[Publib] September 11 Program

[Billerbes at aol.com]

A very special and totally  free program will be available to you and your 
students on September 11,  2006. 
On that day, the Bensenville  Community Public Library District (a Chicago 
suburb) will present Marion  Blumenthal Lazan live and in real time to anyone 
with an Internet  connection.  To participate, you merely install an applet (it 
loads in  about 20 seconds), turn on your computer's speakers, then sit back 
and listen to  Marion.  If you also have a microphone attached to your 
computer, you will  be able to speak with her and ask questions directly. 
As a girl, Marion and her  family were trapped in Hitler's Germany, and they 
spent six and a half years in  refugee and concentration camps, including 
Westerbork in Holland and  Bergen-Belsen in Germany.  They were in a cattle car on 
their way to  Auschwitz when they were finally liberated by Russian  troops. 
Now in her seventies,  Marion is devoting the rest of her life to telling her 
story.  She knows  that in a few years there will be no Holocaust survivors 
left, yet what happened  must never be forgotten.  Her story does not dwell on 
the horror of what  she experienced.  Instead, her message is one of hope and 
optimism in the  face of extraordinary hardship.  She implores us to be kind 
to one another,  to embrace diversity, to always retain hope, to respect one 
another, and to  never look away from intolerance and cruelty.  Could there be a 
more  powerful or appropriate message on September 11? 
Marion will speak to the children of  the world on September 11, 2006, at 
2:00 p.m., eastern time.  She will  speak for about 30 minutes, and she will then 
take questions.  She will be  speaking in an online auditorium, and there is 
no charge whatsoever to  listen.  Our hope is that thousands of children and 
their teachers will  spend that hour on September 11 with Marion.  She will 
tell a story of  courage, hope, and the will to survive.  Your students (and you) 
will be  mesmerized and inspired. 
For more information, including  directions for registering for the program 
and logging onto the website where  the online auditorium is located, please 
just reply to this message with an  indication that you are interested in 
participating. 
If you have any questions or  concerns, please direct them to me, Bill Erbes, 
_billerbes at yahoo.com_ (mailto:billerbes at yahoo.com) , and I will do my best  
to provide an answer. 

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