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Elie Weisel Made An Appearance
Elie Weisel, perhaps the most celebrated holocaust survivor,
understanding and empathy also play a vital role in the context of
day-to-day life by nurturing better relationships between local
factions. This is the kind of communication sought by the Jewish
Federation of Greater Santa Barbara through its Portraits of Survival
program.
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Rudy Bromstein Produced The Video Presentation
"It's very powerful" and many of the police breakdown.
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The
Santa Barbara Police Chief
“It was a personal connection for me, and I really just wanted to
share it with my cops,” said Police Chief Cam Sanchez of the
Portraits of Survival program.Community Outreach. The chief
is an immigrant from Juarez, Mexico, who came to the U.S. with the
disadvantage of not knowing how to speak any English—interested in
the program. He has since been sending groups of his police
officers to the Jewish Community Center on Chapala Street to
experience the exhibit and talk to the survivors.
Chief Sanchez said that he intends to continue sending police
officers to the exhibit, and connecting at-risk youth with the
opportunity to learn about the troubles experienced by others.
“Portraits of Survival continues to help us as a police department
as a great tool for teaching tolerance.”
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One Of Many Speakers
Helga Carden, an assimilated German Jew who bade her father
goodbye for the last time in 1939, when her parents put her on one
of a limited number of children’s transports to France—noted that
the experience forevermore changed the way she related to other
people. “I became a loner and self-sufficient,” she said. “I don’t
make any deep attachments because when you lose everyone at a
young age, you don’t feel very safe getting attached to people.”
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Female Survivors Demon's Resurface
Mothers' Holocaust background was associated with higher levels of
psychological distress. Having to pull their bloomers down, and feel
the sting of the whip, have left many scarred.
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Fighting To Push The Door Open
Several of my family members perished in the Holocaust. Being
consumed by fire, but yet pushing the door open.
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The Children Must Never
Forget
"If you do not talk to them
of this tragedy, then you should not be surprised if it repeats
itself," Sarkozy said. "It is ignorance that prompts the repetition of
abominable situations, not knowledge. Make our children into children
with open eyes."
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Many Were Double Survivors
The common thread running through all of these stories is a certain
optimism and refusal to give up even when placed in the worst
scenarios. “I’m a survivor of the Nazis, and also an escapee from
communism, so I’m a double dipper,” George Rusznak told a group of
Santa Barbara Police officers who came to tour the Portraits of
Survival exhibit and listen to some of the survivors tell their
stories. “I don’t think of myself as a survivor. I think I live a
pretty charmed life.”
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