Annual Civil Rights March
 Sponsored by the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition of Cincinnati
Monday, January 19, 2009
Emancipation, the Dream, Unfinished Business:
It’s Left to Us
Commemorative March and Celebration Schedule
- 10:30 a.m., National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, March Kick-Off
- 11:00 a.m., Fountain Square, Interfaith Prayer Service
- 12:00 p.m., Music Hall, MLK Commemorative Celebration featuring the Voices of Freedom Choir
For more information, call 513.772.8622
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When: Monday, May 2, 2011, at 7:00 pm
Location: Turpin High School Auditorium, 2650 Bartels Rd.
This event is free and open to the public
Ann Weiss is the daughter of two survivors from Poland. She has worked as a researcher, writer, documentary filmmaker, librarian and educator. Founder and director of Eyes from the Ashes Educational Foundation, Weiss is an interviewer and analyst for the Transcending Trauma Survival Project at the University of Pennsylvania, and has served on the Second Generation Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. since its inception.
Ann has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in Education, Culture and Society, focusing on the narratives, life studies and culture of Holocaust survivors. She also holds several graduate degrees from The Annenberg School for Communication…where she specialized in research techniques and work with students, adults and young adults.
In her Annenberg research, she investigated the impact of Holocaust images on public and private school students. In 1994, she premiered “Imagining the Unimaginable: Archival Photos from Auschwitz” in Berlin at Remembering for the Future conference. In 1989, she premiered her documentary film, Eyes from the Ashes, in Jerusalem.
“An old man rushed up to the podium when I finished my speech in Israel. He pointed to one of the photos, a beautiful image of a bride and a groom, and said ‘I danced at this wedding!’ At that moment, though I had believed that bringing these photos to Jerusalem had completed my work, I realized that, in reality, it had only begun. From that day until this day, I still search for names and stories, and most of all, people, who might belong to the photographs. In fact, just recently, on the night of the book’s premiere in Philadelphia, a man stood up and recognized his teacher! The story continues, and continues.”
“Each time a discovery is made, I feel as if, in a sense, a life has been reclaimed. Although I know it is not like restoring the dead to the living, I do know that each identification is important. The Nazis wanted their victims to be dehumanized— dead and dehumanized. They took away their names, replacing them with numbers. They destroyed their personal photos so that we could not see their faces. Not only did the Nazis destroy their lives, but they even tried to destroy the memory of their lives. With these photos, they can be remembered as people, not bodies, and in this sense, they live.”
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Storytelling/Tellebration
Tellabration 2009!™
 A sharing of Latin American folklore with cultural stories for all ages with Juana Watson, storyteller and award-winning educator.
Also featuring Irene F. Encarnación and Teresa E. Schmitt.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Spanish Program 2:00 p.m.
English Program 7:00 p.m.
Heritage UU Church
2710 Newtown Road, Anderson Township
TICKETS AT THE DOOR
Children and students - free
Adults - $3.00
More info: Call 513-588-8391
Thanks to our sponsors: Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, and El Ranchito Restaurant.
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Book Club/Movie Discussion Night
The GAPP Book Club meets on the last Thursday of every month at Cathy Rodner's home. Quarterly, we watch a movie together instead of having a book discussion. Future books and movies are selected from suggestions made by participants. We try to choose books and movies that introduce a theme of diversity and ones which would lend themselves to good discussion. Books can be checked out from the library or ordered at Amazon.com, with GAPP receiving a portion of the cost if you go through the link on our site.
Please join us! New members are always welcome. For information on the upcoming selections, meeting address or to be added to our book club email list, please email us at bookclub@gappeace.org or call 588-8391.
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