Events List
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List of Events
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Monday, November 4, 2024
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Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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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 4th and closes December 2nd.Optional Final Project: Due December 2nd.
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 11, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching strategies to help your students understand how to analyze propaganda and learn media literacy skills. We applaud your commitment to teaching this topic, and are eager to support you to ensure your students are able to engage in thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate learning.
Course Details:
Course opens November 11th at 7AM EST; approximately 4 hours to complete in total – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educatorsComplete 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:
Apply a sound pedagogy when planning and implementing effective Holocaust education.Examine propaganda using media literacy skills.Identify opportunities to connect the lessons of the Holocaust with more current examples of hate propaganda. Build confidence and capacity to teach about propaganda using media literacy skills. Understand and construct activities that show the link between ideology and propaganda.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a free screening of the documentary Family Treasures Lost and Found. In the film, journalist Karen A. Frenkel channels the driving force of discovery to investigate her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. Her research leads her to astonishing revelations of her family’s journeys through Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and New York, and sheds light on the hidden truths surrounding the tragic losses experienced by several of her family members. Through the act of documenting their histories, these relatives cease to be mere names when their stories are fully uncovered. These riveting stories of survival, luck, and loss have the power to captivate viewers of all generations and serve as an inspiration for many to delve into their own family histories.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
at 1:00pm -
2:30pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Tali Nates
Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education, memory, reconciliation, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018), Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023).
In 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa.
In 2010, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic), the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany).
Sara E. Brown, Ph.D
Sara E. Brown, Ph.D. is the Regional Director of American Jewish Committee San Diego. She holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She was a director of Chhange, a Holocaust, human rights, and genocide education non-profit and managed post-secondary education programming for USC Shoah Foundation. Sara has taught courses on history, human rights, and mass violence, conducted genocide-related research in Rwanda, and served as a project coordinator in refugee camps in Tanzania. Sara is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide. She has consulted for a number of international organizations, including the United Nations.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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General
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
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General
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Friday, November 29, 2024
(all day)
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General
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N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
at 1:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
Address provided upon registration
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Description:
Join Hadassah El Paso to paint ceramic butterflies together while learning important lessons of the Holocaust through stories, art, and photographs, and honor the 1.5 million children who perished.
To register, click here.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
(all day)
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General
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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 December 2nd, 2024 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 enroll, click here.
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Monday, December 2, 2024
at 7:30pm -
8:30pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Legacy Midtown Park
8240 Manderville Ln Dallas, TX 75231
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Description:
Many Jewish actors, directors and Hollywood Industry insiders had direct family ties to Jews caught up in the Holocaust. Through entertaining and powerful film clips and stories honoring these great artists of Hollywood, this program will showcase how an industry responded to the darkest moments in world history. Come and see how Hollywood and the Jewish history intertwine through this fascinating event.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "this dying hell"—the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen.
Faris Cassell, a journalist and writer, lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon. She earned a B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. Her first book, The Unanswered Letter, was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2021.
To find out more, click here.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
at 8:30am -
12:30pm
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Commission Meetings
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 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 two-way audio/video, by connecting to the video access number identified below, by attending the meeting in person, or by clicking on the link contained on the agency website's event calendar. The video access number contained in this notice is subject to change by the conference provider at any time. Members of the public are encouraged to confirm the correct conference access number/link 24 hours before the meeting by going to the agency website. An electronic copy of the agenda will be available here. A recording of the meeting will be available after December 4, 2024. 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. All virtual participants are asked to keep their microphones muted when they are not providing public comment.
Zoom Video Conference Meeting ID: 875 7353 9978
Registration can be completed here.
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 4, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without warning, scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water rained down and injured hundreds of mourners, courtesy of antisemitic factory workers, accompanied by insults and racial slurs. The police compounded the attack when they arrived on the scene: under orders from the inspector in charge, who made no effort to distinguish aggressors from victims, his officers began beating up Jews, injuring dozens.
To the Yiddish-language daily Forward, the bloody attack on Jews was not unlike the pogroms many Jews remembered bitterly from the Old Country, although no one was killed. But this was America, and Jews were now present in sufficient numbers, and possessed sufficient political clout, to fight back. Fed up with being persecuted, New York’s Jews set a pattern for the future by deftly pursuing justice for the victims. They forced trials and disciplinary hearings, accelerated retirements and transfers within the corrupt police department, and engineered the resignation of the police commissioner. Scott D. Seligman’s The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral is the first book-length account of this event and its aftermath.
Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning writer and historian with a special interest in the history of hyphenated Americans. He is a former corporate executive who holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton and a master’s degree from Harvard. His first Jewish-themed book, The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902, won gold medals in history in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Reader Views Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards. He lives in Washington. DC.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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General
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Location:
Virtual
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Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed secret came to light. The chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School outside Chicago had been a Nazi, a member of the SS, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during World War II. Similar revelations stunned communities across the country. As the Office of Special Investigations raced to uncover Hitler’s men in the United States, neighbors had to reconcile horrific accusations with the helpful, kind, and soft-spoken neighbors they thought they knew. Though Nazis loomed in the American consciousness as evil epitomized, in Oak Park—a Chicago suburb renowned for its liberalism—people rose to defend Kulle, a war criminal.
In Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil, Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher Michael Soffer digs into his community’s tumultuous response to the Kulle affair. He explores the uncomfortable truths of how and why onetime Nazis found allies in American communities after their gruesome pasts were uncovered. Soffer will be in conversation with Hasia R. Diner, professor emeritus of American Jewish History at New York University.
Michael Soffer is a history teacher at Lake Forest High School. During his tenure at Oak Park and River Forest High School, he taught Holocaust studies in a classroom that former Nazi camp guard Reinhold Kulle used to clean. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Forward, Chicago Jewish History, and the Times of Israel. This is his first book.
Hasia Diner is Professor Emerita, New York University where she was the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History. She is the author of numerous books in the field of American Jewish history, American immigration history and the history of American women. She has won both Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and two of her books received the National Jewish Book Award.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter. Next month there should already be a ghetto, a real one, surrounded by walls. In the summer it will be unbearable. To sit in a gray locked cage, without being able to see fields and flowers." Rutka Laskier was a sensitive and precocious 14-year old who perished in the Holocaust - but the diary she left behind is especially resonant with teenagers and remains a terrific primary resource to teach about the Holocaust. Join Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director for Yad Vashem, to discuss this amazing source, its context, and how to use it in the classroom.
To register, click here.
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