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The Use of Alcohol During and After the Holocaust   View Event

  • Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Alcohol played an important role during the Holocaust. Its functions, however, varied greatly. In this lecture, Sina Fabian explores the different ways German perpetrators and Jewish survivors used alcohol, including perpetrators using alcohol during or after mass killings, Jews using alcohol as a tool for resistance and survival, and people using liquor after the Holocaust as a coping mechanism. The talk draws on testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, as well as on interrogations with former members of Einsatzgruppe D. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/t... Sina Fabian is Assistant Professor of 20th Century German History at Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany and a Visiting Scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research during Fall 2022. She earned her PhD in Contemporary History at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History at the University of Potsdam in Germany. Read more about Professor Fabian here.

Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Workshop   View Event

  • Friday, December 2, 2022 at 8:00am - 11:00am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  On December 2, 2022, Tom White and Lou Yelgin will offer a workshop for educators on “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.” This workshop is presented by the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. This workshop is designed for high school and middle school educators and attendees may choose to participate either in person (on the campus of Keene State College) or virtually (via Zoom). A light breakfast will be available to in person attendees beginning at 7:30AM. Register here.To register, click Add to Cart. You can designate your registration as virtual ($30) or in person ($75) at checkout. Workshop for Educators: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust During World War II, the majority of European Jews were imprisoned by the Nazis in ghettos before being deported to concentration camps or “work camps” where they were starved, murdered, or worked to death. Yet, approximately 30,000 Jews, many of whom were teenagers, escaped the Nazis to form organized resistance groups. These Jews are known as the Jewish partisans who fought against the enemy throughout much of Europe. Using the film Defiance (starring Daniel Craig) as background, participants will: • Become familiar with the history of Jewish partisans • Engage in discussion about the complex ethical issues partisans faced • Differentiate between authority and leadership • Discover underlying Jewish values that influenced the actions of partisans • Explore primary sources and relate them to modern, historical, and personal issues

HMH Holocaust Remembrance Week Workshop   View Event

  • Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 9:00am - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston
  • Description:  Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a one-day educator workshop on supporting Holocaust education in schools during Holocaust Remembrance Week. Educators will be introduced to the Holocaust through tours of Holocaust Museum Houston’s Galleries and learn approaches to teaching the Holocaust using activities and resources designed for the classroom. Participants will receive Holocaust Museum Houston’s Holocaust Remembrance Toolkit containing lessons plans, primary sources, and student worksheets to utilize in their classroom. Lesson plans included in the Toolkit will be modeled and educators will receive information about free school programs and resources available through the Museum. Teachers from the 6th-12th grade, in all subject areas, are encouraged to participate in this FREE workshop. This workshop will credit 7 CPE and 6 GT hours. Register here. For more information contact The Education Department via e-mail or 713-527-1611.

iRead Book Club: "The Crime and the Silence"   View Event

  • Monday, December 5, 2022 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a book discussion led by museum historians and educators. This session, they will discuss The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont. Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is journalist Anna Bikont's account of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years, and its discovery provoked an important public debate in Poland. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that led to this violence and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth. 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.

Analyzing Propaganda & Teaching Media Literacy: The Holocaust as a Case Study   View Event

  • Monday, December 5, 2022 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  Explore the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media, by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators gain the tools to facilitate classroom discussions on the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support their students to critically analyze media in today’s world. Learn more and register here. Earn 2 Hours CPE Credit. For more information on upcoming workshops and HMMSA Educator Resources contact Dr. Jessica Hanshaw, Education and Curations Manager at education@hmmsa.org Presented by Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and Echoes & Reflections.

Session 2: Hip-Hop, the Nation of Islam and Contemporary Antisemitism   View Event

  • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Featuring Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K. This course will explore the emergence of contemporary antisemitism in the United States, with a concentration on popular culture, the hip-hop community, and sports, while analysing its historical and ideological roots. This course will also assess how and why academia is silent on issues pertaining to antisemitism; and why Jewish people are being increasingly labelled as white and racist in our best universities; just one generation after being hunted and exterminated due to the racist ideologies that defined the Jewish People as an inferior race and a threat to the purity of the white Aryan nation. Session 1: “Fragmentation, Antisemitism and Extremism in the United States“ Will be held on 29 November 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Session 2: “Imposter Jews: Hip-Hop, the Nation of Islam and Contemporary Antisemitism“ Will be held on 6 December 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Session 3: “From Extermination to White Racist in One Generation: Teaching Antisemitism in US Higher Education and the Shifting Discourse of Jewish Identity“ Will be held on 13 December 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Classes will be held virtually on Zoom. Recordings will be made available to registered participants who are not able to attend live sessions. Limited student scholarships are available, to apply contact daphne.klajman@isgap.org. Course fee: $100.00 Register here.

HMMSA Reads "The Dressmaker of Auschwitz"   View Event

  • Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
  • Description:  A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. 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, historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust. Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for their discussion of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington. Learn more and register here.

Media and Genocide: From Hubris to Humility   View Event

  • Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Media and Genocide: From Hubris to Humility with j. Siguru Wahutu, Ph.D More information coming. Register here. Organized by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Presented with the Sociology Department

Kizito Kalima, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda Community Program   View Event

  • Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  West Orange Public Schools in partnership with the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University invites you to an upcoming program in recognition of International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide featuring Kizito Kalima, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Register here.

Hope during the Holidays   View Event

  • Friday, December 9, 2022 at 8:30am - 9:00am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live
  • Description:  Hiding from Nazi persecution of Jews, three-year-old Norbert Obstfeld and his mother, Lea, celebrated Christmas with their rescuers. Teenager Gerda Weissmann fashioned a menorah out of potatoes to observe Hanukkah while imprisoned at the Bolkenhain work camp. Although she didn’t have candles to light, her spiritual resistance ignited a flame of hope among her fellow prisoners for brighter days ahead. Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to discover how people defied the oppressive Nazi regime by commemorating holidays during the Holocaust. GuestsDr. Lindsay MacNeill, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 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.

Human Rights Day   View Event

  • Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 10:00am - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Exhibits
  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston
  • Description:  Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a day of celebration with free admission, bilingual storytime, guest speakers, and dance performances. Click here to learn more.

Hamilton: Man, Myth, Musical, Mensch...The Inspiring and Little-Known Story of His Jewish Roots   View Event

  • Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  The Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami, School of Education & Human Development is proud to announce the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation Holocaust/Jewish themed Sunday Salon Series. Hamilton: Man, Myth, Musical, Mensch...The Inspiring and Little-Known Story of His Jewish Roots with Dr. Robert P. Watson in conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff. Be sure and register for this fascinating virtual lecture and find out the facts, myths and more... and even some Jewish “Rap” from the musical, “Hamilton”. Register here. After registering, you will receive an immediate confirmation email with your ZOOM link. A reminder will be sent as well.

“We are far, very far from our former home”: German and Austrian Jews after Deportation to “the East”   View Event

  • Monday, December 12, 2022 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  USHMM & Virtual
  • Description:  2022 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture In 1939, the year after the Nazis annexed Austria, Wilhelm and Johanna Schischa sent their daughter to England on a rescue transport for children. Any hope of reuniting with her ended with their deportation to “the East,” along with tens of thousands of other German-speaking Jews. They suddenly found themselves in a foreign place with few possessions, little food, and no money. Masses of deportees died or were murdered far from home in places like Minsk and Riga and in killing centers in German-occupied Poland. But others survived ghettos, forced labor, and death marches. Join us to learn what diaries and letters reveal about their experiences. Opening remarksDr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies SpeakerDr. Andrea Löw, 2021–22 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence; Deputy Director, Center for Holocaust Studies, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich ModeratorDr. Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here. For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org. The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, endowed by the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Mandel Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research about the Holocaust and disseminate this work to the public. The scholar in residence also leads seminars, lectures at universities in the United States and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the general public. The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.

Session 3: American Universities and the Muslim Brotherhood   View Event

  • Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Featuring Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K. This course will explore the emergence of contemporary antisemitism in the United States, with a concentration on popular culture, the hip-hop community, and sports, while analysing its historical and ideological roots. This course will also assess how and why academia is silent on issues pertaining to antisemitism; and why Jewish people are being increasingly labelled as white and racist in our best universities; just one generation after being hunted and exterminated due to the racist ideologies that defined the Jewish People as an inferior race and a threat to the purity of the white Aryan nation. Session 1: “Fragmentation, Antisemitism and Extremism in the United States“ Will be held on 29 November 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Session 2: “Imposter Jews: Hip-Hop, the Nation of Islam and Contemporary Antisemitism“ Will be held on 6 December 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Session 3: “From Extermination to White Racist in One Generation: Teaching Antisemitism in US Higher Education and the Shifting Discourse of Jewish Identity“ Will be held on 13 December 2022 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time Classes will be held virtually on Zoom. Recordings will be made available to registered participants who are not able to attend live sessions. Limited student scholarships are available, to apply contact daphne.klajman@isgap.org. Course fee: $100.00 Register here.

THGAAC December 2022 Quarterly Meeting   View Event

  • Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 8:30am - 2:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commission Meetings
  • Location:  Christians United for Israel
  • Description:  The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 beginning at 8:30AM at Christians United for Israel (CUFI) (18410 Sonterra Place, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78258). 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 December 14, 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: 837 0933 6100 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.