Submission #28324 by Anshe Emet Men'S Club - Chicago, IL (608)

Submission information
Submitted by gpollack
Wed, 2023-04-26 20:15
73.75.56.142
2023
I have read the 2023 Torch Awards Program Guidelines.
Club Name
Anshe Emet Men'S Club - Chicago, IL (608)
Who Will Tell Their Story - Kristallnacht Commemoration
Club Representative
Person completing form
Dr. Jeff Shore
Gregg
Pollack
Club President at time of convention if known at this time
Alan
Mintz
Club President Now
Alan
Mintz
Educational Programming

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Who Will Tell their Story: Kristallnacht commemoration program - virtual only. The goal of the program was to educate our youths on the Holocaust with archival video footage and survivors telling their stories. Students the Bernard Zell Day School were interviewed following the footage and survivor stories. The students also have separate study sessions on the Holocaust prior to the program. The program concluded with a candle lighting ceremony and singing of Hatikvah. We partnered with the IL Holocaust Museum on this program, as well as the day school administration.
See attached storyboard. Program included videos and live interviews with survivors and students, moderated by our men's club president and our senior rabbi. Since this was during the pandemic in Nov 2021, we chose to keep the program virtual. We had 70-80 registrants, and were linked with the web sites of both the day school and the IL Holocaust Museum.
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Self Assessment
Was a very powerful program with survivor testimonials and seeing their impact on our students. Inviting day school students to participate enabled us extend the "impact" of the program to on our younger generation - once the survivors are gone, our young people must be able to tell their stories.
Important educational programming re: Shoah and multi-generational interaction. Cooperation/participation with other Jewish organizations. Pandemic driven adaptation allowed broader participation.

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Original Program
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