• Yom HaShoah 2005

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2005-04-10)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes the introduction of the Yankee Division Veterans Association and the Peabody Veterans Council, playing of the national anthem, remarks and poetry reading by Sonia Weitz, music by the Gordon College Woman's Choir conducted by Faith Lueth, greetings by Dr. Robert McAndrews (President, Holocaust Center), greetings by Michael Bonfanti (Mayor, City of Peabody), greetings by Cheryl Levy (President, Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore), interfaith service (Father Thomas Buckley, Amesbury; Reverend Anne Deneen, Gloucester; Rabbi Lee Levin of Salem; and Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Peabody), keynote presentation by judge/justice Richard Goldstone, and presentation of the Holocaust Center Service Award to Richard Goldstone by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center).
• An Evening with Sonia Weitz

  Weitz, Sonia (2005-03-28)

  Holocaust survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz, co-founder and education director of the Holocaust Center, Boston North, speaks about her life before and during the Holocaust to a public audience at Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes welcome remarks by the temple's spiritual leader, Rabbi Howard Kosofsky, and an introduction by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, director of the Holocaust Center. Mrs. Wacks also closes the talk and provides a transition to the concluding remarks of a student representative of Cohel-Hillel Academy, who discusses their project based on the 2004 "Paper Clips" movie.
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  First Annual Social Justice and Human Rights Award Dinner (Honoring Sonia Weitz)

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2004-06-17)

  The video shows the First Annual Social Justice and Human Rights Award Dinner (Honoring Sonia Weitz: Holocaust survivor, and Co-Founder and Education Director of the Holocaust Center) held at the Hyatt Harborside, Boston. It includes a survey of the cocktail reception preceding the dinner (showing check-in, various people in attendance, refreshments, piano player, the view from the hotel, etc.), survey of the dining room (with attendees entering for dinner), and the program: Welcome by Marcia Glassman-Jaffe (Co-Chair of the Event), Greetings by Dr. Robert McAndrews (President of the Holocaust Center), Short Video on Sonia Weitz, Remarks by Elaine Hazlett (Co-Chair of the Event), Keynote Presentation by R. D. Sahl (news anchor), Interfaith Service by Rabbi David Klatzker and Dr. Padraic O'Hare, Remarks by Dr. Marvin Wilson (Board Member, Holocaust Center), Remarks by Deborah M. Ponn (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Reamrks by Marcia Glassman-Jaffe in lieu of Congressman John Tierney, Remarks by Sonia Weitz's children (Don Weitz, Andi Vilnai, and Sandy Weitz), Remarks by Michael Bonfanti (Mayor of Peabody), Remarks and Award Presentation by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Co-Founder and Director of the Holocaust Center), Remarks by Sonia Weitz, and Closing Remarks by Anna Bertini (Office Manager, Holocaust Center). Produced by R. Vargas.
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  Yom HaShoah 2004

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2004-04-18)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes the Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews, Sounding of the Shofar, Musical Selections by Faith Leuthe and the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Mayor Michael Bonfanti, Peabody, Greetings by Merritt Mulman (Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore) in lieu of Deborah M. Ponn (President), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Sandy Weitz by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, Keynote Presentation by Dr. Christopher Mauriello ("From Memory to History": Myths of the Holocaust in American Public Life), Interfaith Service (Reverend Louise Mann, Swampscott; Reverend Louise Mann, Swampscott; Rabbi Ilana Rosansky, Salem; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Peabody), Sonia Schreiber Weitz ("What Else Was Lost"), Generations' Ceremony with the Shir Shalom Childrens Choir, and Singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
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  Dershowitz on Israel and the Holocaust

  Dershowitz, Alan (2003-11-20)

  Alan Dershowitz talks on Israel and the Holocaust during a presentation at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Boston, sponsored by Holocaust Center, Boston North, as the keynote of a Kristallnacht anniversary ceremony. The presentation is preceded by candle lighting by Sonia Weitz, welcome by Herb Belkin (director of remembrance at the Holocaust Center), greetings by Meir Shlomo (Israeli Consul to New England), greetings by the congregation's Rabbi Michael Menitoff, greetings by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chair, Holocaust Center), poetry reading by Sonia Weitz, and introduction by Alan Ronkin (Jewish Community Relations council); the presentation is followed by a Q&A session with Dershowitz and closing remarks by Herb Belkin. Video produced by the Swampscott High School Cable Club.
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  Human Rights Awareness Conference 2002

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2002-10-23)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents its annual educational conference for high school students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, with keynote presentations by Eric Kahn (Holocaust survivor), Francis Bok (survivor of child slavery in Sudan), and Samkhann Khoeun (Cambodian genocide survivor).
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  Yom HaShoah 2002

  Holocaust Center, Boston North

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes coverage of the student art on display at the event, the Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony, Yom HaShoah Poem by Andi Vilnai and Sandy Weitz (in lieu of their mother, Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz, who authored it), Sounding of the Shofar by Herb Belkin, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chair, Holocaust Center), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Mayor Michael Bonfanti (Peabody), Greetings by Debra Finkel (President, Women's Division of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Service Award Presented to Herb Belkin by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), Interfaith Service (Father John MacInnis, St. John the Baptist Church, Peabody; Reverend Joel Anderle, Community Covenant Church, Peabody; Rabbi Robert Goldstein; Temple Emanu-El, Andover; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody), Keynote Presentation by Dr. Padraic O'Hare ("The Losses are Greater than the Numbers"), Singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
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  Max Michelson, Interfaith Teen Conference

  Michelson, Max (Holocaust Center, Boston North, 2002-03-11)

  Max Michelson, survivor of the Riga ghetto and author, provides his account of the Holocaust to an interfaith teen conference at Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video also includes a welcome by the temple's Rabbi David Klatzker (who reads a poem by Sonia Weitz for the sixth month anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks) and an introduction by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, director of the Holocaust Center, Boston North, which presented the event.
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  Human Rights Awareness Conference 2001

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2001-10-17)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents its annual educational conference for high school students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, with keynote presentations by Rev. Vartan Hutunian (Survivor, Armenian Genocide), Anya Kornhauser (Holocaust Survivor), and Francis Bok (survivor of child slavery in Sudan).
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  The Holocaust Center (Jewish Perspective)

  Wacks, Harriet Tarnor; Weitz, Sonia; Mauriello, Christopher; Friedman, Ronne (2001-08-19)

  The Holocaust Center, Boston North, is featured in a segment of "Jewish Perspective," hosted by Rabbi Ronne Friedman (Temple Israel, Boston), showing the new headquarters of the center at the Peabody Institute Library and providing information about its services. Includes remarks by Harriet Tarnor Wacks, Sonia Weitz, and Christopher Mauriello.
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  Yom HaShoah 2001

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2001-04-22)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video includes coverage of the student art on display at the event, the Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony and preparations, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chairman, Holocaust Center), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Darryl Ann McCarthy (President of the Board, Peabody Institute Library, in lieu of Michael Franceschi, Director), Greetings by Stephen Baker (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Dr. Christopher Mauriello (Educator) by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), Interfaith Service (Father David Michael, Brandeis University; Reverend Kenneth Smith, American Baptist Church; Rabbi Steven Rubenstein, Temple B'nai Abraham, Beverly; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody), Keynote Presentation by Michael P. Scharf, J.D. (The Modern Meaning of "Never to Forget"), Remarks on a recent hate grafitti incident by Andrew Tarsus (ADL), and the singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
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  Official Opening of Holocaust Center, Boston North, at Peabody Institute Library

  Holocaust Center, Boston North (2001-03-12)

  As a record of the official opening of the Holocaust Center, Bosotn North, at Peabody Institute Library, this video shows the remarks of Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Executive Director, The Holocaust Center), Darryl Ann McCarthy (President of the Board, Peabody Institute Library), Michael Franceschi (Director, Peaobdy Institute Library), Stephen Baker (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Dr. Marvin Wilson (President, Gordon College), John Tierney (Representative, United States Congress), Peter Torigian (Mayor, City of Peabody), and Sonia Weitz (Education Director, Holocaust Center) along with a survey of art and resources in the new space.
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  Human Rights Awareness Conference 2000

  Holocaust Center of the North Shore; Peabody, Mass., School Department (2000-10-18)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents its annual educational conference for high school students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, with keynote presentations by Rev. Vartan Hutunian (Survivor, Armenian Genocide), Prof. Chris Nteta (Victim, Apartheid, South Africa), and Rena Finder (Holocaust Survivor).
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  Present Memories

  Janet Applefield; Alan Brown; Eric Kahn; Joseph Matzner; Sonia Weitz; Rena Finder (Holocaust Center, Boston North, 2003)

  Original documentary highlighting the testimony of six Holocaust survivors. Alongside oral testimony, the edited video includes narrated introduction, music, illustrative graphics, and historical materials. Testimony filmed by Cablevision on November 11, 1999, and documentary released in 2003.
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  Present Memories Unedited Testimony

  Janet Applefield; Alan Brown; Rena Finder; Eric Kahn; Joseph Matzner; Sonia Weitz (1999-11-11)

  For the production of Present Memories documentary, Holocaust survivors Janet Applefield, Alan Brown, Rena Finder, Eric Kahn, Joseph Matzner, and Sonia Weitz provide testimony. This compiled unedited footage includes bloopers, comments, and multiple takes. Videotaped at Cablevision on Novomber 11, 1999.
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  Yom HaShoah 2000

  Holocaust Center of the North Shore (2000-04-30)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video shows the Survivors Candlelighting Ceremony, a reading of the "Yom HaShoah Poem" by Sonia Weitz, Welcome by Dr. Robert McAndrews (Chaitman, Holocaust Center), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, Greetings by Peter Torigian (Mayor, Peabody), Greetings by Shephard Remis (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Edward P. Morrison (Educator) by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), Interfaith Service (Father Dennis Bums, Star of the Sea Church, Marblehead; Reverend Page Blair, St.John's Episcopal Church, Beverly; Rabbi David Klatzker, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody; and Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody), Keynote Presentation by James Carroll ("Memory and Hope for the New Century"), and the singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.
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  Present Memories Demonstration Tape

  Janet Applefield; Eric Kahn; Joseph Matzner; Rena Finder; Sonia Weitz; Alan Brown (2000)

  Abridged version of Present Memories for demonstration, including introduction and selections from the survivor accounts with historical imagery.
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  Yom HaShoah 1999

  Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1999-04-13)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video shows the Interfaith Service (Father Scott Ness, Merrimack College; Dr. Gwendolyn L. Rosemond, Assistant Dean, Salem State College; Rabbi Howard Kosovske, Temple Beth Shalom, Peabody; Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody) and a viewing of "Present Memories: The Holocaust Through Their Eyes," focusing on the accounts of Survivors: Janet Applefield, Alan Brown, Rena Finder Eric Kahn, Joseph Matzner, and Sonia Weitz.
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  Human Rights Day 1998

  Holocaust Center of the North Shore; Peabody, Mass., School Department (1998-04-19)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore presents an educational conference for high school students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, intended to promote human rights awareness through firsthand accounts of history. Presentations include Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian on the Armenian Genocide, Then Kim on the Cambodian Genocide, and Rena Finder on the Holocaust.
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  Yom HaShoah 1998

  Holocaust Center of the North Shore (1998-04-19)

  The Holocaust Center of the North Shore commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a program held at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Massachusetts. The video shows Welcome by Rabbi Samuel S. Kenner (Chairman, Holocaust Center), Greetings by Shephard Remis (President, Jewish Federation of the North Shore), Holocaust Center Service Award Presented to Peabody Mayor Peter Torigian by Harriet Tarnor Wacks (Director, Holocaust Center), A Tribute to Survivors (Survivors' Candlelighting Ceremony with Narrators Michael Gross, Andrea Hurwitz, and Rabbi Samuel Kenner), Interfaith Service (Cantor Sam Pessaroff, Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody; Father Gerard Dorgan, St. Mary's Church, Danvers; Reverend Dr. Susan Jarek-Glidden, United Methodist Church, Winthrop; Rabbi Earl Kideckel, Temple Israel, Swampscott), Musical Selections by the Gordon College Women's Choir, "And There Was Light" by Sonia Schreiber Weitz (Holocaust Survivor), and the singing of Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner.

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