Agenda
Welcome to JGSPBC’s December program. Our programs are provided free of charge and open to everyone. We’d love to see you here in person, but if that’s not possible, please join us via Zoom.
Sunday, December 13, 2026
- 12:30 pm – Light refreshments and Schmooze
- 1:00 pm – Presentation with Karen Franklin
Location
Join us in person at the West Boynton Branch of PB County Library system – 9541 Jog Road, Boynton Beach, FL. 33487
Please note: This event is not sponsored/endorsed by the Palm Beach County Library System.
Speaker / Program
Karen Franklin will speak to us about the Leo Baeck Institute The Leo Baeck Institute – New York is a research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews. Its extensive library, archival, and art collections comprise one of the most significant repositories of primary source material and scholarship on the centuries of Jewish life in Central Europe before the Holocaust. . While it focuses heavily on German-Jewish history, its official mission is to document the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry throughout Central Europe from the earliest times to the present, which includes: Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia, Austria, Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Successor states, (Bohemia, Slovakia and parts of Hungary) and more.
About Our Speaker: Karen S. Franklin is Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute and Former Director of Outreach for JewishGen at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has served as Chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums, Chair of ICMEMO, the Memorial Museums Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and President of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). She lectures widely and is the author of many articles including “Two Unsung Heroes: Dorothy Lehman Bernhard and Carolin Flexner and their Assistance to Refugees,” in American Jewish Archives Journal (2024).
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