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DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series   View Event

  • Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
  • Description:  This program is available virtually or in person. Please make your selection on the right side of this page. Join us every afternoon during Spring Break to hear the testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second-generation Survivors. About the Speaker Bert Romberg was born in Astheim, Germany in 1930. In 1938, his mother planned for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself and securing spots for Bert and his sister Magie on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with English citizens. There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click here. If you would like to tour DHHRM, normal admission fees apply.

DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series   View Event

  • Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust
  • Description:  This program is available virtually or in person. Please make your selection on the right side of this page. Join us every afternoon during Spring Break to hear the testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation Survivors. About the Speaker Hanna 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. To register, click here. If you would like to tour the Museum, normal admission fees apply.

Echoes & Reflections- Hungary: The Last Chapter of the Holocaust   View Event

  • Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Online webinar
  • Description:  The height of the Holocaust was in the year 1944 with the destruction of the Jews of Hungary. Eighty years ago, in March 1944, German troops invaded Hungary and that spring and summer, in just 7 short weeks, over 430,000 Jews were deported, most to Auschwitz. How could this have happened so late in the war? What did people know? Despite this, the biggest and most effective rescue operation of the Holocaust occurred in Hungary. Join Rob Rozett, Senior Historian at Yad Vashem, to commemorate this anniversary and explore these issues. This webinar connects to the Final Solution unit on the Echoes & Reflections website. To register, click here. 

DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series   View Event

  • Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
  • Description:  This program is available virtually or in person. Please make your selection on the right side of this page. Join us every afternoon during Spring Break to hear the testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation Survivors. About the Speaker Dr. Andras Lacko was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. In a twist of fate, Lacko contracted scarlet fever in 1944 and was saved from ghettoization and subsequent deportation to Poland. He survived the Holocaust in a military hospital and was later reunited with his mother and father after the Soviet liberation of Budapest. There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click here. If you would like to tour the Museum, normal admission fees apply.

HMH- Film Screening | "999: The Forgotten Girls"   View Event

  • Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater
  • Description:  In the spring of 1942, the Nazis ordered the Slovak government to send a slave labor force and received 999 teenage, Jewish girls. Their railway ticket was a one-way trip to Auschwitz. First-time Director/Producer and author of the international best-selling book, 999, Heather Dune Macadam spent eleven years interviewing survivors of the first transport all over the world. Digging through family and government archives, 999 unearths ground-breaking research that reveals this untold story entirely from a female perspective. Those who survived endured more than three years in the death camps and beg us to ask the question: Why were girls targeted first? March 14, 20246:30 PM - 8:30 PMAlbert and Ethel Herzstein Theater To RSVP, click here. 

DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series   View Event

  • Friday, March 15, 2024 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust Human Rights Museum
  • Description:  This program is available virtually or in person. Please make your selection on the right side of this page. Join us every afternoon during Spring Break to hear the testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation Survivors. About the Speaker Magie Furst was born in Astheim, Germany in 1929. In 1938, her mother planned for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself and securing spots for Furst and her brother on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with English citizens. `There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click here. If you would like to tour the Museum, normal admission fees apply.

Echoes & Reflections: How Could This Happen? Answering Your Students' Toughest Questions About the Holocaust   View Event

  • Monday, March 18, 2024 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Online
  • Description:  As students study the Holocaust, they will and should have lots of questions. Answering and engaging in discussion about questions that arise in the classroom is a valuable learning opportunity. This webinar, led by Program Manager Jesse Tannetta, a former classroom teacher, will address questions submitted by participants during registration, with supporting primary sources and video testimony, and serve as a springboard to open up important conversations between teachers and their students that are vital to Holocaust education. Ask your questions to be addressed live during the webinar, click here.

"Women in Art: Polish Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis"   View Event

  • Monday, March 18, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual
  • Description:  During the Holocaust, there were a number of resistance movements with people who fought courageously and unrelentingly against the oppression of the Nazis. Among the ranks of these resisters were hundreds of Jewish women, some as young as sixteen years old, who risked torture, imprisonment, and death to save fellow Jews. They became couriers, medics, fighters, and saboteurs. In the end, some made it to safety, but many were captured or died in the process of trying to save others. The lives of these women remained largely untold until author Judy Batalion chronicled their remarkable lives in her book The Light of Days. Now, based on black and white photographs that have survived, artist Paula Blumenfeld is telling their stories visually, portraying in their faces their resolve, courage, selflessness, and dedication. As part of the Museum’s celebration of Women’s History Month, Blumenfeld will be in conversation about her art with Dr. Irit Felsen, a clinical psychologist whose art has been featured in art exhibitions in Hamburg, London, and New Jersey. Paula Blumenfeld lives and paints in the greater NYC area. She is fascinated by color and by the human body. Whether abstract or figurative, her paintings begin with the figure or its elements. She paints intimate figurative portraits, capturing the emotional state and inner strength of the subject. In addition, she creates abstract paintings which allow her to exclusively focus on composition and color. Irit Felsen, PhDis a clinical psychologist specializing in the effects of trauma and traumatic loss, and the intergenerational transmission of both trauma and resiliencies in families of Holocaust survivors. Dr. Felsen is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and at Yeshiva University in New York City, co-chair of the Trauma Working Group in the NGO on Mental Health in the United Nations, and chair of the Older Adults Work Group in the Interdivision APA COVID-19 Task Force. She maintains a private practice in Englewood, New Jersey. Dr. Felsen’s research papers and book chapters have been published in peer reviewed publications. In addition, Dr. Felsen’s art has been featured in art exhibitions in Hamburg, London, and New Jersey. To register, click here. 

Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, “BENT”   View Event

  • Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, and Dr. Kerry Whigham, Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University and Co-Director of its Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, for a conversation about “BENT,” the 1979 play subsequently adapted for the big screen, which explores the persecution of Queer men in Nazi Germany, during and after the Night of Long Knives in 1934. This event is part of a special collaboration between the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and the QCC-CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium in a semester-long project entitled “Performance as Prevention.” Programming of the QCC Chapter of the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium is made possible due to generous funding from the New York City Council Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Caucus and the Office of the Mayor; and supported by the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. QCC promotional partners for this programming includes: the Ally LGBTQIA+ Club; the LGBTQIA+ Faculty and Staff Association; and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). It is co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at the US Military Academy at West Point; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu. To register, click here. 

Paragraph 175: The Contemporary Impact of Nazi-era Homophobia and Persecution   View Event

  • Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom
  • Description:  Paragraph 175 was an 1871 German statute criminalizing sexual relations between men. Predating the Nazi regime, it was revised in 1935 allowing the Nazis to persecute larger numbers of men more aggressively. Join Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, for a discussion about Paragraph 175’s significance, other Nazi-era attacks against the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as how this history is reflected in contemporary anti-transgender legislation. This event is part of the 2023-24 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Weaponizing the Past: Art, History and the Rhetoric of National Greatness.” 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 Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at the US Military Academy at West Point; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu. To register, click here. 

Echoes & Reflections- Teaching about The Armenian Genocide   View Event

  • Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 3:30pm - 4:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Online Zoom
  • Description:  The history of the Armenian Genocide is both nuanced and complex. Sedda Antekelian, Senior Learning and Development Specialist at USC Shoah Foundation, will offer strategies for using testimonies and a variety of resources related to the Armenian Genocide experience, which can help encourage student reflection on the human impact of the events. To register, click here. 

JCC San Antonio- LoneStar Cinema: Reckonings   View Event

  • Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Barshop JCC
  • Description:  USA | Documentary | 2022 | 60/74 min. Director: Roberta Grossman | Producers: Roberta Grossman, Karen Heilig They 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? Reckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman (Who Will Write Our History), Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence, they forged ahead, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgment and a step towards healing. To register, click here. 

DHHRM: Student Film Screening: Jojo Rabbit   View Event

  • Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 1:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
  • Description:  This event is for high school students only. Please bring your student ID to present at check-in. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Junior Board is hosting a Student Movie Screening on March 24th! Join us from 1:30 – 5:00 pm for a screening of Jojo Rabbit, a World War II satire film that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism. North Texas high school students are welcome to join Museum staff and the Junior Board in the Museum’s Cinemark theater for the film screening and a post-film discussion. Students must sign up beforehand here and have their parent or guardian sign this permission form. Please print and bring the signed form with you the day of the event, along with a valid student ID. Questions? Email bcoe@dhhrm.org. Schedule: 1:30 - 1:50 pm: Check in and optional Museum exploration 1:50 pm: Quick introduction to the Junior Board 2:00 pm: Film Screening of Jojo Rabbit (2019) 4:00-5:00: Post-film discussion led by Museum staff About the Junior Board The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Junior Board develops activities that contribute to the Museum's networking and community-building efforts and completes a yearlong project related to the Holocaust and human rights. In addition to impacting the Museum in a positive and meaningful way, high school students have an opportunity to build leadership skills and advance their personal and professional networks through their participation.

Houston Jewish Film Festival: June Zero   View Event

  • Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:45pm
  • Calendar:   Films
  • Location:  Kaplan Theatre @ JCC Houston
  • Description:  Drama | Directed by Jake Paltrow | 2022 | Israel | Hebrew, with English subtitles | 105 Min. | Kaplan Theatre American filmmaker Jake Paltrow revisits the 1962 trial of Adolf Eichmann with a gripping Hebrew-language historical drama centered on three Israeli characters on the periphery of Eichmann’s last days: a precocious Libyan immigrant boy, a Moroccan prison guard and a Polish Holocaust survivor working for the prosecution. With Eichmann relegated to the background, the trio’s seemingly ordinary lives become intertwined in the extraordinary, seminal moment. Warmly saturated 16mm filming gives a rich, antique texture to all three storylines. To find out more, click here. 

MJH Commemorating Arthur Szyk's 130th Birthday   View Event

  • Monday, March 25, 2024 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Online via hyperlink
  • Description:  Polish-born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk (Łódź, 1894—New Canaan, CT 1951) was a great advocate for humanity and for the global Jewish community. Szyk (pronounced Shik) achieved world-wide recognition in the 1920s and 1930s in Poland, France, and England before immigrating to the U.S. in 1940 where he went on to become the leading anti-Nazi artist during World War II. Szyk is also famous for his illuminated Passover Haggadah, and his iconic towering Holy Ark for the Forest Hills Jewish Center. Szyk’s work fought injustice and intolerance, bigotry and racism as a “soldier in art.” This four-part lecture series by Szyk scholar Irvin Ungar will explore how and why Szyk is the artist of and for the Jewish people, and the ways his art and spirit remain eternal in the service of mankind. Irvin Ungar is the world’s foremost expert on the art of Arthur Szyk and the tireless force behind the Szyk renaissance. A former pulpit rabbi fluent in Jewish history and tradition, Irvin is the CEO and founder of Historicana, an antiquarian book firm and small publishing house of Szyk imprints. Beginning in 1987, Irvin first specialized in Szyk’s remarkable illustrated books and quickly expanded his repertoire to include original art, fine art prints, and other important Szyk works. He has curated and consulted for numerous Szyk exhibitions at major institutions worldwide, including: the New-York Historical Society (New York City); the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin); the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC); and the Library of Congress. Irvin is the author of Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art (2017 National Jewish Book Award winner) and Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk(1998). His most recent book Arthur Szyk Preserved: Institutional Collections of Original Art was published in 2023. Additionally, Irvin is the co-producer of the documentary film, “Soldier in Art: Arthur Szyk,” and the publisher of the luxury limited edition of The Szyk Haggadah (2008). He also served as the curator of The Arthur Szyk Society (1997-2017) and its traveling exhibition program and continues lecturing and speaking about Szyk on university campuses, museums and other venues around the world. Irvin’s memoirs on his life with Arthur Szyk have been accepted by a major university press and will be forthcoming. As early as 1934, Arthur Szyk told the American press: "An artist, and especially a Jewish artist, cannot be neutral in these times... Our life is involved in a terrible tragedy, and I am resolved to serve my people with all my art, with all my talent, with all my knowledge." Szyk went on to become the most important anti-Nazi artist in America during World War II and the leading artist for the rescue of European Jewry. No one created more activist art to motivate America's fight against the Nazis than the "soldier in art" himself, and his Holocaust art was more widely reproduced than that of any artist. The Museum's exhibition The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do has several of these drawings and cartoons on display. Szyk's 1943 masterpiece De profundis: Cain, where is Abel thy brother? may well be the single most significant contemporary Holocaust work of art on paper. Szyk devoted himself to the dignity of every Jewish soul. Register here to attend virtually.