威尼斯人娱乐场

Film Screening and Discussion - Big Sonia

威尼斯人娱乐场 at Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

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Sonia Warshawski is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in the Kansas City area, and one of the only survivors who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia鈥檚 enormous personality and fragile 4-foot-8-inch frame mask the horrors she endured. At 15, Warshawski watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors, and her teenage years were a blur of concentration camps and death marches. On liberation day, she was accidentally shot through the chest, yet miraculously survived. Warshawski is the ultimate survivor 鈥� a bridge between cultures and generations.

The event will begin with a short performance by the Park University听International Center for Music鈥檚听Ben Sayevich, professor of music/violin, and his wife,听Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, director of collaborative piano. The duo will perform 鈥淣igun鈥� from the suite 鈥淏aal-Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life鈥� composed by Ernest Bloch and 鈥淪chindler鈥檚 List for Violin and Piano鈥� composed by John Williams. The film screening will begin at approximately 6:15 p.m. and will be followed by a panel discussion at approximately 7:45 p.m. Panelists will include Rabbi Doug Alpert from Congregation Kol Ami in Kansas City, Mo., and Brian Cowley, Ph.D., Park University professor of psychology who has expertise in the Holocaust, and Jennifer Tavernaro, an educational adviser on the film who has been teaching Holocaust education and Warshawski鈥檚 story for the past 10 years in her classroom at Lakewood Middle School in the Blue Valley (Kan.) School District. Tavernaro鈥檚 students are highlighted in the film.

The screening takes place two days before Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the lives and heroism of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. The event is presented in partnership with the听International Relations Council,听Midwest Center for Holocaust Education听and Park University.听This program will take place at Park University, 8700 NW River Park Drive, Parkville, MO.听Reservations are requested for this free program.

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