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JOIN US for an Exciting Season of New Exhibits and Programming

ope your New Year Spring 2023 Teachers’ Professional Development Workshop
has gotten off to a Saturday, February 25 9:30 a.m - 3:30 p.m.
Hgood start - 2023 has The “Hands-on Holocaust Training” workshop will take place
been a busy one so far for the at the museum. All active Southwest Florida middle, high school
museum! As the number of and college/university level teachers are invited to participate. The
local and out-of-area guests theme will be “You’ve seen the new ‘Standards for Florida Holocaust
continues to increase, we are Education’ Guidelines – come and find out how to use them.” All
Doroha by Nadia Werbitzky with last guests admitted at examples of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
participants will leave equipped with resources to provide quality
now open Tuesday through
Sunday from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Holocaust education in their classrooms. The program will explore
3:00 p.m. We have hosted a
(USHMM) lesson plans. Participants will also learn about the
large number of student field
available Holocaust education resources of both our museum and the
trips, with more to come this
USHMM. Teachers are asked to RSVP by February 17 on the museum’s
month. Construction milestones
website – www.hmcec.org.
continue to be reached on the
museum’s new north wing – new at 239-263-9200, ext# 205 or David@hmcec.org.
plumbing, lighting and walls are currently being installed. Naming For further information, please contact Education Specialist David Nelson
Stuart Mest, M.D. Two-Part Lecture Series - Eugenics,
opportunities are available for new galleries, classroom technology, Experiments, Ethics: Nazi Germany, Japan and the United
displays, and exhibits. States
Please contact Susan for details at Susan@hmcec.org. Part 1 Tuesday, February 28 and Part 2 Tuesday, March 7 at the
Busy Month Ahead museum from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $40 for the two-part series,
We hope to see you at the museum this month. Our February and advance registration is required. The series will also be repeated on
calendar is full of activity. This busy month has a teacher workshop, Thursday, March 23 (Part 1) and Thursday, March 30 (Part 2.)
lecture and film programs, and an interesting and timely exhibit. We Triumph 2023 featuring Guest Speaker
are also excited about our upcoming annual Triumph Fundraiser Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House
on March 15, 2023. Guest speaker will be Michael J. Abramowitz, Wednesday, March 15 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
president of Freedom House, a nonprofit organization founded to Our annual fundraiser will take place at Arthrex One Conference
promote democracy and liberty around the world. Center in Naples. Special guest speaker will be Michael J.
“Two Regimes” Exhibit in the Estelle and Stuart Price Abramowitz, president of Freedom House,
Gallery "Two Regimes" shares the story of a family living in a nonprofit organization founded in 1941
Mariupol, Ukraine, under the brutal regimes of Josef Stalin and under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler. Teodora Verbitskaya, her young daughters Nadia and Wendell Willkie to promote democracy
and Lucy, plus extended family, were swept up in the collateral and liberty around the world. Freedom
damage of genocide and war, including the 1932-1933 Holodomor House keeps watch over the global state
ordered by Stalin, and the Holocaust. “Two Regimes” includes of political rights and civil liberties. Mr.
passages from Teodora's memoir about her life from 1920-1945. Abramowitz engages with human rights
The exhibit's paintings, done from memory by daughter Nadia, a defenders from all over the world. These
professionally trained artist, strikingly illustrate the family's wartime include brave political activists, civil society
experiences. During World War II, the Nazis sent Teodora and leaders, journalists and others who are
her two daughters to Germany to work as slave laborers in forced pushing back against repressive governments Michael Abramowitz
labor camps. They endured this until 1945 when they were liberated and dictatorships to secure basic rights and
by United States troops. When the war ended, they spent time in freedoms in their countries. Although Freedom
displaced persons camps until they were able to emigrate to Canada. House has tracked a steady decline in political
The exhibit will be on display through April 2023. rights and civil liberties in the last 16 years, Mr. Abramowitz says he
Nazi-Looted Art – Unfinished Business Lecture Series has hope for the long-term because of the persistent and widespread
Museum docent Ellaine Rosen continues her popular series, “Nazi- demand for freedom. Tickets are $300 and a variety of sponsorship
Looted Art – Unfinished Business” on Monday, February 6 and packages are available.
Monday, February 13. The lectures are held at the museum in the
Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Maureen and Arnold Lerner Classroom from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. 239-263-9200
Admission is free but a suggested minimum donation of $18 is No tickets will be sold at the door.
info@hmcec.org
greatly appreciated! Advance registration is required
www.HMCEC.org
We hope to see you soon! 975 Imperial Golf Course Blvd.,
Suite#108, Naples, FL 34110

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