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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
at 9:00am -
11:30am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join United States Holocaust Memorial Museum experts and scholars from North America and Europe to examine the groundbreaking Sobibór Perpetrator Collection.
The collection reveals an unprecedented view into operations at one
of the five killing centers Nazi Germany established for the sole
purpose of murdering Jews. Created by the camp’s deputy commandant,
Johann Niemann, this large collection of photographs and documents
offers new insights into the implementation of the “Final Solution.” It
also illuminates interactions among the camp’s staff and the role of
women.
Explore how this collection and its insights may impact Holocaust research and teaching opportunities.
Welcome and Opening RemarksEdna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJürgen Matthäus, Director, Applied Research, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust StudiesTagan Engel, Granddaughter of Sobibor survivors who escaped during a prisoner uprising, Selma and Chaim Engel
Session I: Introduction to the Collection
ModeratorAnatol Steck, Senior Project Director, International Archival Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
PresentersKimberly Allar, Independent scholar and the Museum’s 2013–14 Ben and Zelda Cohen FellowMartin Cüppers, Head, Ludwigsburg Research Center, University of StuttgartSteffen Hänschen, Staff Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanisław Hantz
Session II: The Collection from the Perspectives of Perpetrators and Victims
ModeratorPatricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
PresentersKatja Happe, Director, KZ-Gedenk- und Begegnungsstätte LadelundAndreas Kahrs, Staff Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanisław HantzAnne Lepper, Representative, Yad Vashem’s International School for
Holocaust Studies and Staff Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanisław Hantz
Closing RemarksRebecca Boehling, Director, David M. Rubenstein National Institute
for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumLisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This event is open to the public, but reservations are required. Register here.
For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org.
The organizers thank Semyon Rosenfeld and Selma Engel for their
invaluable contributions to the research on the Sobibor Perpetrator
Collection. This program is dedicated to them.
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.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This course begins by exploring the motifs that have defined
antisemitism both over the centuries and into our own time. Moving then
into the contemporary world, we will consider the three primary sources
of the phenomenon of Jew hatred: the political right, the political
left, and political Islam. Finally, the course will end with a
discussion of how one might response to the rising tide of antisemitism
and what might be done about it.
Featuring Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, U.S.; Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP
Session One: Historical Patterns and Modern ManifestationsIn this class we identify three defining motifs in the history of
antisemitism and its contemporary manifestations: (1) the claim to the
word of Truth, (2) blood libel and bloodshed, and (3) the redeeming
value of antisemitism. The redemptive aspect of antisemitism, it will be
shown, most fundamentally defines the historical and contemporary
essence of antisemitism in its various forms.
Will be held on 1 March 2023 at 10AM Central Time
Session Two: The Defining Case of National Socialist AntisemitismThis session will explore the essence of Nazi antisemitism as the
phenomenon’s most extreme manifestation. The premise is that an
examination of the extreme case reveals what underlies other instances
of Jew hatred, as we make clear exactly what the Nazis set out to
obliterate in the annihilation of European Jewry and therefore exactly
what the antisemite is anti-. The presentation will end with a brief
consideration of the Nazi influence on Jihadist antisemitism, to be
examined more closely in the next class.
Will be held on 8 March 2023 at 10AM Central Time
Session Three: Political Islamist AntisemitismIn this class we shall trace the recent history of political Islam
and Islamic Jihadism, their contemporary manifestations, and the
centrality of antisemitism to their ideology. Of particular interest
will be the Muslim Brotherhood and its widespread influence on
organizations such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah,
Sudan, and throughout Europe and North America. This session will end by
setting up the bonds at work in the Red-Green Alliance.
Will be held on 15 March 2023 at 10AM Central Time
Session Four: Red-Green AntisemitismHere we consider antisemitism as it appears among left-wing
intellectuals, largely on college campuses, in professional
organizations, and in student movements. Central to this discussion will
be the relation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The presentation
will touch upon the left-wing affinity with Critical Race Theory, the
Boycott Divest Sanction Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine,
Black Lives Matter, and left-wing political movements.
Will be held on 22 March 2023 at 10AM Central Time
This course costs $100. Register here.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Arthur Wollschlaeger was a decorated
German tank commander during the Second World War and was awarded the
Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler. After the war, Arthur and his wife concealed
his role in the Holocaust and constructed a new narrative of his
activity during those years. But to their teenage son Bernd, the story
didn't quite add up, and Bernd started a search for the truth. In this
webinar, Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger - today a Jewish convert, veteran of
the Israeli Defense Forces, and physician - shares the story of his
spiritual journey coming to terms with his father's past.
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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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill - Spring Valley
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Description:
This documentary film is based on the book by Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland. It
is directed by Bianca Stigter, co-produced by Academy Award-winner
Steve McQueen, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, premiered at the
Venice Film Festival in September 2021. It was an official selection of
the Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was awarded the inaugural Yad Vashem
Award for Excellence in Holocaust Documentary Filmmaking. View the trailer online here.
This event is free of charge at Studio Movie Grill in Richardson (13933 N US 75-Central Expy 1000, Dallas, TX 75243).Registration is required as there is limited seating. Please email rweisscrane@jcdallas.com to reserve your seats.Click here for more registration information.
This film is being screened as a preview event for the 2023 Dallas Jewish Film Festival ahead of the 53rd Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches at The University of Texas at Dallas (March 4-6, 2023). The author of the book, Glenn Kurz, will deliver the Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture on March 5th in the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center.
Persons with disabilities may submit a request for accommodations to participate in this event at UT Dallas' ADA website. You may also call (972) 883-5331 for assistance or send an email to ADACoordinator@utdallas.edu. All requests should be received no later than 10 business days prior to the event.
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
(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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Thursday, March 2, 2023
at 3:00pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join Florida Atlantic University as they host Echoes & Reflections for this workshop on Holocaust pedagogy.
Pedagogy of Teaching the Holocaust
Through Echoes & Reflections' standard professional development program, educators enhance their knowledge and capacity to teach about the Holocaust, including the history of antisemitism, the establishment of the ghettos, the "Final Solution," and how this historical event continues to influence the world today.
Women in Resistance: Fierce Females
During the Holocaust, women were often at the heart of resistance, whether spiritual, cultural or armed. This program, highlighting Echoes & Reflections resources, focuses on the role of the female "couriers" and the part they played in armed resistance. This story, often overshadowed by stories of armed resistance in the ghettos of Europe, offers a powerful example of incredible bravery exhibited by a group of Jewish girls and women.
Register here.
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Saturday, March 4, 2023
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
UT Dallas
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Description:
The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas invites you to join scholars March 4-6, 2023, as they celebrate the 53rd anniversary of this important conference and continue the legacy established by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke more than fifty years ago. This conference offers the opportunity to address the historical significance of the Holocaust through scholarship that is interfaith, international, and interdisciplinary.
March 1: Film ScreeningThe film Three Minutes—A Lengthening will be screened ahead of the conference on March 1st at 7pm free of charge at Studio Movie Grill in Richardson. Registration is required.
March 5 : Michael and Elaine Jaffe LecturePresented in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Scholars' Conference. There will be a pre-event reception at 8:30AM with the lecture starting at 9AM.
March 5: Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett LecturePresented in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Scholars' Conference. There will be a pre-event reception at 6:30PM with the lecture starting at 7:15PM.
Learn more on the ASC's webpage here.
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
at 9:00am -
10:30am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center
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Description:
Please join the University of Texas at Dallas and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies as Dr. Martin Dean presents the Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Scholars' Conference.
Martin Dean received a PhD in European History from Queens’
College, Cambridge. He has worked as a researcher for the Special
Investigations Unit in Sydney, Australia, and as the Senior Historian
for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London, where he
participated as an expert witness and advisor in six Nazi war crimes
trials.
As a Research Scholar at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, he was a Volume Editor for The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. His publications include Collaboration in the Holocaust (2000) and Robbing the Jews (2008),
which won a National Jewish Book Award in 2009. He is based in
Bethesda, Maryland and works as a Historical Researcher affiliated with
the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. His recent research projects
include a detailed analysis of the Babyn Yar massacre combining aerial
photography, ground photographs, and witness testimony. He is also the
editor of Survival, by Ita Dimant, a Holocaust diary of the
Warsaw and Czestochowa ghettos, which will be published by Academic
Studies Press in 2023.
Learn more here.
Persons with disabilities may submit a request for accommodations to participate in this event at UT Dallas' ADA website. You may also call (972) 883-5331 for assistance or send an email to ADACoordinator@utdallas.edu. All requests should be received no later than 10 business days prior to the event.
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies for Holocaust in Lithuania with award-winning investigative journalist and English teachr, Silvia Foti.
The granddaughter of the lauded Jonas Noreika, known as "General Storm", Silvia Foti turns the tale of a war hero on its head, revealing a man instrumental to the Lithuanian nation-building myth to have been a virulent "Jew-killer" and wrestling with the response to her quest for historical truth and identity.
For more information visit here.
Join here.
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Sunday, March 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.
Something Beautiful Happened: A Virtual Evening with Author & Producer Yvette Manessis Corporon in conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff.
Seventy years after her Greek Orthodox grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during the Holocaust, her granddaughter, Yvette, sets out to track down the Jewish family’s descendants and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness.
Yvette Manessis Corporon, today a famous TV producer, grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about how the people of the small Greek island, named Erikousa, hid a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Years later, Yvette couldn’t get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man’s descendants and eventually found them in Israel.
Don’t miss this riveting history and its powerful unexpected ending!
Register here.
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center
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Description:
Please join the University of Texas at Dallas and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies as Glenn Kurtz presents the Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Scholars' Conference. There will be a pre-event reception at 6:30pm with the lecture starting at 7:15pm.
Learn more here.
Glenn Kurtz is the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film, which was named a “Best Book of 2014” by The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and National Public Radio. The Los Angeles Times called the book “breathtaking,” and it has received high critical praise in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. A documentary film based on the book, Three Minutes—A Lengthening,
directed by Bianca Stigter, co-produced by Academy Award-winner Steve
McQueen, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, premiered at the Venice
Film Festival in September 2021. It was an official selection of the
Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was awarded the inaugural Yad Vashem
Award for Excellence in Holocaust Documentary Filmmaking.
Mr. Kurtz is a 2019-2023 Presidential Fellow at Chapman University,
Orange, CA, and the recipient of a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship.
In conjunction with this keynote, the film Three Minutes—A Lengthening will be screened ahead of the conference on March 1st at 7pm free of charge at Studio Movie Grill in Richardson. Registration is required as there is limited seating. Please email rweisscrane@jcdallas.com to reserve your seats. Learn more about the film screening here.
Persons with disabilities may submit a request for accommodations to participate in this event at UT Dallas' ADA website. You may also call (972) 883-5331 for assistance or send an email to ADACoordinator@utdallas.edu. All requests should be received no later than 10 business days prior to the event.
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Monday, March 6, 2023
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
During the Holocaust, more than 30,000 Jews fought back in armed resistance against the Nazis and their collaborators. Approximately 10% of them were women. Learn about the thousands of remarkable women, who defied gender roles, to fight back as Jewish partisans. Faced with the constant threat of death, these women, many of them teens, overcame nearly impossible odds and demonstrated extraordinary strength and courage to disrupt the Nazi war machine by blowing up bridges, sabotaging railroad lines, and more, to save Jewish lives and hasten the end of the war.
Workshop presenter Sheri Rosenblum, Director of Development and Outreach, specializes in Holocaust education and professional development.
Register here.
For more information, contact Sheri Rosenblum via e-mail.
This workshop is made possible through the generosity of JPEF's Judith & Marvin Ginsburg (z"l) Jewish Partisan History Education Fund.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Taught by Dr. Lev Topor, ISGAP Visiting Scholar in Critical Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute. This short digital course is aimed to present the topic of anonymous antisemitism and the way it is propagated nowadays with modern technologies, which mainly include platforms like the dark web or secure and anonymous messaging applications like telegram. During this course, we will learn and discuss the reasons for engaging in antisemitism anonymously, the effects of such antisemitism, as well as ongoing policies aimed to tackle this problem – whether policies from social media platforms/technology companies or from governments. During the course, we will also learn about the concepts of cyberspace, anonymity, and pseudonymity.
Session 1: Introduction – What Is Anonymous Communication and What Nazis Have to Do With It.During this session, we will have a general introduction to the
topics of antisemitism and racism online, as well as anonymous
communications. We will also learn about the reasons that nudge
neo-Nazis and other anti-Semites to the dark web.
Will be held 7 March 2023 at 11 AM CT
Session 2: Online Antisemitism, Racism, Anti-Muslim Sentiment, and Xenophobia – A Review During this session, we will dive deep into the world of online
antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia. We will also continue
our discussion about anonymous antisemitism and begin to learn about
governmental and technology companies’ policies towards these issues.
Will be held 14 March 2023 at at 11 AM CT
Session 3: Trends from the Dark Web and Telegram: Online RadicalizationDuring this session, we will learn about antisemitic trends from
the dark web and compare them to antisemitism and racism on the regular
online domain.
Will be held 21 March 2023 at at 11 AM CT
Session 4: Conclusion and Future RecommendationsDuring this session, we will have an overview of the topics:
antisemitism, online hatred, anonymous communications, and antisemitism
on the dark web and on secure messaging applications. We will have a
comparative look at policies against online hate and, lastly, engage in
an open discussion about the online domain, online hatred, and freedom
of speech.
Will be held 28 March 2023 at at 11 AM CT
This course costs $100. Register here.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Village
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Description:
Join Anti-Defamation League Austin for a screening of the documentary The Train I Missed followed by a program with Heartstone Studios, producers of the film, and a rare opportunity to hear a first-hand account from a survivor of the Holocaust. Ernst van Gelderen, upon whom the film is based,will share his experience as a hidden child during the Holocaust. The program will encourage dialogue about how lessons from that horrific period can provide insight into the alarming normalization of hate here in the U.S. today and how what happened to the Jewish people in Europe could happen to anyone anywhere.
To purchase tickets, visit ADL's website here.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
at 8:00am -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
Commission Meetings
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
(THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, March 8, 2023
beginning at 8:00AM at Holocaust Museum Houston (5401 Caroline Street Houston, TX 77004). 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 March 8, 2023. 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: 827 9409 6593
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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