Family & Adult Eduction

 

Adult Ed

Sunday, April 22nd the Adult Education Committee is presenting 2 programs in memory of Yom HaShoa, the film “Sarah’s Key” and a presentation of “Dora’s History.”  “Sarah’s Key” was one of the readings of the Temple Book Club and is a fictionalized account of an American journalist’s present-day investigation into the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (where French police in German-occupied Paris on 16 and 17 July 1942 rounded up more than 13,000 Jewish men, women, and children who were then sent to Auschwitz where they were murdered. The story is told from the perspective of an investigative reporter and a young girl who was tragically caught up in the event.

 

While the film (and the book from which it is derived) is fictionalized, the accounts and details in “Dora’s History” are not.  Dora Goldberg was a young Jewish girl in Paris at the time and her story and the story of her family, entirely factual, is even more dramatic.  A survivor who lives in South Bend, Indiana, Dora was interviewed by Fred Feldman just a year ago and her story and pictures will be shown for the first time in this presentation. The history of the roundup and fate of those captured is tragic, but the story of survival of Dora is truly remarkable and uplifting. The juxtaposition of the fictional account and the true-life story are something not to be missed, even (or especially) by those who read the book or even saw the movie.

 

An early breakfast will be served at 9:00 am on Sunday, April 22nd before the film and the film will start at 9:30 at Temple Emanu-El. The program will run until 11:30 or noon. This Adult Education program will supplement the traditional Friday evening Yom HaShoah service at the Temple on Friday evening April 20th.

 

Dora Goldberg (nee Dora Cybulski) is shown as a small child in Paris before the German occupation with her parents Eli Cybulski and Jenta Kierchenblatt.  Both her parents were rounded up in the initial German occupation and perished in Auschwitz.  Dora survived in hiding and saved her little brother Henri (Harry).