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Monday, August 1, 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.
Join Echoes & Reflections to hear an amazing basketball story that takes us from
Auschwitz to an Olympic gold medal to the NBA. This is the type of story
that can teach students about resilience and the importance of never
giving up, while they simultaneously learn about Nazi terror and
Holocaust history. Echoes & Reflections will host Dan Grunfeld, the author of a new book, By the Grace of the Game, to hear this extraordinary three-generational story.
Register here.
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Monday, August 1, 2022
at 4:00pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Appalachian State University's (ASU) Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace
Studies invites the public to the keynote lecture of the Rosemary Horowitz z''l
Memorial Conference on the App State on Monday, August 1, from 4:00-6:00PM. It will be
delivered by Prof. Eliyana Adler (Penn State University), an
award-winning and internationally-recognized expert on the history of East
European Jewry. Prof. Adler's talk is entitled "Substitute Gravestones:
Constructing and Reconstructing Holocaust Memorial Books," addressing
to the core field of Prof. Horowitz z''l's research. The in-person lecture is
also available via Zoom.
Please register at here before
the start of the talk.
Professor Adler's keynote lecture explores the ambivalent process whereby early postwar efforts by Jewish survivors to erect physical monuments in their former Polish hometowns turned instead toward the writing of memorial books. Yet the books contain not only accounts of these early thwarted attempts, but also of subsequent memorial building projects in their new communities and back in Poland. The turn from stone to paper, touted in the books as a successful response to the circumstances in postwar Poland, appears not to have entirely satisfied the survivors’ desire to memorialize their dead.
Eliyana R. Adler is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the
Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches and studies East European
Jewish history. Her most recent book, Survival
on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union (Harvard
UP, 2020) was co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for
Holocaust Studies and the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish Jewish
Studies. She is also the author of In
Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia(Wayne
State UP, 2011) and the co-editor of Jewish
and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Rutgers
UP, 2020); Polin 30:
Jewish Education in Eastern Europe(2018); Reconstructing the Old Country:
American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades (WSUP, 2017);
and Jewish Literature
and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation(UP of Maryland,
2008). She has published articles in Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, Yad
Vashem Studies, East
European Jewish Affairs, Polin, Jewish Social Studies and
other journals and held fellowships sponsored by the US Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Yad Vashem, and the German Historical Institute, among other
institutions. Dr. Adler’s current work, which is the center of her talk at ASU,
focuses on East European Jewish memorial books.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
at 5:20am -
9:00am
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Facebook Live
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Description:
Auschwitz Memorial cordially invites you to the live broadcast of the commemoration of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on August 2, 2022, which will take place at the former German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On the night of August 2 to 3, 1944, the last inmates of camp section B IIe, about 4,300 Sinti and Roma - mainly women, children and elderly people - were driven into the gas chambers and murdered. During World War II, an estimated 500,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in Europe as a result of Nazi Germany's criminal, racist policies. Many families and communities were completely murdered.
Today, August 2 is one of the most important days for Sinti and Roma and the international and European community to remember the Sinti and Roma who were murdered during World War II. On this day, Sinti and Roma as well as representatives of the Polish and European governments meet at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site - the largest cemetery of Sinti and Roma - to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
The event will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here, and video recording will be available afterward.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The Association of Romni (Roma women) of Dendropotamos will be holding a commemorative event on Tuesday, August 2 at 20:00 EEST (12:00PM CST) at the GEORGE cafe on Konstantinoupoleos street.
The event takes place within the framework of the Council of Europe's Roma Political School 2022, and will feature the participation of Paul Hagouel, Chair of the IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma. The event will be streamed digitally via Zoom.
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Tuesday, August 2, 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.
At its core, resistance is an expression of humanity and
preserving one’s commitment to agency in the face of the worst
expressions of dehumanization. In this webinar, led by Program Manager
and co-developer of new units, Jesse Tannetta, explore the concept of
Jewish resistance, and non-Jewish rescue efforts. These ranged from
cultural and spiritual resistance in the ghettos to armed resistance of
partisans and ghetto and camp prisoners - focusing on the period from
the establishment of the ghettos through the implementation of the
“Final Solution.”
Register here.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
When Ludwig and Else Meidner met in 1925, he was already an established artist well-known for his so-called Apocalyptic Landscapes.
Although Else started as Ludwig’s student, she developed a distinct
independent style and he always praised her art as more refined than his
own “coarse” works. As Else Meidner slowly gained recognition in Berlin
art circles, her career was abruptly cut short by the Nazi-regime in
1933. She moved to Cologne with her husband in 1935; and they emigrated
to England in 1939 only a few weeks before the war started. In London
both lived largely unnoticed by the English art scene. But while Ludwig
frustratedly returned to Germany, she decided to stay in England.
Their complicated relationship developed
from intial passion and humorous banter to artistic rivalry and finally
estrangement while each of them followed their separate artistic path.
In this lecture, Erik Riedel,
head of exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and curator of the
museum’s Ludwig Meidner Archives in Frankfurt/Main (Germany), speaks
about Ludwig and Else Meidner’s art, their complicated relationship, and
finally estrangement.
Erik Riedel studied art history, history, and
philosophy in Heidelberg and Frankfurt. He is head of exhibitions at the
Jewish Museum Frankfurt and curator of the museum’s Ludwig Meidner
Archive. The archive consists of the artistic estates of Ludwig and Else
Meidner and several other artists who were forced into exile. Erik
Riedel has curated numerous exhibitions on 19th- and 20th-century art,
for instance on Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Ludwig and Else Meidner,
Charlotte Salomon, and Arie Goral. Apart from several exhibitions
catalogues he has published the catalogue raisonné of Ludwig Meidner’s
sketchbooks and the conference proceedings “Ludwig Meidner.
Expressionism, Ecstasy, Exile” (2018).
The event is moderated by Fritz Ascher Society Director Rachel Stern.
This event is part of their monthly series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression. Future events and the recordings of past events can be found here.
All of their virtual programs are free of
charge.
Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) became famous for his
expressionist paintings and drawings centering on big city dynamics, as
well as catastrophes and the end of the world. At the outbreak of World
War I, as the imagined catastrophes of what are referred to as his Apocalyptic Landscapes
seemed to have become a horrible reality, Meidner increasingly turned
to religious themes. His expressive figures hover between ecstasy and
despair. In the mid-1920s, he returned to his religious roots and became
a devout Jew. Subsequently, religious topics became an important focus
of his artistic work.
In order to escape antisemitic repressions, he moved to Cologne where he
became an art teacher at Yawneh Jewish School in 1935. In 1939 he fled
with his family to England, where he was interned as an enemy alien on
the Isle of Man. While in exile, Meidner produced primarily drawings and
watercolor paintings, but very few oil paintings. Despite the
disheartening impoverishment and lack of acknowledgement as an artist
that characterized Meidner’s life in London, in an artistic sense, these
years are regarded as highly productive.
Meidner returned to Germany in 1953, where he was moderately successful as portraitist.
Else Meidner (1901–1987) grew up the
daughter of the well-to-do Berlin physician Dr. Heinrich Meyer and his
wife, Margarete, née Fürst. She was encouraged by Käthe Kollwitz and Max
Slevogt to pursue her dream of becoming an artist and studied at the
Applied Arts School and the Art Academy in Berlin. She later attended
Ludwig Meidner’s drawing class at the Berlin Studienatelier für Malerei
und Plastik.
She was predominantly a portraitist but also created landscapes and
symbolic scenes. In the late 1920s, Else Meidner slowly gained
recognition in the Berlin art circles. In May 1932, she held a solo
exhibition at Juryfreie in Berlin that was well received by
critics. Her career was abruptly cut short by the Nazi-regime in 1933.
She moved to Cologne with her husband in 1935; and they emigrated to
England in 1939 only a few weeks before the war started.
In her memoirs, she writes, “Here in London I walk about as in a dream
and am surprised I’m here. Some plants thrive wherever you transplant
them, but I could never put down new roots. My roots are in
Berlin.” However, when Ludwig Meidner moved back to Germany in 1953,
Else Meidner remained in London.
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Saturday, August 6, 2022
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Educators receive free admission to Holocaust Museum Houston (with valid school ID) and can learn about free education programs and resources available for K-12 classrooms during our “Meet and Greet” with the Education team. HMH will also host a book giveaway and registration to win free one-year Educator Memberships to the Museum.
This event will kick off Free First Saturdays for Educators which will run through May 2023. On the first Saturday of each month, university and K-12 educators can experience the HMH's Holocaust, Human Rights, Diaries, and Samuel Bak galleries along with entry to featured exhibitions for free with a valid school ID.
Learn more here.
All Holocaust Museum Houston programs and education initiatives are dependent upon philanthropic support. Please consider making a gift today to ensure the museum can continue offering quality educational experiences.
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
at 5:00pm -
6:15pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Congregation Tiferet Israel
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Description:
Simon Wiesenthal, Eva Kor, and the Controversies Over Using Forgiveness Scenarios to Approach the Holocaust
Presented by J.E. Wolfson, PhD
What happens when a survivor puts to the public the question of whether a perpetrator of the Holocaust deserves to be forgiven? Or when another survivor gives a press conference on the grounds of Auschwitz to proclaim on behalf of the murdered 6 million that all perpetrators are hereby granted absolution? Such are the controversial scenarios respectively submitted by famed “Nazi hunter” Simon Wiesenthal and youngest surviving “Mengele twin” Eva Mozes Kor.
This presentation will examine the ethical implications of how and why the two survivors attempted to shape Holocaust discourse along lines of forgiveness, as well as what sorts of responses they garnered from within and without the Jewish community. The legacies of Wiesenthal and Kor remain impactful today, when their books continue to be used for Holocaust instruction in many American classrooms.
This event will take place in-person at Congregation Tiferet Israel at 7300 Hart Lane Austin, TX 78731 (near the JCC).
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
at 5:00pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
YouTube
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Description:
Please join the Emil A. & Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University for a fascinating lecture by Dr. Josh Karlip on Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av, the fast day commemorating the anniversary of the destruction of both the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem).
This year will mark the 80th anniversary of a key point in the chronology of the Holocaust – the day when the systematic destruction of Warsaw Jewry began, the largest Jewish community in Europe till that point.
Between Erev Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur 1942, the Nazis shipped nearly 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka, where they were immediately gassed. The Great Deportation, with its annihilation of Warsaw Jewry over a two-month period, symbolizes the Holocaust at the height of its powers and the depths of its evil. On the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Deportation, they will honor the memory of those murdered by discussing their decisions and reactions during those horrific weeks.
For more details, see below. For the YouTube Live link, please click here.
This is a partnership of YU’s Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Chicago’s YU Torah Mitzion Kollel and a number of local synagogues across the U.S.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) for the William Prusoff Memorial Seminar entitled The Abraham Accords: A Vehicle for Respecting the Other.
Featuring:Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP, Jerusalem, IsraelRabbi Elie Abadie, Senior Rabbi, Jewish Council of the Emirates Dubai, U.A.E.H.E. Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, Chairman, Hedayah, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. (Virtual)Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington D.C., U.S.Professor Yossi Shain, Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; Member of Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel (Virtual)
Register here.
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
at 8:30am -
9:00am
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Facebook Live
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Description:
Five years ago, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville,
Virginia, to protest the removal of Confederate statues.Their flaming torches,
racist and anti-Jewish slogans, and threats of violence stunned many Americans.
A day later, one counter-protester was killed and others were injured. Since
then, self-proclaimed neo-Nazis have drawn new recruits with the viral spread
of conspiracy theories that stoke division and myths of white power and
replacement. Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum live on Facebook to learn about the history of beliefs that once seemed fringe and today fuel hatred and violence.
GuestsDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDavid E. Mills, partner, Cooley LLP, represented plaintiffs who were victims of a racially motivated conspiracy to commit intimidation and violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
HostDr. Rebecca Erbelding, 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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Thursday, August 11, 2022
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
How can Holocaust education help develop students develop historical
thinking routines as well as content knowledge? Join Echoes &
Reflections Program Manager, Jen Goss on a tour through our short
digital activities for students, "Explore the Past, Shape the Future"
and dig into the themes, primary sources, videos, and how to use these
standards-aligned new activities in your classroom. Topics include
introducing the Holocaust to your students for the first time,
historical antisemitism, and media literacy skills.
Register here.
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.
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Friday, August 12, 2022
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom or DHHRM
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Description:
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on select Friday
afternoons this summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors,
refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation survivors.
About the SpeakerTBD
Click here to register to attend virtually.
Click here to register to attend in person. If you choose to attend in-person, there is no cost to hear
the speaker. If you would like to tour the museum, normal admission fees
apply.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
at 8:00am -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Please join the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education as they
bring back their annual Summer Professional Development Program for New
Jersey Teachers. (Teachers from other states are welcomed to attend
virtually.)
Day 1 (K-8 Teachers):Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Session 1: Why is learning about the Holocaust essential to NJ students with Dr. Michael BerenbaumSession 2A (K-5 teachers): Guidelines for teaching the Holocaust to elementary school studentsSession 2B (6-8 teachers): Facing History and OurselvesSession 3A (K-5 teachers): The Terrible Things, Billy the Bad Behaving Bully Goat and New Bear on the BlockSession 3B (6-8 teachers): Visa's to Shanghai with author Bob HoldenSession 4: Social Emotional Learning
All teachers in attendance will receive copies of the books that will be covered during the professional development sessions.
Date: August 16 for K-8 Teachers and August 17 for High School TeachersTime: 9:00AM-3:00PM ESTLocation: Hybrid. In-Person attendance at 200 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, NJ 08625
*5 Professional Development hours will be provided*
For registration and questions please e-mail here.
To view the program flyer, click here.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Made
possible by the generous support of Eileen Ludwig Greenland, Echoes
& Reflections is excited to continue its program for Catholic school
educators with this learning opportunity focusing on contemporary
antisemitism and the role Christianity has played in the creation of
some antisemitic tropes.
Antisemitism is not a
relic of the past, but a hatred the world struggles with today. Join
Echoes & Reflections Operations and Outreach Manager Jesse Tannetta,
former Catholic school educator and scholar of the Holocaust and
Catholic theology, to discuss the Church’s role in antisemitism, what
those manifestations look like, and how we can empower students to
combat antisemitism in their schools and in the larger Catholic
community.
Register here.
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