Peninah Zilberman, Founder & CEO, The Tarbut Foundation Sighet
- She is the CEO and Founder of the Tarbut Foundation Sighet.
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Overview
Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. Notable instances of persecution include the Cossack massacres in Ukraine from 1648 to 1657, various anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire between 1821 and 1906, the 1894–1906 Dreyfus affair in France, the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe during World War II and Soviet anti-Jewish policies.
In today’s episode of The Brand Called You, Peninah Zilberman talks about the Holocaust. She also touches upon her experience working as a holocaust survivor. She also talks about the work she is doing at her foundation.
[00:16] – About Peninah Zilberman
- She is the CEO and Founder of the Tarbut Foundation, Sighet
- Her goal is to preserve not only the memory of their deaths, but also to celebrate their lives too.
- She does it through remarkable programs, tours, art, culture, and education.
02:14- Tell us your journey and how it began.
- I took early retirement and knew that I’m going to come back to Israel because that’s where I was born.
- That’s where my parents met. But unfortunately, in Israel, people who are over 55 are kind of not welcome to work. And that’s exactly why I like to be busy.
- I had been travelling to Romania for the past 20 years on various missions, teaching various teachers seminars, and going to schools, and I speak the language fluently.
- I have direct contact with people, there’s no need for translation.
- I opened the foundation with some resources that my parents left me. And we have two missions.
- One is the tours for the families to visit, where their families live, they went to school and the cemeteries.
- The other mission is to speak about the Romanian Holocaust.
20:22-What’s the reason for educating young non-Jewish kids?
- Number one. I do speak a little bit about the family.
- But then I bring it into bullying. And then to racism.
- The Romanians are very racist.
- They have the Roma people, and they speak very down to them.
- Bullying has been real trouble in Romania because they see the TV now it’s not like it was before. So I bring it down to them. And I do it through the yards. I don’t do it through the history books.
- On April 19 I had a workshop in Seguin, there were seven high schools in Romanian, one Ukrainian, and one Hungarian.
23:16- One of the programs in your foundation that fascinated me was called Parallel traces. Can you talk about that a little?
- Number one, our booth is a member of EPJ, which is an association for Jewish heritage across Europe.
- It started in Luxembourg 23 years ago, by a very small group.
- There are lots of Jewish heritage sites across Europe, but not all of them are managed by Jews.
- And a very important point. Because non-Jews like this organic sensation started of half Jews and have non-Jews, they just found.
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- She is the CEO and Founder of the Tarbut Foundation Sighet
- Her goal is to preserve not only the memory of their deaths but also to celebrate their lives too.
- She does it through remarkable programs, tours, art, culture, and education.
