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Planning the Holocaust: The Impact of the Wannsee Conference   View Event

  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  On January 20, 1942, leaders from the Nazi Party and the German government met at a picturesque villa on the outskirts of Berlin to plan the last phase of the Final Solution, a Nazi euphemism for the annihilation of European Jewry. Since June 1941, mobile killing squads had taken part in the mass murder of Jews in the East. However, the Wannsee Conference paved the way for the large-scale deportation of Europe’s Jews to the death camps in Poland. Join Matthias Hass, head of the education and research department and the deputy director of the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial Site and Education Center, for a discussion of the impact of this conference on the course of the Holocaust. This program is part of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Permanent Exhibition Highlight Series. 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. Dr. Matthias Hass is the head of the education and research department and the deputy director of the House of the Wannsee-Conference Memorial Site and Education Center. He is the curator of the travelling exhibition “The Wannsee Conference and the Persecution and Murder of the European Jews,” which was shown in a number of cities in North America and South Africa. He has worked as consultant, lecturer, and educator in the fields of politics of memory, European integration, and international exchange programs. Dr. Hass has worked for a number of organizations, including UNESCO, the Federal Association for Civic Education, the Körber Foundation, Amziade, and several museums and memorial sites. He has taught at the Free University in Berlin, York University in Toronto, and Touro College Berlin.

Avraham Groll, Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots - Including Holocaust Related Information   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College will be presenting a free webinar on February 2 at 7 PM, entitled Genealogy in Researching Holocaust History to be Unpacked. Avraham Groll, executive director of JewishGen-The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy and Ramapo alum, will be in conversation about Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots – Including Holocaust Related Information with Jerry Zaks, a retired technology expert, who has done just that. The program will take place under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and will be delivered remotely via Zoom. Register here.

The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal   View Event

  • Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  This is a story about perpetrators, collaborators, Holocaust distortion and justice. While writing a book about her famous World War II hero grandfather, Sylvia Foti, a high school teacher, discovered that her grandfather, Jonas Noreika, was actually a Lithuanian war criminal. Silvia's discoveries brought her to a personal crisis, challenged her Catholic faith, unearthed Holocaust denial, and exposed an official cover-up by the Lithuanian government. Join Echoes & Reflections for a fascinating webinar as Silvia Foti tells her story. Register here.

Civil Society Briefing “The Future of Memory: Holocaust Remembrance, History and New Media”   View Event

  • Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Microsoft Teams
  • Description:  The briefing will examine how memories of the Holocaust are kept and discussed through new media, and the implications for Holocaust history. Panelists will consider the role of new media as an increasingly important tool for educating the public, especially youth, about the Holocaust, as well as combating Holocaust denial and distortion, antisemitism, and other identity-based hatreds. SpeakersMelissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Eva Pfanzelter, Associate Professor, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck Victoria Grace Walden, Director of Learning Enhancement and Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex Stefania Manca, Research Director, Institute of Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Karel Fracapane, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Cory Weiss, Director of Digital Advocacy and Deputy Director of Communications, World Jewish Congress Julana Bredtmann, Program Officer, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Robert Skinner (Moderator), Deputy Director and Chief of Partnerships and Global Engagement, Outreach Division, United Nations Department of Global Communications Register here.

Bełżec Death Camp - Genesis of Genocide   View Event

  • Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to the second program in the series Rethinking the 'Final Solution' and the Wannsee Conference 80 Years Later. The Bełżec Death Camp was the first of the three Operation Reinhard camps. As the first camp, Bełżec served as the prototype for the two subsequent camps, Sobibór and Treblinka. Bełżec has been called the "forgotten camp". One of the main reasons is that only three Jews survived. Two gave testimony about their experience at Bełżec immediately after the war, and one of them was murdered right after giving his testimony. Chris Webb is one of the only researchers in the world that has extensively investigated the unique story behind the Bełżec Death Camp. During his talk, he will present sources that were discovered in recent years and help us to better understand how the camp where over half a million Jews were killed actually operated. Tali Nates, Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center, will share her family’s Holocaust history, their life in Nowy Targ before the war and their fate during Nazi occupation. Drawing on documents, family photos, testimonies and more, she will explore the story of one family who was murdered in Bełżec. Guest SpeakersChris Webb, Research Associate for the Centre of Fascist, Anti-Fascists and Post Fascists Studies at Teesside University. Tali Nates, Historian and founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Register here. This program is in partnership with Liberation 75, Remember the Women Institute, the Rabin Chair Forum, Classrooms Without Borders, the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site, and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center.

Examining and Responding to Antisemitism in American Culture and Society - Mini Course   View Event

  • Monday, February 7, 2022 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  TimeAt your convenience; courses open for two weeks. (Closes February 21, 2022 at 11:59PM EST) All the Details Dynamic 3-4 hour experience– at no cost.Learning takes place over one week, in conversation with other educators and an expert instructor.Certificate for professional learning hours provided.Receive a comprehensive package of teaching materials on the course topic.Gain instructional approaches for both traditional and online classroom settings. Examining and Responding to Antisemitism in American Culture and Society Explore Echoes & Reflections resources to support teaching about the historical roots of antisemitism, its unique history in the United States, and gain the tools to help students become agents of change and allyship in their schools and communities. After completing this module, you will be able to: Apply a sound pedagogy when planning and implementing effective Holocaust and antisemitism educationEnhance personal knowledge about the historical roots of antisemitism, how this hate has changed throughout time, specifically how it has manifested in American culture and society.Understand current “trends” in how antisemitism shows up; including extremism, Holocaust denial, misinformation, cyber-hate, or online propaganda.Identify ways to empower students to recognize and respond to antisemitism. Register here.

Antizionism: An Ideology That Makes Israel Symbolic of, and Central to, All that is Bad in the World   View Event

  • Monday, February 7, 2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  As part of ISGAP's landmark Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, ISGAP is pleased to announce the launch of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Contemporary Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective International Seminar Series. The series will allow ISGAP Visiting Scholars to deliver their latest research to the broader Cambridge community. The programme will also bring ISGAP's broader network of scholars to the Woolf Institute, allowing for new ideas to be integrated into one of the most important academic institutions on issues of contemporary antisemitism. Housed at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, the seminar series will include in-person presentations from top experts in the field, will be live-streamed over Zoom and Facebook, and will be made available as recordings. FAntizionism: An Ideology That Makes Israel Symbolic of, and Central to, All that is Bad in the World, Dr. David Hirsh, Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London; Founder, Engage Register here.

2022 Holocaust Educators Conference Series - Music   View Event

  • Monday, February 7, 2022 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Please visit here to fill out the registration form for the virtual Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University's 2022 Holocaust Educators Conference Series featuring Amanda Coven, Amanda Greenbacker-Mitchell, and the Azrieli Foundation's Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Project. Within 1-2 days of the program(s), you will receive an email with a link which you can use to join the Zoom meeting. January 24 at 3:30pm - ArtIn this session with teacher and museum professional Amanda Coven, participants will be introduced to and examine three educational resources where people have used art to cope with crisis or trauma as well as document and educate about an injustice. February 7 at 3:30pm - MusicIn this session with musician Amanda Greenbacher-Mitchell,attendees will engage in activities designed to demonstrate how musical resistance by victims of the Holocaust connects to modern iterations of musical defiance and exhibit similar themes across history. February 22 at 3:30pm - MemoirsIn this session, Michelle Sadowski, an Ontario teacher and educator with the Azrieli Foundation Holocaust Survivors Memoir Project, will present on Re: Collection and strategies for bringing memoirs and eyewitness accounts into the classroom. Professional Development Hours Provided!For more information, e-mail Dr. Adara Goldberg via e-mail.

Black Artists under Nazi Persecution   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 8:30am - 9:00am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live
  • Description:  Jazz musician Freddy Johnson refused to let racism in America stall his career. He embraced opportunities throughout Europe until the United States entered the war and he and other Americans were arrested. At the Tittmoning internment camp, Johnson continued to play music and met Black portrait artist Josef Nassy, who depicted their daily life as prisoners. Life was even more precarious for Black German artists. While Bayume Mohamed Husen once acted in a Nazi propaganda film, he was eventually arrested for violating Nazi racial laws and died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during Black History Month to learn about artists’ experiences in Nazi Germany. HostDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum GuestsKyra Schuster, Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDr. Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and German, University of Michigan 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

The Nazi Camp Universe, 1933-1945: Landscapes of Suffering and Paths of Persecution   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join Dr. Alexandra Lohse for a brief overview of the Nazi concentration camp universe consisting of more than 40,000 sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies, an almost incomprehensible number that challenges our understanding of the nature, ubiquity, and visibility of Nazi persecution. Using perpetrator documentation as well as survivor and eyewitness testimonies and memoirs, her talk will illuminate the dynamic nature and function of some of these sites while illustrating paths of persecution that many victims suffered there between 1933 and 1945. Dr. Lohse is the Applied Research Scholar Team Lead at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Register here. This event is part of the 2021-22 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond.” The event is organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College and is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center.

National History Day 2022: Integrating Echoes & Reflections Resources   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join Echoes & Reflections, a national leader in Holocaust education, to explore Debate & Diplomacy in History, the 2022 National History Day Theme. This webinar will be led by Echoes & Reflections Curriculum & Instruction Specialist, Jennifer Goss, a former Social Studies teacher and National History Day advisor. The session will showcase how Echoes & Reflections resources can help students and teachers tackle this year's theme with a lens on the Holocaust and other world genocides. Participants will explore the range of resources offered by Echoes & Reflections and see how the primary and secondary sources provided can aid students and educators in their research and project development. Register here.

Dr. Elizabeth R Baer author of "The Genocidal Gaze from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich"   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  In her book, Dr. Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust. Using concepts such as racial hierarchies, living space, and the final solution that were deployed by German authorities in 1904 and again in the 1930s and 1940s to justify genocide. The Genocidal Gaze is an original and challenging discussion of such contemporary issues as colonial practices, European and African race relations, definitions of genocide, and postcolonial theory. This event will be moderated by Dr. Jeff Benvenuto from Gratz College. The Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College is pleased to present this event along with The Mercer Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center at Mercer County Community College. Register here.

A Live Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Irene Weiss   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual Event
  • Description:  In an instant, the life of 13-year-old Irene Weiss changed forever when she and her sister, Serena, were assigned to a work detail, and a Nazi guard sent many other family members to their immediate deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau. “We asked the other prisoners when we would see our families,” Irene remembers. “A woman pointed to the chimney and said, ‘Do you see the smoke? There is your family.’”During this live conversation, hear Irene’s personal story of survival as a teen in Hungary and what happened to her large family during the Holocaust. SpeakerIrene Fogel Weiss, Holocaust Survivor and Museum Volunteer Registration is required. Register here. This special event is intended for educators. Please carefully review the content before sharing any portion of the program with your students. For more information, please contact belferconference@ushmm.org.

HMMSA Reads "Man's Search for Meaning"   View Event

  • Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Virtual Event
  • Description:  Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio virtually as they discuss Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankel. Viktor Frankel’s memoir has riveted readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Published in 1946, it continues to inspire all to find significance in the very act of living. Register here.

Virtual Film Discussion "The Last Survivors"   View Event

  • Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Microsoft Teams
  • Description:  Join the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust for a conversation about the film The Last Survivors directed by Arthur Cary. It gathers together the compelling and, in some cases, never-before-heard testimony from Holocaust survivors living in Britain today. All of these extraordinary people were children during the Holocaust, but now in their later years, they reflect on their experiences with a different perspective and understanding of how this past trauma permeates through to their contemporary lives with increased significance. Register here. Please use this link to watch the film free-of-charge at your own pace.