Events List
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List of Events
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Monday, November 3, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Participate in this online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism in today’s classrooms. Antisemitism did not fade after World War II, but is a global phenomenon that continues to rise. Participation in this course will give you the tools needed to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate lessons on contemporary antisemitism for students.
Course Details:
Program includes three interactive modules; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all three modules for a 6-hour certificate.Final module includes additional time to complete optional final project for a 10-hour certificate.Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Opens November 3rd and closes November 30th.Optional Final Project: Due November 30th.
Program Outcomes:
Learn about the comprehensive resources available in Echoes & Reflections to support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism.Be introduced to a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust.Practice instructional strategies designed to help your students learn about the complex history of contemporary antisemitism that persists in their schools, communities, and the world.(Optional) Prepare a final project to take back to the classroom.Become part of a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
To register, click here.
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Monday, November 10, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy. Use this course to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Course Details:
Course begins November 10th, 2025 at 7am ET. About 4 hours to complete – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all activities for a 4-hour certificate. Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Explore a sound pedagogy for planning and implementing Holocaust education in the classroom.Identify forms of assistance provided to Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust, including the Kindertransport.Examine the role and impact of antisemitism on rescue efforts.Discuss how the Kindertransport and other avenues of rescue were considered a “choiceless choice” for Jews.Explore how rescuers are both extraordinary and ordinary as well as the impact studying the choices of rescuers during the Holocaust can have on our choices today.Explore various resources and tools to support your teaching of the complex ideas of rescue and support in the context of the Holocaust.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
One of the most devastating chapters of the Holocaust occurred in Lithuania, where 95% of the prewar Jewish population was murdered. Join Echoes & Reflections Director of Holocaust Content and Pedagogy Jesse Tannetta to explore photographs, visual history testimonies, diary entries, and even a written pronouncement by Jewish resistance fighter Abba Kovner to learn how the Holocaust unfolded in this place. Utilizing responsible and effective pedagogical principles, discover how to engage with multiple perspectives to guide students into grappling with difficult questions about complicity, moral choice, and resistance.
This webinar connects to Units 5, 7, and 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually
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Description:
As a young Jewish child, Joan Da Silva had to move from family to family to stay safe from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland, usually without her parents. She also had to pretend to be Catholic, as recorded on her false identity papers. To pull off this ruse, a rescuer taught Christian prayers to five-year-old Joan in the middle of the night.
In her first appearance on First Person, Joan will share her experiences. “I knew something terrible was happening. I knew that I must never tell anybody that I was Jewish. … Whatever was happening was something that was not going to happen to me … I was going to survive.”
SpeakerJoan Da Silva, Holocaust Survivor and Museum Volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal).
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.
When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.
Kehlmann’s latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator; and, today, it is “a call to strengthen our spines” (New York Review of Books).
Kehlmann will be in conversation about the book with Rick Salomon, a co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, and Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. He currently lives in Berlin and New York.
Richard A. Salomon is a graduate of Carleton College and Harvard Law School. Since 1994, Mr. Salomon has been the founder and CEO of Vantage Point Consultants. Vantage Point Consultants advises corporations on ways to optimize the expenditure of legal dollars, running the gamut from the drafting of Guidelines for Outside Counsel on cost management principles and converging the number of law firms utilized for common geographic and substantive markets to forging alternative fee arrangements with outside counsel and establishing preferred vendor programs for recurring categories of law-related charges. Vantage Point has worked with over 400 of the Fortune 500, including their General Counsel, throughout the world.
Mr. Salomon is involved in numerous philanthropic and social service-related activities. He is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; a co-founder, member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (2008 – present), the 2017 National Museum of the Year; a member of the Advisory Board of Garry Kasparov’s Renew Democracy Initiative; a member of the Hagel Leadership Council of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats; and a member of the Advisory Board for the Visas for Life Foundation (relating to Consul General Chiune Sugihara) since 1996. Mr. Salomon previously served on the Board of New York University’s Of Many Institute and the President’s Council of the Interfaith Youth Core. He has also organized and moderated many events with the 92Y, Temple Emanu-El’s Streicker Center, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Common Good, and many other venerable institutions.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:15pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
By 1935, Hitler had been in power for two years. Instead of public displays of force, Nazi authorities now focused on systematizing violence. They did so by coopting existing institutions, concentrating power in the hands of a few, and passing laws to make their brutality appear respectable. These measures — among them the imposition of compulsory military service and the criminalization of sex and marriage between people defined as “Aryans” and “Jews” — were not as dramatic as the torchlight parades of 1933 or the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938, but they were essential steps in the Holocaust. This presentation explores the pivotal year of 1935 from multiple perspectives. We will end by watching a relevant scene from the classic movie, Judgment at Nuremberg.
Join Professor Doris Bergen from the University of Toronto in Part II of our professional development series “The Holocaust: One Year at a Time” with an in-depth examination of 1935.
Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author or editor of six books, including Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany (2023; winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize); and War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (4th edition 2024). Bergen is a member of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Currently active schoolteachers and paraprofessionals are eligible to apply. This program has a one-time tax-deductible fee of $18.00. Scholarships to cover the fee are available. To apply for a scholarship, please email: education@mjhnyc.org
Participants will be eligible to receive CTLE credit.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Friday, November 28, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Monday, December 1, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Participate in three modules which will provide you with an overview of Echoes & Reflections and its associated resources, a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust, background information on the history of antisemitism, and time to consider effective use of several primary sources when teaching about this complex topic.
Course Details:
Program includes three interactive modules; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no costProceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educatorsComplete all three modules for a 6-hour certificateFinal module includes additional time to complete optional final project for a 10-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Modules Open: Monday, December 1stOptional Final Project and Course Close: Sunday, December 28th
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Learn about the comprehensive resources available in Echoes & Reflections.Be introduced to a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust.Practice instructional strategies designed to help your students learn about the complex history of the Holocaust.Enhance your own knowledge about the history of antisemitism.Identify strategies for integrating visual history testimony into your Holocaust instruction.Develop strategies for introducing students to a variety of primary sources.(Optional) Prepare a final project to take back to the classroom.Become part of a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
To register for this course, click here.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
The “Holocaust by Bullets” was the method used for the mass murder of Jews and Roma across Eastern Europe, distinct from the approaches in the West. In this webinar, Ewa Schaller, Education Coordinator at American Friends of Yahad – In Unum, will explore the history of these mass shootings and explain the organization’s investigative methods, while sharing practical classroom resources for teaching this often-overlooked chapter of the Holocaust.
This webinar connects to Unit 5 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
at 8:30am -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Commission Meetings
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Location:
Marriott Marquis Houston
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 beginning at 8:30AM. Every quarter the THGAAC holds a meeting, open to the public, in order to review its current projects and initiatives. The Commission invites any member of the public who might be interested in its mission to this meeting.
Members of the public will have access and a means to participate in this meeting by attending the meeting in person. An electronic copy of the agenda will be available here. A recording of the meeting will be available after December 3, 2025. To obtain a recording, please contact Joy Nathan, at 512.463.8815 or via e-mail.
For public participants, after the meeting convenes, the presiding officer will call roll of board members and then of public attendees. Please identify yourself by name and state whether you would like to provide public comment. You may also e-mail Joy Nathan in advance of the meeting if you would like to provide public comment. When the Commission reaches the public comment portion of the meeting, the presiding officer will recognize you by name and give you an opportunity to speak. All public comments will be limited to three (3) minutes.
The Commission may discuss and/or take action on any of the items listed in the agenda.
Note: The Commission may go into executive session (close its meeting to the public) on any agenda item if appropriate and authorized by the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
This talk by Dr. Pontus Rudberg explores what happened to the thousands of Holocaust survivors who found themselves in Sweden after liberation. Often remembered through the iconic arrival of the “White Buses” in 1945, their longer trajectories of reception, rehabilitation, and integration have remained less visible. Rudberg shows how Jewish survivors faced the dual challenge of rebuilding shattered lives and navigating a society that could be both generous and restrictive. Survivors were housed in makeshift facilities such as former military camps, received medical care in Swedish hospitals, and were drawn into heated debates over whether they should settle permanently or prepare for re-emigration to Palestine, the United States, or elsewhere.
Central to this story are the Jewish organizations that stepped in where state institutions proved insufficient. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helped fund relief and social workers; the World Jewish Congress lobbied Swedish authorities to ease restrictive refugee policies; Hechaluz youth groups trained young survivors for new lives in agriculture and kibbutzim in Palestine. Survivors also created their own associations, schools, and cultural activities, carving out spaces of belonging within Swedish society. By placing these experiences at the center, Rudberg challenges the common state-centered narrative and highlights the resilience, agency, and international networks that shaped Jewish life in post-war Sweden.
Pontus Rudberg is Associate Professor of History and research fellow at Södertörn University in Stockholm. His first book, The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust (2015), examined how Swedish Jews responded to Nazi persecution and refuted the widespread notion of their passivity. He is co-editor of Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies, Reflections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and has published widely on Swedish immigration and refugee policy during the Second World War as well as Scandinavian Jewish history. Rudberg is one of the editors of Scandinavian Jewish Studies and recently guest edited a special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies on the Holocaust in the Nordic countries.
This program is free, but RSVP required.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
JCC Dallas
7900 Northaven Rd,
Dallas, TX 75230
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Description:
Interspersed with the stories of other Jewish women who resisted, The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto rescues these women from the shadows of time, bringing to light their resilience, bravery, and cunning in the face of unspeakable hardship—inspiring stories of courage, daring, and resistance that must never be forgotten.
Elizabeth R. Hyman is the descendant of Polish Jews who fled Europe in 1939 and made their way, as refugees, to the United States. She earned dual master's degrees in History and Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland-College Park, and has written the history blog, HISTORICITY (was already taken) since 2011. She lives in New Paltz, New York.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Photographs capture more than a moment in time; they serve as critical primary sources that you can use in the classroom to foster critical thinking and confront Holocaust denial. Dr. Catherine Clark, USC Shoah Foundation's Senior Director of Programs, focuses her scholarly work on the relationship between history and images. In this informative webinar, she will equip you with practical strategies to teach your students to analyze photographs, constructive historical narratives, and engage with the Holocaust in ways that foster historical literacy and compassionate understanding.
To register, click here.
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