Events List
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List of Events
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Commemorations
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Friday, April 2, 2021
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General
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It is possible that THGAAC staff who observe Good Friday will be out of the office.
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Sunday, April 4, 2021
(all day)
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General
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It is possible that THGAAC staff who observe Passover will be out of the office.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
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Workshops
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Webinar
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Description:
To honor Genocide Awareness Month and Yom HaShoah in April, participate in Echoes & Reflections' 3-Part Online Course to increase your knowledge of the Holocaust and guide students with the lessons from this history to prevent future atrocities from occurring.
Three interactive learning modules released over three weeks. Registration closes at 9am Eastern Time on Wednesday of the first week of the course, or when the course reaches capacity. Module I: First Week of the Course Module II: Second Week of the Course Module III: Third Week of the Course Optional Final Project due the Fourth Week of the CourseThis program introduces learners to:
Classroom-ready comprehensive print and online resourcesSound pedagogy for teaching about the HolocaustInstructional pathways to help students learn about the complex history of the HolocaustBackground information on the history of antisemitismStrategies to incorporate a range of primary sources, including visual history testimony, to classroom instruction
All the Details:
Program includes three interactive modules released over three weeksApproximately 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 educatorsReceive a certificate of completion and join a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocideFinal module includes additional time to complete optional project for a 10-hour certificateUpon completion (6 or 10 hours), option to earn graduate-level credit through the University of the Pacific. Learn more here.
Register here.
Echoes & Reflections delivers value to both experienced Holocaust
educators who are supplementing their curricula and for teachers new to
Holocaust education.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred,
hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of
awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts
and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum
Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach.
The goal of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred Program
is to cultivate upstanders who are aware of the power of hatred in
human decision making and to provide community members an opportunity to
learn important concepts of history, civic awareness, and social
justice. This program empowers community members to reflect and act.
We
must find ways to talk and interact with each other beyond boundaries.
At the same time, we must create ways to disallow hatred in our culture,
two actions that may seem contradictory, but are essential in this time
of our society’s history.
In each session of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred sessions,
we will share a critique of a piece of hate rhetoric, extremism, and/or
antisemitism, with the goal of educating the community on how to
recognize, reflect on and respond to hateful content.
Coordinated
with social media outreach, we offer a series of six workshops
co-facilitated by Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D., Holocaust and Genocide
Education Endowed Chair – Celebrating the Life of Survivor Naomi Warren
and Beverly Nolan, Ed.D., Chair – Education Advisory Committee,
Holocaust Museum Houston.
Each session will be rebroadcast at 6:30 p.m. on its scheduled date.
Register here.
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Monday, April 5, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join Bristol Community College Holocaust & Genocide Center and Christina Chavarría for a discussion on the Latin American response to the Holocaust.
Christina Chavarría, Program Coordinator, Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Those interested in attending should contact Gary Brown via e-mail for a registration link.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
As students study the Holocaust, they will — and should — have lots of questions. Answering and engaging in discussion about questions that arise in the classroom is a valuable learning opportunity. This webinar, led by an Echoes & Reflections staff member and former classroom teacher, will address questions submitted by students upon registration, with supporting primary sources and video testimony, and serve as a springboard to open up important conversations between teachers and their students that are vital to Holocaust education.
Register here.
**Teachers, please ask your students to register here.**
Echoes & Reflections delivers value to both experienced Holocaust educators and for teachers new to Holocaust education.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In 1944, Hungarian physician’s assistant Olga Lengyel was deported to
Auschwitz along with her parents, husband, and two sons. She was put to
work in the Auschwitz infirmary, where she also secretly toiled for a
French underground cell, helping to demolish a crematory oven. At the
end of the war, she was the only member of her family to survive.
Lengyel made her way to New York and, in 1946, published Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz,
which became one of the earliest testimonies to depict the barbarism of
the Nazis. Thirty years later, her vivid exposé of the death camps
inspired William Styron’s award-winning novel Sophie’s Choice.
Twenty years after Lengyel’s death in April 2001, join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and The Olga Lengyel Institute for a program exploring her remarkable life and legacy. The program will be moderated by Dr. Sara R. Horowitz,
Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York
University and an expert in women and the Holocaust, and will feature:
David A. Field, Chairman of the Institute’s Board of Directors;
Nancy Fisher, Museum Trustee who conducted a four-hour interview with Lengyel in 1998 for the USC Shoah Foundation; and
Robert Jan van Pelt, world-renowned scholar and Chief Curator of Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.
A $10 suggested donation enables the Museum of Jewish Heritage to present programs like this one. They thank you for your support.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 8:00am -
9:30am
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Commemorations
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YouTube
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Description:
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda"From hate speech to genocide: lessons from the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994"
Roundtable moderated by Stephen Smith, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education, Executive director, USC (University of Southern California) Shoah Foundation - Institute for Visual History and Education (USA), with the participation of:Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCOSusan Benesch (USA), Director of the NGO Dangerous Speech ProjectSilvia Fernandez de Gurmendi, (Argentina), President of Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes and President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtMarcel Kabanda (France), Historian of Rwanda and former President of Ibuka FranceFreddy Mutanguha (Rwanda), Survivor and Executive Director of the genocide prevention NGO Aegis TrustTali Nates (South-Africa), Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide CentreFrançois Xavier Ngarambe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Rwanda to France, Permanente Delegate of Rwanda to UNESCOPaul Rutayisire (Rwanda), Historian of Rwanda, National University of RwandaAlice Wairimu Nderitu, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Simultaneous interpretation available in English and French.
Follow the Live Stream on YouTube here.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join American Zionist Movement (AZM) and Anti-Zionism and Holocaust Denial Project for a virtual conversation on Holocaust Education: Lessons Learned, Lessons Missed, and Their Application to Contemporary Manifestations of Antisemitism, featuring Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Indiana University, and THGAAC Commissioner Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.
This event is hosted by AZM Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Holocaust Denial Project
Register here.
Questions? Email azm@azm.org
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Yad Vashem has collected approximately 4.8 million pages of testimony that restore the personal identities and record the brief life stories of the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. In honor of Yom HaShoah—Israel’s Day of Holocaust Remembrance—this webinar, led by a Yad Vashem educator, will highlight survivor testimony from Echoes & Reflections, and pages of testimony from Yad Vashem’s archive, to examine the importance of memory and how it serves us and future generations, to create a better world.
This webinar is open to teachers and their students.
**Teachers, please ask your students to register here.**
Register here.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Commemorations
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Location:
Facebook Live
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Description:
Join the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education (Chhange) as they honor and remember survivors and victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Dr. Nyseth Brehm will speak about her project on the reentry and reintegration of people who were incarcerated for committing genocide in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans spent time in prison for crimes of genocide, and Dr. Nyseth Brehm followed 200 of them as they returned to their families and communities.
Access Chhange's Facebook Page
This event is sponsored by Alpha Pi Theta (PTK) at Brookdale Community College.
Please consider lighting a virtual remembrance flame to honor and remember survivors and victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Virtual flames are $10 each and will support Chhange programming. Tributes will be posted on social media and the Chhange website. To light a virtual flame, please click here or text the word LIGHT to 855.736.9367
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Zoom
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Description:
Professor Edward Westermann in conversation with Professor Dan Stone.
In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated “performative masculinity,” expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the gravesites of their victims. Westermann argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself.
Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of
masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose
the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of
European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new
perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they
prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination.
About the SpeakersEdward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M
University-San Antonio, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and
Genocide Commission, and author, most recently, of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. His areas of expertise include modern European history, the Holocaust, and war and society.
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the
Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London.
His research interests include the history and interpretation of the
Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology, history of
fascism, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of
history.
Register here.
Event Guidelines1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via
email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.
2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (6:55 PM CDT)
and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes
a few minutes).
3. If you would like to ask a question during the event, please type
your question into the chat function, and we will endeavor to answer as
many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be
seen during this event.
4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
YouTube
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Description:
Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed by the Jewish community each spring, and is a national memorial day in Israel. The San Antonio Community observes Yom Hashoah at a different San Antonio synagogue every year. This observance uses Jewish traditions to remember the victims of the Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio invites all San Antonio Community members to join in remembering those whose lives were lost during the Holocaust at this virtual presentation.
The video can be viewed at here or on YouTube.
No registration is required and the videos will remain available on-demand after the event.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute presents "Unholy Alliance: Nationalism and Christianity a Martin-Springer Institute Zoom Series" comprised of four different speaker events. Join Victoria Barnett as the first speaker of this series.
Victoria Barnett, Former Director of Programs on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This event is free and open to the public, but you need to preregister by sending an e-mail to Melissa Cohen.
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