The Friends of the JPL Present:
Bearing Witness: Who Will Tell Their Stories
A Discussion by Len Newman
Sunday, April 27
1:00 p.m.
Library Meeting Hall
As the son of Holocaust Survivors, Len feels a keen responsibility to bear witness to the lives of the six million Jewish men, women and children who were killed in the Holocaust. For the past 25 years, he has been telling his parents’ stories in schools and libraries throughout the United States and abroad. He tells their stories to encourage people to stand for social justice. Len has been a Commissioner on the Rhode Island Holocaust and Genocide Education Commission since its inception. His work on the Commission has been keenly focused on developing ways to support educators in teaching this area of study. He will discuss the work of the Commission and its history as part of his presentation.
About Len Newman
Len Newman has consulted with schools nationally and internationally for more than 25 years on how they can better meet the needs of students with special learning needs and those for whom English is a second language. His classrooms have been featured in numerous periodicals and in the books Third Space and A Reason to Read: Linking Literacy and the Arts. In 2000, Len was a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. He has continued to offer classes and workshops there since then.
