02:00pm - 04:00pm  The Wedding Photo: Genealogy Comes Alive!

 Speaker: Dan Oren Co-sponsored by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History Contrary to dusty first impressions, genealogy can be an adventure. In Dan Oren’s new book The Wedding Photo, a visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launches a 20-year search to solve the mystery of "Who is Buried in Sarah's Tomb?" A visit with a cousin unearths a breathtaking photo of a Berlin family wedding from 1926 and leads to discovering their unimaginable post-wedding history. An archivist in Prague discovers a secret uncle whose life takes the reader from the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...