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The Story of a Courageous Remnant:
Pre- and Post-Holocaust Jewry in the Former Soviet Union.

February 2, 2003: An exhibit of photographs by Sharon Faulkner.

Berta and Tiasa, Kiev, Ukraine Tiasa is a JDC homecare worker who works 12-15 hrs a day for $2.50 per visit. Berta cares for the elderly with her whole heart. She is her family's only survivor of Babi Yar. In 1941, Berta and her family, along with 22,771 other Jews were marched out to a pit and shot down by the Nazis. By chance, Berta was not shot and managed to crawl out from beneath the dead bodies, undetected.

February 6, 2003: Prelude to Catastrophe: The Pogroms as Precursors to the Final Tragedy of Russian Jewry
Presented by Dr. Allan Nadler, Director Drew University Jewish Studies Program
The impact of the pogroms (state orchestrated assaults) on the Jews and the gentile perception of them as victims. Also to be explored are Jewish responses: the creation of Jewish self-defense units and the beginnings of mass emigration (who left for America? for Palestine? who was left behind?). Finally, what was the impact on Jewish life in the post-pogrom, pre-Holocaust period?

February 13, 2003: The Massacre at Bibi Yar/The Poem in Commemoration
Presented by Dr. Carol Ueland, Drew University Professor of Russian
On September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish residents of Kiev were marched to the site of Babi Yar in the Soviet Union, where they were systematically gunned down over the edge of a ravine by members of the Einstzgruppen. This program included a bi-lingual recitation of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar by Drew students in the Russian program.

February 17, 2003: Film Children of the Abyss
A film about children and yound people who survived the Holocaust in the area of the former Soviet Union produced by Steven Spilberg's SHOAH Foundation with commentary by Marina Temkina, trainer for Speilberg's SHOAH Visual History Project.

February 27, 2003: Conversation with Witnesses
A conversation with Helena and Orest Melynchuk, "Righteous Among the Nations", originally from the Ukraine: and Clara Vinoker, survivor of the Ukraine and secretary of Babi Yar Memorial Park.