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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
How can we help students examine assimilation as a concept? Focusing on the experiences of Asian and Jewish immigrants to the United States, this Echoes & Reflections webinar will explore the problematic nature of the word to describe a process of how people adapt, fit in, and learn to become “American,” and the obstacles they face in trying to do so. Guest speaker, Ting-Yi Oei is the Education Director for the 1882 Foundation which seeks to illuminate the history of Asian Americans in the United States. This webinar is a special offering for the coinciding Asian American- Pacific Islander History Month and Jewish-American Heritage Month.
Register here.
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
at 8:00am -
12:45pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
For the first time in English, a new Museum
publication documents the mass murder of Soviet POWs by Nazi Germany's
armed forces, the Wehrmacht. The latest volume of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, which also describes the extent of the Wehrmacht camp system, contains testimony not previously published.
Further debunking the myth of the “clean Wehrmacht,” Volume IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities under the German Armed Forces includes POW camps, military brothels, and military prisons, some never before detailed.
Join this international conference to learn more about the findings
in the recently released volume. What new avenues for research does it
open? How can the scholarship help teach about Holocaust history? Expert
panels will discuss research on Soviet, Jewish, and French African
POWs, military war crimes, sexual violence, and other topics.
Museum Staff Speakers
Sara Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Dr. Alexandra Lohse, Applied Research Scholars Team Lead, Mandel Center
Dr. Jürgen Matthäus, Director of Applied Research Scholars, Mandel Center
Dr. Dallas Michelbacher, Applied Researcher, Mandel Center
Dr. Dan Newman, Program Manager, Mandel Center
Subject Matter Experts on the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust
Dr. Rüdiger Overmans, Military Historian and Volume Coeditor
Dr. Jeff Rutherford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Dr. Edward Westermann, Professor of History, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Subject Matter Experts on Victims of Wehrmacht Violence
Dr. Regina Mühlhäuser, Senior Researcher, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture
Dr. Maris Rowe-McCulloch, Assistant Professor of History, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Raffael Scheck, Professor of History, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
This virtual conference is free and open to the public. Virtual event access details will be provided in your email registration confirmation. For more information, please contact Dan Newman via e-mail.
Learn more and register here.
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Sunday, May 22, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
The
Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift from
the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is
developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more about
the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms
effectively. The Fellowship was created in 2003 and has more than 400
alumni.
The Warren Fellowship's main objective is to provide new
teachers with the necessary historical and pedagogical tools for
teaching the Holocaust from the onset of their teaching careers. This
program will also develop a teacher corps for Holocaust Museum Houston
as the museum expands its educational outreach in Texas and the United
States.
Upon being named a Warren Fellow, eighteen pre-service
teachers and two faculty Fellows will attend a six-day institute hosted
by Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas. This institute will
immerse participants in historical and pedagogical issues related to the
Holocaust. Holocaust scholars from across the country will provide
historical content, and university faculty and museum educators will
provide pedagogical context.
The 2022 Warren Fellowship will take place May 22-27, 2022 at Holocaust Museum Houston. Due
to health and safety protocols, all participants must submit proof of
vaccination for COVID-19 during the application process.
This
program is generously supported by The Warren Fellowship Endowment Fund
and the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation. Holocaust Museum Houston offers special
thanks to United Airlines, the official airline of Holocaust Museum
Houston.
For more information, please contact the HMH via e-mail or 713-527-1642.
Applications are due March 11, 2022 at 11:59PM
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Sunday, May 22, 2022
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive powerfully
chronicles the stories of the women who used their sewing skills to
survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes in an extraordinary
fashion workshop within the Auschwitz concentration camp.
At
the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – mainly Jewish women and girls –
were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi
women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them
from the gas chambers.
This
fashion workshop – called the Upper Tailoring Studio – was established
by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives
of SS guards and officers. Here, the dressmakers produced high-quality
garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz, and for ladies from Nazi
Berlin’s upper crust.
Drawing on diverse sources – including interviews with the last surviving seamstress – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows
the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship
not only helped them endure persecution but also to play their part in
camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within
the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation, Lucy Adlington
exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers
a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the
Holocaust.
Lucy Adlington is
a British historian and writer with more than twenty years’
specialization in social history. Her previous non-fiction titles
include Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear and Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action.
Her fiction titles include the award-winning young adult novel The Red
Ribbon. She runs the History Wardrobe series of costume presentations,
and has an extensive collection of vintage and antique clothing.
Register here.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The world was aghast when Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed he was on a mission to “denazify” Ukraine but Russia’s use, and abuse, of antisemitism against his western neighbor has been going on for years, usually to the detriment of the country’s Jewish community.
Join Sam Sokol and Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP, to discuss the launch of the latest ISGAP book, Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry edited by Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K., and learn how a war ostensibly fought to defend Jews and other minorities ended up devastating communities across Ukraine.
Register here.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Echoes & Reflections' webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust
history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support
instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of
this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.
Utilizing the newly released results of the 2021 ADL Audit of
Antisemitic Incidents, this webinar will discuss how antisemitism “is
rarely the lone or last expression of intolerance in a society”
(Samantha Power) and explore its many manifestations from Holocaust
denial/distortion to anti-Israel bias and rhetoric.
Join Echoes &
Reflections Director Melissa Mott for a look into Echoes & Reflections' Gringlas Unit on
Contemporary Antisemitism to learn approaches, and instructional
strategies to teach this topic. This interactive webinar will focus on
the history of antisemitism in the US and offer primary sources and
classroom activities to help guide instruction on how when antisemitism
remains unchecked, it endangers our democracy and harms both Jews and
damages society as a whole.
Register here.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston as they invite Dr. Peter Hayes to speak on the topic of German big business and the Holocaust.
Peter Hayes holds degrees from Bowdoin, Oxford, and Yale and was from 1980 to 2016 Professor of History and German and from 2000 to 2016 Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University. His publications have won several prizes and been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, and Spanish. His works on the Holocaust include not only Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2017), but also How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (2010) that he edited with John K. Roth; and German Railroads, Jewish Souls (2020), a study of deportation trains that he and Christopher Browning assembled around two path-breaking essays by the late Raul Hilberg. From 2014 to 2019, Hayes chaired the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on which he served for a total of twenty years. Also an award-winning teacher, he lectures widely on German and Holocaust history in the United States and abroad.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Echoes & Reflections' webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust
history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support
instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of
this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.
This webinar will examine USC Shoah Foundation's iWitness platform
through the lens of connecting stories across genocides. Participants
will learn about the multi-part Echoes & Reflections Teaching About
Genocide resource intended to help teachers support students’
understanding of genocide in the context of their Holocaust education.
It includes a glossary of essential terms, an outline of Gregory
Stanton’s “10 Stages of Genocide”, two to three testimony clips from iWitness that illustrate each stage as it occurred in different
genocides, resources for activism and further study of genocide, and
case studies of genocide.
Register here.
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
at 8:30am -
9:00am
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Facebook Live
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Description:
After escaping the Nazis, Arno Mayer and other German Jewish refugees
learned how to glean information from the enemy as part of a secret
American military operation during World War II.
Mayer faced a moral dilemma when he was ordered to work with German
rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and other Nazis who immigrated to
America after the war. Von Braun’s skills and know-how were considered
so valuable that even President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had witnessed
Nazi atrocities firsthand, embraced him. Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn more about
Jewish refugee soldiers and the 1,600 Nazis permitted to immigrate to
America.
GuestsDr. Mark Alexander, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDr. Robert K. Sutton, author, Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II
HostDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Watch live at facebook.com/holocaustmuseum.
You do not need a Facebook account to view USHMM's program. After the live
broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the USHMM’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office
will be closed.
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