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Hidden Histories: What Digital Technology Reveals about Jews and Germans in Occupied Kraków   View Event

  • Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Webinar
  • Description:  Forced into a ghetto during the Nazi occupation, Kraków’s Jewish residents lived in overcrowded buildings, isolated from the rest of the city by fences and a wall. They endured forced labor and were deprived of basic needs like food and sanitation. By contrast, the Nazi perpetrators dominated the rest of the city, benefiting from their power, privilege, and exploitation of Jews. Learn how digital maps and models, combined with a Holocaust survivor’s diary and other traditional primary sources, expand what is known about the overlap in victims’ experiences and perpetrators’ plans. Opening remarksDr. Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies SpeakerDr. Paul B. Jaskot, Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University ModeratorDr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Register to receive a link to view the program. This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org. The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award is endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona.

Your Life in a Shoebox   View Event

  • Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 11:00am - 12:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Your Life in a Shoebox: From prominent professionals to refugees, the story of one Jewish family's escape from the Nazi regime. Through letters and official documents found in a shoebox in his mother's closet after her death in 2009, Yonatan Kohn shares the twists and turns of his family's attempts to flee Czechoslovakia. His engaging account of events that unfolded 80 years ago is both an intimate portrait of personal crisis and a sweeping, timeless story of what it means to be a refugee. Please contact egoodman@baltjc.org for more information. Register here.

Holocaust Survivor Talk: Holocaust Survivor Day   View Event

  • Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Holocaust Museum LA invites you to join them and Jewish communities and organizations across the world as they honor Holocaust survivors and celebrate the inaugural Holocaust Survivor Day on June 24th. Holocaust survivors symbolize the depth and resilience of the Jewish spirit and deserve to be honored and celebrated. They witnessed the worst that humankind is capable of and maintained their humanity, moral conduct, and belief in the sanctity of human life despite their experiences. Survivors were displaced, persecuted, discriminated against, tortured, and dehumanized; they coped and lived through extreme difficulties and survived. As stewards of their memories, we strive to act with honor, human decency, and respect. Holocaust Museum LA teaches the survivors' stories as a powerful antidote to the rising tide of bigotry, hatred, and antisemitism. Each community will decide how best to honor, celebrate, and support its survivors, and at 8PM in your respective time zone, we ask that you say the name of a survivor. On June 24, at 1PM CST, join Holocaust Museum LA in stewarding this important history as they pay tribute to Holocaust Museum LA’s dedicated, inspiring, and resilient survivor community. In a virtual program, a panel of Holocaust survivors will share their remarkable stories of survival as well as what motivates them to continue to speak out against bigotry, hatred, and antisemitism. Register here.

Holocaust Remembrance around the World: Mexico   View Event

  • Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom & Facebook Live
  • Description:  Join the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as they tour the globe to meet and highlight those who promise to Never Forget, wherever they are in the world. This month features the United States with an interview with Aaron and Esther Cohen, directors and producers of Heaven in Auschwitz. Watch on Zoom and Facebook Live.

Summer Survivor Speaker Series 2021   View Event

  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Tuesday afternoons this summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation survivors. Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used. Register here. The program will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link to join will be sent to registered guests one hour before the start of the program. Marsha Gaswirth is the daughter of Holocaust Survivors Libby and Leon Bakst, Z"L. In 1941, Leon and his family were forced into a ghetto, and several months later, Leon was sent to a labor camp. He eventually escaped from the camp into the Naliboki Forest where he joined the Bielski Brigade partisans, a group of Jewish resistance fighters. After spending the war fighting against the Nazis however he could, he met his future wife Libby. They made their way to a displaced persons camp in Germany before ultimately immigrating to the United States.

Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution   View Event

  • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 8:30am - 9:00am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live
  • Description:  It was a daring and dangerous mission. To try to protect the true identities of Jews and resistance fighters hiding behind false ID cards, members of a Dutch resistance group knew they had to destroy the originals. Dressed as policemen, they entered the Amsterdam Registry and set off explosions that burned 800,000 identity cards. This Pride Month, join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and learn about Frieda Belinfante, one of Europe’s first female conductors and a Jewish lesbian, and painter Willem Arondeus, the gay leader of this group of artists turned resisters. SpeakerKlaus Mueller, European Representative, International Archival Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum HostDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum. You do not need a Facebook account to view their program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the USHMM's Facebook page.

In My Own Words with Barbara Winton, Daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton   View Event

  • Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Webinar
  • Description:  There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton. They are the descendants of a group of refugee children rescued by him from the Nazi threat in 1939. One of those people is Kim Masters, editor-at-large of The Hollywood Reporter and host of KCRW’s The Business. Her parents were rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. Join the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida as these two daughters share an incredible story of heroism and gratitude for the good deeds of an incredible man. The discussion will be facilitated by Tamara Meyer. Tamara is an author, lecturer and media consultant is a child of German Jewish parents who escaped Nazi Germany at the brink of World War ll. For the past two decades she has been lecturing and writing about her family legacy. Register here. About the SpeakersBarbara Winton is the daughter and biographer of the late Sir Nicholas Winton (1909-2015), who organized the Czech and Slovak Kindertransport that rescued 669 endangered children from the Nazi threat just months before the outbreak of the Second World War. Sir Nicholas was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for Services to Humanity. Barbara wrote his biography: If it’s Not Impossible…The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton, published in 2014. Since then Barbara has continued to give talks about her father’s work, its impact today, and how his legacy can be continued. She has formed the Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust to hold his archives for educational use into the future. Alongside this, she campaigns for the rights of today’s refugees especially children, in particular supporting the work of Safe Passage and Lord Alf Dubs, himself a Czech Kindertransport child. Kim Masters is editor-at-large of The Hollywood Reporter and host of KCRW’s The Business. She is also the daughter of one of the children Sir Nicholas Winton rescued during the Holocaust. A former correspondent for NPR, she has also served as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, TIME and Esquire, and was a staff reporter for The Washington Post. She is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else, and co-author (with Nancy Griffin) of Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. Masters was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2001 and Print Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2012. The Business received Gracie Awards for Outstanding Talk Show in 2012 and 2014. In 2018, the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists gave Masters its Distinguished Journalist Award. Tamara Meyer, author, lecturer and media consultant is a child of German Jewish parents who escaped Nazi Germany at the brink of World War ll. For the past two decades she has been lecturing and writing about her family legacy. In 1998 Tamara began participating in dialogue groups in Berlin, Germany that included former Nazis, Holocaust survivors and their descendants, Tamara has experienced first-hand both the extraordinary challenge and reward of engaging with those who at another time would have been her fiercest enemies. A child of a Kindertransport survivor, Tamara has been active in educating the public about this rescue mission. As media liaison for and former board member of the Kindertransport Association she has placed stories pertaining to the Kindertransports in major national/international print media, radio, tv and cable. She was recently invited to British Parliament as part of a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the first Kindertransport to leave Nazi Germany. Tamara continues to give talks, sits on panels and offers workshops about her experiences with Nazi/Survivor dialogue groups, the Kindertransports, the German Jewish narrative and her struggles to save her family’s Art Nouveau department store (now an historic monument) that was stolen by the Nazis. Tamara also meets and works with former Alt Right, White Supremacists and KKK members for the purpose of reconciliation and education. Tamara sits on the Advisory Board and Speakers’ bureau of Parents for Peace https://www.parents4peace.org/ , an organization dedicated to preventing radicalization, violence and extremism and is a member of The Mentor Project which makes mentors from all fields available to students and others throughout the world. https://www.mentorproject.org/ She is currently working on a book of narratives about her work and family legacy. She also hosts a monthly second generation ‘Dinner and Dialogue’, carrying on in the tradition of her grandmother, a salonnière in Berlin. Tamara, through her company WorkWell, LLC has taught conflict resolution and cultural diversity courses in U.S. government agencies. corporations, smaller businesses, NGOs and the public. Her book “Help Your Baby Build a Healthy Body” was published by Crown Publishers in the U.S. and by Japan Uni Agency in Japan in 1984.