Understanding Belarus in 2022
Debra Brunner (London) and Artur Livshyts (Minsk), co-founders of The Together Plan, will be speaking about Belarus in the context of the current crisis in Eastern Europe. They will be explaining the work they have been doing there in the framework of Jewish cultural heritage, Holocaust education and humanitarian efforts to influence social change in the country Europe forgot.
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This event will be in: Dual Language 🇬🇧 🇷🇺
Speakers
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Artur LivshytsBelarus Country DirectorArtur was born in Minsk and spent two years living with a relative in Nashville, Tennessee. It was there, as a child of the Soviet Union, that he discovered Judaism; he studied Hebrew and had a bar mitzvah. It was his first foray into Jewish life. He spent a year living in a boarding school in Israel before returning to Belarus where he completed his education in Minsk, studying Human Rights Law. Having had a taste of Jewish life, he has made it his life’s work to strive for a revival of the Jewish community in Belarus. He met Debra Brunner in 2009 and together, since that time, they have worked to build and grow The Together Plan.
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Debra BrunnerCEODebra has been working in Belarus for over ten years and is a passionate advocate for Jewish community, history, heritage and identity. Debra has worked tirelessly to grow The Together Plan in order to give agency to Jewish people coming out of a traumatic past, to empower them and give them skills and self-belief to rebuild and revive. It is Debra’s mantra that together we can make a real and positive difference for a better, stronger and more cohesive Jewish landscape in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.