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The Łódź Ghetto: An In-Depth Study   View Event

  • Monday, May 1, 2023 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  What was life like for those trapped inside the Łódź ghetto? When the Germans sealed off the ghetto on May 1, 1940, 164,000 Jews were imprisoned in Łódź, the second largest of over 1,000 ghettos in Europe. Using photography and testimony, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will provide insight into the four long years the ghetto existed, and its many unique characteristics. This webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 4 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.

Confronting Genocide & Antisemitism: Recovering in the Aftermath   View Event

  • Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  “As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greater instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.” - Desmond Tutu, Anglican bishop and human rights activist How can communities haunted by the circumstance of genocide, atrocities, and anti-Semitism rebuild the trust, respect, and institutions that can prevent a relapse after a conflict has come to an end? There are several examples of truth and reconciliation efforts in post-genocide societies, some of which have resulted in healing and others resulting in impunity. Join NH Fulbright Association with the World Affairs Council, in partnership with the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, as our speakers discuss their reconciliation work in post-genocide Bosnia & Herzegovina. Audience members will explore lessons learned from these personal experiences and how these approaches can guide future reconciliation work. Healing does not come quickly or easily, meaning communities require ongoing support and unbiased efforts to repair community wounds. Register here. Speakers John Sturtz earned his doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Secondary Social Studies Education from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. He is currently a Professor of Education and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. He teaches a variety of education courses and works with beginning teachers. His research interests include education in divided societies and education in emergencies. In 2022 he was a US Fulbright Scholar at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Christa Kirby is VP of Talent Development and Practice Director for Management and Leadership at Corporate Education Group (CEG). A licensed psychotherapist, Christa integrates her global experience as a mental health professional with her passion for holistically developing leaders and teams. For the last 25 years she has been designing and delivering impactful learning experiences to companies, nonprofits, and non-governmental organizations all over the world. Christa has also played a pivotal role in various national and global initiatives focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, civil society building, and conflict resolution. Her work has taken her across North America, throughout Western and Northern Europe, as well as to countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Ethiopia, India, and Singapore. When partnering with clients, Christa takes a very hands-on, collaborative approach to ensure that learning is engaging, holistic, and targeted to deliver specific outcomes. A strategist as well as a “doer,” she is equally comfortable aligning learning strategy with organizational culture as she is with designing a program, facilitating a session, or coaching leaders and teams. A frequent speaker at client and industry events, Christa presents on topics including: DE&I, resilience and well-being, communication, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, team building, and creativity and innovation. Click here to see her TED Talk, “What Lies Within Us: The Transformational Power of Creativity.” Prior to joining CEG, Christa spent 10 years at International Institute for Learning, where she was VP of Global Learning Innovation and Leadership Practice Director. Before that, she worked for 9 years at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in Communications and Knowledge Management. Christa earned a master’s degree in drama therapy from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Duke University. Moderator Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett serves as President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, established in 2008 to continue the legacy of her father, the late Congressman Tom Lantos, who served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress. Congressman Lantos was the founder of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and was widely acknowledged as one of our nation’s most eloquent and forceful leaders on behalf of human rights and justice. Under her leadership, the Lantos Foundation has become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns ranging form advancing rule of law globally and fighting for Internet freedom in closed societies, to combating the persistent and growing threat of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Dr. Lantos Swett is the former Chair and Vice Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and teaches Human Rights and American Foreign Policy at Tufts University. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and the Budapest based Tom Lantos Institute. Dr. Lantos Swett also serves on the Advisory Board of UN Watch, the annual Anne Frank Award and Lecture, and the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy. She serves as Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, which held its inaugural gathering in 2021.

The Missing Archive: Bauhaus Designers and the Holocaust   View Event

  • Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Histories of Germany’s Bauhaus art and design school (1919–33) usually position it exclusively as a movement in exile as soon as the Nazis took power in 1933. In fact, the vast majority of its members remained and embraced Nazism, survived it, or became its victims. In this talk, art historian Elizabeth Otto scrutinizes traces of the work and lives of Bauhäusler who, through their imprisonment and often deaths in the concentration-camp system, have largely been lost to the history of the Bauhaus movement. Using archival sources—often scant materials preserved by family members and friends, including documents, photographs, and private memoirs—she reconstructs aspects of these artists’ work and lives and considers how to write the histories that Nazi violence has taken from us. Presentation by Elizabeth Otto, PhD, professor for modern and contemporary art history and gender studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, followed by Q&A. Moderated by Rachel Stern, director of the Fritz Ascher Society. Register here. Dr. Elizabeth Otto is professor for modern and contemporary art history and gender studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published widely on issues of gender and sexuality in the art, design, photography, and visual culture of twentieth-century Europe. Among Otto’s books are Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics (MIT Press, 2019), winner of the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s 2020 Peter C. Rollins prize, and Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2019), co-authored with Dr. Patrick Rössler. Otto’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Getty Research Institute, the National Humanities Center, and, during the current academic year, the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? Four Case Studies in Self-Destructive Western Folly (Session 3 of 4)   View Event

  • Thursday, May 4, 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. Was 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.

The Courage to Act: Forming a Chain of Resistance   View Event

  • Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  In partnership with Discovery Education, USC Shoah Foundation and Echoes & Reflections have developed a virtual field trip (VFT) and testimony-based educational resources focusing on resistance. The VFT will examine what it means to resist injustice as individuals or members of groups, as spontaneous reactions or full-scale organized movements. The VFT will also explore and celebrate the spirit of resistance as a core part of who we are as human beings, including resistance efforts made by Jews during the Holocaust and contemporary examples of young people. This webinar accompanies Echoes & Reflections Unit 7: Jewish Resistance. Join Echoes & Reflections for this webinar to learn how to access the VFT and the aligned educational resources from USC Shoah Foundation and Echoes & Reflections. 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.

HMH Free Admission Day in Honor of Walter Kase   View Event

  • Friday, May 5, 2023 at 10:00am - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Exhibits
  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston
  • Description:  Museum admission fees will be waived on Friday, May 5, 2023 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, z"l. Learn more here. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it soon became clear that Walter's family's lives would never be the same again. At the end of 1940, Walter, his parents and his sister, Rysia, were herded into a Jewish ghetto. One day in 1941, the ghetto residents were told to gather in the city square. There, in front of her family, Rysia was lined up with other young children and shot to death. Twelve-year-old Walter was sent with his father to the labor camp of Pionki, later to Auschwitz and Sosnowiec, and finally to Mauthausen and two of its sub-camps. Walter and his father were liberated by the 71st Infantry Division of the United States Army on May 5, 1945. Taken to a hospital to recuperate, Walter regained his strength, but his father succumbed a month later. Walter made his way back to Poland, where he was reunited with his mother. In 1947, Walter came to the United States, settling in Kansas City, Missouri. There, he finished his schooling, started a career in sales and was drafted and served proudly during the Korean War. Walter was able to bring his mother to the United States, where she settled in Washington, DC. Walter moved to Houston, where he established a successful import business. He was active in Jewish causes, sitting on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust Museum Houston. The Anti-Defamation League established a Teachers' Award in Walter's name, and he was the first recipient of the St. Augustine Award from St. Thomas University in recognition of his life-changing impact on others.

The Holocaust in Lithuania with Samuel Bak   View Event

  • Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Join the Emil A. & Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University as they hear from one of the greatest Jewish artists of the era, Samuel Bak, on surviving the Holocaust, Jewish identity, and his hometown of Vilnius. Woven with Mr. Bak’s singular visual language, world-renown painter Samuel Bak’s arresting catalog attests to his survival as a child in the Vilna Ghetto. A prolific creative, Mr. Bak continues to paint, showing in exhibitions worldwide and opening the Samuel Bak Museum in Vilnius’ Tolerance Center in 2017. In conversation with Vesta Svendsen, Mr. Bak will explore the throughline of the Holocaust and Jewish identity in his work, along with his relationship to Vilnius, past and present. Zoom Meeting ID: 934 2526 4518 For more information, click here.

2023 THGAAC Education Grant Application Deadline   View Event

  • Monday, May 8, 2023 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Grants & Contests
  • Location:  N/A
  • Description:  Please refer to the THGAAC's Education Grant Handbook prior to completing an application for the 2023 THGAAC Education Grant. The deadline for submission is Monday, May 8, 2023 for the 2023 Education Grant Cycle. Learn more about the 2023 THGAAC Education Grant.

Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees in Iran and India   View Event

  • Monday, May 8, 2023 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  2023 Ina Levine Annual Lecture—Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees in Iran and India Examine the ambivalent, paradoxical, and diverse experiences, emotions, and memories of Jews who found refuge from Nazism and the Holocaust in India and Iran after 1933. Always shadowed by the emerging European catastrophe, uprooted Jews were precariously privileged as white Europeans in non-western, colonial, or semi-colonial societies. An extensive collection of family correspondence and memorabilia—as well as archival, literary, visual, and oral history sources—illuminate refugees’ everyday lives. The materials also reveal the related, changing contexts of interwar fascination and contact with “the Orient,” global war against fascism, anti-colonial independence movements, and gradual revelations about the destruction of the European world they had escaped. Opening remarksDr. Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum SpeakerDr. Atina Grossmann, Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Professor of History, The Cooper Union, New York City ModeratorDr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register here. For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org. The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award is endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona. The mission of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 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, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Mandel Center or the Museum.

HMMSA Reads "Next Couple Hours"   View Event

  • Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
  • Description:  Providence Umugwaneza was eleven the night Hutu radicals began massacring members of her ethnic group, the Tutsis, in Rwanda. While Provie escaped with her aunt, most of the rest of her family was slaughtered in a horrific event the world now recognizes as the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for their discussion of Next Couple Hours: A Story of Fear, Loss, Courage, and Determination During and After the Genocide Against Tutsis in Rwanda by Providence Umugwaneza. Learn more and register here.

Building Bridges: Bringing Holocaust Education to the Spanish-Speaking Classroom   View Event

  • Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  Teaching and learning about the Holocaust provides an essential opportunity for all students to think critically about the past and their actions today. Across the country, demands for teaching materials that enable Spanish-speaking students to examine the Holocaust in Spanish are growing. During this workshop, meet Holocaust education leaders working at the state and local level, to bring Holocaust education into classrooms through increased access to high quality Spanish-language resources, relevant cultural connections, professional development and educational programming. Key Learning Outcomes Importance of equitable access to Holocaust teaching and learning resources How to introduce the history of the Holocaust to students and also bridge the relevant histories of Spain and Latin America to support cultural competency goals How to utilize primary and secondary sources to support a range of learning outcomes across disciplines Where to find Spanish-language Holocaust teaching resources and educational programming for Spanish world language, multilingual, and translanguage educators and Spanish-speaking students Learn more and register here. SpeakersChristina Chavarria, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dr. Miriam Kassenoff, District Education Specialist for Holocaust Education with Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Child Holocaust Survivor Laurie García, Senior Associate Director of Education, Holocaust Museum Houston Kathy Tucker Carroll, Museum Educator; Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Thamar Lebron, Upper School History Teacher, Upper School Diversity Coordinator; Providence Day School; Charlotte, NC For more information, please contact Christina Chavarria via e-mail.

Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment   View Event

  • Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Since the end of WWII, many explanations have been offered as to why the Nazis and their collaborators perpetrated the Holocaust. These range from early childhood abuse, the impact of Prussian militarism, and a human propensity to follow orders. Today it is clear that there is no one explanation, but many factors that led people to become perpetrators. Dr. Robert Rozett, senior historian at Yad Vashem, will address many of these factors and the role of public discourse in setting the stage for the Holocaust. This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 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.

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

  • Thursday, May 11, 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. Was 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. Was 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.

Normalizing Antisemitism and What to Do About It   View Event

  • Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Dr. Charles Small, founder and Executive Director of ISGAP will provide an overview of the myriad ways in which antisemitism is now part of "everyday" expressions of bias in media, politics and academia, largely related to lies and misinformation about Israel. Attacks, harassment, threats and innuendo are all part of the growing spread of Jew hatred, cloaked as AntiZionism. When it comes to social situations, private discourse and prejudiced decisions affecting Jews, it is dangerous and time to put the "genie" back in the bottle. Urgently! Register here.

A Dangerous Blessing: Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Holocaust   View Event

  • Friday, May 12, 2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live
  • Description:  Two months pregnant, Priska Löwenbein clung to her husband inside the railcar. In a last act of hope, they named their baby before arriving at Auschwitz. Once there, Priska managed to hide her growing belly, while Nazi officials sent other obviously pregnant women and mothers with young children directly to their deaths in the gas chambers. During the Holocaust, pregnancy and having small children decreased the already slim chance of survival for Jewish women. Even in hiding, a child crying could threaten everyone around them. Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to meet Hana Berger Moran, Priska's miracle baby, born just before liberation. GuestsDr. Lindsay MacNeill, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dr. Hana Berger Moran, Holocaust survivor and Priska Löwenbein’s daughter 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.