An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Charlotte
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Vol. 38, No. 4
Adar ll-Nisan 5776
April 2016
Through Federation You Can DO GOOD EVERYWHERE.
FROM ANYWHERE.
Through our Annual Cam
paign, the Jewish Federation of
Greater Charlotte joins with 153
Federations aeross North Ameriea
to answer the needs of the Jewish
world.
When a ehild needs a Jewish
edueation, a subsidy to partieipate
in a Jewish experienee like Jewish
summer eamp or a BBYO leader
ship eonferenee, Federation is
there. When a family loses its
ineome or an entire eommunity is
devastated by a disaster, Federa
tion is there. It’s a pledge we live
by.
We are there to help a dis
tressed family regain its footing;
to reseue and rebuild after a eatas-
trophe. We make sure a Holoeaust
survivor isn’t deserted, and that no
one who is disabled is without
assistanee. Federation holds out a
safety net. And we’ll never let it
fall.
The Jewish Federation of
Greater Charlotte has been sup
porting, sustaining and revitaliz
ing Jewish life for more than 75
years. Today our work is far from
finished - and we need your
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Join Federation Board Members Jason Spiegler, Julie Sheffer,
Thanks to Super Heroes Tracy Brown and Amy Augus- Justin Steinschriber to make a vital difference in Jewish
tine for encouraging others to make powerful donations ifj Charlotte, in Israel and around the world by supporting
to the 2016 Annual Campaign during SUPER WEEK! 2016 Annual Campaign. Together, we can Do Good Every
where. From Anywhere.
Community Commemorates Yom HaShoah with One Act/One Man Play
Sundayy May 1, 4-5:30 PM, Sam Lerner Center at Shalom Park
The program will open with a
Memorial Prayer, with Holoeaust
survivors lighting memorial ean-
dles, and with a refleetion offered
by Dr. Kelly Wilson, Charlotte
Holoeaust Outreaeh Direetor,
North Carolina Couneil on the
Holoeaust.
Roger Grunwald plays the
eharaeter Christoph Rosenberg,
who is a German half-Jew (“Mis-
ehling”) and a First Lieutenant in
Hitler’s Wehrmaeht, in The Mitz-
vah Project. “A Misehling in the
Wehrmaeht,” a one aet/one person
play. He is a man who diseovers
too late that the blood flowing in
his veins is no different from the
Jewish blood being spilled in the
Roger Grunewald
killing fields of Poland.
The presentation will be fol
lowed by a brief symposium on
Germans of Jewish aneestry with
Roger Grunwald, writer and aetor.
New York City, whose late Ger
man-Jewish mother was a sur
vivor of Ausehwitz; Dr. John Cox,
John Cox
Thomas Pegelow
Kaplan
Assoeiate Professor and Direetor
of the Center for Holoeaust,
Genoeide, and Human Rights
Studies, UNC Charlotte; and Dr.
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Leon
Levine Distinguished Professor of
Judaie, Holoeaust, and
Peaee Studies and Diree
tor of the Center for Ju
daie, Holoeaust, and
Peaee Studies, Ap-
palaehian State Univer
sity.
Sponsors: Butterfly
Projeet, Center for Judaie,
Holoeaust and Peaee
Studies at Appalaehian
State University; College
of Arts and Seienees at
Appalaehian State University;
Center for Holoeaust, Genoeide,
and Human Rights Studies at
UNC Charlotte; Hadassah (Char
lotte Chapter); The Jewish Feder
ation of Greater Charlotte; Levine
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Jewish Community Center; The
Levine-Sklut Judaie Library and
Resouree Center; North Carolina
Couneil on the Holoeaust, Queens
University of Charlotte; Temple
Beth El; Temple Israel; and the
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Do Good at the 18th Annual Spring Lecture
Featuring Jennifer Teege, Author of “My
Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black
Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past”
Thursday, April 7, Temple Beth El
Although she was plaeed in an
orphanage and then adopted at a
young age, as a ehild Jennifer
Teege had some eontaet with her
biologieal mother and grand
mother. Yet neither revealed their
family legaey, one indelibly
marked by Goeth — the Nazi
“buteher of Plaszow” — and his
erimes as a eoneentration eamp
eommandant. Now, at age 38,
beginning to learn the seope of
her grandfather’s erimes, Jennifer
Teege realizes: If her grandfather
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had met her — a blaek woman —
he would have killed her.
Teetering on the brink of severe
depression, Jennifer Teege delves
into researehing her family’s past.
Over the two years that follow,
she tentatively reeonneets with
her estranged mother Monika,
explores the sites of Plaszow
eoneentration eamp and the for
mer Jewish ghetto in Krakow, and
returns to Israel, where she onee
attended eollege and learned flu
ent Hebrew.
Ultimately, Teege’s seareh for
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