{"product_id":"remembering-rohatyn-and-its-environs-2nd-edition-9780996599917","title":"Remembering Rohatyn and Its Environs: 2nd Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 20, 1942, thousands of Jews were rounded up and brought to the Rohatyn train plaza. From there, the Jews were loaded onto trucks and sent off to be murdered and buried en masse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs they were being ushered forward, many saw a chance to save a child. That child was Donia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn that day, Donia promised to find a way to remember those people and to bring her town \"back to life.\" She acquired the permission from the Rohatyn Society to have the town's Yizkor Book translated so that it maybe accessible to survivors, their families, and historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonia collected biographies of the contributors and new memoirs. She recorded speeches and photos from the Rohatyn Society's two visits to Rohatyn in the 1990's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, these form the contents of Remembering Rohatyn and its Environs; a testimony and commemoration for those who saved a grateful young girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerenbaum, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Berenbaum (born July 31, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust. He served as Deputy Director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust (1979-1980), Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1988-1993), and Director of the USHMM's Holocaust Research Institute (1993-1997). Berenbaum played a leading role in the creation of the USHMM and the content of its permanent exhibition. From 1997 to 1999 he served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and subsequently (and currently) as Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, located at the American Jewish University (formerly known as the University of Judaism), in Los Angeles, CA.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShwarzstein, Dora Gold:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dora (Donia) Gold Shwarzstein has been involved in Holocaust-oriented activities for most of her life. She was first inspired to become actively involved in organizing and speaking about the Holocaust when the Nazis threatened to march in Skokie Illinois in 1976. In 1981, Donia was a founding member of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois and served as Chairman of Oral History and Documentarian. She set up two oral history projects; interviewing survivors and American liberators. In 1987, Donia organized the first Child Survivor Conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 2009, Donia organized reunions for former Jewish refugees housed at the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp in Berlin. Donia volunteered for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and two memoirs in this volume first appeared in their publication, Together.","brand":"Meyer Shwarzstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478097563922,"sku":"9780996599917","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c61239c0-75da-4f09-af49-5733319cf30a.jpg?v=1730282993","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/remembering-rohatyn-and-its-environs-2nd-edition-9780996599917","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}