Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay
“Who knows if we’ll all get together again?” – The Holocaust-Era Experiences of Eva and Petr Ginz
Presentation by Ursula Szczepinska
Sunday, October 8, 2023
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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay will hold a meeting on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Participants can choose to attend in person or watch via Zoom.
- Date: Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
- Time: Social with refreshments begins at 1:30 p.m.; Program – 2 p.m.
- Place: In Person: Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services, 14041 Icot Blvd., Clearwater, FL33760
Program: “Who knows if we’ll all get together again?” – The Holocaust-Era Experiences of Eva and Petr Ginz
- Speaker: Ursula Szczepinska
Eva and Petr Ginz were teenagers when they were deported from Prague to Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. They had to learn to navigate the new reality that was strikingly different from the family life they had left behind. Petr and Eva kept diaries during their imprisonment. Those journals reflect their personalities and efforts to survive the overwhelming physical and emotional challenges. This program will show how diary excerpts help us learn about unique experiences of Jews during the Holocaust and translate statistics into individual lives.
Ursula Szczepinska is the director of education and research at The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, responsible for teacher, student, and community education. She also conducts archival and historical research for Holocaust survivors as well as for exhibitions and other museum projects. She has helped survivors discover the fate of their loved ones during the Holocaust. Prior to joining the museum 19 years ago, she worked at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and at the State Museum at Majdanek on site of the former Nazi concentration and death camp in Lublin, Poland.
For more information about the Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay, please go to http://www.jgstb.org/ . The program is free to members and $5 for non-members. Dues, which will run from now through 2024, are $25 for single members and $35 for couples/families. Please visit our Dues Payment Page
For specific questions please contact Bruce Hadburg at 727-796-7981, or email him at bhadburg@tampabay.rr.com. For more information about the Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay, go to http://www.jgstb.org/.
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