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survivors established a North
American organization called The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. The American Gathering organized a reunion event for survivors that was held in Washington, D.C., in April 1983. The 1983 event was organized by Hirsch Altusky, Sam
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The initial focus of the organization was to hold national and local reunions of survivors and their families and to combat isolation that survivors sometimes experienced, even within the wider Jewish community. The 1983 reunion was led by honorary chair,
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Gathering continues to sponsor its own annual commemoration program with the Museum of Jewish
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and its website, among other venues. The
Registry includes over 200,000 records related to survivors and their families and is a resource for Holocaust historians and scholars, as well as families looking for lost relatives.
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and his wife Vladka Meed helped to organize the first World
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel in June 1981. Inspired by and an outcome of that event, in 1981, the Meeds and other fellow
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Holocaust to New Life: A Documentary Volume Depicting the Proceedings and Events of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Washington, D.C. April 1983 - Nissan 5743.
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Bloch, Fred
Diament, Roman Kent, Benjamin Meed, Ernest Michel, James Rapp, Norbert Wollheim and Solomon Zynstein. Over 20,000 survivors and their families attended this first event.
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The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors was established in 1981 to document the names of survivors who came to the Americas after
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articles on history and personal remembrance. Contributors include professional writers, poets, thinkers, historians and Holocaust scholars.
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The Obligation to Remember The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Washington D.C., April 11–14, 1983 : an Anthology.
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