ANNUAL NYU KRISTALLNACHT PROGRAM

NYU'S ANNUAL INCLUSIVE KRISTALLNACHT PROGRAM- NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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Photo from 2009 Program
[From left to right: Lindsay Firestone, Emma Hutchinson, Yoni Gamliel, Rick Landman, Lindsay Geier, Rachel Berg, Gabriel Slamovits, Ayelet Scheiber, Lori Levine, Rachel Slaff, Kathrin DiPaola, Patricia Schneidewind ]

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Photo from a separate AEPi Candlelight Vigil in Washington Square Park in commemoration of Kristallnacht after the program.

If we do not study our history and memorialize our dead; who will?
And if we don't then how can we prevent atrocities from repeating?

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
FROM 7-8 p.m.
at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Living
7 East 10th Street – 2nd floor

In co-sponsorship with:
The Bronfman Center for Jewish Living at NYU
The Deutsches Haus at NYU
The Henry and Lucy Moses Center for Students with Disabilities
NYU Office of LGBT Student Services
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah

In Commemoration of the 71st Anniversary of Kristallnacht, NYU will be conducting its annual inclusive candle lighting ceremony to memorialize the six million Jews, and all of the other victims of the Nazi era, including the disabled, homosexual, Gypsy communities, Jehovah Witnesses, and others including anti-Hitler Germans who were killed for protecting Jews and for anti-Nazi activities.

In addition, Rick Landman, a second/third generation Holocaust Survivor will speak. Rick Landman's father Henry was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp at the age of 18. Rick will give a minute by minute account of Henry's day from the time he went to sleep in his bedroom in Augsburg until he was sleeping on the floor of a barrack in Dachau the next night. Henry was released from Dachau a few months later and came to America where he later joined the US Army and was with the first Americans to liberate Dachau and enter his hometown of Augsburg.

Time permitting, Rick will give a status update of the New York City Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay as to the other victims of the Nazi era.

NAME OF SPONSORING GROUP	NAME OF REPRESENTATIVE	NAME OF PERSON/GROUP BEING MEMORIALIZED
The Bronfman Center	Lindsay Firestone, Emma Hutchinson, Gabriel Slamovits, Ayelet Scheiber, Lori Levine, Lindsay Geier, Rachel Berg, Yoni Gamliel	Babi Yar and 6 million Jews
The Deutsches Haus	Kathrin DiPaola Patricia Schneidewind	Biracial children who were denied the right to grow up based on their race. Mulatto Children who were brutally sterilized and died during the Nazi Dictatorship.
LGBT Student Affairs/KESHET	Emma Hutchinson	General Statement
Moses Center	Rachel L. Slaff	General Statement

KRISTALLNACHT- Brief Historical Note:

On November 9, 1938 Hitler used the killing of a German diplomat in Paris to start the "spontaneous" planned assault on the Jewish Community. It was meant to see if the world would react to the beginnings of the Holocaust.
Thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed and approximately 20,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps on that day merely for being Jewish.

PAST COMMEMORATIONS

Since 1992, we conducted a program at either NYU or CBST to commemorate Kristallnacht. Unlike Yom HaShoah, which most synaogogues commemorated, we used Kristallnacht as a historical event to explore what happened to the Jewish Community and other victims during the Nazi Era. The programs were both memorials and educational in nature.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 2007

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FROM 7-8 p.m.
at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Living
7 East 10th Street – 2nd floor

In co-sponsorship with:
The Bronfman Center for Jewish Living at NYU
The Deutsches Haus at NYU
The Henry and Lucy Moses Center for Students with Disabilities
NYU Office of LGBT Student Services
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah

In Commemoration of the 69th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, NYU will be conducting an inclusive candle lighting ceremony to memorialize the six million Jews, and all of the other victims of the Nazi era, including the disabled, homosexual, Gypsy communities, Jehovah Witnesses, and others including anti-Hitler Germans who were killed for protecting Jews and for anti-Nazi activities.

In addition, Rick Landman, a gay son and grandson of two Jewish men who were arrested and interned in Dachau on the day after Kristallnacht will make a presentation. Rick will not only relate the 24 hour history of how Kristallnacht affected his father’s life, but will also explain why he decided to reinstate German Citizenship to become a dual citizen. He is now a gay, Jewish, American son of Holocaust Survivors who is also a German citizen. The program will end with a question and answer period.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 2005

HOLOCAUST PROGRAM

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November 9, 2005 – 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life
at 7 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003

Co-sponsored by: NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, NYU’s Office of LGBT Student Affairs, NYU’s Center for Students with Disabilities, NYU’s Deutsches Haus, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.

Presented by Rick Landman, Esq., founder of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors, as well as an administrator and adjunct Professor at NYU.

PROGRAM

• Brief History of early Nazi years 1933-1938 focusing on how a civilized country can turn into a murdering machine in only five years.
• 24 hour Description of the life of Henry and Joseph Landman of Augsburg from November 9 - 10, 1938, from sleeping at home to sleeping in Dachau.
• All inclusive Candle Lighting Service to memorialize all civilians who died due to Nazi Persecution. Presenters:
Jennifer Kohanim of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life memorializing the 6 million Jews that were murdered and those who had to flee or hide for their lives.
Dr. Kathrin DiPPaola and Zachary Hasychak of the Deutsches Haus, memorializing all of the German civilians who were killed due to their anti-Nazi actions, including the “White Rose Society” of the University of Munich.
Marisa Lenger of the Center for Students with Disabilities memorializing all those people with Disabilities that were murdered from the earliest years of the Nazi regime years before Kristallnacht and throughout the war years.
………… of the Office of LGBT Student Affairs memorializing all those who were murdered and persecuted due to their sexual orientation.
Rabbi Ayelet S. Cohen of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah (serving the LGBT Community and their families and friends) memorializing all those other victims of the Nazi era that have no one else to remember them.
• Slide presentation of Pre-Kristallnacht Synagogues of Germany along with the music of Jan Pierce singing “Es Brennt”.
• Story of the “Little Torah”- how this 200 year old Torah came to the U.S.A. from Germany and was returned to Munich’s new congregation Beth Shalom last Kristallnacht 2004 – in a slide presentation.
REFRESHMENTS AND QUESTIONS & ANSWER PERIOD AFTER THE PROGRAM.

For Further Information: (212) 998-2365 or rick.landman@nyu.edu

Click here to read about the 2004 Kristallnacht Program where I returned a Holocaust Torah back to a Liberal Congregation in Munich Germany

"Kristallnacht- Holocaust Memorial Program 2001"

CBST's Annual KRISTALLNACHT Commemoration
Sponsored by the Lehrhaus Judaica - (212) 929-9498
Thursday, November 8, 2001
8:05-9:30 pm. at 57 Bethune Street (up the ramp)
No Admission Charge or Lehrhaus Charge.

Every year Congregation Beth Simchat Torah has commemorated the anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust by remembering Kristallnacht (night of November 9, 1938). On that night the round-up and internment of Jewish men began, and thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed and hundreds of synagogues burned.

This year Rick Landman, founder of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors (www.infotrue.com) will conduct the following multi-media program through the Lehrhaus Judaica.

THIS YEAR'S SPECIAL TOPIC: Should Holocaust Memorials & Restitution Funds include what happened to the Homosexual Community?

PROGRAM

1. Moment of Silence and Slide show of former German Synagogues.
2. Rick will relate the first hand accounts of how his father (then 18 years of age) was rounded up by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau on the morning after Kristallnacht.
3. New York City's Sheepshead Bay Holocaust Memorial Park - Why is there no stone relating what happened to the homosexuals during the era? Discussion of other Memorials which are inclusive.
4. The Pink Triangle Coalition and Restitution Funds for homosexual inmates.
5. Status of Jewry in Germany today.
6. How the fight for gay marriages in 1964 led to the second "Holocaust Torah" coming to CBST in the 1990's.
No admission charge or Lehrhaus charge.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1997

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH and the International Association of Lesbian & Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors

cordially invites you to our Annual:

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1997 at 7:30 p.m.

This year’s program will include an informal talk by Otto and Susanne Perl, (Marty’s parents who came from Vienna). Otto Perl was already in Dachau in November 1938 and could tell us what happened from an unique perspective. Come hear his fascinating story!!! In addition, his mother will relate her experiences too. There are only a few survivors who can still relate first hand about what happened on Kristallnacht. We are grateful of their desire to share their stories.

Do you want to visit to the “Holocaust Museum” in Battery Park City? We have 50 reserved tickets at $7.00 per adult for a tour of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for Sunday afternoon, January 18, 1998 from 3:30-5:00pm. Sold Out! Wait List Only. Contact Rick Landman.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1996

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the International Association of Lesbian
and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors

Thursday, November 7, 1996 at 7:30 pm

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

Program: Is there a Gay Kristallnacht?
Should today’s lesbian and gay community choose a day to Acknowledge and Remember the Homosexual Persecution during the Nazi Era?
Discussion of above and the Homosexual Monuments Controversy with a Video Presentation as well as the "Night of the Long Knives" to explore if homophobia was used as an explanation for murder.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1995

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the International Association of Lesbian
and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors

Monday, November 6, 1995 at 7:30 pm

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

Program: Homosexual Persecution during the Nazi Era- Myths vs. Reality
In the early 1930’s, Himmler started his Committee to Combat Homosexuality and Abortion…
Homosexual gathering places were closed, anti-gay laws were strengthened, Dr. Hirschfield’s Sexual Science Institute was destroyed along with the early book burnings (May 1933), men were arrested and sent to labor camps as “Pink Triangle” prisoners, lesbians were sent to brothels… way before Kristallnacht.
Rick Landman will report on the September Conference at the University of London, where for the first time in history, a conference was held to discuss the realities of what happened to the homosexuals during Nazism. Questions and Answer Period to follow, along with the issue of whether CBST should have a plaque in memory of the homosexuals persecuted and murdered.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1994

The Education Committee of
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the International Association of Lesbian
and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors

Tuesday, November 8, 1994 at 7:30 pm

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

Program: We have invited those post war Germans who are working with Project Ezra on the Lower East Side (taking care of Holocaust Survivors) as an alternative to German military service) and their friends in order to have a discussion of what effects the Holocaust has had on the next generation of Germans and Jews.

In addition, we are sponsoring a fund raising drive (with CBST) to assist the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1993

The Education Committee of
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the Gay Sons of Holocaust Survivors
with the Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors

Sunday, November 7, 1993 at 7:30 pm

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

Program: As part of the program, Rick Landman will bring to CBST another Torah which was saved from the Holocaust (which his grandfather brought to America in 1945) and will relate the story of how the Torah was saved. The theme of the nights commemoration will be to feel how this moment in history affected the lives of those Jews who lived through it.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1992

The Education Committee of
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the Gay Sons of Holocaust Survivors
with the Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors

Sunday, November 8, 1992 at 7:30 pm

Kristallnacht was the night that Hitler showed the world that he was serious about exterminating all Jews. On November 9, 1938, hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish stores were destroyed, and about 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for the "crime of being Jewish".

Program: As part of the program, Henry Landman will relate his story of what happened to him on that fateful night.

COMMEMORATION OF KRISTALLNACHT 1990

The Education Committee of
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH,
in conjunction with the Gay Sons of Holocaust Survivors
with the Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors

Click here to learn more about what happened to Henry Landman when he was sent to Dachau on Kristallnacht
Click here to read a story written about Henry Landman as part of a project by Veronika Stumpf. It was read at Dachau as part of a memorial service in 2004
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