Letter from Elie Wiesel Foundation to Laura Bush regarding Humanitarian Award and upcoming gala

This document is a program guide for the Fall 2014 season of the Chapman University College of Performing Arts, primarily featuring The Chapman Orchestra's concert on November 8, 2014. It includes detailed program notes on works by Sergei Prokofiev (Violin Concerto No. 1) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony No. 5), alongside biographies of conductor Daniel Alfred Wachs and violinist Chloé Tardif. The guide also provides a calendar of other performing arts events for Fall 2014, a listing of orchestra members and faculty, and an appeal for donations to the Fund for Excellence. A unique inclusion is a reproduced postcard from Sergei Prokofiev to Henri Temianka from 1932, highlighting the Temianka Endowed Scholarship. The document serves as both a program for specific concerts and a broader promotional and fundraising tool for the College of Performing Arts.

This letter, dated May 3, 2000, is from Richard Duque, the Consul General of France in New York, to Madame Marion Wiesel. In the letter, Duque expresses his sincere and warm congratulations to Madame Wiesel on her promotion to the rank of Officer in the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the President of the Republic. He commends her continuous activities and efforts in promoting universal human rights, fostering understanding between peoples, engaging in humanitarian action, and her dedication to strengthening the friendly relations between France and the United States, noting that this recognition is well-deserved.

After six weeks of silence, Rebecca urges her sister-in-law Maria to write. She also expands on her sense of loss after her niece Miriam got married and critiques the actions of trade unions.

This document is an invitation to the 'Educating for Justice Gala' hosted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The first page provides the contact address for the event: 17-19 Marble Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570, associated with 'Buckley Hall Events'. The second page features a personalized handwritten note from 'Jay' to 'Ele and Marao', expressing the sender's honor if the recipients could join as guests, considering them 'part of the family'. The printed portion of the second page highlights that the gala is honoring Peter J. Beshar, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and The Tow Foundation, with a special tribute to Rossana Rosado.

Samuel Flor1 was born in Czernowitz, Romania. He talks about experiencing antisemitism, his education, and his career as a composer, musician, and a professor at the university in Czernowitz. He describes life in Czernowitz first under Russian and then under German occupation. He explains why it was impossible to leave and how he and his wife, Gertrude tried to escape in June, 1941, but failed. He was part of a brutal roundup of Jewish men, and had to bury Jewish men who were machine-gunned to death by Germans near the River Prut. After being tormented by the Germans, the survivors, including Samuel Flor, returned home. In October, 1941 all Jews had to move into a ghetto until they were deported to the Ukraine under terrible conditions, including periodic whippings by both German and Romanian soldiers. He describes a particularly cruel incident involving Jews from Mogilev, a forced circular death march, and several atrocities committed by Ukrainian peasants. Mr. Flor worked as a slave laborer in a stone quarry in Ladesti on the Bugac and in Tulchin in a hospital. He relates a chilling vignette in which Sonderführer Fritz von Rohde explains why killing Jews is a service to humanity. As the Germans retreated Mr. and Mrs. Flor and about 66 other people hid in a hole they had dug previously for more than three days, until March 15, 1944. He describes how the 300 Jewish survivors tried to cope once the Russian army came, and his return to Czernowitz. His apartment had been nationalized so Mr. and Mrs. Flor joined the Czech army. He explains how they got out of Prague, emigrated to Barranquilla, Colombia, (South America) and then to the United States where Mr. Flor continued his musical career.