// an illustrated presentation by Lunch & Learn Coordinator, and former journal editor, Wayne Senville

Reflecting on a trip to the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, Senville will discuss:

— the life of prominent 20th century French editor, journalist, women’s rights activist, and “pan-European” political activist Louise Weiss;
— the growing number of STOLPERSTEINE memorial stones installed in the city of Strasbourg and throughout Europe;
— the Nazis’ murder of 86 Jews at the Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp (built on the site of a popular Alsatian ski resort) to create a collection of Jewish skulls and skeletons; and
— why renowned artist Marc Chagall’s dramatic “Peace Window” in the town of Sarrebourg includes scenes of Jesus’s life and Crucifixion.

About Our Speaker:

Wayne Senville served as a planner in the National Park Service’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, and, after moving to Vermont, worked as planning program manager for Vermont’s Department of Housing & Community Affairs. Senville then (from 1988 through 2014) served as publisher and editor of the Planning Commissioners Journal . He also served for 11 years as a member of the Burlington Planning Commission; received the citizen planner of the year award from the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association; and was honored with the City of Burlington’s Herb Bloomenthal Award for Community Activism.

Wayne Senville has previously given two Lunch & Learn talks at Ohavi Zedek. His first talk recounted highlights of his six weeks’ travel from Maryland to California, during which he met with planners and planning commissioners in 20 cities and towns in 12 states (and Washington, DC) located along U.S. Route 50. Senville’s second OZ talk focused on the impact  and significance of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom, the first pogrom to draw extensive media coverage thanks to publisher William Randolph Hearst and Irish journalist Michael Davitt.

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