SPEAKERS/DISCUSSIONS

Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance

Where: Tri-City Jewish Center
2715 30^th Street, Rock Island, IL
(309) 788-3426

When: April 10

Yanina Cywinska, a Catholic Holocaust survivor, will speak at this event. Yanina and her family were sent to concentration camps for trying to help rescue Jews in Warsaw, Poland. She survived Auschwitz and the gas chamber by a strange fluke of faith. She was later saved from Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany by American soldiers of Japanese descent.





Laureen Nussbaum
Childhood friend of the Frank family

Where: Olin Center at Augustana College
639 38^th Street, Rock Island, IL

When: April 27

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Admission: Free

Laureen will discuss her friendship with the Frank family and her experiences during the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank will be a focal point of the discussion.

 

Fern Schumer Chapman
Author of Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust – A Daughter’s Journey to Reclaim the Past

Fern’s mother, Edith, long held the secret that she was sent to America from Germany as a young child to avoid Nazi capture. After the secret is revealed, the mother and daughter revisit Germany and Edith’s painful past and attempt to rebuild their relationship. Fern and her mother will both be at these events to discuss the book Motherland.

Where (several locations):

Center for Active Seniors (CASI)
1035 W. Kimberly Rd,
Davenport, IA
(563) 386-7477
When: May 10
Time: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (book discussion and lunch)

Davenport Main Library
321 N. Main Street,
Davenport, IA
(563) 326-7832
When: May 10
Time: 7 p.m.

Workshop on Memoir Writing
Quad City Arts
1715 2nd Avenue
Rock Island, IL
(309)793-1213.
This will be co-sponsored by the Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging
When: May 11
Time: 2 p.m.

Temple Emanuel
1115 Mississippi Avenue
Davenport, IA
(563) 326-4419
When: May 11
Time: 7 p.m.





Family Forever Journal Class

When: May 15
Where: Family Museum of Arts and Science
Bettendorf, Iowa
563.344.4106
www.familymuseum.org

Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Admission: $20/journal, for children 6 and up with adults



Jewish Literature – Let’s Talk About It

Where: Bettendorf Public Library
2950 Learning Campus Drive (off 18^th Street), Bettendorf, IA
(563) 344-4175

When/Book:
May 25-Tevye the Dairyman by Sholem Aleichem
June 15-Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
July 5- 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe
August 3-American Pastoral by Philip Roth
August 24-Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Time: Book discussions start at 7 p.m.

Admission: Free





Call the Federation at 793-1300 for more information or email aross@jfqc.org.

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