Jewish Tapestry Project

It’s time to take the final steps toward completing this groundbreaking historic memorial.

Debra Brunner and Artur Livshyts, co-founders of The Together Plan, will be providing an exclusive update on the progress at the site and unveiling an exciting final push campaign – open to all ages – and explaining how you can take part and help us cross the finish line.

Don’t miss this opportunity to make history with us!

Book your tickets here: https://www.thetogetherplan.com/events/the-brest-litovsk-brisk-jewish-cemetery-memorial-the-final-push/

The Ghetto Fighters’ House and Jewish Tapestry Project invite you to a new series: ‘Jews in the Soviet Union: A Complex Narrative’

🗓️Join us for the second program on Sunday, March 9, 2025 - ‘The Intersection of Heroism and Tragedy during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union’

Guest Speakers:
Dr. Yaakov Falkov
Dr. Marta Havryshko
Mr. Marco Gonzalez

The second program in this series on the Soviet Union will focus on the intersection of heroism and tragedy during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Dr. Yaakov Falkov will give an overall description of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union with all its complexities concerning the Jews living in this region. The second speaker is Dr. Marta Havryshko and she will give a talk on the experience of Jewish women during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. The final speaker is Marco Gonzalez, director of Yahad-In Unum, who will discuss the organization’s goal in mapping Jewish killing sites, collecting evidence and testimonies.

This program is in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, Classrooms Without Borders, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University, The Together Plan, and Yahad-In Unum.

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YAAePfmzRz-OR9IMaThBOw

This day, 27 January, marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the N**i concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

During the Second World War Belarus became the front line and its Jewish population was all but wiped out. The Minsk Ghetto, notorious throughout Europe for its inhumane living conditions, was destroyed and its inhabitants murdered, while death camps in Belarus became the testing grounds for Zyklon-B, the toxic gas used widely to exterminate Jews across Europe. The few survivors – some of whom had escaped to Jewish partisan brigades in the forests of Northern Belarus – continued to suffer after the war due to discrimination and the prohibition by law of religious (including Jewish) practice.

Frida Reizman escaped the Minsk Ghetto as a child. Over 100,000 Jewish people perished in this brutal ghetto without walls. In 2020, we walked the streets of Minsk with Frida to hear her story. Frida has never left Minsk and it was only after the fall of Communism that she was able to start telling the stories of the ghetto. What happened on the territory that is modern day Belarus during the Holocaust is little spoken of. It’s time to talk.

Please watch Frida’s Story on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ss748Gq7KA&ab_channel=TheTogetherPlan