Date/Time
Date(s) - March 17, 2024
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Speaker
Dr. Hatte Blejer
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JGSLA’s next meeting– Live & Zoom
Beth Chayim Chadashim Synagogue
6090 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
The entrance to the synagogue is from the alley behind the building.
Ring the buzzer on the parking lot gate.*
The synagogue will be open at 10:30 A.M.
Dr. Hatte Blejer, Trips to Ancestral Villages and Towns in Poland and Lessons Learned from Local Research
Click here to watch recorded meeting
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Zoom will start @ 11:00 A.M.
Synagogue opens at 10:30 A.M.
Biography: In August 2023, Dr. Blejer led her most ambitious trip to Poland and Lithuania, following trips in 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2019. On this trip she traveled with a dozen descendants of families from Przerosl, the majority of whom were cousins to her, and most of whom she got to know through her genealogy research of the past 15 years. The high point of the 11-day trip was the unveiling of a large informational sign at the cemetery, telling the story of the Jewish community of Przerosl, and a commemorative ceremony for the former Jewish community. Speakers included non-Jewish town leaders as well as Jewish descendants from France, the U.S., and Israel. The ceremony was televised on Bialystok TV. This linked webpage gives multilingual versions of the Polish content of the informational sign (English, French, Hebrew) which is linked to the physical sign by a “QR code.”
*There is ample free street parking on Sunday on surrounding streets. Limited handicap parking is available in the rear of the synagogue. If you need to park in the synagogue parking lot, please let us know RSVP. The entrance to the synagogue is from the alley behind the building. Ring the buzzer on the parking lot gate.