MONTICELLO –  The exhibit, Honoring Survivors and Their Rescuers Through the Generations, is currently on display at Temple Sholom in Monticello. It features poetry, prose, paintings, photographs, books, and videos related to Holocaust survivors. Entry is free.

The exhibit includes memoirs and memories from children, teens, and adults impacted by Holodomor, the genocide in Armenia, and from survivors who visited Woodstock 1969, up to more recent times. 

You Can Contribute

This is an evolving exhibit and you are invited to share your story, your artifacts, and your artwork/poetry/prose as it relates to the theme.

Come explore this topic, and get to know people from Sullivan County and surrounding areas. 

Come to sit and read a book, watch a video of people interpreting I Never Saw Another Butterfly, and to listen to music. 

Come to learn the connection between butterflies, daffodils, sunflowers, Curious George, Paddington Bear, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Terezin. 

Open Friday evenings and by arrangement

Come to Temple Sholom, 5 East Dillon Road in Monticello, at 6pm on May 9 and 23, and on June 27, with more dates to be announced. 

Come see poetry written by local authors. Come place your push-pin into the County map to mark your family’s locale.

Come for special events on July 20,  August 17, and September 14, when PrimeTimers and Temple Sholom will host musicians and artists whose talents compliment the items on display.

Carefully curated by Dr. Hope Blecher Croney, this exhibit is the community experience that grew from a partnership with the worldwide Daffodil Garden project, www.DaffodilProject.net.  Attendees said that there is a kind air about the exhibit. They complimented the approach to this history and the sensitivity of the topic. When a nervous visitor didn’t want to see horrors and be tearful, another person suggested that the approach of this exhibit is with an eye towards small and beautiful steps of awareness and learning.  This is a space to pause, to explore at your pace, and to come back again.  

Items in the exhibit are also for sale. Proceeds go to support this exhibit and programs of the nonprofit Hope’s Compass Fund, a project of The Community Foundation of Orange, Sullivan and Rockland Counties, and Temple Sholom, as the host location. Thank you to Sullivan 180 for awarding Hope’s Compass a grant that provides some funding for this project. 

If you are interested in having your organization come to the exhibit, arrangements can be made by reaching out in advance. 

For more information contact Temple Sholom of Monticello at 845-794-8731 or the curator, Dr. Hope Blecher Croney, Hope@DrHopesHub.org.  Updates will be posted to www.HopesCompass.org.