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Holocaust Museum: Impressions

By Caro/e Johnston

It took a week to sink in. Two weeks later
tears still leaked from my eyes whenever I
had time to be alone and think about it. This
happened often as I drove
around town. Images from
the video clips haunt me. The
faint smell of old leather in
the room full of shoes haunts
me. The electric shock I felt
in the Auschwitz exhibit
haunts me. This was not
Adrienne Brody, this was not
Liam Neeson. This was real.
Bunk beds from Auschwitz,
milk cans filled with diaries
from Warsaw, and train

 

Teachers visit the Holocaust Museum.

hours on Sunday walking and reading,
stopping to contemplate. They told me it
would take time to process all the horror and
all the facts but it took me a
week. I went on with my life,
blocking the images from
those walls but whenever I
was alone for a few moments,
the images found me. I was
filled with sorrow.

I want to thank the Jewish
Federation of Central
Kentucky for providing this
experience for me and six
other teachers from Lexington

 

tracks, real train tracks,

without which the deportation may not have
Worked. Eyes and faces stared at me from
those museum walls and I will never forget
them. I spentfour hours on Saturday andfour

and Versailles. I learned things
I could never learn from books. The United
States Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
has created the most realistic exhibition I have
ever seen. From the moment Iskpped off the

see Holocaust Museum, page 21

 

Israel Mission Update
Day minus one — Sunday, November 9th 2003

This morning was the longest of my life. I
woke up at 5:30 AM which is the time my dog
normally wakes me up to make sure we have
time for a nice walk before I go to work. But
today my dog wasn’t there because I left him
at the kennel in preparation for the trip. So
this morning, after closing my briefcase and
bags, I went to the office for the last e-mail
check, and to leave things as organized as I
could. Me nervous? N 000000. . ..

I am not alone on the plane to JFK. Joe
Krislov, Louise Miller and Martin and Odette
Kaplan are on the same plane to Cincinnati. I
can barely wait to get to Israel.

We arrived in Cincinnati, but Joe, Louise,
Martin and Odette take a different connection

to JFK. I am alone but will join them at JFK.

Stan and Judy Saxe as well as Norman Reiss
will also be at JFK. We’ll meet the rest of the
group in Tel-Aviv.

Day One — Monday, November 10th 2003
We have the whole group together and we are
headed for Haifa. We had dinner and went to
sleep the jetlag off.

Day two — Tuesday, November 11th 2003
The adventure begins for real. Of course it
starts with a huge Israeli-style breakfast, after
which we headed for Tzfat (Safed), the
mystical capital of Israel. First we visited the
Yosef Caro Synagogue. Rabbi Yosef Caro was

see Israel Mission Update, page 15

 

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Super Sunday is
Comin ll!

On Sunday, February 8th, you will receive an
important phone call. When you answer the
phone, please remember the following:

In the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
over 200,000 elderly Jews receive food and
other emergency supplies from the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an
agency funded with money from the annual
United Jewish Communities campaign, to
which our community allocates our overseas
dollars.

In Israel, children are kept safe with extra
security guards and after schools activities
organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel with funds

provided by the American Jewish community.

In Buenos Aires, 64,000 Jews receive some form
of help through the "Red Solidaria" (Solidarity
Network) organized by the JDC and funded by
United Jewish Communities.

Aliyah from Argentina,
Ethiopia, Russia and

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with resources provided
by the United Jewish
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In Lexington, the Jewish Lexington Singles
(JewLS) has become a regional program
attracting Jewish singles from Louisville,
Cincinnati, Ohio and beyond.

Camp Shalom, subsidized by the UJC/CKJF
Community Campaign, continues to grow and
provide a meaningful Jewish experience for
our children ages 4 to 10.

Young Leadership programs continue to
provide a framework for Jewish adults in
Central Kentucky ages 25 to 45 to come together.

Fourteen High School teachers from
Lexington-Fayette School District Public
Schools visited the US. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington DC as part of the

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