"RECOVERING THE PAST" HOW TO RESEARCH A HOLOCAUST STORY WITH JERRY ZAKS

Want to uncover and tell your family’s Holocaust story, but don’t know where to start?

This presentation will give you the tools, guidance, and motivation to finally do it.

Led by Jerry Zaks, the child of Holocaust survivors, you’ll learn how to:

• Research your family history, even with limited information
• Transform memories, interviews, and documents into a powerful narrative
• Preserve your story for future generations—or create a meaningful educational resource

Jerry will show how anyone can find, interpret, and translate amazing details on their family’s Holocaust experiences.

**Jerry Zaks, the child of Holocaust Survivors, embarked on a journey to uncover and document the history of his parents’ experiences growing up in 1930s Poland. Starting with a two-hour audio interview recorded with his parents in 1980, Jerry dedicated over six years to extensive research, piecing together the details of their remarkable Holocaust survival story.