Joanne D. Gilbert

Author | Educator | Speaker | Playwright

Gallery

[vc_row top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”-1″ css=”.vc_custom_1467288756266{margin-top: -50px !important;margin-bottom: -1px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;}”][vc_column animation=”fade-in” css=”.vc_custom_1467299613938{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”A Lifetime of Experience” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:56px” google_fonts=”font_family:Playfair%20Display%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643830506497{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Teaching, Writing, Editing, & Speaking” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%23777777|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row fullwidth=”yes” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1467211743313{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}” background_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column animation=”fade-in” css=”.vc_custom_1467299662837{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][image_frame url=”371″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”With my Grandmother Millie Wineman Ron
Detroit, MI:1952 – – Southfield, MI:1987″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643916817716{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

Throughout her life, my Grandmother told me stories about life in Vilna, Lithuania before the Nazis destroyed the Jewish community there in 1941.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”398″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne and Žilvinas Beliauskas, Director of the Vilna Jewish Library, Vilnius, Lithuania: 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643831896165{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]What an emotional moment to stand in a place where generations of my family had stood. I dedicated my presentation to my Grandmother and our precious relatives who perished in Vilna during the Holocaust.[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”357″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne at the Memorial to the White Rose Pavement Memorial, University of Munich: 2015″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837956828{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

So profoundly moving to see and touch the bronze images of the pamphlets produced by the courageous, doomed, young German students who defied the Nazis and were caught and executed  because of their actions.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”359″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne with Hero of the French Jewish Resistance, Georges Loinger, Paris, France: 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837976138{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

Still can’t believe I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the 108th Birthday party of French National Hero, Georges Loinger. The room was filled with other heroes as well as some of the children and grandchildren of people they’d saved.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”358″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne with Beate Klarsfeld, Paris, France: 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837669482{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

So grateful to have been able to meet one of my life-long heroes: world-renown Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”907″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Lieu de Memoir
Le Chambon sur Lignon, France: 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837655253{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

Visiting the Lieu de Memoir museum with
Mayor Eliane Wauquiez-Mottein, in Le Chambon sur Lignon, the French village whose “Conspiracy of Kindness” saved 5,000 Jews during the Shoah.

Click Here for more information about
Museum in Le Chambon.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][image_frame url=”423″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”My Grandmother’s sister Rivka and a brother Vilna, Lithuania:1938″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837849744{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

In Vilna, Lithuania, my Grandmother’s sister Rivka and a brother tend to their dying father, Abraham Sklar Wineman, who passed away before the Nazis came.

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 2014″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643916974569{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

What a joy it was to visit again with Partisan
Faye Schulman and give a presentation to the Jewish Genealogy Society of Toronto.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”353″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenting at Limmud/AZ: 2016″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643839694842{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

What an honor it was to be a speaker and to be able to attend other outstanding
presentations at Limmud’s Day of Jewish Learning at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”360″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne with Holocaust Survivor Henry Kronberg, Las Vegas, NV: April 19, 2017″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837624205{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

What an honor to be able to give Henry Kronberg a Daffodil in remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Garden at Temple Beth Sholom. Henry organized the building of the garden by arranging for blocks, bricks, and stones from the Ghetto to be shipped to Las Vegas.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”361″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne with Partisan Frieda Wattenburg
Paris, France: 2018″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837642480{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

Lots of tears when Frieda and I saw each other again after 3 years. So blessed to know this extraordinary Heroine of the Jewish French Resistance, who helped save 100s of Jewish children.

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”516″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Holding the Love Letters Amsterdam: 2018″ font_container=”tag:p|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643837482337{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

Holding the love letters of young Dutch Underground activists Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma that are archived in Amsterdam’s NIOD (National Institute for War Documentation).

[/vc_column_text][image_frame url=”514″ border_style=”boxed-frame” class=”hb-aligncenter”][vc_custom_heading text=”Joanne’s Zoom presentation for the
Sousa Mendes Foundation: December 2020″ font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:20px|text_align:center|color:%230000c0|line_height:30px” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1643917187349{margin-top: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”hb-max-80″]

I was so honored and grateful to The Sousa Mendes Foundation for inviting me to share the true story of French-Jewish teenager, Frieda Wattenberg, who as part of the Jewish Resistance risked her
life every day to save 100s of Jewish children
during the German Occupation

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