Proudly Presents Part IV of the IV - Part Series on Stories and the Holocaust: Challenges to the Artistic Imagination

“The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz” By: Ann Weiss

Thursday, May 4, 2006
6:30-8:30
Cardozo School of Law at 55 Fifth Avenue (12th Street)
3rd Floor Lounge

Ann Weiss will present an exhibition of photographs of the pre-war lives of Holocaust victims, from her book “The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz”. Currently, a selection of the photographs is on display on the third floor of Cardozo Law School.

Ms. Weiss is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and discovered over 2,000 prewar photographs in a locked room in Auschwitz in 1986. She has traveled the world to identify the people in the photographs, is a founder and director of the “Eyes from the Ashes Education Foundation,” and an interviewer and analyst for the Transcending Trauma Survival Project at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joining Ms. Weiss will be a distinguished panel which includes, among others, Joseph Berger, a veteran reporter for the New York Times, and Professor Eric Freedman, Former Research Consultant, Wiesenthal Center and Visiting Professor, Cardozo Law School.

**The event will be followed by a reception and book signing, and is free and open to the public by reservation at least three days in advance. RSVP to Sheri Rosenberg at 212-790-0455 or via email at sprosenb@yu.edu.

Sincerely yours,

Richard Weisberg,
Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies