California Holocaust Education & Resource Center

Yes the Button Memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of Adolf Hi**er is completed and open at the Chabad Center of Bakersfield. Our non profit: the California Holocaust Education & Resource Center is again collecting buttons .. Our goal is 1 1/2 million buttons to build a traveling memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by N**i Germany… please contact me if you’d like to help.

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Horst Strempel (German, 1904-75) was born 120 years ago today.
"Night over Germany", 1945. (Detail). Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Horst Strempel began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1918, and in 1922 embarked on studies at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau. In 1927 he moved to Berlin to attend the US Schools of Free and Applied Arts. Strempel joined the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany (ASSO) soon after it was founded in 1928. His precarious economic situation meant he had to move often. In 1929, he began working for the Berlin painting company Birkle & Thomae. From 1930 onwards, Strempel took part in political activities and produced illegal political pamphlets. In 1932, his painting was removed from the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and he was denounced as a “degenerate” artist.

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August Macke (German, 1887-1914)
"Elisabeth and Little Walter", 1912
Kunstmuseum Bonn Germany

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Hans Baluschek (German, 1870-1935) was born on this day.
"Spring Wind", 1923, Oil on Canvas.
Berlinische Galerie.
A prominent representative of German Critical Realism, Baluschek sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid frankness.
After the N**is came to power, they branded Baluschek a "Marxist artist" and classified his work as "degenerate" art. He was dismissed from all his posts and banned from exhibiting.

One day I’ll go on the March of the Living— Auschwitz to Birkenau…. Am Yisrael Chai!

The former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The unloading and selection camp area with a train car seen from the oldest part of the camp - sector BI. A fragment of the building on the right was a disinfection station of the women camp.

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Visit the Holocaust Memorial at the Chabad Center in Bakersfield

Thurs Nov 9th @ 5:30 pm
COS/Ponderosa Lecture Hall
Expert Irvin Ungar gives power point presentation on Holocaust Artist Arthur Szyk
Question& Answer to follow

Irvin Ungar, Author & Expert on Artist Arthur Szyk
COS / Ponderosa Hall
11/9/23 @ 5:30 pm. (FREE)

EVENT DESCRIPTION
Irvin Ungar, Author, will provide a power point presentation of the art of Arthur Szyk (1894-1951).
Szyk was a political caricaturist and illustrator during WWII. Szyk used his pencil to fight against the NAZI’S and Axis powers. His art drew attention to the mass murder of European Jews and other targeted ethnic groups.

Pat Tees ( Past President ) of the Inland Empire Button Club and I visiting the Holocaust Button Memorial. Pat spearheaded the drive to push CHERC over the goal toward 6 Million buttons..
Background shows 2 of the 6 display cases .. each holding 1 million buttons.
Location: Chabad of Bakersfield on Ming Ave.

Baruch HaShem

The Magnificent Western Wall

✡️ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟯𝟵.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯.

~ 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝘄

#𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱 #𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 #𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 #𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗰𝘆 #𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱 #𝗔𝗺𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀 #𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿

Movin & Groovin’
May you live ad 120!

Holocaust survivor turns 99; still walks mall twice a day A 99-year-old Cheektowaga man's life journey has taken him from a work camp in World War II, to being the oldest mall-walker at the Walden Galleria.

Chabad of Bakersfield Our Purpose: The Mission of the Chabad Jewish Community Center is to improve the world by awakening the spark within individuals to maximize their potential in their life’s journey-with joy, passion and enthusiasm through positive Jewish experiences. With Torah as our guiding light, we gladly serve people of all denominations in realizing more joyful, peaceful and purposeful lives.

The whole Megillah

CHERC brought Holocaust Survivor Gabriella Karin to speak for the Cultural Historical Awareness Petrograd at College of the Sequoias in Visalia

CHERC brings Gabriella Karin to speak to COS students.. Open to the community.
Thurs. March 2, 2023 @ 5:30 pm

Opening of Holocaust Button Memorial at Chabad of Bakersfield
Janice Noga & Oscar Speace
Cynthia Fischer Simonian
& Granddaughter Amelie Simonian