Events List
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Sunday, May 14, 2023
at 12:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Museum admission will be waived on Sunday, May 14, 2023 in honor of Holocaust survivor Stefi Altman, z"l.
Learn more here.
Stefi
Altman was just 13 years old when Germany overran Poland in September
1939. Soon after, Stefi's two older brothers were arrested and sent to a
labor camp, and Nazi soldiers brutuall beat her fater and drove the
family from their house. They fled to Stefi's grandfather's farm, taking
shelter in the barn.
The family remained together until 1940,
when Stefi was sent to the labor camp of Jastkov. Later she was sent to
Treblinka and Majdanek. Next, she was sent to the camp of Dorohucza.
Although Dorohucza had neither gas chambers nor crematoria of the other
camps, death always hovered nearby. Like Stefi, many of the inmates were
only half alive by the time they got there. At the end of 1943, Stefi
discovered that her sister, Kayla, had also been sent to Dorohucza. But
relief soon turned to horror when Kayla was brutally murdered.
Stefi
managed, against all odds, to escape Dorohucza. For the remainder of
the war, she hid in a coffin-like space underneath a barn that belonged
to a sympathetic Polish farmer. After she was liberated by the Soviets,
she learned that her entire family had been murdered.
Stefi Altman, z"l, passed away in December 2017.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
From European concentration camps to
American incarceration camps, actions that persecuted and separated a
group deemed an enemy of the state or at the very least, suspicious, was
a strategy used by the Allies and the Axis powers alike. Join Echoes
& Reflections Program Manager Jen Goss and Annie Evans from New
American History as they share resources and educational strategies on
how to discuss these dark periods of history and what we can learn from
them, including how the impact of these actions continue to shape the
Jewish and Japanese-American communities today. In light of a terrifying
rise in antisemitism and anti-AAPI hate, it is critically important to
include these resources in your classroom and utilize the responsible
and effective techniques presented to make connections between these two
experiences, while honoring the distinct characteristics of both. This
webinar accompanies Echoes & Reflections Units 2 & 4:
Antisemitism and The Ghettos.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.
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Sunday, May 21, 2023
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
The Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers, funded by a generous gift
from the Naomi and Martin Warren Family Foundation in Houston, Texas, is
developing a corps of pre-service educators who want to learn more
about the Holocaust and how to teach about it in their classrooms
effectively. The Fellowship was created in 2003 and has more than 400
alumni.
The Warren Fellowship's main objective is to provide new
teachers with the necessary historical and pedagogical tools for
teaching the Holocaust from the onset of their teaching careers. This
program will also develop a teacher corps for Holocaust Museum Houston
as the museum expands its educational outreach in Texas and the United
States.
Upon being named a Warren Fellow, 18 pre-service teachers
and two faculty Fellows will attend a six-day institute hosted by
Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas. This institute will immerse
participants in historical and pedagogical issues related to the
Holocaust. Holocaust scholars from across the country will provide
historical content, and university faculty and museum educators will
provide pedagogical context.
The
Warren Fellowship is a fully funded program. 2023 Fellows will receive
airfare, hotel, program materials, and meals thanks to the generous
support of The Warren Fellowship Endowment Fund, the Naomi and Martin
Warren Family Foundation and Dr. Joseph and Cathy Jankovic. We offer
special thanks to United Airlines, the official airline of Holocaust
Museum Houston.
Click here to learn more and to apply. Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on March 10, 2023.
For more information, please contact the Museum at education@hmh.org or 713-527-1642.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Antisemitism is surging: a dangerous
hatred that is being fueled with powerful words, conspiracy theories,
and pernicious beliefs about Jews. It is important that educators have
the resources and tools to feel prepared to talk about contemporary
manifestations of antisemitism, including when it happens in their own
schools. Utilizing recent data of hate crimes and antisemitic incidents
from the FBI and ADL respectively, and research conducted by ADL about
antisemitic beliefs held by Americans, this learning opportunity will
provide vital information paired with effective classroom strategies to
help students understand the threatening state of antisemitism. By using
the pedagogical approach of Echoes & Reflections and examining
antisemitism in the past and at this moment, participants will learn the
critical lessons of the past and inspire students to reject and counter
the rising threat of antisemitism today.
This webinar connects with
Lesson Plan Unit 11 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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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
YouTube
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Description:
On his way to school in downtown Prague in the
winter of 1943, six-year-old Peter Stein hurried off the tram—terrified
the German SS officer who demanded his seat could sense his secret …
that his father was Jewish.
During the German occupation, the Nazis forced Peter’s father to
leave his family and build roads outside Prague. Eventually, they
deported him to the Theresienstadt ghetto.
Watch to learn how Peter managed to survive the war with his mother,
who was Catholic, and what happened to his father and other Jewish
relatives.
SpeakerPeter Stein, Holocaust survivor and USHMM volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Watch live at youtube.com/ushmm.
You do not need a YouTube account to view USHMM's program. After the
live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on USHMM's YouTube page.
First Person is a monthly hour-long discussion with a Holocaust
survivor and is made possible through generous support from the Louis
Franklin Smith Foundation, with additional funding from the Arlene and
Daniel Fisher Foundation.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Dr. Benjamin Carter Hett will discuss how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? Dr. Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.
Born in Rochester NY, Benjamin Carter Hett earned a J.D. at the University of Toronto (1990) and practiced litigation in Canada before earning a Ph.D. in history at Harvard (2001). He has taught at Harvard College and the Harvard Law School and, since 2003, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (Henry Holt, 2018), winner of the 2019 Vine Award for History and named one of the year’s best books by The Times of London and the Daily Telegraph, and The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (Henry Holt, 2020) named an editors’ choice by the New York Times Book Review. His other books include Burning the Reichstag (Oxford, 2014), winner of the 2015 Hans Rosenberg Prize, and Crossing Hitler (Oxford, 2008), which won the 2007 Fraenkel Prize and was made into a documentary film and a television drama for the BBC. Hett has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is presently working on a project about Arthur Nebe and the German criminal police during the Second World War.
Register to attend 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.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Temple Beth Shalom
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Description:
Follow several non-Jews from around the world as they go through the conversion process. Diana from Costa Rica found out about her Spanish-Portuguese Jewish roots from a high school genealogy project. Adam from Toronto was raised as a Pentecostal Christian but started questioning his beliefs as a teenager. Bianka from Warsaw wanted community and an intellectual approach to spirituality. All of our characters are on a journey of self-discovery and negotiating their relationships with family, friends and significant others. All are searching for identity and connection. Through following their conversion process, we are vicariously exposed to a range of Jewish ideas and practices. Along the way we get a chance to meet their teachers and guides and the community that they seek to join.
Why the Austin Jewish Film Festival Likes This Film: This film shows people from all ages and stages of life in their conversion process. The different subjects engage will all the major branches of Judaism in several different countries.
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
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Monday, May 29, 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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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
at 8:30am -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
Commission Meetings
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Location:
Barbara Jordan State Office Building
Room 2.006
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
(THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, May 31, 2023
beginning at 8:30AM at the Barbara Jordan State Office Building Room 2.006 (1601 Congress Avenue Austin, TX). 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 May 31, 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: 885 3737 3253
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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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
at 8:30am -
3:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Region 14 North
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Description:
Wondering how to incorporate Holocaust Remembrance Week into your classroom in age-appropriate ways? Curious about best practices for teaching about the Holocaust? Join educators from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (DHHRM) for a day of learning about the Holocaust, lesson resources, and upstander skills. Take an interactive, docent-led, virtual tour of the Museum's Holocaust Wing, and learn how your students can share in the same experience during the upcoming school year. Light continental breakfast and lunch included.
This workshop is facilitated through Region 14.
Register here.
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