Join other members of 3GNY, as well as members of the museum’s Young Friends, for brunch and a guided tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — including its main gallery and special exhibits like Traces of Memory and Voices of Liberty.

Brunch will be served in Classrooms A and B (just past the lobby) until 12:45. The tours will follow.

* Admission: $10 (please make donation to museum at front desk)
* RSVP by Thursday, August 19 to info@3gnewyork.org.

We thank members and supporters of 3GNY for coming out to share the evening, and support our group’s continued programming.

3GNY thanks all who attended this important discussion with AJC’s ACCESS and Rabbi Andy Baker, Special Rapporteur on anti-Semitism for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Thanks to all who joined us for Shabbat as we welcomed guest speaker Masha Leon – a Holocaust survivor and columnist for The Forward.

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Masha Leon was born in Warsaw, Poland, where she survived the bombing of the city, hunger and disease. She fled Warsaw with her mother and they survived a Nazi firing squad and being shot at by the Russians on the way to Soviet-occupied Poland.

Her father was a journalist and political activist in pre-war Poland and was arrested in 1940 by the NKVD in Vilna (where he shared a prison cell with Menachem Begin). Ms. Leon describes her survival as a series of “miracles,” culminating in a visa issued by Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, whose 2,139 Visas saved 6,000 Jews.

She is a graduate of CUNY(City College-Hunter-Queens College) with a degree in Yiddish Studies, majors in English and French, and has been honored by Workmen’s Circle, Hadassah and the Israel Cancer Research Fund for her media accomplishments. Her articles have appeared in magazines such as Working Woman, Guideposts, and Ladies Home Journal.

Masha writes a weekly column for The Forward, called “On-The-Go,” which appears in both the paper and the online version. The column covers New York’s and America’s Jewish communities’ social, political and organizational events as well as New York’s benefit arenas including theatre, dance, film, music, etc.

Masha and her husband Joseph (who died in August 2008 after a long illness) have three daughters and five grandchildren.

Julie Mauskop painted “Survivors,” a body of work honoring her grandparents who survived Auschwitz.

We thank you for joining survivors, as well as other 3Gs, at this unique art exhibit, as we honored our grandparents, and reflected on our legacy on Yom HaShoah.

Co-sponsored by 3GNY and Columbia/Barnard Hillel

Exhibit runs through April 21, 2010

For more on Julie’s art: www.juliemauskop.com.

Thanks to all who attending the Gathering.

The Annual Gathering of Remembrance, organized by the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, is New York’s oldest and largest Holocaust commemoration ceremony.

This event brought together political leaders, survivors, and members of the Jewish community with Holocaust survivors and their families to fulfill the sacred obligation of remembrance.

Thanks for joining us in making Purim baskets and delivering them to survivors. It was a unique and meaningful experience.

We also thank co-sponsors The Blue Card and iVolunteer

Thanks to all members and supporters of 3GNY for joining us at what was a moving Shabbat dinner. Guest speaker and Holocaust survivor Bernard Gotfryd shared his story.

Mr. Gotfryd was born in Radom, Poland, and became interested in photography at an early age. When World War II broke out and schools were closed to Jewish students, Gotfryd found work as an apprentice in a photography studio. While working in the studio, he began aiding the Polish underground by passing on photographs taken by Nazi officers of war atrocities. After an unsuccessful escape attempt in October 1943, Gotfryd was apprehended and shipped to Maidanek. By the war’s end, Gotfryd had survived six concentration camps.

In 1947, Mr. Gotfryd emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a photographer and studied photojournalism. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1949 and going through basic training, Mr. Gotfryd was assigned to the Signal Corps as a combat photographer. In 1952, he married his wife, Gina. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where they raised two children, Howard and Eva.

Mr. Gotfryd joined the staff of Newsweek in 1957, where he worked for more than thirty years, photographing some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. It was while working for Newsweek, covering the Holocaust Survivors Gathering in Washington, D.C., in April 1983, that Mr. Gotfryd was moved to write about his own experiences. First published in Newsweek, his stories were eventually published as a collection, titled Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust.

Copies of Anton the Dove Fancier are available by calling 1-800-537-5487 or visiting this website.

October 25, 2009
JCC in Manhattan

We were happy to see everyone at our Third Annual Intergenerational Brunch. It was a beautiful day, with so many of all generations meeting, connecting and commemorating their family history. 

The event featured a presentation by 3GNY’s leadership, and guest speaker Amira Kohn-Trattner, C.S.W Amira is an Israeli-born psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in private practice in New York. Amira works with individuals and couples and has extensive experience with survivors, 2nd and 3rd generation.

She has been a consultant to the German government in restitution cases as an advocate to survivors and volunteered at international conferences for the US Holocaust Museum and the Shoah Foundation.

Amira presented an excerpt from her forthcoming documentary film about an unusual small group of Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia, who emigrated to South America after the war. The film explores the lives of these close, life-long friends and the new threat they face.