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Thursday, September 1, 2022
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
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Description:
This is an in-person program.
Participants are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy during the program.
Near the end of World War II, Allied troops were quickly advancing
across Europe. On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Army came across Dachau
Concentration Camp in Germany and liberated approximately 32,000
prisoners, offering them supplies and medical care. Texas native Private
First Class Henry Lee Maxey, a member of the 42nd Infantry Division,
was among the liberators. He returned to the U.S. in December 1945 and
was honorably discharged at Camp Fannin.
Join Felicia Williamson, Director of Library and Archives, to learn
more about Henry Lee Maxey through selected artifacts from the Maxey
Liberator Collection in the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum’s archives, including a 42nd Infantry
Division Campaign Map, Service Record Book, U.S. Army Combat Medical
Badge, and Bronze Star medal.
Click here to register for this in-person event.
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Monday, September 5, 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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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
at 8:30am -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Commission Meetings
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
(THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 7, 2022
beginning at 8:30AM at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. Every quarter the THGAAC holds a meeting, open to
the public, in order to review its current projects and initiatives.
The Commission invites any member of the public who might be interested
in its mission to this meeting.
Members of the public will have access and a means to participate in
this meeting, by two-way audio/video, by connecting to the video access
number identified below, by attending the meeting in person, or by clicking on the link contained on the agency
website's event calendar. The video access number contained in this
notice is subject to change by the conference provider at any time.
Members of the public are encouraged to confirm the correct conference
access number/link 24 hours before the meeting by going to the agency
website. An electronic copy of the agenda is available here. A recording of the meeting will be available after September 7, 2022. To obtain a recording, please contact Joy Nathan, at 512.463.8815 or at joy.nathan@thgaac.texas.gov.
For public participants, after the meeting convenes, the presiding
officer will call roll of board members and then of public attendees.
Please identify yourself by name and state whether you would like to
provide public comment. You may also e-mail joy.nathan@thgaac.texas.gov
in advance of the meeting if you would like to provide public comment.
When the Commission reaches the public comment portion of the meeting,
the presiding officer will recognize you by name and give you an
opportunity to speak. All public comments will be limited to three (3)
minutes. All virtual participants are asked to keep their microphones muted when they are not providing public comment.
Zoom Video Conference Meeting ID: 813 1633 2727
Registration can be completed here.
The Commission may discuss and/or take action on any of the items listed in the agenda.
Note: The Commission may go into executive session (close its meeting
to the public) on any agenda item if appropriate and authorized by the
Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Maurice Blik has lived in England since being liberated from Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where he was taken as a small child from his birthplace, Amsterdam. The ability to come to terms with this experience and to confront the face of humanity that he has witnessed, stayed silent in his life for some 40 years. It finally found a voice in the passionate sculptures which began to emerge in the late 1970s when he created a series of horses’ heads. These noble and benevolent creatures posses an energy and a life force that seem just barely harnessed long enough to take their shape in the clay itself. Later he progressed to more figurative work in which the irrepressible joy of life and the destructive, inpenetrable shadow of existence, are held together in a struggling unity.
This program features Maurice Blik, who will read from his recently published autobiographical book, The Art of Survival, followed by a conversation with the British art historian, curator, author and innovative educator Julian Freeman. Their conversation will offer an insightful exploration of Blik’s sculptures and the influence his life experiences have on his artwork. The event is moderated by FAS Director Rachel Stern.
Register here.
Maurice Blik was born to Jewish parents in Amsterdam in
1939. In 1943, Blik’s father was sent to Auschwitz, while Blik, his
sister, his pregnant mother and grandmother were sent to the Bergen
Belsen concentration camp. Liberated by the Russian army in 1945, he
moved with his mother and oldest sister to England.
Blik had an extensive career in Art Education, teaching at all levels
from Primary to Postgraduate. He studied sculpture at Hornsey College of
Art in London (1960) and has a post-graduate Art Teacher’s Certificate
with distinction from the University of London (1969).
In the 1980s he began to develop his own artwork and in 1991 gave up
teaching to work full time as a sculptor. He was awarded resident status
by the US Government in 1992 as ‘person of extraordinary artistic
ability’ and was elected President of the Royal British Society of
Sculptors (1996-1997), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1997).
Blik is exhibiting widely both in the UK and the US. His sculptures can
be found in private and public collections, including ‘Renaissance’ at
East India Docks in London (1995); ‘Behold’ at Middlesex University in
London (2000); ’Splishsplash’ at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Nashville, US (2005); ‘Second Breath’ at Chandler Hospital of
University of Kentucky, US (2011), or ‘Every Which Way’ at the National
Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, UK (2017).
Blik has been the subject of films and documentaries: ‘The Art of
Remembering’ BBC, directed by Tim Robinson (1998); performance film
‘Second Breath’ directed by Gillian Lacey (2007), ‘Hollow Dog’ directed
by by Clive Martin Ya Media (2017), ‘The Last Survivors’ BBC, directed
by Arthur Cary (2019), and ‘Belsen Our Story’ BBC, directed by Tom
Stubberfield (2020).
Julian Freeman, PhD, (b 1950) is an art historian,
curator, author and innovative educator who has worked almost
exclusively in and with galleries, universities and colleges in London
and the South of England. He is presently a Gallery Educator for The
Courtauld Gallery, London.
Julian’s research preferences lie within modern British art and its
contexts, and he has drawn on this for contributions to a range of
day-schools and conferences, from Brighton to New York to Reykjavik. He
has reviewed for art journals past and present, including The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, The Art Book, and The British Art Journal. There have also been two books, each intended to demystify its subject: the very irreverent Art: a crash course (Simon & Schuster 1998), and British Art: a walk round the rusty pier (Southbank
2006). An important re-evaluation of the later work of the English
painter-printmaker (and war artist) Anthony Gross was published in
October 2021 by the Goldmark Gallery in Rutland.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
YouTube
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Description:
Alfred Münzer spent nearly three years hidden by an Indonesian-Dutch family, cared for by their Muslim nanny. He was confined to the house and backyard for fear of raising suspicion among neighbors and passersby. “The only view that I had of the outside world was through a mail slot in the door,” remembers Al.
Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to hear how
Al found unlikely refuge in the German-occupied Netherlands.
SpeakerAlfred Münzer, Holocaust Survivor and USHMM Volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Watch live at youtube.com/ushmm.
You do not need a YouTube account to view USHMM's program. After the
live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on USHMM's YouTube page.
First Person is a monthly hour-long discussion with a Holocaust
survivor and is made possible through generous support from the Louis
Franklin Smith Foundation, with additional funding from the Arlene and
Daniel Fisher Foundation.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
at 6:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
While Childhood Slept is
a heart-wrenching original musical that follows the true story of the
boys of Home Number One in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezín. The
children create a secret republic within the camp, publishing their own
magazine of art, poetry, and short stories called Vedem. A visit from
The Red Cross presents the opportunity to disguise their magazine as a
secret message and a means of escape. With book and lyrics by Sharon
Sheppard and music and additional lyrics by Jo Ellen Hubert, While Childhood Slept is
a story of bravery, determination, and hope, with a promise that we
will never forget the past and will never allow history to repeat
itself. The Garden Theatre is elated to bring this show to Houston
audiences in a public staged reading format, which will feature a
talkback after the performance with the artists that created the piece.
After the performances of the staged reading, The Garden Theatre will
continue to develop the musical over the next year to bring a full
production to Houston audiences in the 2023-2024 season.
While Childhood Slept premiered in 1999 in Houston, TX. From there it received an off-Broadway reading, and its finale number, We Will Not Forget, was featured in the documentary Paper Clips.
In 2005, a revised version with new songs was performed once again in
Houston. While many theatre companies have requested to produce the show
over the years, only The Garden Theatre has been able to secure the
rights to this touching musical, which will now be seen for the first
time in over 17 years.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Learn more and register here.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022
at 8:00am -
9:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs invites you to a Zoom Book Launch featuring ISGAP Founder and Executive Director Dr. Charles Asher Small.
Opening RemarksAmbassador Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
SpeakersRuthie Blum, Author, Editor at Gatestone Institute, Former Senior Editor, Jerusalem PostAmbassador Ron Dermer, Former Israeli Ambassador to the United StatesAndrea Levin, Director, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.
Concluding remarksFiamma Nirenstein, Journalist; Former member of the Italian Parliament; Fellow, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
ChairDan Diker, Director, the Project to Counter BDS and Political Warfare, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel
Join the book launch event here.
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Thursday, September 8, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
To Life! A Magical Post Modern Hasidic Tale of the Holocaust:
In this profound and richly multimedia program, Dr. Jud Newborn poignantly interweaves his own personal story (his adventures, determination and triumphs in confronting the Holocaust) with the lost world of the European Jewish Shtetl—and the amazing tale of the first man to bring the news of the Holocaust to the West. Revolving around the author’s thrilling discovery of Polish Bund Spokesman Szmul Artur Zygielbojm’s lost artifacts, Dr. Newborn tells a miraculous, life affirming story of how three seemingly disconnected lives magically intersected over time and space. Newborn’s discovery links him by surprise to Zygielbojm’s surviving niece, a 75 year-old South African champion ballroom dancer who “brings me under her spell, inducing me to dance—not to mourn, but to celebrate Jewish survival.
Register here.
Presented by Dr. Jud Newborn
Jud
Newborn (born in 1952), is a New York-based author, lecturer, cultural
anthropologist and curator. A pioneer in the creation of Holocaust
museums, he helped build New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, serving
as its Founding Historian and curator. He is known for his co-authored
book, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (Oneworld Publications, 2006), an
account of the history of the White Rose, a group formed in part by
German Christian students—some former Hitler Youth fanatics—who were
part of the German anti-Nazi resistance.
Newborn is also a wide-ranging
lecturer who has spoken throughout North America and worldwide. He is
known for dramatic multimedia programs that set unsung aspects of the
Holocaust, among other subjects, within the context of such compelling,
contemporary issues as the rise of extremism, oppression, fanaticism and
genocide, in order to inspire audiences to join in the fight for
freedom and “our shared humanity.”
Jud Newborn was educated at
New York University, Cambridge University and the University of Chicago,
which awarded him his doctorate with Distinction in 1994 for his
dissertation, “Work Makes Free”: The Hidden Cultural Meanings of the
Holocaust; (Work Makes Free: English translation of Nazi forced labor
camp slogan Arbeit Macht Frei).
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Friday, September 9, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
Friday, September 9, 2022 is the application deadline for the 2023 Lt. David L. Silverman Latin American Institute at Holocaust Museum Houston.
Holocaust Museum Houston's Silverman Latin American Institute
will bring together 6th-12th grade educators from Latin America and the
United States to study the Holocaust, human rights, social justice, and
how to implement this history into their classroom curriculum. Working
together between a number of countries, participants will be able to
create networks that will strengthen educational collaborations. Once
accepted to this prestigious Fellowship, the 2023 Silverman Fellows will
attend a four–day in person institute hosted at Holocaust Museum
Houston designed to immerse them in historical and pedagogical content.
Through interactive sessions led by historians, museum educators, and
activists, Silverman Fellows will deepen their knowledge of and receive
resources to support Holocaust, human rights, and social justice
education in their classrooms. The Silverman Latin American Institute
will be accessible in English and Spanish by interpretation.
Holocaust Museum Houston is currently accepting applications from US
and Latin American educators who teach in middle or high school in the
following subjects: English/language arts, history, social studies, art
(visual and music). Applications from pre-service teachers who plan to
teach middle or high school students in these subject areas will also be
accepted. Application and recommendation letters are due Friday, September 9, 2022.
For more information and to apply for the institute, please click here.
Spanish website/application can be found here.
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Monday, September 12, 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.
How did the Holocaust impact on society’s most vulnerable? Dr. Sharon
Kangisser Cohen of Yad Vashem, will present some of the experiences of
Jewish children under Nazi rule. Based on primary sources and post-war
testimonies, this presentation will explore some of the challenges
children faced and ways in which they attempted to cope with their
increasingly violent reality.
Register here.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
at 11:00am -
12:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
As international audiences flock to Oberammergau,
Germany, to see its famous passion play portraying the last week of
Jesus’s life, join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn how the production has changed since the
Holocaust. Presented every ten years since 1634, the play’s script,
staging, and costumes reflected and promoted the deep-seated
anti-Judaism of European Christianity.
During this program co-presented with the Washington National Cathedral, hear from the play’s director and a pastor who specializes in Jewish-Christian relations about how dialogue and changes in Catholic teaching about Jews and Judaism affected the play.
SpeakersRev. Dr. Peter Pettit, Teaching Pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, IowaChristian Stückl, Play Director, 2022 Oberammergau Passion Play, Oberammergau, Germany
ModeratorDr. Rebecca Carter-Chand, Director, Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, Mandel Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register to receive a link to view the program.
Register here.
For more information, please contact Julia Liden via e-mail.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition asks what did Americans know? And what did Americans do in response to the Holocaust? They are honored that their exhibition partially inspired Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein to produce a new documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust. The film was produced by Florentine Films. USHMM was pleased to cooperate with the filmmakers by providing archival and historical sources and is co-hosting this special preview for educators to discuss the opportunities the film provides for teaching both Holocaust history and American history.
In anticipation of the broadcast of their new film, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein will discuss the important themes the documentary will address and the opportunities the film provides for teaching about Holocaust history, as well as American history.
This event will be the first in a series of programs designed to support integrating film content into your teaching. Find additional event information on the registration page here.
About the FilmKen Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and our leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged our identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of our democracy.
CORPORATE FUNDING FOR THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST WAS PROVIDED BY: Bank of America.MAJOR FUNDING WAS PROVIDED BY: David M. Rubenstein; the Park Foundation; the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation; Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; and by the following members of The Better Angels Society: Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine; Jan and Rick Cohen; Allan and Shelley Holt; the Koret Foundation; David and Susan Kreisman; Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder; Blavatnik Family Foundation; Crown Family Philanthropies, honoring the Crown and Goodman Families; the Fullerton Family Charitable Fund; Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky; The Russell Berrie Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; John and Catherine Debs; and Leah Joy Zell and the Joy Foundation. Funding was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
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Description:
For thirteen-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish
town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and
the traditions of their Jewish faith.But in 1939, as the Nazis
come to power, a storm is gathering—a relentless, unforgiving storm that
will sweep Sarah and her family into years of turmoil in the ghetto and
concentration camps, tearing them apart. Will Sarah’s strong will and
determination be enough for her to survive when everything she loves is
taken from her?Part memoir, part fiction, What She Lost
is the reimagined true-life story of the author’s grandmother growing
into a woman amid the anguish of the Holocaust. It is a tale of
resilience, of rebuilding a life, and of rediscovering love.
Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for their discussion of What She Lost by Melissa Hunter.
Learn more and register here.
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Wednesday, September 14, 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 Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 10:00AM (Central),
features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing
stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join Holocaust & Humanity Center on Wednesday, September 14 at 10:00AM via Zoom with Ron Schwarz.
Register here.
Ron
Schwarz is the son of Holocaust Survivor Charles Schwarz. As a boy,
Charles lived in Nazi Germany before fleeing to France, witnessed the
German occupation of France, and completed the treacherous mountain
crossing of the French-Swiss border. Ron’s grandparents endured the Nazis
in Germany including internment at Dachau and the seizing of their
personal property. As a second-generation speaker, Ron uses a multimedia
presentation to share his father’s and grandparents’ daring journey and
teach the lessons of the Holocaust.
Generously sponsored by Margaret and Michael Valentine and presented in partnership with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
“You only have what you give away” Holocaust survivor Itka
Zygmuntowicz said. Because of Itka’s gift with language and her
perspective as a teenager who survived the Holocaust, her testimony has
been an important resource for educators and students. Teaching the
human story is one of the most powerful components of impactful
Holocaust education. In Echoes & Reflections' new online activities for students, Explore
the Past, Shape the Future, they highlight the story of a single survivor,
Itka, and take a virtual ‘field trip’ through her hometown of
Ciechanow, Poland, to explore early experiences with antisemitism and
Nazi terror, to her time in Auschwitz.
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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