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SUMMARY:Kristallnacht Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:November 9th is known as Kristallnacht – the night of broken 
 glass.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; The massive pogrom on November 9th\, 1938 marks when 
 the forces of anti-Semitism grew strong enough to cause the Shoah. The Tem
 ple Israel Shoah Remembrance Committee invites you to commemorate Kristall
 nacht as we continue to honor survivors who bear witness and their descend
 ants who share their stories.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;\n\nKristallnacht Commemoration
 \nSunday\, November 9th\n7:00 p.m.\nBlue Room and TIGN Zoom\nGuest speaker
 : Joan Arnay Halperin\, author\nPlease check the weekly emails from Temple
  Israel or call the synagogue office for the Zoom link.\n\nJoan Arnay Halp
 erin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, with a BA i
 n Speech and Drama. She earned a Master of Education Degree in TESOL and d
 evoted many years to teaching\, grant writing and teacher training at vari
 ous New York City Public Schools. In 2013\, while doing research for her b
 ook My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World
  War II\, Joan learned of her family’s debt to Holocaust rescuer Aristid
 es de Sousa Mendes\, Portuguese Consul General in Bordeaux\, France. To re
 ad the e-flipbook for free visit www.mysisterseyes.com.&nbsp\; Joan is a m
 ember of Generations Forward\, a group sponsored by the Holocaust and Huma
 n Rights Education Center of White Plains\, New York. In recent years Joan
  has dedicated her energies to sharing the story of her family’s 1\,241 
 day journey on the road to freedom at synagogues and to teachers and stude
 nts at the elementary through university levels in person and via ZOOM in 
 the USA and Portugal. Joan will share excerpts from her mother Helene Arna
 y’s testimony recorded by Joan’s brother Richard D. Arnay on January 1
 \, 1989.\nShe is looking forward to sharing her story at Temple Israel of 
 Great Neck where her two sons celebrated their Bar Mitzvahs.
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