Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
(all day)
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Calendar:
Grants & Contests
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Committee offers to fund a variety
of programs through its THGAAC Education Grant program. These grant funds may be used for:
Combating antisemitism and/or implementing Holocaust and genocide courses of study and awareness programs;Supporting
volunteers who have agreed to share, in classrooms, seminars, exhibits,
or workshops, their verifiable knowledge and experiences regarding the
Holocaust or other genocides;Supporting events that memorialize the Holocaust and other genocides;Supporting
events designed to enhance public awareness of the fight against
antisemitism and continuing significance of the Holocaust and other
genocides; andSupporting efforts to recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This grant is open to all permanent, non-profit institutions that are headquartered in the State of Texas.
Amounts up to $50,000.00 may be granted per project.
Learn about the THGAAC Education Grant.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
In an
incredible display of resistance against all odds, the Jewish prisoners
in the Treblinka death camp rose up against their captors on August 1,
1943. Treblinka was the most lethal in the constellation of German Nazi
death camps; though it functioned for only 13 months, almost 900,000
people were murdered there. Yad Vashem lecturer Liz Elsby will
commemorate the 80th anniversary of this powerful event using primary
sources, including the art of a survivor and witness to the uprising,
Samuel Willenberg. This webinar connects with the Echoes &
Reflections Jewish Resistance Unit.
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, August 3, 2023
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
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Description:
Educators, librarians, and school administrators receive free admission to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Thursdays in August 2023.
Present your school ID at the Guest Services desk to receive free
admission for up to two guests. Not available for online purchase.
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Friday, August 4, 2023
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
DHHRM or Virtual
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Description:
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (DHHRM) select
Fridays this summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors,
refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation survivors.About the SpeakerHanna Schrob was born in 1936 in Maastricht, Holland.
The Nazis invaded Holland in 1940. Two years later, Hanna and her family
were arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Westerbork Transit Camp.
The family was held in Westerbork for over six months fearing
deportation to the East. After transfer to other camps in Western
Europe, Schrob and her family were liberated by the U.S. Army in France
in late 1944. The family emigrated to the U.S. afterwards.
There is no cost to attend this event, but
registration is required. This program is available virtually or in person. If you
would like to tour the museum, normal admission fees apply.
Register for virtual attendance here.Register for in-person attendance here.
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Saturday, August 5, 2023
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Educators
will receive free admission to Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) (with valid school ID) and
can learn about free education programs and resources available for K-12
classrooms during their “Meet and Greet” with the Education team. HMH
will also host a book giveaway and registration to win free one-year
Educator Memberships to the museum.
This event will kick off Free
First Saturdays for Educators for the 2023-2024 school year! On the
first Saturday of each month, university and K-12 educators can
experience the Museum's Holocaust, Human Rights, Diaries and Samuel Bak
galleries along with entry to featured exhibitions for free with a valid
school ID.
Learn more here.
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Monday, August 7, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The first-hand
recollections of survivors provide a unique eyewitness view of some of
the darkest recesses of history. USC Shoah Foundation - Institute for
Visual History and Education has videotaped the personal stories —
testimonies — of 53,000 of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.
Watching audiovisual testimonies of
survivors sharing their harrowing stories and perceiving the emotion on
their faces is a powerful way to teach about the human cost of
intolerance, hatred, and indifference from a deeply personal
perspective.
Through IWitness and Echoes &
Reflections, over 4400 of these testimonies are made available to
educators. Join this webinar to learn how to access and use the
testimonies and student activities connected to each of the 12 units.
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, August 9, 2023
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born into a
wealthy, aristocratic Jewish family in Vienna in 1906. She trained
under the German painter Max Beckmann, a family friend, and embarked on a
promising career. When the National Socialists marched into Austria in
1938 Motesiczky fled the country for the Netherlands, eventually
settling in England. Her attempts to build a new life in a foreign
country were supported by a network of fellow émigrés, among them the
painter Oskar Kokoschka and the writer Elias Canetti, with whom she had a
long relationship.
In a career that spanned over seven decades
she created a large oeuvre of over three hundred paintings, mainly
portraits, self-portraits and still-lifes. Reluctant to exhibit and not
forced to sell her work for a living, her art developed away from the
public eye, independent of current trends. Although, over the decades,
she had a number of solo exhibitions both in her adopted country and
abroad, her artistic career failed to take off for a long time.
While her solo exhibition at the Wiener Secession in 1966 brought her
artistic recognition in her native country, her breakthrough in England
only came in 1985 with a solo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut in
London. Since then her reputation as a major émigré artist has steadily
grown, supported, after her death in 1996, by the activities of
the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
Lecture by Ines Schlenker, introduced and moderated by Rachel Stern.
Register here.
Ines Schlenker is an independent art historian with a special interest in National Socialist, ‘degenerate’ and émigré art. Hitler’s Salon, her study of the officially approved art in the Third Reich as shown at the Great German Art Exhibition,
was published in 2007. She wrote the catalogue raisonné of the
paintings of the Vienna-born émigré Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (2009),
co-edited the artist’s correspondence with the writer Elias Canetti
(2011) and curated the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, that
celebrated the opening of the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive
Gallery in 2019. Recent publications include Capturing Time, a study of the life and work of the émigré artist Milein Cosman (2019), and Chagall (2022). She is a member of the committee of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
Rachel Stern is the Director of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York.
This event is part of the monthly series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression,”
which is organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted,
Ostracized and Banned Art, New York. Future events and the recordings of
past events can be found here.
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.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
What did
the average American know about the Holocaust as it was occurring? From
The New York Times to small local newspapers, Nazi laws and violence
against Jews were reported across the United States. Program Manager
Jennifer Goss will lead attendees through our suite of new self-directed
student activities, including one geared specifically to answering this
crucial question of American knowledge, involvement, and
non-involvement in the unfolding of the Holocaust.
Learn how
to incorporate these themes into your lessons utilizing primary sources,
videos, and student collaboration tools to engage and inspire action
within our democracy today. This webinar connects with the Echoes &
Reflections Complicity and Responsibility Unit and Student Activities.
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, August 10, 2023
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
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Description:
Educators, librarians, and school administrators receive free admission to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Thursdays in August 2023.
Present your school ID at the Guest Services desk to receive free
admission for up to two guests. Not available for online purchase.
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Saturday, August 12, 2023
at 2:30pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
In
celebration of Samuel Bak’s 90th birthday, Holocaust Museum Houston will
be hosting a special screening of the documentary “Samuel Bak: Painter
of Questions.”
This documentary explores Bak's work and life
through the lens of his childhood experiences. Born in 1933 in Vilna,
Poland, young Samuel was declared a child prodigy. The happiness of his
childhood came to an end, however, the day his family was marched into
the Jewish Ghetto, changing his life and his artistic vision forever.
Saved from the death camps by his father, the miracle of his survival
became and still is a recurring theme in his art. Insightful interviews
with the artist, Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer, and Pucker Gallery
director Bernard Pucker explore the unique and powerful visual
vocabulary and iconography of Bak's work, which is held in museums,
galleries, and collections worldwide.
The film screening will be
followed by a guided tour of the Samuel Bak Gallery and Learning Center.
The Bak Gallery features original works of art donated directly to Holocaust Museum Houston by the artist. Visitors will learn more about the context of his
works, examine the rich symbolism used in his paintings, and reflect on
the meaning and significance of his art in society today.
This program is included with admission. RSVP is not required.
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Monday, August 14, 2023
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
How did the Nazis plan the Holocaust? This webinar will
explore the systematic mass murder of the Jews that came to be known as
the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Using primary sources, Yad
Vashem educator Jonathan Matthews will take you through the progression
of critical decisions that led to the genocide of European Jewry. This webinar connects to the Echoes & Reflections Final Solution Unit.
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, August 16, 2023
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
YouTube
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Description:
Five-year-old Nat Shaffir stood in shock as the local priest his
family had known for years led Romanian soldiers to their doorstep in
November 1942. The priest pointed to the family and made plain his
betrayal: “These are Jews.”
The soldiers gave Nat's family four hours to load a few belongings
into a wagon, before forcing them to leave their farm and move to Iași—a
city with strict anti-Jewish laws.
Watch to learn how young Nat managed to obtain extra bread and
kerosene for his family and kept a solemn promise to his father to
protect his mother and sisters.
SpeakerNat Shaffir, 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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Thursday, August 17, 2023
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
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Description:
Educators, librarians, and school administrators receive free admission to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Thursdays in August 2023.
Present your school ID at the Guest Services desk to receive free
admission for up to two guests. Not available for online purchase.
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Sunday, August 20, 2023
at 2:00pm -
5:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
San Antonio Jewish Community Center
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Description:
Join the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio for a series of sessions presented by experts in the field, including Active Threat Training, Strategic Ways to Address Hate & Antisemitism Online, How to Recognize Elder Fraud & Online Scams, Stop the Bleed, Special Threat Report from the FBI, How to Talk to Young Children about Hate & Antisemitism, and more.
Registration is required. This in-person event is free and open to the community.Register here.
Opening PlenaryThe Threats of Hate in Our BackyardOliver Rich, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI San Antonio
Following the opening plenary, there will be two 30-minute breakout sessions:
Session 1Stop the BleedMichael Gdovin, Alamo Heights Fire Department
Preventing Falls for SeniorsCraig Stimson, former Air Force EMT and Oasis Community Outreach Director
How to Talk to Young Children about Hate & AntisemitismDanielle Bryant, Education Director for Anti-Defamation League Austin
United Against Hate: The Power of Relationships in Combating Antisemitism on CampusBrandi Schott, PhD, Director of the Multicultural Center for Equity and Justice at UTSA & Natalie Steiner, Director of Jewish Life for Hillel San Antonio
Session 2Strategic Ways to Address Hate & Antisemitism OnlineJosh Arbital, MA, Campus Regional Manager for the Central Area Region for StandWithUs
How to Recognize Elder Fraud & Online ScamsJustin Simmons, Assistant US Attorney for the Western District of Texas
What You Do Matters: Policing During the Holocaust and TodayJessica Hanshaw, EdD, HMMSA Education & Curations Manager; Liz Reichman, HMMSA Docent; and Tom Peine, HMMSA Docent
Do Jews Count?: Jewish Identity and the Limits of Protected DiscourseDavid Liss, Bestselling author
Closing PlenaryHow to Survive an Active ThreatSgt. Jeffrey Waters, San Antonio Police Department
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Monday, August 21, 2023
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
How Saba Kept Singing
is a moving film about Holocaust survivor David Wisnia. His testimony
and experiences will help students gain a deeper understanding of life
in Auschwitz, the importance of humanity and perseverance, and the power
of music. The film is freely available from Retro Report, a non-profit
journalism organization dedicated to connecting past and present, and
can be used in its entirety or in clips associated with the suite of
resources that accompany the film.Join
David Olson, Director of Education at Retro Report, as he discusses
this film and offers resources and strategies to bring Retro Report’s
library of over 275 short-form documentaries and accompanying resources
to help foster engagement and critical thinking in your classroom. This
webinar connects with the Echoes & Reflections Final Solution,
Jewish Resistance, and Justice, Life, and Memory after the Holocaust
Units.
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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