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San Jacinto Day (Office Closed)   View Event

  • Friday, April 21, 2023 (all day)
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  N/A
  • Description:  The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.

Critical Challenges Facing Armenia & Artsakh   View Event

  • Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 12:30pm - 2:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  St. Kevork Armenian Church
  • Description:  Join St. Kevork Armenian Church for a virtual lecture featuring Harut Sassounian to commemorate the 108th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Sassounian's lecture is entitled Critical Challenges Facing Armenia and Artsakh. There will be a luncheon at 12:30PM followed by the virtual lecture at 1:30PM. This event will take place in person at Hekimian Hall at St. Kevork Armenian Church (3211 Synott Road Houston, TX 77082).

"Confronting the Past, for the Sake of the Future" A Program of Hope   View Event

  • Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join Florida International University (FIU) at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU on Sunday, April 23 at 1PM CT for an afternoon of music, poetry, art, and commentary presented by the NewVoicesProject, focusing on the moral lessons of the Holocaust through the arts. Enjoy Klezmer selections performed by local sensation Steffen Zeichner and played on a violin saved from the Holocaust, Bram’s violin, and hear the remarkable story of the instrument’s rediscovery. Following the performance, Florida contributors to the new book New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust will read from their work; with special guest speaker Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, Interfaith Center in New York participating in a discussion on "Moral Lessons of Remembering the Holocaust: A Muslim Response". The event will be live via Zoom. Click here to access.

Arnod Fingerhut: From a Life in Hiding to Living the American Dream   View Event

  • Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Georgetown Public Library 402 W. 8th St. Georgetown, TX
  • Description:  In recognition of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, visit the Georgetown Public Library to hear Jack Fingerhut from Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City share the story of his father, Arnold Fingerhut. Arnold was hidden by Catholic neighbors in their barn in Poland for four years while World War II raged across Europe. After liberation, he immigrated to Germany where he began to build a new life. But his story was  just beginning, as Arnold would soon take the first steps toward the promise of the American dream. Attendees will see and hear clips from Arnold Fingerhut’s testimony which was recorded by Steven Spielberg’s ‘USC Shoah Foundation’ project. This event is free and open to the public

March of Remembrance   View Event

  • Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Kingwood Middle School
  • Description:  March of Life: Kingwood From: Kingwood Middle SchoolTo: Holocaust Garden of Hope Kingwood Middle School (2407 Pine Terrace Dr, Kingwood, TX 77339) 1:00PM Registration and Music 2:00PM Holocaust Testimonies 3:00PM Buses to the Garden Holocaust Garden of Hope Sneak Preview (1660 W. Lake Houston Pkwy, Kingwood, TX 77345) 3:30PM Proclamations & Blessing 4:00PM Garden Tour and short walk 5:00PM Buses back to parking at Kingwood Middle School Register here.

Annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Program   View Event

  • Monday, April 24, 2023 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education for their annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance commemoration. This commemoration will feature guest speaker Dr. Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University. Learn more and register here.

Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust   View Event

  • Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Stumbling across her father’s artwork when she was seven, Anna Salton Eisen joins Echoes & Reflections to tell the story of her father, George Salton, and his story of survival from a small town in Poland through ten concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and France. An author of two Holocaust memoirs and a producer of a Holocaust film, she will share the story of his immigration to the United States, his service in the US Army, and her journey to learn about her father’s story as well as her own, including her role in founding Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Units 5, 6, and 10 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.

Weidergutmachung - Making Right Again   View Event

  • Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Weidergutmachung - Making Right AgainA discussion on national and individual perceptions of personal compensation programs of the Federal Republic of Germany In December 1951, the Federal Chancellor of Germany spoke of unthinkable crimes committed in the name of the German People. The German Nation was morally responsible for the rehabilitation of the Survivors and safeguarding of the memory of what had happened. This talk shall focus on the two main subjects of these endeavors: the Federal German State and the Holocaust survivors. Dr. iur. Avraham Weber will discuss policy towards the needs of survivors, towards the State of Israel, and toward the future. He will also look into the effects of these individual programs for the benefit of Holocaust Survivors upon the survivors themselves and their perception of the so-called assumption of responsibility on behalf of the Federal German Government. PD hours and co-curricular credits will be provided. Register here.

Third Generation Voices of the Holocaust   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 9:00am - 10:30am
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  In honor of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Month, join the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and grandchildren of survivors (3G) to hear their family members’ stories of wartime survival and rebuilding after the Holocaust. This program is designed for students grades 5-8. Please register here by Wednesday, April 13, 2023. For more information, contact: Sarah Coykendall at coykends@kean.edu.

Literary and Philosophical Revisionism   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  On the 26th of April 2023 at 9AM, Seeing Antisemitism through Law is pleased to host Prof. Bruno Chaouat (Professor of French and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota), who will talk about “Literary and Philosophical Revisionism”.The talk will be commented on by Prof. Alejandro Baer (Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota and María Zambrano Fellow, UNED, Madrid). An open discussion will follow the talk. This will be an online event, accessible via Zoom. To register and join, please e-mail here.

Wartime Cabaret: Remaking Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  In 2017, two teams of artists from Australia and South Africa reimagined a cabaret created in 1943 by Jewish prisoners in the wartime ghetto at Terezín (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia. Using video from both performances, Dr. Lisa Peschel, Associate Professor in Theatre at the University of York, will show how the artists used the archival traces of the original script to bring Terezín’s past into our present while engaging with deeply felt contemporary concerns. Click here to register. This event is part of the 2022-23 Harriet & 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 for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.

Benno Elkan (1877-1960) and the Definition of Israeli Art   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  In honor of Yom Ha’azmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, and this year’s 75th anniversary of the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, this talk by Georgetown University professor Ori Z Soltes addresses the question of what defines Israeli art and when it began to take shape. Is it made only by Israelis—then how did Elkan’s Menorah become the consummate symbol of Israel when he never lived in the state? Did “Israeli” art begin with or before the birth of the state? How does this relate to the opening of the Bezalel School of Art in 1906–and closing by 1929, only to re-open years later? How does it relate to the question of defining Jewish art? Benno Elkan’s stunning work, overrun with symbolic images and words–drawing in diverse ways from a long history of symbolic language–could hardly be a more significant centerpiece to this array of questions, or more appropriate to the celebration of Israel Independence Day and the intriguing ideas that this day generates. Register here. Ori Z Soltes, PhD, teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 25 books and several hundred articles and essays. Recent volumes include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture; and Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Ceremonies, and Customs from the Bene Israel to the art of Siona Benjamin. The Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. Your support makes their work possible. Thank you.

If These Bones Could Speak: Early Armenian Pilgrimages to the Killing Fields of Dayr al-Zur   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  In this presentation, Elyse Semerdjian will outline the earliest Armenian pilgrimages to the killing fields of Dayr al-Zur in the Syrian Desert. It is there that Armenians interacted with the remains of Armenians murdered during the Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) in acts of remembrance. Semerdjian will discuss the origins of the now-destroyed Armenian Genocide Memorial in Dayr al-Zur and the ritual and collection habits of pilgrims that enact what she calls bone memory. Using archival documents alongside recorded testimony of survivors preserved in the Shoah Foundation archives, she will present the genesis of these memory practices that largely halted during the Syrian War. Register here. Elyse Semerdjian is Professor of Islamic World/Middle Eastern History and Chair of the History Department at Whitman College. She teaches a broad range of courses at Whitman on the subject of gender, sexuality, social history, culture, and politics of the Middle East. A specialist in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Syria, she authored " Off the Straight Path": Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008), Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (forthcoming with Stanford University Press, 2023), and has published several articles on gender, law, violence, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. She was awarded a fellowship at Cornell University Society for the Humanities in 2016-2017 to support research for her forthcoming book Remnants. She recently received a German Research Grant with the “Religion and Urbanity” Research Group at University of Erfurt, Germany to write an inclusive pre- and post-war urban history of Aleppo's Muslim and non-Muslim inhabitants.

Film Screening: "Reckonings"   View Event

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 6:30pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston
  • Description:  In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? This is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people, which resulted in the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. Register 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.

Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? Four Case Studies in Self-Destructive Western Folly (Session 2 of 4)   View Event

  • Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 10:00am - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Featuring Professor Richard Landes, Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Boston University; this course will be an exploration of the four historical chapters of his recent book, in which you discuss each of the four incidents using the conceptual tools provided in the later chapters. The course will examine the intersection of a range of themes that shed light not only on the “new antisemitism” of the 21st century, but its direct connection to the war on democracy and human rights that has so disoriented and divided Western polities… and continues to do so. It is an introduction to the shaping of the upside-down world that the current generation was born into. For parents of, and children entering the world of Western academia. Session 1: The Oslo Jihad and the al Durah blood libelThe “al-Aqsa Intifada” was the first attack on a democracy by the forces of Global Jihad, it also constitutes the first case in the history of the modern news media of a pack “fake news” in which the conflict was presented almost universally as a fight between “freedom fighters” resisting Western colonialism, and fueled by a combination of falsehoods both by commission (al-Durah) and omission (any mention of Palestinian genocidal preaching) which laid the groundwork for Y2KMind: When Jihadis attack a democracy, blame the democracy. These themes found a systematic consolidation at Durban (2001) where an alliance between progressive “human rights” activists joined forces with proponents of Global Jihad. Was held April 20 2023 at 10AM CST Session 2: 9-11 and Y2KMind9-11 was the second attack on a democracy. Although many voices opposed it, a range of “progressive” analysts, applied Y2KMind outside of Israel. We analyze President Bush’s speech at the Islamic Center of DC, Baudrillard’s oped in Le Monde, 9-11 conspiracy theories, and the news medias acceptance of the principle “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.” The combination of attitudes that appear in these separate cases has shaped the discourse of 21st century progressive discourse and produced a systemic disorientation that continues to dominate the democratic public sphere. Will be held April 27 2023 at 10AM CST Session 3: The Jenin Massacre and Own-Goal JournalismOperation Defensive Shield (April-May 2002) was the first campaign of urban warfare against suicide-terror Jihadis who took cover behind civilians. It was again, almost universally reported by Western news media who were not eyewitnesses as an Israeli massacre of innocent civilians, based entirely on claims made by Palestinians. Demonstrations throughout the West took the side of Jihadis, in some cases wearing mock suicide vests to show solidarity with those whose fellow Jihadis would soon attack their countries. It also led to a wave of antisemitic attacks in the West and the beginnings of the progressive boycott of Israel. It also produced the sudden appearance of “as-a-Jew” Jews who, without any previous public identification as Jewish, now felt called upon to denounce Israel to the nations. Will be held May 4 2023 at 10AM CST Session 4: The Danish Cartoon Scandal and the Extension of Shariah to Dar al HarbThe controversy around the Danish newspaper, Jylands Post, publishing 12 cartoons of Muhammad (only eight of which dared to depict the prophet), constitutes the first major cognitive war campaign against the West in which Caliphators tried to extend the laws of Shariah to infidels not living under Muslim Rule (i.e. those in Dar al Islam). They did this through fake news (3 forged and deeply blasphemous cartoons), by which staged a moral emergency, and deployed the Muslim Street in the West. The Western reaction, while framed in a language of respect and consideration, established the basic principles of pre-emptive dhimmitude, or the adoption of submissive behavior as a way of postponing Jihadi attack. Will be held May 11 2023 at 10AM CST This course costs $100. Register here. 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.