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Thank you for joining us on Sunday, April 24th for the special Talking Memory program marking Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Last Years of Yitzhak Katzenelson with guest speaker Samuel Kassow

We invite all participants, and those of you who did not catch this talk, to watch the recording on the Ghetto Fighters’ House YouTube channel here

SAVE THE DATE:  May 15th

Join us for a new series:

Checkmate: Making, Playing and Picturing Chess in the Holocaust

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Rachel Perry

Chess was played, made and pictured during the Holocaust by individuals in extremis. As practice, chess offered victims a means of distraction, entertainment, and community building. With great skill and ingenuity, chess boards and pieces were fashioned out of folded paper, carved out of wood and modeled out of bread. When escape routes were closed off and the endgame seemed near, chess allowed artists to symbolize their feelings of agency and entrapment, as both players and pawns.
This program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
Link to register

2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel