Bridges & Pathways Book Group Zoom Discussion Of Michi Weglyn’s Years Of Infamy On May 26

Presented by South Jersey Holocaust Coalition
Free to the Public
Reservations Required
Space is Limited

VINELAND, NJ—What can be learned by the American administration’s callousness and bungling, the damage to the human soul, and the confusion and terror caused by our internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. What are the lessons that we must heed today?

These issues and others will be discussed in the next Bridges & Pathways Book Group discussion, presented by the South Jersey Holocaust Coalition. It will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, May 26, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. and is free and open to he public. The book discussed will be Years of Infamy by Michi Weglyn.

This is the story of America’s concentration camps, told by someone with first-hand experience. Weglyn was a teenager in 1942, when 110,000 West Coast residents, many of them United States citizens, were placed in concentration camps called “relocation centers” under Executive Order No. 9066, simply because of being of Japanese origin. She uses Government documents and her own memory of one of the camps.to tell this story.

The book talk is presented by South Jersey Holocaust Coalition and New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, with funding from One Jewish Community—Jewish Federation of Cumberland, Gloucester & Salem Counties.

Coalition member Shoshana Osofsky will facilitate each of the discussions in this series, for which people should come with an open mind and heart, and should be prepared to engage in spirited and civil discussion in which everyone has a right to feel safe in what they say.

Reading of the book under discussion is recommended.

The revised schedule for future book discussions will be: Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders by Raul Hilberg, on July 28, and How to be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, on November 24. The discussion of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi is being rescheduled to a date to be announced.

Osofsky brings to these discussions a deep and passionate sensitivity and involvement in causes relating to social justice, as well as the fight against anti-Semitism, racism, discrimination, and cultural biases.

The chairperson of Holocaust Coalition is Harry Furman, a former Social Studies teacher who pioneered the first New Jersey high school semester course on the Holocaust and genocide, The Conscience of Man.

Educators, students, and the public are invited to take part. Registration (password protected) is required for each session and will be limited to allow participants to dig deeper. Please register by visiting the Coalition website—www.holocaustcoalition.com

For more information on this and all South Jersey Holocaust Coalition events and activities, please visit the Coalition’s website at www.holocaustcoalition.com Please see their Facebook page at “South Jersey Holocaust Coalition” for interesting articles and information about the Holocaust and related subjects. You may also email holocaustcoalition@gmail.com