Holocaust Awareness Project Sponsors:
Platinum:
M. Fisher Fund
a donor advised fund of The Community Foundation of
Western Pennsylvania & Eastern Ohio
First National Bank of Pennsylvania
The Smith Fund
a donor advised fund of The Community Foundation of
Western Pennsylvania & Eastern Ohio
Gold:
The Almira Foundation
an affiliate of The Community Foundation of
Western Pennsylvania & Eastern Ohio
The Lawrence Community Foundation
Yom HaShoah/
Holocaust
Remembrance Day
an affiliate of The Community Foundation of
Western Pennsylvania & Eastern Ohio
The Hoyt Foundation
The Caroline Knox Memorial Trust Fund
Westminster College
Temple Hadar Israel
Silver:
Kentucky Avenue School
Weinberg Terrace
La Roche College
PeterDavid Communications
The Community Foundation and Holocaust Center wish to thank the
following organizations and people for their support of this project:
Ken Cole, John Tkach, the Makership Project - part of the New App
for Making it in America, Heather White and the Artists Image
Resource, the Community Day School, Fuel Marketing, Patricia
Latchey and the Hoyt Art Center, the Jewish Federation of Greater
Pittsburgh, Kristi Jan Hoover Photography, and Catherine
and Mark H. Loevener. A very special thanks to the
Andy Warhol Museum for hosting this event!
Exhibit Guide
Andy Warhol Museum
April 26 & 27, 2014
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
A program of:
The Community Foundation Of
Western Pennsylvania & Eastern Ohio
The Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh
The Six Million Penny Campaign / Display
The Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio and the Holocaust Center of Greater
Pittsburgh partnered to raise 6,000,000 penniesrepresenting the number of Jews lost in the Holocaust.
Voices of the Holocaust play
Waldmen International Arts & Writing
Competition Awards Event:
1:30 - 3:30 - April 27 • Auditorium
The Waldman International Arts and Writing Competition
is for students who want to learn more about the lessons
of the Holocaust. Students can submit their original
works based on the theme for that academic year.
1:00 p.m. - April 26 • Auditorium
A docu-drama based on interviews with survivors
of the Holocaust that were conducted by Dr. David
Boder in 1946-1947 in Europe. Tickets: $10
Remembering the Children
Video Premiere - Shown Continuously
A short video to remember the approximately 1 million
Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust
Lest We Forget Exhibit
Eight graphic prints that focus on various aspects
of the Holocaust and include historical/biographical
narratives and related images.
Death Camp Video:
11:00 a.m. - April 27 • Auditorium
Note: Images may be disturbing
for younger audiences
A Klezmer’s Voice- A Musical Search
for Identity and Connection
3:00 p.m.- April 26 • Auditorium
Accompanied by accordionist Walt Mahovlich, German
born clarinetist Susanne Ortner tells her story through
music; the story of a unique journey in which the study
of music becomes an exploration of culture and identity.
Tickets: $10
The Badges : An Exhibit on Holocaust
Camp Identification Badges/Triangles:
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust
Remembrance Day) it is important to shed light and
provide education on all of the victims that were
persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Gary and Nancy Tuckfelt
Keeping Tabs Holocaust Sculpture
This is an official film record of the Nazi death
camps as photographed by Allied forces advancing
into Germany. Free - Donations appreciated
Images of the development of the Keeping Tabs
sculpture that incorporates 6,000,000 pop-tabs
- each one symbolic of a human being discarded
and tossed aside.
Teen Yom HaShoah Commemoration:
Upstanders
1:30 - 3:30 - April 27
Teens are invited to commemorate Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day) at The Andy
Warhol Museum. Area teens are invited to decorate
penny boxes for the 6 Million Pennies exhibit featured
at the Museum.
An exhibit of people who are viewed as Upstanders.
As opposed to a bystander, an Upstander is someone
who acts to confront prejudice and injustice and does
his or her part to make the word a better place.