Agenda
Sunday, March 16, 2025
- 12:30 pm – Light refreshments and schmooze including special PurimTreats
- 1:00 pm – Presentation with Dan Oren
Location
Canyon Road Library Branch -8915 Senator Joe Abruzzo Ave, Boynton Beach
Speaker / Program
A visit to an abandoned Polish Jewish cemetery in 1993 launched Dan Oren on 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. In this talk, Dr. Dan Oren will share these stories and others along with the research strategies he used to unearth and untangle genealogical puzzle
About the Speaker: Dr. Dan Oren has spent the past 30 years as a psychiatrist and faculty member at Yale University. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Physiology at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. Dr. Oren has authored The Wedding Photo, Joining The Club: A History of Jews and Yale, and How to Beat Jet Lag. He is president of The Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland jewishheritagepoland.org.