Events List
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List of Events
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Monday, September 20, 2021
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This Echoes & Reflections webinar examines the consequences of inaction and difficult choices made by individuals during the Holocaust and provides educators the tools to support students to implement an action-oriented project influenced by the lessons of this history.
One powerful lens through which to study the Holocaust is to examine the range of choices and decisions made by individuals, communities, and nations during this period of history. This approach not only encourages deep critical thinking and analysis, but can also serve as a catalyst to compel students to work towards making change in their own lives and the larger society. In this webinar examine the consequences of inaction and difficult choices of those who rescued and resisted during the Holocaust. Educators will also gain the tools to support students to implement an action-oriented project influenced by the lessons of this history.
Register here.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In this intimate and meaningful experience, speakers present stories
of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Holocaust Speaker
Series is held each Wednesday at 10AM on Zoom. The series is sponsored
by Margaret & Michael Valentine in partnership with the Harriet and
Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Maltz Museum of Jewish
Heritage.
Below are the dates for future webinars:September 22: Matt YosafatSeptember 29: No Speaker Series (Simchat Torah)October 6: Joyce KamenOctober 13: Ruth BarnettOctober 20: Michael MeyerOctober 27: Joel NahariNovember 3: Tom SchaumbergNovember 10: Al Miller
Register here.
This ongoing series features Holocaust survivors and descendants
of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the
Holocaust. The series is organized by the Nancy & David Wolf
Holocaust & Humanity Center, sponsored by Margaret and Michael
Valentine, and presented in partnership with the Harriet & Kenneth
Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Faculty and others are invited to a Kupferberg Holocaust Center workshop exploring how Holocaust education can be a catalyst for transformative learning in higher education. Using her research into the behavior of perpetrators and bystanders as a case study, Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Associate Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York, will help faculty members design curricula that navigates these difficult histories in an impactful way.
Register here.
This event is part of the 2021-2022 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond.” Click here for more information about the series.
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to Nazism. His story is the subject of Mengele: Unmasking the “Angel of Death,” a definitive new biography by former Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, David G. Marwell, who was tasked with uncovering Mengele’s fate while he worked at the US Justice Department in the 1980s.
Marwell’s book describes Mengele’s training and early promise as a scientist; his wartime service in combat and at Auschwitz; and his postwar refuge in Germany and South America. It chronicles the international search for Mengele in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that eventually confirmed his death.
Join The Defiant Requiem Foundation for a program exploring Mengele’s story. Marwell, a Foundation Board Member, will be in conversation with Director of Education, Alexandra Zapruder, herself the author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust and Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film.
The event is free, but registration is required.
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Eli Rosenbaum is the longest-serving prosecutor and investigator of
Nazi criminals and other perpetrators of human rights violations in
world history. Under his leadership, the U.S. Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations (OSI) gained a reputation of being the
most aggressive and effective Nazi hunting organization in the world,
exposing Nazi war criminals living in the United States. Over the last
decade, Rosenbaum has continued to pursue perpetrators of World War
II-era war crimes, trying cases in this area as recently as March 2020,
and investigates and prosecutes modern human rights cases. Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a
unique look inside the Justice Department's hunt for and prosecution of
human rights violators.
Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used. This virtual event 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.
Register here.
The Funk Family Upstander Speaker Series showcases individuals and
organizations who stand up for human rights on a local, national, or
global level.
Named in loving memory of Blanche & Max Goldberg | Fannie & Isaac Funk.
About Eli RosenbaumA veteran of the United States Justice Department, Eli Rosenbaum was Director of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) from 1994 to 2010 and currently serves as the Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy for the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions (HRSP) Section. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. Under his leadership, OSI also performed crucial work for the federal government’s inter-agency efforts to trace gold, artwork and other assets looted by the Nazis from Holocaust victims and also to locate, declassify and disclose millions of pages of documents under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998. He has also worked as a corporate litigator and as General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress, where he directed the investigation that resulted in the worldwide exposure of the Nazi past of former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. Rosenbaum’s published works include Betrayal: The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover-Up.
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Friday, September 24, 2021
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Films
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This presentation, facilitated by Dr. Lillie Edwards, broadens understanding of the film previously presented, From Swastika to Jim Crow, on September 17th.
This film tells the story of German-Jewish refugee scholars, who, expelled from their German universities by Hitler and the Nazis, found positions at Historically Black Colleges and universities in the American South. Dr. Edwards’s lecture will explore the international, national, institutional, and personal histories that connected Jewish refugee scholars and their families to Black college students, faculty, and communities; racial segregation and violence; as well as antisemitism in the U.S. and Europe.
Register here.
This program is co-sponsored by The Paul Robeson Institute for Ethics, Leadership, and Social Justice at Raritan Valley Community College.
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Monday, September 27, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This Echoes & Reflections webinar explores how to use visual history testimonies of displaced persons from USC Shoah foundation's iWitness and E&R-aligned activities to help students connect to global crises through the power of personal stories.
With the crisis in Afghanistan, and many fleeing the region, learn more about strategies to use individual voice and visual history testimonies that allow people impacted by other global crises to tell their own stories. This webinar, focused on the topic of teaching about the experience of displaced persons using testimony, provides educators with key instructional strategies and tips to promote student learning. The webinar will highlight the audiovisual testimony and aligned iWitness multimedia activities found in Echoes & Reflections that engage students more critically with the topic.
Register here.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In 1979, Helen Epstein published Children of the Holocaust,
one of the first books to examine the intergenerational transmission of
trauma from Holocaust survivors to their children. In the four decades
since its publication, Epstein has published 11 additional books
(including Franci’s War,
a memoir of her mother’s life, in 2020) and has served as a leading
voice among descendants of survivors. She is also active in Holocaust
memorialization work in the Czech Republic, where her family is from. As
Holocaust survivors get older and their descendants assume the mantle
of Holocaust memory, the issues raised by Epstein’s work are taking on
new and important meanings.
Helen Epstein will be interviewed by Second Generation Holocaust Survivors Tobi Cooper and Sandy Lessig.
Register here.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College is pleased to present Silvia Foti and Grant Gochin as they address Holocaust revisionism in Lithuania. Ms. Foti will share her family's history through her profoundly moving book, The Nazi's Grandaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal. Ms. Foti and Mr. Gochin will discuss their efforts to expose the truth of what happened during the Holocaust in Lithuania. Q&A with the attendees will follow the presentation.
Register here.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Memorial museums and atrocity site memorials dedicated to educating visitors about human rights violations and genocide can often become spaces that are emotionally triggering. Museum staff are tasked to design exhibits and programs that present these difficult histories while also helping visitors navigate the difficult feelings they may experience. And yet, the teams who work within these spaces on a daily basis can also become traumatized.
In this conversation, Dr. Ershnee Naidu-Silverman, Senior Program Director of the Global Transitional Justice Initiative at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, discusses historical trauma and the strategies museum workers use to create spaces of healing for themselves, as well as their visitors.
Register here.
This event is co-sponsored by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College’s Gallery and Museum Studies Program, and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
After a year of remote and hybrid learning and as we continue to navigate the uncertainties of the pandemic, SEL strategies remain paramount for effective teaching and a return to in-person instruction. With a focus on the individual story and student-led learning, Echoes & Reflections explicitly supports connections to SEL and Standards.
During this webinar, Melissa Mott, Echoes & Reflections Director, will model recommended strategies to show how a study of the Holocaust can support students to reflect on their emotions, connect with one another, and engage respectfully and thoughtfully with diverse ideas and histories to give them the tools to thrive and positively develop their minds in today’s world.
Register here.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Since the first Superman comic was published in 1938, there
has been a persistent fascination with superheroes. Today, we see them
everywhere: television, movies, comics, toys, and anywhere else one can
think of. Jews have played an important role in superhero culture, both
as characters and creators.
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a program exploring Jewish superheroes with comic book writers Chris Claremont (Marvel’s The Uncanny X-Men) and Marguerite Bennett (DC Bombshells), along with editor Danny Fingeroth (Marvel’s Spiderman Comics Line). They will be in conversation with journalist Abraham Riesman, author of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.
Register here.
A $10 suggested donation helps the Museum of Jewish Heritage to present programs like this one. They thank 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 Kathy C. Hochul 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.
This program is co-presented with the Society of Illustrators.
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