​"Where Can I Go? / Wo Ahin soll Ich Geh’n?"
A Moving Portrait of Trauma and Resilience


Available via streaming through June 30, 2021



The Justice Theater Project premiered “WHERE CAN I GO / WO AHIN SOLL ICH GEH’IN” on April 8.  This is an original film documenting the experiences and resilience of five Holocaust Survivors living in Wake County. Viewings are available through June 30, 2021. Click here to watch the trailer for the film:  https://vimeo.com/517139436  Complex histories collide with our challenging present in this documentary film event which debuts on Yom Ha’Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. A group of five Wake County Holocaust survivors, filmed during the 2020-21 global Coronavirus pandemic, share their experiences of trauma and resilience as part of an urgent effort to ensure we never forget. This fascinating film will resonate with a broad swath of the population as people around the world are struggling with feelings of isolation and displacement. 

Beginning April 23, 2021: FREE - PODCAST interviews go LIVE for on-demand listening. BELTLINE TO BROADWAY’S interviews by RDU ON STAGE with the five participants as well as Co-Directors Barbara Kaynan and Jesse Bonnell on www.rduonstage.com or subscribe to the Beltline to Broadway podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite provider. 

The survivors featured in “Where Can I Go” are part of the 2020-21 Kesher program, a Raleigh-Cary Jewish Family Services program that utilizes creative arts therapy to improve mental health and reduce the social isolation of Holocaust survivors. Barbara Kaynan, a registered drama therapist, facilitated the Kesher group and serves as one of the film’s co-directors.  

According to Kaynan, “Once the participants settled into the virtual session format and became more comfortable with each other, they expressed a desire for their stories to reach beyond the group”. The sociopolitical crises and spread of COVID 19 over the past year created an urgency that moved the participants to speak out about their experiences of antisemitism and hatred. The group’s desires inspired Raleigh-Cary JFS to partner with The Justice Theater Project, whose mission is to create community dialogue and give voice to social concerns. 

The interviews and filming were done with the utmost care and concern for the health of survivors and the crew. The filming by co-directors Barbara Kaynan and Jesse Bonnell (videographer) took place outdoors with one survivor interviewed at a time to ensure safety. Covid testing was required for all participants and staff. “While these conditions presented extreme challenges, they also provided radical opportunities,” said Kaynan. “Each part of the process, from arranging a test to watching themselves on screen, provided an opening for discovery and growth among the participants.” 
Kaynan believes the film will help viewers better understand the far-reaching impact of the Holocaust, as well as the dangers spawned by hatred and violence around the globe. “We hope people will reflect on how we can either be complicit in discrimination and divisiveness or work actively work toward respect and peace. I hope this film impacts our communities to be a little kinder to one another every day.” 

“Where Can I Go” will be available for viewing and watch parties via ticketed streaming and is appropriate for all adults and children middle-school-aged and up. 
Performance Schedule and Calendar Listing: Call 919-264-089 for ticketing or visit www.thejusticetheaterproject.com. 

“WHERE CAN I GO”
Executive Produced by Raleigh-Cary Jewish Family Services (a beneficiary agency of The Jewish Federation of Raleigh-Cary) in partnership with The Justice Theater Project. Co-Directed by Barbara Kaynan and Jesse Bonnell, Music by the North Carolina Chamber Institute, Elizabeth Beilman, Produced by the Raleigh-Cary Jewish Family Services and The Justice Theater Project. www.thejusticetheaterproject.com Vimeo on Demand $20/family, $10/individuals​​​​​

The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights

​​https://www.toli.us/

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Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
http://jewishstudies.unc.edu/

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January 28, 2019 Hyde Hall, 5:30pm - Free event - Public welcome
Public lecture in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The speaker will be Professor Barry Trachtenberg from Wake Forest University. 

The Holocaust and the new post-war order brought about a near-total end to the Yiddish culture that had sustained Eastern European Jewry for centuries. This talk, by Wake Forest University historian Barry Trachtenberg, examines the complicated history of Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (The General Encyclopedia, Berlin, Paris, New York: 1932-1966), which was one of the only successful efforts to bridge the pre- and post-Holocaust eras, and to link Yiddish speakers to one another after they were scattered to the far reaches of the globe. Initially conceived in the early 1930s as a tool to modernize the many millions of Yiddish readers, the encyclopedia became a means to work through the growing crises prompted by Nazism, the murder of European Jewry, and eventually, the effort to assist Yiddish-speaking Jews resettle into their new lives after the war.

Barry Trachtenberg is the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (Bloomsbury, 2018) andThe Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (Syracuse, 2008). 

More details including directions & parking information: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/barry-trachtenberg-holocaust-remembrance-day-lecture/

​​​Durham-Chapel Hill Holocaust Commemoration 

Sunday, May 5, 2019
4:00pm-5:30pm at Kehillah Synagogue, Chapel Hill, NC

The event is open to all and free of charge.

This program will feature the film On The Back of a Stranger's Bicycle,

The Story of Renee Fink followed by Renee's remarks.

Renee was a hidden child in Amsterdam and survived the war, living with a Christian family.

Additionally, the night will include:
~A candle lighting service
~Recitations of Kaddish and El Mole Rachamim
~Music by the Triangle Jewish Chorale;

singers and instrumentalists from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics;

and singers Holly Holder, Rebecca Grossfield, Jacqueline Marx, Amy Rosenthal, James Junker, and Andy Stewart

~Art display featuring the work of North Lenoir High School students​​
~Recognition of the winners of the 12th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Essay Contest, sponsored by the

Penny Daum Aldrich Endowment Fund for Holocaust Remembrance

Yom HaShoah Presentation by Michael Berenbaum,

"Why is this Yom Hashoah Different From All Others?"

Tuesday, April 26, 7:00 pm

Click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82765593770?pwd=RG9PZ2JqZzVJMTRvUXVNSTI3VzNKQT09

Perhaps it is a hangover from Passover but as we observe this Yom Hashoah, I find myself asking, “why is this Yom Hashoah different from all others?" As in the Haggadah, let’s deepen the question.

On most other years, the shadow on genocide did not loom so large; on this year, it looms very large in the deeds of President Putin and of the Russian Army, in the killing fields of Ukraine and in the mouth of President Biden.

On all other years, we worried that the Holocaust might not remembered, its victims forgotten; on this Yom Hashoah we fear that the Holocaust is being invoked too often, too foolishly.

So we must tell the story again, from the beginning.
So this year, we sit together to remember.

Click here to read Michael Berenbaum's full bio.https://images.shulcloud.com/13422/uploads/PDFs/MichaelBerenbaumbio.pdf

​​​​Annual Durham-chapel Hill Yom HaShoah Commemoration​

April 19, 2020 3:00pm

Please join us for a talk by 
Lex Silbiger, Holocaust Survivor
“The Great Escape:  How a Six-Year-Old Fled Nazi-Occupied Netherlands in Search of a Safe Haven”

Zoom link:https://zoom.us/j/453302243 
Password: 401705

Q&A will follow the presentation

Also in the program: Announcement of the student poster contest winners

Recitation of Kaddish and El Mole Rachamim by Rabbi Daniel Greyber

Program sponsored by the Holocaust Speakers Bureau and the Levin Jewish Community Center

For additional information contact Sharon Halperin:  sharonhalperin88@gmail.com