Monday, October 16th at 5:00 pm

CVWLLPL

Books available at the Library.

All are welcome to attend.

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 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.)

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!

We would like to graciously thank the Adirondack Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the Lake Placid Education Foundation as they awarded us a grant for “Promote Engagement and Literacy in a Rural Library.” This grant will be used to purchase books for our monthly book club discussions as well as the bi-monthly appetizing book club discussions.

The opportunity to provide book club discussions to our small, rural community-especially during the deep, cold winter months-aids in keeping individuals connected.

Thank you, Adirondack Foundation!!

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 AT 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT @ CVWLLPL

Rick Paula (President of the Board of Trustees) will provide information on the program and aid individuals, who have an interest in the program, on signing up for the Affordable Connectivity Program. This program is through the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and provides eligible households with a discount on broadband service and connected devices.
For more information on the program and eligibility visit: getinternet.gov

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

Thursday, August 17th

530-6:30 pm

CVWLLPL

The works in the collection spans all the years of Pat’s adult life, from pencil/ink renditions of Broadwell Manor Farm in the Cotswold Hills of England, where she worked in 1970-71; through her years out west and on Ocracoke Island-to watercolor of a dying dragonfly found in Long Lake, NY where she now resides.”

All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be available.

August 28th at 5:00 pm at CVWLLPL

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

SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

CVW Long Lake Public Library

Join Rick Paula (our Board of Trustees President) to learn features and functions of an Andriod/iOS Tablet and mobile devices.

This mini workshop are for those who have a new device, considering on getting one, and/or want to learn more about the basic functions on their current device.

No registration is needed. All are welcome to attend!

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2023 AT 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

CVW Long Lake Public Library

Presentation and book available for purchase before and after the presentation.

“Meet some of the characters in Gail Huntley’s books such as Lysander Hall, Mary Ann Keller, and Duke Austin as they tell about themselves and some of their antics.”