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2nd day of CSA2017

This is the second time I am attending Centropa 's seminar. Today I was mesmerised by the walking tour in the Jewish district. I was really touched by Karl '  s Lutz Memorial and all the efforts he made , in order to save the Jews from Hungary.  I was also impressed by the tree of sadness.The leaves of this tree  have  the names of Holocaust victims. The Dohany Synagogue was also impressive.

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Meeting #CSA2017 Centropa

Excited and eager to learn new ways to motivate students using the centropa website. Finally, I made it to Budapest by train, which was quite an experience. Even though, I'm exhausted, my interest and curiosity keeps me attentive. I love the atmosphere created where there are no borders and we all are part of a bigger group. 

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„Centropa movies remake”

Centropa is an Institute that is preoccupied with preserving the memory of the Jewish population from the Central Europe region. The main tool of interaction between Centropa and the public is its website, http://www.centropa.org/. Through this site’s means Centropa offers a variety of teaching materials.

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The „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust” Project

For the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 of January) and the victims of the Pogrom of Bucharest (21-23 January 1941), the students of class XI E from the National College „Iulia Hasdeu” Lugoj have participated in January 2017 in the project entitled „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust”. The students involved in this project have engraved, by cropping, a series of notions and terms related to the Holocaust on cardboard cylinders.

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The „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust” Project

For the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 of January) and the victims of the Pogrom of Bucharest (21-23 January 1941), the students of class XI E from the National College „Iulia Hasdeu” Lugoj have participated in January 2017 in the project entitled „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust”. The students involved in this project have engraved, by cropping, a series of notions and terms related to the Holocaust on cardboard cylinders.

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The „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust” Project

For the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 of January) and the victims of the Pogrom of Bucharest (21-23 January 1941), the students of class XI E from the National College „Iulia Hasdeu” Lugoj have participated in January 2017 in the project entitled „Glimmers in the Night of the Holocaust”. The students involved in this project have engraved, by cropping, a series of notions and terms related to the Holocaust on cardboard cylinders.

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The Students of National College "Iulia Hasdeu" Lugoj have commemorated the Holocaust

On the 9th of October, Romania celebrates the Holocaust Memorial day. On this occasion, as a result of an old collaboration, the students of the Nartional College "Iulia Hasdeu" Lugoj, alongside the coordinating teacher Horațiu Suciu, have joined the Jewish community at the ceremony organised at the Synagogue in Lugoj on the 10th of October 2016. During the course of the event, the Jewish community leader, Mr. Ivan Bloch, spoke to the students about the Holocaust, and the traditions and life style of the Jewish community within Lugoj.

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CRISPY CHICKEN WITH TSIMMES

LIZ: Tsimmes is a sweet Ashkenazi stew in which the ingredients vary depending on family origin and tradition. The dish is often eaten during the Jewish High Holidays to symbolically usher in a sweet new year. This sweet-and-savory chicken tsimmes is an easy dish with a built-in side. The juices of the chicken enhance the flavors of the carrots and prunes. It’s filling when paired with rice or kasha, and it’s colorful and complex enough to serve for the holidays.

SERVES 4

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Reclaiming Ashkenazi Cuisine: The Gefilte Manifesto

My grandpa Jake was a gifted storyteller in the spinner-of-tall-tales manner. So when he described the one time he ate ice cream as a boy—far superior to any frozen dessert you could buy in our huge suburban supermarket and so memorable he hadn't forgotten it in fifty years—I was, of course, skeptical.

After all, he also said the weather in the Old Country was better too—never that cold because it was remarkably “dry.” And we’re talking Minsk, Belarus.

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The Last Witnesses

On Wednesday, the 14th of September, I went to meet Lucia Heilman at the Tel-Aviv cinematheque,  as we had decided at our meeting this last summer in Vienna.

When I could not see Lucia at the cinematheque,  I started worrying  about her. Then I met Lucia's daughter, who informed me that her mother had indeed bought a ticket to Tel-Aviv, but two weeks ago she didn't feel good, so her doctor forbade her to fly.  She also told me that her mother felt better at the moment.

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