{"id":4520,"date":"2026-09-30T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/surviving-the-holocaust-a-conversation-with-ruth-weiner-bpl-program-prosser-10-2-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:23:12","slug":"surviving-the-holocaust-a-conversation-with-ruth-weiner-bpl-program-prosser-10-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/surviving-the-holocaust-a-conversation-with-ruth-weiner-bpl-program-prosser-10-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the Holocaust: A Conversation with Ruth Weiner (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/2\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> October 2, 2026 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>03:00 PM &#8211; 04:30 PM<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <br \/>1 Tunxis Ave<br \/>Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>You may be familiar with Steven Laschever\u2019s photography exhibit \u201cJewish Hartford. Our Community. Our Stories.\u201d displayed at Prosser Library. We have received many inquiries about the people in the photos above the service desk. Now we will have the chance to hear directly from one of them about her experience as a Holocaust survivor, as well as her involvement in the photography project. Time for viewing the photographs will also be available.<\/p>\n<p>At 95 years old, Bloomfield resident Ruth Weiner is one of the youngest living survivors of the Holocaust. Ruth will share some of her experiences as a young girl in Vienna, and how the Holocaust affected her family as \u201cone of millions.\u201d Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions, since Ruth believes that \u201cthe only thing worse than talking about bad things is not talking about them.\u201d She\u2019ll also share ways to get involved to help others stand up in the face of hate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: October 2, 2026 Event Time: 03:00 PM &#8211; 04:30 PMLocation: 1 Tunxis AveBloomfield, CT 06002-0337Description:You may be familiar with Steven Laschever\u2019s photography exhibit \u201cJewish Hartford. Our Community. Our Stories.\u201d displayed at Prosser Library. We have received many inquiries &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Surviving the Holocaust: A Conversation with Ruth Weiner (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/2\/2026)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/surviving-the-holocaust-a-conversation-with-ruth-weiner-bpl-program-prosser-10-2-2026\/#more-4520\" aria-label=\"Read more about Surviving the Holocaust: A Conversation with Ruth Weiner (BPL Program @ Prosser 10\/2\/2026)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}