Live & Learn with I. Michael Snyder

15 Aug @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Personalizing the Shoah: Finding your Broken Branches

My 4 grandparents immigrated to the U.S. between 1900 and 1917. As such, I believed my family was not victimized by the Holocaust. During the Holocaust genocide, 40% of all Jews worldwide perished. As Jews, we ALL experienced loss, whether you know it or not.

With very little effort, I found 20 family members who perished and began honoring them over 10 years ago. Over the last few years, I was inspired to dive a little deeper and organize my list, that has grown to 210 people, aged 1 to 90, into family groups … my goal being to have a memorial book to share with my family and community.

In these Live & Learn sessions, I plan to show you how to find your family (victims, survivors and heroes) to personalize the Shoah, as it relates to you as a member of the Jewish Community.  We will explore research tools available from Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center), the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yizkor Books, and others online. So you, too, will “Always Remember to Never Forget.”