"The Miracle of the Mir" 3:30 PM – 8:30 PM  at The Carlebach Shul, 305 West 79th Street The Mir Yeshiva is the only Eastern European Yeshiva to survive the Holocaust almost entirely intact. After fleeing the Nazi and Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939, the entire institution of Rabbis and students fled to Lithuania.  At the onset of the Nazi invasion of Lithuania, the members of the Yeshiva again miraculously escaped across Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Japan, where they were survived the war years in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai Ghetto. Come learn and hear this amazing story from the children of those who were there. Program Chaired by Historian Dr. Karen Sutton, PhD Karen Friedman Sutton received a Fulbright Award in 1987 for research in German/Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941 - 1944. She received a PhD in 1995 from the University of Illinois and subsequently became Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Braun Holocaust Institute. In 1995, she researched Lithuanian archives in Vilnius that had become open in the post-Soviet era. She is a Professor of History at Touro College.