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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Workshops
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Zoom
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Description:
Growing up in Hungary during the Holocaust, Erika Hecht
was a “hidden child,” one of many Jewish children who were provided
with false identities and survived the war as Christians. But when the
village where they were hiding became a battlefield between the German
and Soviet armies, Erika and her mother were forced to flee, hiding in
damp cellars, seeking shelter on the porch of a house occupied by
soldiers, and living in mountainside caves. It wasn’t until many years
after the war that Erika reconnected with her Jewish identity.
Erika’s harrowing story is the subject of her new memoir Don’t Ask My Name: A Hidden Child’s Tale of Survival, published by East End Press in June 2021.
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a program exploring Erika’s experiences during
the Holocaust and her struggle with identity, reinvention, and
resilience. She will be interviewed by the Museum’s Senior Public
Programs Producer Ari Goldstein.
Register here.
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this
one. The Museum of Jewish Heritage thanks you for your support.
Public programming at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust is made possible, in part, by public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership
with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; a
Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act; and other
generous donors.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
at 6:00pm -
7:30pm
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Films
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to explore this
inspiring true story, and how preserving Holocaust evidence and
researching our own family trees can deepen understanding of history.
After fleeing Nazism, many Jews concealed their identities to survive
and protect their loved ones. Following the war, these Holocaust
survivors and their descendants struggled to find those left behind.
Learn how personal artifacts help families piece together their past:
July 13–27 | Global film screeningRegister for the discussion below and receive complimentary, on-demand access to watch The Seven Boxes,
a documentary about Dory Sontheimer, whose parents escaped Nazi Germany
and raised her Catholic. After their deaths, she followed their trail
of letters, photographs, and documents and discovered relatives in six
countries.
July 20, 6PM CST | Live discussionJoin the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to
explore this inspiring story, and how preserving Holocaust evidence and
researching our own family trees can deepen understanding of history.
SpeakersJudith Cohen, retired Chief Acquisitions Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Michael Gruenbaum, Author, Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust, donor of artifacts to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and cousin of Dory Sontheimer
Joshua Taylor, President, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
With video remarks fromDory Sontheimer, subject of the documentary Les Set Caixes (The Seven Boxes)
ModeratorBianna Golodryga, Senior Global Affairs Analyst, CNN
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
MARI is innovative in many ways. For the first time, descendants of victims of Nazi persecution are cooperating with German institutions in a public/private partnership in provenance research. In her presentation, Meike Hoffmann shows the whole range of individual cases with a focus on looted art in private hands as well as explain the key to MARI's success.
Prof. Dr. Meike Hoffmann directs the Degenerate Art Research Center, the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) as well as the Abraham Adelsberger Art Research Project (AAARP) at FU Berlin. She organized the first academic training on provenance research at the Free University of Berlin where she received her PhD and now teaches at the department of history and cultural studies on Degenerate Art and Nazi art policy during the Third Reich. She was a member of the Taskforce Schwabing Art Trove and participated in the follow-up research project on the Gurlitt collection at the German Lost Art Foundation and is author of Hitler’s Art Dealer: Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1895–1956 amongst several other publications.
Register here.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Workshops
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Zoom
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This upcoming Olympic Games provide an opportunity to connect Holocaust history with this momentous event. In 1936, Nazi Germany hosted the Summer Olympic Games, promoting an image of a strong and unified nation while attempting to hide the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma. In this Echoes & Reflections webinar, delivered by Sheryl Ochayon Echoes & Reflections Director at Yad Vashem, they will tell stories of Nazi persecution against Jewish, homosexual, Sinti, and other athletes—as well as acts of individual resistance—during the 1936 Berlin Games.
Register here.
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The conversation will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link to join will be sent to registered guests via email one hour before the start of the program.
Despite being one of the best documented genocides in history, many
have attempted to distort facts about the Holocaust or deny that it
occurred. Perpetrators began to deny the Holocaust even as it was still
happening, and denial continues to this day. Join Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Dr. Sara
Abosch-Jacobson, Barbara Rabin Chief Education Officer, and Dr.
Charlotte Decoster, Ackerman Family Director of Education, to explore
the history of Holocaust denial, the forms it takes, and the impact of
denial.
The History Highlights series features Holocaust and human rights
topics presented by Museum historians and educators. Space is limited!
Please register for one ticket per device used.
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Sunday, July 25, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom & Facebook Live
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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 Tali Nates, Founder/Executive Director, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. Moderated by MA student and the series’ producer Lois Roman, this will be a fascinating conversation about the Holocaust’s memory in the context of post-apartheid South Africa.
Watch on Zoom and Facebook Live.
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Monday, July 26, 2021
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's education staff and world-renowned educational
organizations for an educator conference covering the Holocaust and
human rights-related topics. This full-immersion conference includes
multiple workshops, teacher resources, presentations by local human
rights organizations, and survivor Speakers.
July 26 - 28 Social Studies/Special Topics Educators
Themes: Sports, Race, and Human Rights - The Nazi Olympics to Tokyo 2021
July 28 - 30 ELAR/Visual and Performing Arts/Librarians
Themes: Antisemitism and Hate Speech - From the Holocaust to Today
Information | Schedule | Register
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
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2:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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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.
Bert Romberg was born in Astheim, Germany in 1930. When Bert was eight years old, his mother made arrangements for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself and securing spots for Bert and his sister Magie on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with private English citizens.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
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2:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
As one of the most influential disability rights activists in U.S. history, Judy Heumann
has spent her career fighting to achieve respect, acceptance, and
inclusion. The lawsuits she won, sit-ins she led, and legislation she
championed all sparked a national movement that led to the passage of
the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.
Heumann is also the daughter of refugees who fled Nazism in the
1930s, and the granddaughter of German Jews who were killed by the
Nazis. Growing up in Brooklyn, she was acutely aware of her family’s
story—and she understood, on multiple levels, the dangers of bigotry and
the importance of speaking out against it.
Her story is featured in the Oscar-nominated 2020 film Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and in her recently-released book Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.
Join Judy Heumann for a conversation with Bill Abrams,
President of Trickle Up and former President of New York Times
Television, about her family background in the Holocaust, her new
memoir, and her remarkable career fighting to forge a society in which
we all belong.
Legacies is a Museum series which highlights notable figures
who have a connection to Jewish heritage, identity, and the Holocaust.
Legacies is made possible with a gift from Marc Kirschner in honor of
Nancy Fisher.
Register here.
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this
one. The Museum of Jewish Heritage thanks you for your support.
Public programming at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust is made possible, in part, by public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership
with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; a
Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act; and other
generous donors.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This Echoes & Reflections webinar, focused on the topic of teaching Holocaust films using testimony, provides educators with key instructional strategies and tips to promote student learning. Films discussed will include The Pianist, Schindler's List, The Book Thief, Jojo Rabbit and Defiance. The webinar will highlight the audiovisual testimony and aligned iWitness multimedia activities found in Echoes & Reflections that engage students more critically with the topic and give them authentic perspectives on the topics of well-known films.
This webinar will be delivered by Jennifer Goss, Senior Echoes & Reflections facilitator and classroom teacher.
Register here.
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Thursday, July 29, 2021
(all day)
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Films
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N/A
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Description:
July 29 - August 5, 2021 - Virtual Film Screening
The link to view the film will be posted on the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies' events webpage on July 29th.Rescue & Escape – Passage to Sweden
tells the lesser-known story of events occurring in Scandinavia and
Budapest during World War II. It focuses on the extraordinary heroic actions of
ordinary people who saved the lives of thousands of Jews and fellow
countrymen. Special attention is paid to the Norwegian resistance, the
citizens of Denmark, Raoul Wallenberg, and Count Folke Bernadotte, all
of whom showed exemplary courage during the darkest of times. View the trailer on the film’s website.
August 4, 2021 at 7PM CDT
Join
Suzannah Warlick, Director of Passage to Sweden, and Chana Sharfstein,
author & educator, for a live discussion about this film.This event is free of charge, but pre-registration is requested by clicking here.
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Thursday, July 29, 2021
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7:00pm
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Workshops
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Zoom
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Description:
In 1936, eighteen African American athletes defied Jim Crow and Adolf
Hitler to win hearts and medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Their stories are told in Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, a 2016 film and new book with the same name by Deborah Riley Draper.
Draper exposes the complex, triumphant narratives of these athletes,
who represented a country that considered them second-class citizens and
competed in a country that rolled out the red carpet for them, despite
the rise of Nazism.
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a conversation with Draper about the stories of
these athletes before, during, and after their heroic turn at the Summer
Olympics in Berlin.
Register here.
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this one. The Museum of Jewish Heritage thanks you for your support.
Public programming at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust is made possible, in part, by public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership
with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; a
Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act; and other
generous donors.
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