ABOUT US

Elena Makarova Initiative Group (EMI)


Background:

Elena Makarova is an Israeli author, art teacher, researcher and exhibition curator. Twenty years' experience of teaching art to children and learning their world perception gives her a unique perspective and ability to connect different facts and information into Knowledge and Help. Elena started her research on the Jewish Ghetto/KZ Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1988; since then she and her group have published a number of works on the Holocaust history, along with books on art education, novels and short stories, documentary film scripts, etc. The group have collected rich and comprehensive documentation on the cultural life in Theresienstadt, backed up by Elena's personal acquaintance with many survivors or their families. This collection and research provided foundation to over 20 major exhibitions she arranged as artistic director-curator in Israel, Russia, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Japan and the United States. Most of the material in Elena's archive constitute unique and so far unknown to general public documents and interviews, which in their entirety form a whole vision of the phenomenon of Terezin's human history and resistance culture.

EMI Activities:

• Research - investigating different subjects on cultural life in Terezin KZ and other survival settings (e.g. British detainment camp for Jews on Mauritius Island during WW2), interviewing the survivors, collecting documents, visual and audio footage, in collaboration with other organizations and people, and alone. “Discovery” of forgotten artists.
• Production - cultural and educational projects - exhibitions, books, films, articles, lectures, workshops.
• Education & Consulting - giving seminars, workshops & consultations to people and organizations, via internet, mail, phone, personal meetings.

Support - meeting the everyday needs of the survivors, helping them find the information they look for.

About our research team:

EMI includes also the following core members:
Sergei Makarov - translator, researcher, author, fundraiser
Victor Kuperman - translator, researcher, author
Michael Kubat - editor, translator
Catherine Nekliudova - editor
Haim Kuchuk – cameraman, film-editor

Marina Favinsky - website designer
Galina Bleikh – graphic and website designer

Dr. Rabin Ira - researcher
Michael Polsky – website administrator

Our coordinates:

Contact person: Sergei Makarov

NPO Solidarity

Address: Rav Berlin Str. 12, Jerusalem 92503 ISRAEL

Tel/fax: 972-2-5633023; Cell-phones 0547-994732 & 0526-290474
Email: lmarak@012.net.il
Website: http://www.makarovainit.com/