Finding Leah Tickotsky: Film Screening, Reception and Discussion

Sarah Golabek-Goldman will screen her documentary, Finding Leah Tickotsky as the opening event for Holocaust Remembrance Week. A reception with light refreshments followed by small group private museum tours is planned prior to the screening.

Thursday, April 28th
5:00pm (Reception)
6:15pm (VIP Museum Tours)
7:30pm (screening followed by discussion with filmmakers)

Location: Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035

This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Jewish Alumni of Los Angeles, the Harvard Club of Southern California, the British-American Business Council Los Angeles, the World Affairs Council, and Wells Fargo Bank

Register now through the Museum of Tolerance website or call 310-772-2505.

Filmmaker Sarah Golabek-Goldman will screen her documentary, Finding Leah Tickotsky, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center-Museum of Tolerance as the opening event for Holocaust Remembrance Week. As an undergraduate at Stanford, Sarah received grants from the Davis Projects for Peace Foundation and the Taube Foundation to restore a Jewish cemetery with the help of local Poles. After finding the gravestone of her great-great-grandmother in an abandoned cemetery, Sarah was inspired film a documentary about her family history and exploring Polish-Jewish relations and contemporary memory of the Holocaust in the country where Jews from all over Europe were brutally murdered.

“A new generation has arisen in Poland, in the United States, and in Israel, that wants to know - that needs to know- about the past that Jews and Poles shared together for almost a millennia in the soil of Poland. Finding Leah Tickotsky is a wonderful illustration of how much those two groups have to say to one another and how memories can unite rather than divide people in a land where hatred once ran so deep.”
--Dr. Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University

“Sarah Golabek-Goldman's journey to discover the past of her Jewish ancestors in Poland mirrors and assists the efforts of many young Poles to rediscover what they lost in WW11- their vibrant Jewish communities. From the train tracks at Treblinka to the arms of a friend of her murdered family, she experiences, in a very personal way, the complexities of Polish-Jewish history; the vitality as well as the tragedy. Through powerful images and encounters she reveals an atmosphere today immensely welcoming of Jews, yet at times still marred by ignorance and ill will.”
--Dr. Katherine Jolluck, Stanford University

In addition to the screening and discussion, a reception with light refreshments followed by small group private museum tours is planned prior to the screening.

Register now through the Museum of Tolerance website or call 310-772-2505.

Cost: $50 per person (reception, VIP Tour, screening and discussion); $15 per person (screening and discussion only)
Contact: Herb Goldman, herbdavid1@gmail.com or 818-994-7098