A lecture on the story of Jewish dancers during the Holocaust at the Israel Museum on Friday. With Adina Steyer, a senior guide at Yad Vashem.
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The extraordinary stories of Jewish dancers during the Holocaust. A world of movement, refinement, and grace encountering human evil in the darkest time in history. The lecture will include the stories of dancers such as Yehudit Arnon, founder of the Kibbutz Dance Company, Franciszka Mann, who was one of the most talented dancers in Europe and ended up in Auschwitz, and Pola Nirensztajn, whose entire family was murdered in the Holocaust, and whose work became one of the most significant choreographies of her life.
With: Adina Shtoyer – lecturer on the Holocaust era, senior guide at Yad Vashem, and expert in guiding delegations to Poland.
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