Roundtable participants, left to right: Ed Edelson, Rabbi Eric Polokoff, Deborah Holman, Sandy Lee Carlson, Helene Stapinski, Bonnie Siegler, and Bernard Kaplan


The roundtable discussion “Processing Holocaust Trauma Through the Arts” at Faith Vicinanza’s Studios and Gallery on Saturday, March 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. filled the house and invited lively conversation.  Sandy Lee Carlson, Woodbury poet laureate emerita and managing partner of Orenaug Mountain Publishing, moderated the conversation.

The roundtable included Southbury’s former first selectman Ed Edelson; Rabbi Eric Polokoff of B’nai Israel in Southbury; genealogist and author of Nothing Really Bad Will Happen Deborah Holman of Woodbury; Helene Stapinski of Brooklyn, New York, and Bonnie Siegler of Westport–coauthors of The American Way; and Bernard Kaplan of Queens, New York and Sherman, the librettist of the oratorio Remember Warsaw. 

Orenaug Mountain Publishing is grateful to AM Coffee of Southbury for providing coffee for the event and to Faith Vicinanza for opening her gallery to us.

The roundtable was livestreamed, and the recording is available here.