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Past Events:
Brama Talks: Memories of Lublin and the War, Webinar. Leora interviews survivor Rose Lipszyc, June 17, 2021.
Legacies of European Jewry: The Second Generation and Beyond (Panel)
Annual Yom HaShoah Program, the University of Connecticut, Stamford, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, panel with: Dr. Andrew Zalewski (Gesher Galicia) and Ralph Berger. Virtual. April 6, 2021
Polacos Rescatando la Memoria Judía, The Voice of the Silence and Diario Judío. Virtual. Sunday, March 21, 2021.
The Neshoma Project: Illuminating Memory, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury. Virtual. Sunday, March 14, 2021.
What is There for Jews in Poland Today? An Introduction to The Neshoma Project, Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia. Virtual. February 28, 2021.
Lunchtime Conversation with Leora Tec, Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT.Virtual. January 8, 2021 12:00-1:00.
Familia Salvada por Almas Piadosas, The Voice of the Silence and Diario Judío. Virtual. January 3, 2021.
Introduction of The Neshoma Project, Brama Talks, with Dvora Trachtenberg. Virtual. November 19, 2020 2:00 (Eastern).
An Inclusive Model of Memory Work in Poland: Bridge To Poland as a Case Study, with Professor Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, October 22, 2020, Faces of Post-Memory, Kraków, Poland, online.
They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland. October 17, 2020, New England Historical Association, online.
They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland, Israel Genealogy Research Association, January 2020, Ra’anana, Israel.
They Enable Us to See: Non-Jewish Rescue of Jewish Memory in Poland, December 2019, December 2019, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Brama Grodzka-Teatr NN: A Municipal Institution in Lublin Dedicated to Jewish Memory, December 2019, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Remembrance of Things Past: Keeping the Stories of Jewish Poland Alive, with Witek Dąbrowski and Leora Tec, October 29, 2019, Vilna Shul, Boston, MA.
Remembrance of Things Past: Keeping the Stories of Jewish Poland Alive, with Witek Dąbrowski and Leora Tec, October 24, 2019, Milwaukee, WI. Sponsored by the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and the Harry and Rose Samson family Jewish Community Center.
Remembrance of Things Past: Keeping the Stories of Jewish Poland Alive, with Witek Dąbrowski and Leora Tec, October 20, 2019, West Nyack, NY. Sponsored by Ruth and Judy Josephs.
Remembrance of Things Past: Keeping the Stories of Jewish Poland Alive, with Witek Dąbrowski and Leora Tec, The Depot, Lexington, MA, Sunday, October 21, 2018. Sponsored by the American Association for Polish Jewish Studies (AAPJS) in cooperation with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB).
Remembrance of Things Past: Keeping the Stories of Jewish Poland Alive, with Witek Dąbrowski and Leora Tec, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, NY, Thursday, October 18, 2018, 5:00 pm. Sponsored by the American Association for Polish Jewish Studies (AAPJS) and the Kosciuszko Foundation.
Fragments of a Lost World: Why I Am Moved To Bring People To Poland and Teach about Jewish Life, Temple Emunah, Sunday, October 14, 2018, Lexington, MA.
Never Forget: an Evening of Conversation with Dr. Anna Ornstein and Leora Tec, First Parish Church, Lexington, MA, Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 7:00-8:30 pm. Sponsored by Lexington Education Foundation.
What Do We Really Think? Stereotypes in the Polish-Jewish Landscape, Panel moderated by Glenn Kurtz, with Zuzanna Radzik and Witek Dąbrowski. July 2018, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone? Tuesday, April 10, 7:00-9:00 pm, 2018, Arlington Community Education, Arlington, MA
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Wednesday, March 7, 11:30 am, 2018, Coleman House, Newton, MA
Fragments of a Lost World: Why I am Moved to Bring People to Poland to Teach about Jewish Life, Thursday, March 1, 7:00-8:30 pm, 2018, Lexington Community Education, Lexington, MA
Panel: What to Expect from the 2018 Jewish Genealogy Conference in Warsaw, JGSGB, Sunday, February 25, 1:30-4:00 pm, 2018, Temple Emanuel, Newton Centre, MA
Panel: Polish Jewry Today, Vilna Shul with Katka Reszke and Amy Degen, Thursday, February 1, 7:00 pm, 2018, Boston, MA
Online Interview: A Conversation with the Head of Exhibitions at Majdanek Death Camp Krzysztof Banach, Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 3:00 pm Eastern.
Songs I didn't Know I Knew: Finding Identity, Hope and Unexpected Friendship in Poland, Kraków Jewish Festival, JCC Kraków, June 26, 2017, Kraków, Poland
Leora Tec Interviewed by Witek Dąbrowski, Lubliner Reunion, July 4, 2017 Brama Grodzka, Lublin, Poland
Are We Missed? What is There for Jews in Modern Day Poland? Lubliner Reunion, July 5, 2017 Brama Grodzka, Lublin, PolandWhat Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Newton Community Education, May 9, 2017 7:00 pm, Newton, MA
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Brookline Adult Ed, April 26, 2017, 1:00 pm, Brookline, MA
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Golda Meir House, April 24, 2017, Newton, MA
Jewish Poland: Difficult Questions and Ripple Effects—A workshop sponsored by the Lexington Council for the Arts, artlounge, March 19, 2017, Arlington, MA
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Gonson Lecture Series, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, February 1, 2017 at 11:00 am, Cambridge, MA
"Auschwitz After Auschwitz" An Interview with Dr. Tomasz Cebulski, online, Sunday, December 11, 2016, 5:00 pm Eastern time. Sign up link: https://bridgetopoland.com/new-blog/2016/11/28/auschwitz-after-auschwitz-an-interview-with-dr-tomasz-cebulski
Rediscovering Jewish Poland: A Talk With Professor Michael Steinlauf, Witness to History | Webinar, October 23, 2016
The Persistence of Memory: What Happens When All the Survivors Are Gone?, Newton Library, August 30, 2016, Newton, MA
Are We Missed? What is There for Jews in Modern Day Poland? Lexington Education Foundation, September 9, 2016, Lexington, MA
Reading Dry Tears: A Daughter’s Discovery of a Mother’s Lost Childhood, IAJGS 2016 (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies), August 10, 2016, Seattle, WA
IAJGS 2016 (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies), August 9, 2016, Seattle, WA
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia, June 19, 2016
Hebrew College-Jewish Arts Collaborative (with Glenn Kurtz), May 2016
Lexington Community Education, February 2016, April 2016
Memory-Place-Presence, Brama Grodzka, Lublin, Poland, June 2015
Conference in Memory of Sugihara, Warsaw, Poland, June 2015
Interpret Europe: Sensitive Heritage, Sensitive Interpretation, Kraków, June, 2015
Holocaust and the Contemporary World, Kraków, April, 2015
Spotlight Talk, Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston, Newton, MA, December 2014
Memory and the Shoah, Boston College, Boston, MA, November 2014