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Monday, March 10, 2025
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
This course will deepen student understanding of the Holocaust through The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, examining America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century and its role in World War II.
Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of resources centered around clips from The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, that support teaching about the intersections of the Holocaust and World War II. Participants will explore topics such as antisemitism, immigration, xenophobia and the Final Solution. This course was developed in collaboration with Echoes & Reflections, Florentine Films, PBS LearningMedia and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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. This course is appropriate for secondary educators teaching European, World and US history as well as other disciplines where the Holocaust is addressed.
Course Details
Program includes three interactive modules; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no costProgram includes a ready-to-use lesson plan that incorporates film clips from The U.S. and the HolocaustParticipants proceed at their own pace each week, are supported by an instructor, and enjoy asynchronous interaction with other educatorsEducators complete all three modules for a 6-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Course opens Monday, March 10th and will remain open through April 6th.
Program Outcomes:
Apply sound pedagogy when planning and implementing Holocaust lessons. Understand how the Nazi ideology of racial antisemitism and territorial expansion led to and shaped World War II and the Holocaust.Analyze America’s response to the Holocaust within the context of World War II.Identify and construct activities that build context around clips from the film The U.S. and the Holocaust
To enroll, click here.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio
12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
Yehuda Meisels was already on an “enemy of the state” list when he was sent on one of the first transports to Auschwitz. We will hear the compelling story of courageous actions that got him on the list, his time in Auschwitz, and the miracles that led to him surviving that camp, the death march and his rescue by a Texas soldier.
Learn more of Yehuda’s story shared by his grandson, Yair Alan Griver, on April 6, 2025 at 2pm.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO)
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Join UTD as Dr. Nils Roemer presents the final lecture of our annual Spring Professor Lecture Series.
This event is being offered free of charge to the public, but please register online here.
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Monday, April 7, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
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 April 7th, 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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Monday, April 7, 2025
at 11:00am -
11:45am
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In 2024, Dr. Paul Vincent published A Holocaust Center at Keene State College: The First 24 Years, 1983-2007, which traces the origins of the Holocaust Resource Center and its evolution into the Cohen Center. This lunchtime webinar will feature the author in conversation with Prof. Rodney Obien, KSC College Archivist, as they discuss the making of this institutional history.
Speaker Bios: Dr. Paul Vincent was director of the Cohen Center from 1998-2007. He is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust & Genocide Studies and chaired the department from its founding in 2008 until retiring in 2017. Prof. Rodney Obien heads Keene State College's special collections & archives and teaches in the MA program in History & Archives. He was the editor of the book published by Dr. Vincent.
This webinar is hosted by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in partnership with the KSC Archives. It is free and open to all; attendees must register in order to access the webinar.
To register, click here.
This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.
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Monday, April 7, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Session 1: Contemporary AntisemitismIn the first session of this series, experts will discuss elements of 20th century antisemitism and aspects of contemporary antisemitism. The discussion will include the alarming rise of antisemitic rhetoric and actions following the October 7th attacks.
About the Speakers
Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. The author and editor of 24 books, he was also the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He was Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of its Research Institute and later served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries.
Berenbaum's work in film has won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards. He has developed and curated Museums in the United States, Mexico, North Macedonia and Poland and his award winning exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away has been in Madrid and Malmo, New York, Kansas City and most recently at the Ronald Regan Library in California and will soon open in Boston.
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Small has convened groundbreaking academic seminar series, conferences and programming in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at top-tier universities around the world. Small was also the Founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a North American university.
Small is the author of numerous books and articles including: The ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Two (2016) and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume One (2015). Small has also served as a consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the European Parliament, United Nations, Israeli Knesset, the Kigali International Forum on Genocide, as well as various European Parliaments and leading think tanks in China, India, and the Americas.
About the Moderator
Dr. David Patterson serves as the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Austin at Dallas. He is a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Association for Jewish Studies. He is a consultant to many national organizations, including the Philadelphia Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He was also a participant in the Weinstein Symposium on the Holocaust.A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, Patterson has published more 30 books and more than 140 articles and chapters in journals and books in philosophy, literature, Judaism, Holocaust and education. Patterson’s most recent book is Genocide in Jewish Thought (2012). He has his doctorate from the University of Oregon.To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
at 6:30pm -
9:00pm
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General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating and alarming trends of the 2020s, Antiscience and Antisemitism. Antiscience activism now manifests as climate denialism and coordinated efforts to discredit life-saving public health interventions such as vaccines, immunizations, and other interventions. The full expression of science denialism occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and now targets prominent American scientists. Antisemitism is also on the rise, as documented by the ADL and other groups.
The conference explores the current and historical overlap between antiscience and antisemitism. Such an investigation reveals a 500-year history that began during the Black Death in Europe, targeted prominent Jewish scientists in Weimar Germany and Stalinist Russia, and that continues to the present through attacks on scientists working to slow or halt pandemics and climate change. The conference will feature 8 preeminent academics in the Sciences and the Humanities.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
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General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating and alarming trends of the 2020s, Antiscience and Antisemitism. Antiscience activism now manifests as climate denialism and coordinated efforts to discredit life-saving public health interventions such as vaccines, immunizations, and other interventions. The full expression of science denialism occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and now targets prominent American scientists. Antisemitism is also on the rise, as documented by the ADL and other groups.
The conference explores the current and historical overlap between antiscience and antisemitism. Such an investigation reveals a 500-year history that began during the Black Death in Europe, targeted prominent Jewish scientists in Weimar Germany and Stalinist Russia, and that continues to the present through attacks on scientists working to slow or halt pandemics and climate change. The conference will feature 8 preeminent academics in the Sciences and the Humanities.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual via Zoom
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Description:
Our webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.
Joe Samuels is a Holocaust survivor who was a refugee from Iraq. For over five decades he didn’t discuss the trauma of the Farhud, a pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad in June 1941 that he experienced when he was 10 years old. He didn't discuss being smuggled out of Iraq where he was under the constant threat of arrest and torture simply for being Jewish. Then, at the age of 90, Joe published his memoir, Beyond the Rivers of Babylon. He has since written for the Wall Street Journal. Join us as Joe shares his own story of survival, as well as the lesser-known story of the nearly one million Jews who once lived in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. This webinar connects to Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
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3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual Program
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Description:
American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles of bodies, walking skeletons on the verge of death, and other unspeakable horrors. This shocking discovery prompted Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit and bear witness to the atrocities himself. He was deeply affected by what he saw—and, even then, he anticipated a future where these crimes might be denied.
Eighty years later, learn why Eisenhower’s visit to Ohrdruf was a critical moment in documenting and protecting the truth of the Holocaust.
SPEAKERS
Susan Eisenhower, Expert in Residence at the Eisenhower Institute, Chairman and CEO of The Eisenhower Group, Inc., and Trustee and Chair Emerita of the Eisenhower Foundation
Allison S. Finkelstein, Senior Historian, Arlington National Cemetery
MODERATOR
Rebecca Erbelding, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This virtual program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. You will receive an email with a link to the program on April 10th.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Lane
Austin, Texas 78731
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Description:
Join us for an evening of learning and choose from a variety of classes related to Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut!
You will be able to choose one class from 6-6:45 PM and one class from 7-7:45 PM, offered by our wonderful community organizations.
Registration is required by Wednesday, April 9.
6-6:45 PM
Alma, Gisella, and Mala in Auschwitz: Three Jewish Women’s Audacious Acts of ResistanceDr. J.E. Wolfson | Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
Eighty years after the Nazis withdrew from Auschwitz, we recall the experiences of three Jewish women whose confrontations with the Lager reveal its sadistically antisemitic purpose. Each woman found herself filling an unusual role that gave her special opportunities to help protect her fellow inmates, though at terrible costs. The accounts we will examine—and the ways they have been told, retold, and debated—include moments that inspire, shock, or surprise. They challenge us to bear witness with clear eyes, and they serve as proof that even in Auschwitz, some Jews found ways to act selflessly and to fight back against the Nazi evil.
A Descendant's Perspective: How Nuremberg and Auschwitz Shaped a Family's DestinyClaudia Loewenstein | Descendants of Holocaust Survivors in Central TexasClaudia Loewenstein offers a gripping and intimate account of her parents as adolescents and their narrow escape from Nazi Germany, offering unique insights and documentation into one of history's darkest periods. Born in Santiago, Chile to Jewish refugees who fled the Third Reich in 1939, Claudia Loewenstein offers a rare, intimate glimpse into the Holocaust's far-reaching impact across generations and continents. With 44 years as an educator and experience as a published journalist, Claudia Loewenstein brings both academic rigor and narrative flair to her talks. The presentation also features a curated exhibit of poster-size documents.
How to Win Hearts & Minds: Communication Strategies for Combatting AntisemitismJackie Nirenberg | Anti-Defamation League This course will empower participants to fight antisemitism using communications strategies proved effective by a two-year study by ADL's Center for Antisemitism Research
7-7:45 PM
From Yom HaZikaron to Yom HaAtzmautMichal Ilai | Shalom Austin The proximity of the two main days on the Israeli national calendar encapsulate the story of Israel -that of hardships, resilience and ultimately optimism. We will discuss what it means to go from a somber day of mourning to a happy day of celebration, and how as American Jews we can share that story.
Shevet Keren: From Vision to ActionLeann Zatlavi and Omri Argaman | Tzofim, Shevet Keren
Forging a powerful bond with Israel and Zionism while shaping the leaders of tomorrow is at the heart of our community and our nation. Join us as we unveil the inspiring journey of Tzofim, Shevet Keren, from a bold vision to a pillar of our Austin community.
From The Towers to Tel Aviv: Building Allyship on CampusA Panel Moderated by Barri Seitz | Jewish National Fund
When the trend of the day is to demonize Israel, it takes courage and conviction from our friends beyond the Jewish faith to stand up to the alarming vitriol we are seeing on campuses across America. At a time when Jewish students feel more isolated than ever, some of the most persuasive and impactful voices come from non-Jewish student allies. Join UT student leader and alumna of JNF’s Alexander Muss High School in Israel, Barri Seitz, as she moderates a panel discussion with three non-Jewish UT students who - after visiting Israel for the first time - offer a valuable perspective on the role of allyship in combating hate, discrimination, and anti-Zionism.
To register, click here.
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Saturday, April 12, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Passover will be out of the office.
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Monday, April 14, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
How did the world respond when the reality of the Holocaust came to light? How can we learn from the international response to crimes against humanity in interpreting memory and history? In this asynchronous online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on how we understand the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in the aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today. This facilitator-led course also includes an exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support your teaching strategies and enhanced understanding for your students.
Course Details:
Course opens April 14th at 7AM EDT; approximately 4 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 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 the global response to the crimes of the Holocaust and its perpetrators.Identify the ways survivors built new lives in the aftermath of the Holocaust.Build confidence and capacity to teach about how the Holocaust is memorialized today.Understand and construct activities to help your students interpret the memory, history, and legacy of the Holocaust.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
at 10:00am -
4:00pm
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Exhibits
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Location:
Ackerman Center (JO 4.800)
800 W. Campbell Road, JO 31
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
This special display, based on the collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, features works created between 1945 and 1947 and attempts to investigate how survivors reacted to the liberation through art. For most of these survivor-artists, the ability to paint again signified freedom and renewed independence. The choice of their art’s subject and the grip on the pencil or brush symbolically restored a feeling of control, after years of helplessness. The act of painting represented a process of psychological rehabilitation through which they could synthesize the trauma.
This exhibit will be available to be viewed mid-April outside of the Ackerman Center (JO 4.800) in the JO-FO Skybridge.
Please join UTD for a special viewing of the exhibit and on April 30 at 4pm in the SP/N with a panel discussing liberation.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Join for a compelling Virtual Coffee Encounter with Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Holocaust educator and international lecturer, as she explores the miracles of Passover through the lens of Holocaust history. How did Jews observe Passover in ghettos and camps? What lessons can we draw for today, especially in light of October 7th? This thought-provoking discussion will connect the past to our present, inspiring reflection on faith, resilience, and responsibility.Hosted by Rozalie Jerome, founder of Holocaust Remembrance Association.
To register, click here.
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