behind-the-scenes interviews, and delightful and poignant oral histories of the famed Union Terminal building. You’ll learn something new each week on Union Terminal Time!

“Holocaust, The Creative Impulse”, is an undergraduate course at USC taught by Nick Strimple, where the course focuses on the rise of Nazism beginning in 1933, through the end of the war, where aspects of music, art and the media is explored, including how the Holocaust has been depicted through the post war years.  VOG presented “This Is Your Life, Hanna Bloch Kohner”, as the first example of a Holocaust survivor on american television. Julie Kohner spoke to 21 freshman and sophomore students about Hanna’s life through the war, the impact of the This Is Your Life program on Holocaust awareness, as well as the experiences of being a child of Holocaust survivors.

A fundraiser was held to support the Holocaust education program of Voices of the Generations at the home of Laura and Sam Goldfeder, in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday, November 3 2013, with about 80 in attendance. Special thanks to Laura Stein Goldfeder and Leigh Stein McNamara for their generosity and hospitality, and in bringing guest speaker, Uri Reznick, Deputy Israel Consul General in Los Angeles to this successful event. An article appearing in NewsBlaze.com by Nurit Greenger, captures the essence of our purpose and mission. The article link is; http://newsblaze.com/story/20131108165040nurg.nb/topstory.html

Julie Kohner, founder of Voices of the Generations, was the guest speaker at the Greensboro Jewish Federation Women’s Philanthropy Committee end of the year lunchen on May 21, 2013.  Thanks to everyone for making the visit so special!

 The Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) Girls High School was recently visited by Julie Kohner, founder of Voices of the Generations, on May 2, 2013. Julie spoke to the entire school in attendance. Some of the students had just returned from a YULA sponsored trip to Poland, which included a visit to Auschwitz. While on their trip, some of students were reading Hanna & Walter, A Love Story, which documented Hanna Kohner’s experiences at the concentration camps, including Auschwitz.

 The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles recently hosted Julie Kohner and Voices of the Generations for a program on April 29, 2013. The program was for the Skirball Docent Corps and staff, with about 50 in attendance.

Many of the docents and staff felt they learned a new dimension of the story of the Holocaust as Julie shows how Americans first learned of the horrors on popular television. It is important to continue sharing these insights into the understanding of Holocaust awareness and education in America.