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An Interview with Manfred “Manny” Lindenbaum

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Manfred “Manny” Lindenbaum Holocaust Survivor

The ADL Mountain States Region hosted the 2024 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, featuring a conversation with Holocaust Survivor Manfred “Manny” Lindenbaum. This event took place on Wednesday, May 8 at 5:30 pm at Temple Emanuel in Denver and was also available via livestream. As always, the program was free and open to all. We had the opportunity to speak with Manny about his experiences before, during and after the Shoah. An edited version of that conversation is…

December 11, 2025

Governor Polis’ Remembrance Week Proclamation – May 6-11, 2024

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The Anti-Defamation League Mountain States Region is grateful to Colorado Governor Jared Polis for issuing the following proclamation to declare May 6-11, 2024 as Holocaust Remembrance Week. Read the full proclamation below.

May 05, 2024

ADL’s 35th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program Host to Righteous Among the Nations Award

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On May 4, 2016, ADL hosted its 35th annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, one of the largest such events in the United States. Over 1,600 people attended the program at Temple Emanuel in Denver. The program included a moving tribute to the family of Dr. Maria Kiss Madi, a Hungarian rescuer whose family was presented with a Righteous Among the Nations Award at the event. Madi was a Hungarian doctor who passed away in 1970 at the age of 72. At great risk to herself, Dr. Madi hid…

May 11, 2016

Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor and Mengele Twin, Shares her Story

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Eva Mozes Kor, keynote speaker for the 34th Annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program on Thursday, April 16 at 6:00 pm, shared her story of resilience and forgiveness.

April 02, 2015

An Interview with Hidden Child Survivor Pete Metzelaar

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The ADL Mountain States Region hosted the 2025 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, featuring a keynote interview with Holocaust Survivor Pete Metzelaar. This event took place on Wednesday, April 23 at 5:30 pm at Temple Emanuel in Denver and was also available via livestream. As always, the program was free and open to all. We had the opportunity to speak with Pete about his experiences during the war. An edited version of that conversation is presented below. ADL: Pete, you were…

February 25, 2025

An Interview with Holocaust Survivor Paul Galan

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The ADL Mountain States Region hosted the 2023 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, featuring a keynote interview with Holocaust Survivor Paul Galan. This event took place on Wednesday, April 19 at 5:30 pm at Temple Emanuel in Denver and was also available via livestream. As always, the program was free and open to all. We had the opportunity to speak with Paul about his experiences before, during and after the Shoah. An edited version of that conversation is presented below. ADL:…

January 26, 2023

Dr. Jill Klein Interviews Her Father, Holocaust Survivor Gene Klein

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Dr. Jill Klein and her father, Holocaust Survivor Gene Klein

The ADL Mountain States Region hosted the 2019 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, featuring Holocaust Survivor Gene Klein in conversation with his daughter, author Dr. Jill Klein. An edited version of that conversation is presented below. Gene’s experience is captured in Jill’s book We Got the Water that tells the story of Gene and his family before, during and after the Holocaust. ADL: Why did you become so invested in documenting your father’s Holocaust…

March 18, 2019

Letter to Twitter regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms

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Jonathan Greenblatt CEO and National Director July 27, 2022 Dear Mr. Agrawal, I am once again reaching out regarding Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chronic violations of Twitter’s terms of service on his accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. We ask that you de-platform him for his continued use of Twitter to promote antisemitism, hate, violence and Holocaust denial. As I wrote in January 2021 to then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Khamenei…

July 28, 2022

Anne Frank’s Betrayal and the Sensationalizing of History

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The author and publishers of a new book on Anne Frank's plight have turned one of the few at least partially upbeat stories of Jewish life and thought during the Holocaust into one of Jewish perfidy and treachery. The timing couldn’t be worse: antisemitism is flourishing once again, and Holocaust memory is diminishing.

June 02, 2022

An Interview with Stefan and Serge Goldberg

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The ADL Mountain States Region is pleased to share with our community the following interview with Stefan and Serge Goldberg, second generation Holocaust survivors and supporters of ADL’s Hidden Child Foundation. We had the opportunity to speak with the Goldbergs to learn more about their family’s story of survival and legacy for the future. An edited version of that conversation is presented below. ADL: We are so grateful that you were able to share your story with us…

May 17, 2022

Holocaust Awareness Life by Stefan and Serge Goldberg

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Marie Andries rescued Benno Gerson and Anni Andries during the Holocaust

“Holocaust Awareness Life” might describe the mindset of Holocaust survivors and their children better than “Holocaust Awareness Week.” The Holocaust determined our existence as directly as the Exodus from Egypt defined the first generations of Jews wandering through the desert and into The Promised Land. It is similar to how the experience of transatlantic slavery permeates the lives of generations of African American survivors. We are grateful for the opportunity to…

May 16, 2022

Survival in Shanghai: Meet Holocaust Survivor Marion Goldstein

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This year’s ADL Virtual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, presented in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Colorado in celebration of its 150th anniversary, features a panel discussion about the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference). One of the panel participants, Marion Goldstein, is a Holocaust survivor who was born in Shanghai, China and came to the United States at the age of eight. We sat down with Marion to talk about…

March 11, 2022

Gratitude on Yom HaShoah

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Sue Parker Gerson family members in Austria, 1929 who were victims of the Holocaust.

From: Sue Parker Gerson, Senior Associate Director, ADL Mountain States Region It may seem strange to entitle a blog post “Gratitude on Yom HaShoah” when we are anything but thankful for the horror that was the Holocaust, including the decimation of civil liberties that paved its way, the loss of 6 million Jewish and 5 million other souls, and the unimaginable trauma suffered by generations of families torn apart by its ravages. And yet, grateful is the mindset I attempt to employ…

April 07, 2021

Mountain States Spotlight with Holocaust Survivor Judith Altmann

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The ADL Mountain States Region hosted the 2021 Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program, featuring a keynote interview with Holocaust Survivor Judith Altmann. This event took place virtually on Thursday, April 8 at 5:30 pm. We had the opportunity to speak with Judy about her experiences during the Holocaust and her thoughts about how her experience shaped her. ADL: Please describe your life before the Holocaust. What was your childhood like? Judy Altmann: I had a…

April 07, 2021

Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition Opens

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by: Shaya Lerner Iran’s newest “Holocaust contest” exhibition opened on May 14 in a gallery in Tehran. According to Iranian news reports, the contest received over 864 submissions from participants around the world. Of those, 150 cartoons from 50 countries were accepted, with representation of cartoonists from Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Peru, Syria, Turkey and Yemen, among others. Contest organizer Masoud Shojai Tabatabaei insisted the event was not to…

May 19, 2016

Iran's Second International Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition Opens On May 14

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by: Shaya Lerner On May 14, 2016, the second international Holocaust Cartoon Contest exhibition will open in Iran, with the first place winner – reportedly to be announced in June – receiving a large cash prize. According to reports in the Iranian press, the May 14th date was chosen to coincide with Nakba Day (catastrophe day), the term used by Palestinian to refer to the events surrounding Israel’s independence in 1948. The contest reportedly received over 800…

May 11, 2016

In Iran, Holocaust Denial and Mockery are Alive and Well

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by: Shaya Lerner Despite the international community’s reengagement with a more “open” and “moderate” Iran, some things in Iranian society haven’t changed, including the prevalence of Holocaust mockery and denial. While President Rouhani hasn’t touted the issue like his predecessor Ahmadinejad had, recent announcements indicate that the questioning of the Holocaust is very much alive and well within Iranian society. In December, the Tehran…

March 11, 2016