Board of Directors Helen Hardacre Susan Schweitzer HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES Linda Stein TAPESTRIES AND SCULPTURE BY LINDA STEIN Honorary Board Loreen Arbus (H2F2) Abigail Disney Lauren Embrey overview as of 6/19/17 Merle Hoffman Carol Jenkins HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES IS A NEW TRAVELING EVENT Patti Kenner UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF, AND FACILITATED BY, Ruby Lerner Pat Mitchell OUR TEAM AT THE NON-PROFIT Ellen Poss HAVE ART: WILL TRAVEL! (HAWT). Elizabeth Sackler Gloria Steinem WE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY Advisory Council OF THIS EVENT COMING TO YOU. Sue Ginsburg: Chair Mary Blake Beth Bolander Jerome Chanes The gallery exhibition (see testimonials) is made up of: Sarah Connors A. Ten Heroic Tapestries Marilyn Falik Eva Fogelman B. Twenty Spoon to Shell Sculptures Karen Keifer-Boyd C. One Protector Sculpture with Wonder Woman Shadow Michael Kimmel John McCue D. Video (7-minutes on loop) featuring Abigail Disney, Elizabeth Sackler and Jeanie Rosensaft Menachem Rosensaft Gloria Steinem and others: http://www.haveartwilltravel.org/events/holocaust- Amy Stone heroes/ Executive Director E. Holocaust Heroes Book Ann Holt F. Two Magic Scarf of Ten Heroes with Interactive Local Performance Studio Manager G. Educational Inititiative and Interactive Website (optional) Rachel Birkentall This exhibition is shipped in ten tubes and two crates weighing a total of 542 lbs. For storage, crates and tubes can be stacked within a 4’x6’x8’ area.

A. Heroic Tapestries: These highlight ten females who represent different aspects of bravery during the time of the Holocaust. Each tapestry is 5 ft sq, leather, metal, canvas, paint, fabric and mixed media. The 10 women are: Anne Frank (1929-1945) Ruth Gruber (1911- ) Vitka Kempner (1920- 2012) Noor Inayat Khan (1914- 1944) Zivia Lubetkin (1914- 1976) Gertrude Luckner (1900-1995) Nadezhda Popova (1921- 2013) Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft (1912- 1997) Hannah Senesh (1921- 1944) Nancy Wake (1912- 2011)

100 READE STREET NEW YORK CITY 10013 HAVEARTWILLTRAVEL.ORG TEL: 212. 964. 6007 1. Anne Frank 1929-1945 Born: Germany During the Holocaust: Amsterdam Book essay by David Barnouw A diarist and writer, Frank was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her war- time diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. She represents the many brave girls during this period and exempli es the loss and legacy of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Shoah. 2. Ruth Gruber 1911-2016 Born: USA Book essay by Patti Kenner As an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and a former United States govern- ment official, Gruber traveled throughout post-liberation Europe to help, write about, and photograph Holocaust survivor refugees. 3. Vitka Kempner 1920-2012 Born: Poland During the Holocaust: Poland Book essay by Michael Kovner interviewed by Eva Fogelman Vitka Kempner was a leader of the United Partisan Organization’s armed resistance in the Vilna ghetto. She fought alongside founder Abba Kovner, whom she later married. Fearless in combat, she was the first woman to play a role in blowing up a Nazi train. 4. Noor Inayat Khan 1914-1944: Born: During the Holocaust: Britain, France Book essay by Shrabani Basu A Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, Khan became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain to aid the French resistance. 5. Gertrud Luckner 1900-1995 Born: England During Holocaust: Germany Book essay by Carol Rittner Luckner led Freiburg Catholics, with money received from the archbishop, smuggling out Jews over the Swiss border and delivering messages from the beleaguered Jewish community. After the war, Luckner devoted herself to furthering understanding between Jews and Christians. 6. Zivia Lubetkin 1914-1976 Born: Poland During the Holocaust: Poland Book essay by Dalia Ofer One of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Lubetkin was the only woman in the High Command of the resistance group Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB) and testified as a witness at the Eichman Trial in Jerusalem in 1961. 7. Nadezhda Popova 1921-2013 Born: During the Holocaust: Soviet Union Book essay by Molly Merryman As one of the first military female pilots in the Soviet Union, Popova was highly decorated with awards including the title “,” the Gold Star Medal, the , and three Orders of the Red Star. 8. Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft 1912-1997 Born: Poland During the Holocaust: Poland and Germany Book essay by Menachem Rosensaft Because of her medical training, Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft was assigned to work in what was called the Jewish infirmary at Auschwitz where she saved hundreds of Jewish women from the gas chambers. After liberation, she headed the Medical Department of the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, where she helped rehabilitate thousands of Jewish survivors. 9. Hannah Senesh 1921-1944 Born: Hungary During the Holocaust: Palestine, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Budapest Book essay by Marge Piercy As one of 37 Jews from Mandatory Palestine parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia during the Second World War, Senesh assisted in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. She was apprehended and killed by the Nazis. 10. Nancy Wake 1912-2011 Born: New Zealand; Lived in Australia. During the Holocaust: France Book essay by Kathryn Atwood Serving as a British agent during the later part of World War II, Wake became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war. After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined an escape network. B. Spoon to Shell sculpture: The artist says: “The everyday spoon was like gold to a victim in a concentration camp. With it, one could avoid putting lips to tuberculosis-infested urns of watery gruel being passed around. Read- ing about sexual abuse during this period, I discovered a spoon was sometimes ‘given’ in return for sexual favors. In this series of work, the spoon and shell became metaphors of the victim’s continu- ous trauma. The shell became the mask and the defensive covering one had to wear to survive. I wonder: what would I have given up to obtain a spoon? What shell-like masks would I require to survive such trauma?”

Below is an image of one of the box sculptures. For a more extensive artist statement and preview of all of these box sculptures, please click here: http://www.lindastein.com/series/holocaust-heroes/ spoon-shell-sculpture/ C. Protector with Wonder Woman shadow: “For me, this larger-than-life sculpture, represents fierceness-and-strength-incarnate.

With its “skin” of black leather, blend of zippers, badges, buckles and mixed-media, it stands ready to defend.

Wonder Woman, also on the alert, is shadowed next to it.”

Protector 841 with Wonder Woman Shadow. Leather, metal, mixed media 78” x 4”x 8”(Protector only) 2014.

D. 7 MINUTE FILM: HOLOCAUST HEROES: FIERCE FEMALES Featuring Abigail Disney, Eva Fogelman, Henry Galarza, Raymond Learsy, Pheonix McFee, Menachem Rosensaft, Elizabeth Sackler, Linda Stein and Gloria Steinem, this 7-minute film is a tour-de-force highlighting female heroes of the time of the Holocaust, and the large sculptural tapestries that were made about them by artist Linda Stein.

Several solo exhibitions have already been scheduled. They include exhibitions at the Alper JCC in Miami, Rosen Museum in Boca Raton; the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation of CA, Santa Barbara, Flomenhaft Gallery in New York, Alverno College in Milwaukee, Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, and the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland.

Flomenhaft has been Stein’s New York representative since 2006. E. Exhibition Book

Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein (View more here)

Hot off the press is our 84-page, full-color exhibition book published by Old City Publishing. Holocaust He- roes: Fierce Females, Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein includes a foreword by Gloria Steinem and essays by notable scholars and intimates, as well as the artist. A page-turner, this book tells the story of Stein’s traveling exhibition and educational initia- tives, celebrating ten female heroes during the time of the Holocaust. It inspires readers to re-imagine their own day to day roles as Brave Upstanders protect- ing the well-being of others against bullies and bigots. Obsessed with the theme of protection since 9/11, artist-activist Linda Stein has been drawn to research- ing the Holocaust, finding that while many people have been recognized for their courage during these horrific times, less attention has been placed on the women who made a difference. With her art, she starts con- versations of power and vulnerability through a lens of gender, and provokes questions and dialogue about the continuum between the Exemplar and the Perpetrator.

F. Magic Scarf of Ten Heroes with interactive, local performances

This is a Magic Scarf!

It may look like sheer and fragile silk, but when you wear it, or wave it in the air, it becomes charged with the Heroes’ Bravery, Strength, Fierceness, Compassion and Empathy for the other.

Enjoy its Protective Force, and notice your increased desire and ability to act as a Brave Upstander. Dear Local Performer,

Can you evoke the spirit of the brave upstander, defender and protector?

With words, gestures, bodily movements, song and/or stories, can you reveal the strength and determination of someone who can stand up to the bully, the oppressor, the villain who is making fun of the vulnerable and/or harming the “other”?

As performer, you have this opportunity to bring to life for the audience (through your dance, skit, poem and/or song) the Wonder Woman within all of us, who will not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, classism or any “ism” which might be invented in the future.

You have this opportunity to tell your audience something about yourself and your personal strength.

Your performance can be gender-bending. It can address the full range of gender presentations and identities that run the gamut between the binaries of masculinity and femininity expressed by us all.

Ideally, your performance will inspire those in your audience to be their most compassionate, altruistic and authentic self. G. Educational Inititiative and Interactive Website (optional)

Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females (H2F2) is a series of participatory curricular encounters with Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females—Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein.

H2F2 is being built in collaboration with the artist by a team of art curriculum scholars and practitioners with expertise in kindergarten through higher education teaching, museum education, information communication technologies, and social justice education.

See link to the initial stages of our website.

She is My Hero banner created by HAWT from individual collages made by fourth graders during the H2F2 workshop with artist Linda Stein in Santa Barbara, California. Banner size:73”x 60”

Local high school students working Artist and fourth grader with her collage for She during Alverno College Encounter in Milwaukee, WI. is My Hero (see banner above, fourth down, third row across)