1) The document summarizes the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust international conference held in Warsaw, Poland from August 19-22, 2011. 2) It describes the various events that were part of the conference including memorial services, panels on topics like Jewish identity and anti-Semitism in Europe, and award ceremonies for teachers. 3) The conference also included visits by participants to historic sites related to the Holocaust in Poland such as Jewish ghettos, camps, and cemeteries in cities like Warsaw, Lodz, Lublin, Krakow, and Auschwitz.

1. World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of
the Holocaust
International Conference of Child
Survivors & Families
Warsaw, Poland
August 19-22, 2011
Part 1:
Conference,
Irena Sendler Teachers Awards,
Righteous Among the Nations

2. Poland
Conference
Warsaw Conference leaders Anna Drabik
and Aleksandra Kopystynska open the
conference. WFJCSH President Stefanie
Seltzer joins them.

3. Rabbi Michael Schudrich leads lighting of Memorial
Candles. Top right, Stefanie Seltzer, President of
WFJCSH. Bottom left, Philipp Sonntag, Germany.

4. Memorial candles lit by Helena Roth, 3G, USA. Back row, Renata Zajdman
(Poland/Canada), Hania Rosenberg (Poland/Sweden), Philipp Sonntag
(Germany), Stefanie Seltzer (Poland/USA), Jozef Walaszczyk (Poland).

5. Above, Havdalah service, Rabbi
Schudrich, Dasha Rittenberg,
Poland/USA. Bottom left: Aleksandra
Kopystynska, Anna Drabik, Israel
Ambassador Zvi Rav-Ner, Stefanie
Seltzer, US Ambassador Lee A.
Feinstein.

6. Anna Drabik
introduces speakers:
Polish Cabinet
President, Mr. Jacek
Michalovski, bottom
left, Warsaw Mayor
Hanna Gronkiewicz-
Waltz, bottom right,
Prof. Adam Rotsfeld

7. Top, Prof Felixs Tych, bottom left, Israel Ambassador Zvi
Rav Ner.

8. Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki speaks about Jews in Pre-war Krakow.

9. Top left, Plenary speaker Helena Datner
Top right, Greg Schneider, Claims
Conference
Bottom left, US Ambassador Lee A.
Feinstein.

10. Top, panel on Jewish identity:
Bottom, panel on Holocaust Education:
From left: Norm Conard, USA, Judge Sanja
Tabakovic, Croatia, Karen Brass, USA,
Charles Silow, USA.

11. Panel on Anti-Semitism in Europe
today: Moderator Stephen Adler,
USA, Phill Sonntag, Germany,
Melita Svob, Croatia, Max Arpels
Lezer, Netherland, Hania
Rosenberg, Sweden, Prof. Andrzej
Jonas, Poland.

12. Panelists, above left, Stefanie
Seltzer, USA, Max Arpels Lezer,
Netherlands, above right, Melita
Svob, Croatia, bottom left, Hania
Rosenberg, Poland/Sweden.

13. Meals, time to schmooze, get to know each other….

14. On left, including:
Marta Shemtov, Canada,
Anita Ekstein , Canada,
Tamaro Root, Hanila Levitt,
Betty Berman, Dasha
Rittenberg. USA, Anna
Cheszes, Avram Cheszes,
Canada.
Bottom right, Miriam and
Fred Ferber, Poland/USA,
and friends.

15. Multiple generations were present,
from Poland and outside of Poland:
Top left, Gun family from Detroit, USA
Bottom left, Silbergleit family, Detroit,
Bottom right, family from Lodz, Lublin.

19. The younger set, Third and Fourth
Generations.

20. Righteous Among the Nations
Top left: Jozef Walaszczyk, Ewa Rudnik and
Alicja Schnepf .

21. Members of the Second and Third
Generations, from Poland and outside of
Poland. Top left, Polish artist
Malgosia Malinowska ; bottom left,
Charley Silow, USA, and friend from Lodz,
Charley’s family’s town, Mirka Gluck.

22. Above: 2G’s from USA, Charley
Silow, Karen Brass, Susan
Sondheimer, friends…
Bottom, from left: Mark Clemen,
mother, Marion Weinzweig,
daughter Cindi Katz, USA, and new
friend Anna Piasecka from Poland.

23. “The People of the Book…”

24. Back to us. Teresa Langner, behind are:
Danuta Cukier, Ela Lesiak, Renia Szymanska

26. Top left: Norm Conard, USA,
Bieta Ficowska, Poland,
Prof. Joanna Michlich, Brandeis
University, USA
Bottom left Prof. Skotnicki receives warm
thanks.

28. Marian Tyrowicz and Jagoda Hofmokl

29. Bulletin Boards help people still
searching for childhood friends, lost
relatives.

33. Interviews for Polish TV

34. Singing and dancing….

35. Closing Banner given to Rose Gelbart, Cleveland,
USA, for 2012 conference
Ceremony

36. Left: Elzbieta Ficowska, Norm
Conard, USA, and friends.
Bottom: Norm and old friend
Renata Zajdman, Poland/Canada
Irena
Sendler
Teachers
Awards

37. Renata Zajdman receives special Award from
Polish State for building Polish-Jewish
friendship.
Bottom right, long time friend Bieta Ficowska
gives bouquet and embrace.

38. Irena Sendler Teachers Awardees, main winner, center, is Grazyna Ferenc.

39. Righteous
Awards
Ceremony
Sponsored by Yad Vashem,
Israel Embassy
See website for the
Righteous Program
details.

41. World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of
the Holocaust
International Conference of Child
Survivors & Families
Warsaw, Poland
August 19-22, 2011
Part 2:
Jewish Warsaw
Lodz, Majdanek, Lublin
Krakow
Auschwitz-Birkenau

42. Jewish
Warsaw

43. Above: synagogue
Right: New Museum of History of
Jews in Poland.

44. Warsaw

45. Lodz

46. Charley Silow visited his family’s
town, Lodz, the ghetto and the
cemetary where his grandfather is
buried.

50. Camps
Majdanek

53. One of the gas chambers.
Bottom left, phony “showers”.

55. Memorial composed of ashes, bottom left. Bottom right, the town in the distance.

58. Lublin

60. KRAKOW
Kazimierz

63. Krakow Memorial

64. Camps
Auschwitz
Birkenau

70. Bottom: crematoria blown up by SS.

71. Kaddish at Birkenau, end of railroad tracks

72. Auschwitz
Preservation Director of
The
Auschwitz explains
the educational
aspects and need
for preservation.

73. In order to teach the
future generations,
everything at Auschwitz
must be preserved.

74. Some Auschwitz items needing care,
preservation, to be viewed by future
generations.

75. Leaving Auschwitz

76. Jewish Music Festivals, Klezmer groups, Yiddish Theatre
performances, in Yiddish by non-Jews, are big tourist
attractions, “About us, without us.”

77. Karen Brass, USA, brought a family plaque
to be put on her family’s home.

78. Saying
goodbyes

80. THE
END