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Tech Session with Rick Paula: Spreadsheets

Tuesday, November 14

6:00pm-7:00 pm

CVWLLPL

Join Rick Paula (President of the Board of Trustees) in a tech session to learn how to create spreadsheets. Bring your devices or a library computer will be available to use during the session.

Pre-registration is not required. All are welcome to attend.

Holocaust Survivor: Dana Fast

Friday, November 17

2:00pm-3:00 pm

CVWLLPL

Presentation is free and open to the general public.

Dana Fast’s story is of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, and in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity.

In 1943, the German occupiers systematically demolished Warsaw, leaving the entire city in rubble. But not before compelling some 400,000 or more Jews from throughout Poland to move into the Warsaw Ghetto, confining them to a living space that was clearly meant to degrade and diminish them. About 100,000 Ghetto inmates died from starvation. The rest – about 300,000 – were deported to Treblinka and other death camps.

But for the courage of Dana Fast’s parents, she would have been among the victims. Smuggled out of the ghetto in the summer of 1942, 11-year-old Dana had to rely on an inner strength and ingenuity to survive the next two years until the Nazis were defeated. Dana tells a nearly unbelievable story of how she was able to stay hidden, sometimes in plain sight, by taking on a new identity as a Catholic child.

Dana is now retired and lives in Lake Clear, New York. After the war, she graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Warsaw Polytechnic. She moved to Israel in 1962, then came to the US in 1964 and to the Adirondacks ten years later. There, Dana worked in Medical Research for the Trudeau Institute and the Walton A. Jones Cell Science Center until her retirement. After that, she worked tirelessly in the community, as a volunteer at the Paul Smith’s Visitor Interpretive Center, the Saranac Lake Free Library, the Village Improvement Society in Saranac Lake, and as a Master Gardener Volunteer through the Cornell Cooperative Extension. An avid hiker, she is an Adirondack Forty-Sixer. She and her daughter Yvona hiked across England in 2000

Tech Session with Rick Paula

Tuesday, October 10th from 6:00pm-7:00 pm

CVWLLPL

Join Rick Paula (President of the Board of Trustees) in an open tech session. Bring your questions and/or your devices.

Pre-registration is not required. All are welcome to attend.

Exhibit: “Messages From Survivors”

CVW Long Lake Public Library brings “Messages From Survivors,” a powerful new exhibit about the Holocaust, survival and resiliency to Long Lake.

September 22nd, 2023

“We could never believe that a thing like this could happen. But it did happen. . . . That’s why it’s very important to tell people and hopefully it will not repeat itself. This is my husband’s dream and mine.” —Anna Jacobs, Holocaust survivor

CVW Long Lake Public Library (CVWLLPL) presents a traveling exhibit, “Messages From Survivors: One Family’s Holocaust Legacy.” The exhibit is built on 40 years of filming a family of Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, Miami and a bungalow colony in the Catskills between 1962 and 2016.

In the exhibit, six short videos introduce the Holocaust through powerful personal stories of a family of Holocaust survivors. Six exhibit panels researched using the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s resources provide historical context for the video footage. The exhibit covers the family’s experiences from 1938 through the 21st century.

A feature of the exhibit is the use of QR codes to bring the Holocaust survivors’ voices directly into people’s lives, both onsite and at home. Take-home cards keep the story alive once visitors return home. Each card contains stories of family members–some who survived and some who didn’t along with QR code links to the videos.

“I want people to feel as if they are personally meeting my family. My parents met at a forced labor camp. My mother’s entire immediate family was murdered and my father lost most of his family. My mother said, “No one could believe things could get so bad. But they did.” Their message to the world was, “Don’t let it happen again. No place. In no country.” We hope this exhibit will inspire every community to address even the smallest incidents of hatred, injustice and cruelty.

—Roz Jacobs, Co-Creator of Messages from Survivors

Exhibit co-creator, Laurie Weisman adds, “The Jacobs family show us that resilience and joy can co-exist with loss and pain. By sharing their stories, we share their hard-earned wisdom with the world.”

Working in partnership with Southern Adirondack Library System and The Memory Project Productions, Inc., CVWLLPL will bring Messages From Survivors to Long Lake from September through end of October..

CVWLLPL: “We’re excited to bring this new program to our rural community because there are so few survivors around to share their experiences and these personal stories offer first-person testimony that makes it real. We hope the take-home cards will generate meaningful conversations at homes and in schools.

About The Memory Project Productions, Inc.

The Memory Project Productions, Inc. creators of Messages From Survivors is a New York-based non-profit organization that creates exhibits and programs devoted to social justice, art and remembrance. Its exhibits have toured the U.S., Poland and Hungary. Their award-winning film, Finding Kalman, has been broadcast nationally on PBS stations.

CVWLLPL would like to graciously thank Laurie Weisman (The Memory Project Productions, Inc):, Southern Adirondack Library System; and Assemblymember Carrie Woerner in providing a generous library in-aid grant to support funding/access for this remarkable exhibit.

Presentation: “The Traitor Who Saved Ticonderoga”

Presentation: ‘The traitor who save Ticonderoga: Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Valcour.’

Day: September 23rd

Time: 1-2 pm

Location: CVWLLPL

Speaker: Brian O’Connor-a former history instructor and currently serves at Library Director for North Country Community College located in Saranac Lake, NY

(Program is free and all are welcomed to attend.)

Long Lake Book Discussion

Book: Love and Fury by Samantha Silva

Monday, September 25th @ 5:00 p.m.

CVW LONG LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Books available at the library. All are welcome to attend!