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Hayden Catholic High School, Topeka, Kansas

Julie Kohner, Founder of Voices of the Generations, spoke to 500 students, grades 9 – 12, on Thursday,  May 1, at Hayden Catholic High School in Topeka, Kansas. The event was held in  the school gymnasium. Julie was welcomed by Principal Mark Madsen and Assistant Principal Michael Monaghan.

VOG at Hayden Catholic HS Topeka, KS
VOG at Hayden Catholic HS Topeka, KS
Julie held a book signing  for the students and teachers following the program.
Julie held a book signing for the students and teachers following the program.

 

VOG sponsored visit by Butler Community College

Julie Kohner, Founder and CEO of Voices of the Generations, presented the VOG program to an enthusiastic audience of high school grades 10-12, community college freshman and sophomores at Andover High School in El Dorado, Kansas. The well received program was sponsored by Butler Community College, and covered by the Butler College television station and Lantern newspaper at Butler College. image

AJU Hosts Special Yom Ha Shoah Commemoration

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.

VOG presenting This Is Your Life, Hanna Bloch Kohner, at American Jewish University.
VOG presenting This Is Your Life, Hanna Bloch Kohner, at American Jewish University.

 

Second Generation survivors Rene Florsheim, Illana Bloch with  Julie Kohner at AJU Yom Ha Shoah commemoration.
Second Generation survivors Rene Florsheim, Illana Bloch with Julie Kohner at AJU Yom Ha Shoah commemoration.

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.

L to R; Rene Florsheim, Julie Kohner and Illana Bloch
L to R; Rene Florsheim, Julie Kohner and Illana Bloch

Yom Ha Shoah Program at AJU

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
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Julie Kohner interviewed on KMUW, Wichita Public Radio

 

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Click over to Wichita NPR station KMUW to hear an interview with Julie Kohner, Founder of Voices of the Generations. Julie will appear  at the Metropolitan Complex of Wichita State University on Tuesday, April 29 at 7:00pm.

http://kmuw.org/post/your-life-hanna-bloch-kohner-story-holocaust-survivor

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Julie Kohner and KMUW News Director Ilene Leblanc

WMKV Cincinnati Radio Interview

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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!

VOG Program held at USC as part of Kristallnacht remembrance

“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.

USC Holocaust, The Creative Impulse Nov 7

 

 

VOG Fundraiser in Beverly Hills and blog post at NewsBlaze.com

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

Uri Reznick and Julie Kohner.
Uri Reznick, Deputy Israel Consul General and Julie Kohner.
Julie Kohner presenting Voices of the Generations at the Nov. 3 2013 fundraiser hosted by Leigh Stein and Laura Goldfeder.
Julie Kohner presenting Voices of the Generations at the Nov. 3 2013 fundraiser hosted by Leigh Stein and Laura Goldfeder.
Leigh Stein, Julie Kohner, Sandy Stein and Laura Goldfeder
Laura Stein Goldfeder, Julie Kohner, Sandy Stein and Leigh Stein McNamara