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Defiance in Connecticut: "When Southbury Said No"
On October 1, 1937, Wolfgang Jung purchased 178 acres of land in Southbury, Connecticut for the German-American Bund to build a Nazi camp. The residents of Southbury fought back against this Nazi invasion of their town. Organized by the Reverend M.E.N. Lindsay, the Reverend Felix Manley, and town leaders, the townspeople established a zoning commission whose first ordinance forbade land usage in the town for “military training or drilling with or without arms except by the legally constituted armed forces of the United States of America.” The ruling effectively closed Southbury to the Bund. The Museum and the Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut explore this remarkable story in a discussion with Rebecca Erbelding, historian, archivist, and curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Ed Edelson, former First Selectman of Southbury and the author of "Lois’s Story: A Young Girl’s Inspiration Helps to Stop Hate and Fear"; Arnie Bernstein, author of "Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn & the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund"; and Melinda K. Elliott, president of the Southbury Historical Society, and moderated by Rabbi Eric Polokoff, founding Rabbi of B’nai Israel of Southbury.
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Kabbalat Shabbat Worship Services
We’ll be using our previous Kabbalat Shabbat Zoom code. Email office@bnaiisraelsouthbury.org or rabbi@bnaiisraelsouthbury.org for the code.
Or watch the service on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZcCrkD5AAfg0_5R0oBl2lw