Honoring the legacy. Mourning the loss. Finding hope in our history.

Presentation of the Landkreis Görlitz & Zgorzelec Butterfly Project

Time:  13:00

Place:  Kulturforum Görlitzer Synagoge

  • 325 biographies of Jewish Children from Landkreis Görlitz and the Lower Silesian region whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Holocaust

 

  • 325 local students from both Poland and Germany

 

  • International Collaboration from historians in Israel, artists in the USA, and our own local educators to ensure our regional Jewish legacies are not forgotten

 

  • Inter-religious partnerships in our community

 

  • Adding our region’s name to the greater international Butterfly Project story

 

COME HEAR  (AND SEE) HOW WE DID IT!

Featuring: 

Cheryl Rattner Price, Executive Director of The Butterfly Project (USA)

Ulla Hadar, Historian for The Butterfly Project (Israel)

Sibylle & Uli Warnatsch, from Lebenshof Ludwigsdorf  (Germany)

Judi Hannes, Görlitz Jewish Descendant Coordinator for The Butterfly Project (USA)

In addition to hearing direct presentations from students & educators who participated in the project