Events List
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List of Events
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In this intimate and meaningful
experience, speakers present stories of life before, during, and after the
Holocaust. The Holocaust Speaker Series is held each Wednesday at 10AM on Zoom.
February 1: Melissa HunterFebruary 8: Cheryl HechtFebruary 15: Elizabeth
PetuchowskiFebruary 22: Peggy Dorfman
Click here to register for this virtual series.
The series is is hosted by the Nancy & David Wolf
Holocaust & Humanity Center, and is sponsored by Margaret & Michael Valentine in partnership
with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Maltz Museum
of Jewish Heritage.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
How can teachers use Holocaust films in the classroom, and which should they use? Join Echoes & Reflections as theye host Rich Brownstein, a leading expert who will answer these questions. Rich has recently published the "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" which has been endorsed by scholars from around the world.
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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Thursday, February 2, 2023
at 6:00pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Celebrated artist and Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahan passed away in 2017, however, her story lives on through a prolific collection of artwork that illustrates her experience during the Holocaust and memorializes the lives lost. Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will celebrate Cahana, not only as an artist, but as a devoted friend, loving mother and resilient survivor, with the opening of The Life and Art of Alice Lok Cahana, on view February 3 through April 9, 2023, in the Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery.
RSVP here.
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Sunday, February 5, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
University of Texas at Dallas
Jonsson Performance Hall
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Description:
Sunday's
concert focuses on the touching story of Rachela Zelmanowicz-Olewski, a
Jewish mandolin player from Poland who, as a young woman, played in the
Auschwitz women’s orchestra under the famous violinist and conductor
Alma Rose. Rachel’s story is of a heroic survival in Auschwitz through
the power of her mandolin music. There will be a post-concert reception.
Duo Mantar is comprised of two virtuosi: American classical guitarist, Adam Levin, and Israeli mandolinist, Jacob Reuven. Both concerts are being presented free of charge in the Jonsson Performance Hall. Follow the white Ackerman Center Event signs from Waterview to Parking Structure 3 (map available here). There will be a parking greeter in a yellow vest to help you.
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Sunday, February 5, 2023
at 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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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.
Hitler's Furies: A Virtual Evening with Scholar and Author Dr. Wendy Lower in conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.
Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war, as loyal wives and cheerleaders for the Führer, pales in comparison to Lower’s incisive case for the massive complicity, and worse, of the 500,000 young German women she places, for the first time, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.
Register here.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
As part of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy's (ISGAP)
landmark Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism
Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, ISGAP
is pleased to announce the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Series titled “Creating
a Conceptual Framework for the Critical Study of Contemporary
Antisemitism.”
The series will allow ISGAP Visiting Scholars to deliver their latest
research to the broader Cambridge community. It will also bring ISGAP's
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 and virtual
presentations from top experts in the field of contemporary
antisemitism.
“The Final Stage of Hatred is Denial: Blaming Jews for Antisemitism”
Dr. Daniel Feldman, Lecturer, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Register here.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
During the era of the Holocaust, Black American soldiers faced discrimination at home and in the military and encountered the results of hatred abroad. This webinar examines the stories of Black G.I.s featured in Echoes & Reflections who liberated concentration camps, including Leon Bass and Paul Parks. It will also focus on the experience of facing the reality of Nazi genocide, while balancing the impact of discrimination and violence at home in the United States.
This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Units 1 and 6 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
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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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join this one hour conversation that will spotlight PBS LearningMedia lessons supporting the documentary. Panelists will share tools and techniques for integrating video clips and other media into your classroom to deepen student understanding of the Holocaust. “The U.S. and The Holocaust” from Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein is a six-hour documentary series that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century.
By registering on this page you will receive access to all episodes and the recordings. PBS will provide a certificate of attendance for each one hour virtual professional learning event.
Register here.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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:
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children.
Yet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown.
As propulsive and thrilling as Hidden Figures, In the Garden of Beasts, Band of Brothers, and A Train in Winter, The Light of Days at last tells the true story of these incredible women whose courageous yet little-known feats have been eclipsed by time. Judy Batalion—the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivors—takes us back to 1939 and introduces us to Renia Kukielka, a weapons smuggler and messenger who risked death traveling across occupied Poland on foot and by train. Joining Renia are other women who served as couriers, armed fighters, intelligence agents, and saboteurs, all who put their lives in mortal danger to carry out their missions. Batalion follows these women through the savage destruction of the ghettos, arrest and internment in Gestapo prisons and concentration camps, and for a lucky few—like Renia, who orchestrated her own audacious escape from a brutal Nazi jail—into the late 20th century and beyond.
Powerful and inspiring, featuring twenty black-and-white photographs, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war, the fight for freedom, exceptional bravery, female friendship, and survival in the face of staggering odds.
Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for their discussion of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion.
Learn more and register here.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In this intimate and meaningful
experience, speakers present stories of life before, during, and after the
Holocaust. The Holocaust Speaker Series is held each Wednesday at 10AM on Zoom.
February 8: Cheryl HechtFebruary 15: Elizabeth
PetuchowskiFebruary 22: Peggy Dorfman
Click here to register for this virtual series.
The series is is hosted by the Nancy & David Wolf
Holocaust & Humanity Center, and is sponsored by Margaret & Michael Valentine in partnership
with the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Maltz Museum
of Jewish Heritage.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center for a timely conversation
with Dr. Wendy Lower, Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, about
the impact that both historical and contemporary atrocity imagery and traumatic
videos have upon our collective psyche. Dr. Lower shares insights from her
latest book, The Ravine: A
Family: A Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, detailing
her investigation of a
single photograph—a rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of
a family’s murder in Ukraine—which led to new details about the Nazis’ open-air
massacres in eastern Europe and a rare case of rescue and postwar justice. The
conversation will be moderated by Dr. Kathleen Wentrack, Professor and Chair of
the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College.
Register here.
This event is part of the 2022-23 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust
Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium,
“Trauma, Remembrance and Compassion.” The event is organized by the KHC and is
co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the
Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the
Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; and the Center for the
Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.
For more information about the
Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
On Thursday, February 9, at 7:30pm (EST), The Defiant Requiem Foundation will host a Zoom presentation with Holocaust survivor and author, Dr. Charles Ota Heller.
The son of a mixed marriage, Heller was born in Prague in 1936 and raised Catholic, unaware of his Jewish roots. When the Nazis invaded, Heller's father escaped to join the British army and through the course of the war fifteen members of his family disappeared. Before his mother was taken away to a slave labor camp, she hid him on a farm to protect him. As the war was coming to a close, young Charles came out of hiding, picked up a pistol he found in a ditch, and shot a Nazi. He was just nine years old.
In 1949, Heller and his parents immigrated to the United States, where he has had distinguished careers in engineering, academia and entrepreneurship. Additionally, he is a renowned lecturer, columnist and author of five memoirs, including Prague: My Long Journey Home and his most recent book, Cowboy from Prague: An Immigrant's Pursuit of the American Dream. A dual citizen of the United States and his native Czech Republic, and fluent in both English and Czech, Heller will discuss his early life and memories, and his return to Prague.
Register here.
This event is free, but, as always, our programs depend on your generous support. A suggested $10 donation is appreciated.
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Friday, February 10, 2023
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Learning through Experience with Nadja Halilbegovich, Her Compelling Journey through the Bosnian Genocide & Its Tragic Parallels to Ukraine
The Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College are pleased to present their Online Learning Through Experience Program with Nadja Halilbegovich. Nadja was twelve years old when war broke out in Bosnia, her native country. Throughout the next three and a half years, she and all the citizens of the capital Sarajevo suffered from continuous shelling and the deprivation of basic needs. During the war, Nadja began sharing her poetry and diary entries on National Radio. At fourteen, Nadja’s diary was published in Bosnia. She became known as the “Bosnian Anne Frank” and has spoken widely about her experiences. Please join them to hear Nadja talk about her journey and the parallels to Ukraine today.
Register here.
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Peter Feigl, survivor and hidden child of the Holocaust in the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, talks about trauma and healing a lifetime later. Lisa Bauman and Sheila Hansen join Peter to discuss their experience last summer, re-tracing Peter's steps from Berlin to the US. Peter is also a featured diarist in Alexandra Zapruder's Salvaged Pages.
Register here.
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Monday, February 13, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In time for Valentine’s Day, this webinar, facilitated by Sheryl Ochayon, will reveal the love stories behind survivors’ attempts to "return to life" after the Holocaust. Just as love often allowed survivors to retain their humanity during the Holocaust, love after liberation also helped them recover their humanity in the face of destruction. We will tell their stories and discover lessons about resilience and the human spirit.
This webinar connects with Echoes & Reflections' Unit 6: Liberation.
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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