Events List
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List of Events
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
How did the German police become mass murderers, involved in deportations and mass shootings of Jews and others during the Holocaust? This webinar will explore the transformation of the German police, staffed by "ordinary men," into an instrument of state repression and genocide under the Nazi regime. Join Yad Vashem educator Julian Tsapir to examine historical sources and get insights into the ideological training, the situational dynamics and the personal motivations at play in turning police into perpetrators.
To register, please click here.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
ICS will examine the rich diversity and history of Jewish Americans, and gain insights that deepen the understandings of identity for all students. Teachers of world history, U.S. history, ethnic studies, human geography and world religions will all find relevant applications and resources in this workshop.
This workshop primarily supports 6-12 educators. However, all are welcome to participate!
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual event
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Description:
The Nazi party introduced antisemitic exclusionary laws shortly after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor in January 1933. While Jews were the primary target of persecution and murder, those who did not fit the “Aryan” ideal espoused by the Nazis were also persecuted under exclusionary regulations, including Black people, and Sinti and Roma in Germany, among others. This year’s Meyerhoff Annual Lecture will explore work produced by Jewish and Black artists interned during the Holocaust and World War II.
Speakers will pay special attention to Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’s work with children in the Theresienstadt ghetto and Josef Nassy’s visual diary of his life in the Laufen and Tittmoning internment camps for enemy aliens. They will discuss the importance of art in documenting persecution and murder, while bearing witness to the atrocities and preserving the stories of those who endured the Holocaust—including the stories of victim groups othered in society.
SpeakersSarah Phillips Casteel, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University at Buffalo
ModeratorDanielle Battisti, Department Chair, Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska Omaha
This in-person or virtual discussion is free and open to the public. Registration is required to receive the link to watch.
Register here.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Webinar via Zoom
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Description:
The Institute for Curriculum Services and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History are thrilled to host a webinar featuring Dara Horn, the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021), to enlighten participants about her body of work and offer educators with tangible ways to elevate and celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month in their classrooms. There will be a drawing to win one of five signed copies of her book, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021) after the webinar.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
JCC San Antonio
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Description:
50 minute film on the massacre taken place at the Supernova Music Festival on October 7th, 2023 in Israel.
Viewer discretion is advised.
English Subtitles provided.
*must be 21 years or older to participate
To register, click here.
Synopsis:
The massacre at the Supernova Festival in the Negev desert marks a historic turning point for Israel: On October 7th, 2023 at 06:30 AM, Hamas terrorists broke through the borders from Gaza into Israel, launching a planned and coordinated attack. Among their targets - a yearly techno music festival with over 3500 young revelers in attendance. Soon the festival grounds turned into a scene of horror: Over 370 people were brutally murdered, hundreds wounded and 40 kidnapped and taken as hostages. The festival attack at Re’im was one of Hamas' first targets and the start of the war that continues to this day.
In this emotional film, survivors, first responders and parents recount their stories and the horrors they witnessed. Filmed just a few days after the events, their trauma is evident, their grief over friends lost is palpable, their continued fear is apparent.
The attacks were documented in real time, and for the first time - by both perpetrators and victims. Using materials meticulously collected from dozens of sources, including Hamas’ own cameramen and GoPros, survivors’ mobile phones, CCTV footage, dash cams and from first responders on site- providing unprecedented insight into the massacre
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Thursday, May 2, 2024
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
JCC Houston
Joe Frank Theatre
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Description:
Venue: Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Joe Frank Theatre
Staged Reading: Ghetto
by Joshua Sobol
Directed by Jennifer Decker
Thursday, May 2 | 7:30 PM
Tickets: Member $15 | Public $21
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination. The play unfolds as a memory of a former artistic director of the Vilna ghetto theater and explores the life and death decisions of Mr. Gens, head of ghetto; the mixed emotions of Chaja, an actress in the troupe; and the questionable ethics of Weiskopf, a tailor. At times Ghetto is a play within a play and it contains songs that were actually sung in the ghettos.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Saturday, May 4, 2024
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
JCC Houston
Joe Frank Theatre
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Description:
Venue: Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Joe Frank Theatre
Staged Reading: Ghetto
by Joshua Sobol
Directed by Jennifer Decker
Thursday, May 2 | 7:30 PM
Tickets: Member $15 | Public $21
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination. The play unfolds as a memory of a former artistic director of the Vilna ghetto theater and explores the life and death decisions of Mr. Gens, head of ghetto; the mixed emotions of Chaja, an actress in the troupe; and the questionable ethics of Weiskopf, a tailor. At times Ghetto is a play within a play and it contains songs that were actually sung in the ghettos.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
TBD
San Antonio
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Description:
N/A
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Museum admission fees will be waived on Sunday, May 5, 2024 in honor of Holocaust survivor Walter Kase, z”l and Yom HaShoah.
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.
To reserve tickets for free, click here.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
Yom HaShoah is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 10:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom online
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Description:
"The iconography of antisemitism: Continuity and Change”
Professor Maiken Umbach, Professor, Modern History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.
Click here to register for this webinar.
Webinars will be available live in German with simultaneous English translation. Recordings will be made available in German
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 12:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Congregation Beth Yeshurun
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Description:
March of Remembrance Houston 2024
Registered participants are asked to park at Congregation Beth Yeshurun (4525 Beechnut St., Houston, TX 77096). There is no dedicated parking at the starting location.
Upon gate arrival you will be directed to a dedicated parking area where your registration will be confirmed. A minibus shuttle will then take you to the starting location which is <1.5 miles away and ~5-10 minute ride.
[The March of Remembrance Houston and the Citywide Yom HaShoah are two different events.]Show lesschevronNorth icon
Location: Houston, Texas
Date and time: Sun, May 5, 2024 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Organizer: Jeffrey Craig, (888) 546-8111, events@hra18.org
There is no cost to join the March, but for security, a head count is needed for the event. Please register here.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 12:30pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
JCC Houston
Joe Frank Theatre
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Description:
Venue: Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Joe Frank Theatre
Staged Reading: Ghetto
by Joshua Sobol
Directed by Jennifer Decker
Thursday, May 2 | 7:30 PM
Tickets: Member $15 | Public $21
Set in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania, in 1942, and based on diaries written during the darkest days of the holocaust, Ghetto tells of the unlikely flourishing of a theatre at the very time the Nazis began their policy of mass extermination. The play unfolds as a memory of a former artistic director of the Vilna ghetto theater and explores the life and death decisions of Mr. Gens, head of ghetto; the mixed emotions of Chaja, an actress in the troupe; and the questionable ethics of Weiskopf, a tailor. At times Ghetto is a play within a play and it contains songs that were actually sung in the ghettos.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Congregation B'nai Zion
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Description:
Join EPHM at Congregation B'nai Zion at a community commemoration of Yom HaShoah as we gather to remember the victims of the Holocaust, honor the survivors, and reflect on what their legacy means for each of today.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 2:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Georgetown Public Library
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Description:
– In recognition of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Gregg Philipson along with Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City, Texas and in partnership with the Georgetown Public Library have created a thought-provoking program titled "Rescued Evidence and Pieces of the Past: Exploring Antisemitism through Artifacts and Memorabilia.". This program will take place at The Georgetown Public Library’s Hewlett Room, located at 402 West 8th Street in Georgetown, Texas on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 2:00pm. The event is FREE and all are welcome.
Presented by Gregg Philipson, this program promises a unique insight into the collection and narratives contained within the Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive. These artifacts, painstakingly preserved, offer a poignant glimpse into the harrowing realities of antisemitism throughout history.
Attendees will see genuine artifacts including Jewish-related military items, Holocaust-era materials, and WWII propaganda while hearing compelling stories of bravery and sacrifice from specific American families and servicemen during WWII. Gregg Philipson will share poignant narratives, including Michelle's family's escape from Poland, his father's experiences as a US soldier and concentration camp liberator, and accounts of other US servicemen who played pivotal roles in liberating Europe.
Gregg Philipson, a dedicated curator and custodian of history, will lead attendees on a captivating journey through these artifacts, elucidating their historical context and significance. Through this exploration, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of antisemitism and the importance of preserving these pieces as testaments to the past. "The artifacts and memorabilia showcased in this collection serve as tangible reminders of a history we must never forget," remarked Gregg Philipson. "It's crucial to understand the depth and breadth of antisemitism through these preserved pieces, fostering a dialogue that educates and enlightens."
This presentation, tailored for all ages, prompts reflection on the historical context of the 1930s and 1940’s and its relevance in today’s world. It highlights the resurgence of global anti-Jewish behavior, urging attendees to speak out against oppression and advocate for kindness as a vital principle
Gregg Philipson, originally from Utica, NY, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in both Finance and Marketing from the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. He and his wife Michelle have been residents of Austin, TX for over 30 years. They have collected and assembled a very large and impressive collection of artifacts including Jewish related military artifacts, Holocaust-era material, WWII propaganda and much more. The “Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive” is regularly exhibited at major museums, universities, colleges, schools as well as U.S. military installations. Mr. Philipson lectures internationally on Jewish related subjects including the Holocaust, propaganda art and Jewish military history. His commitment to community service extends further, evidenced by his advisory role at the Holocaust Museum Houston and his lifelong membership in the Jewish War Veterans. In recognition of his outstanding community relations, Mr. Philipson received the prestigious Jewish War Veterans Wolfson Award in 2019.
Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City, Texas, a non-profit 501C3 organization was founded in 1996 when the first Jewish residents of Sun City came together to share their religious and cultural heritage. Congregation Havurah Shalom is dedicated to serving the spiritual, educational, cultural, civic and social needs of its members in an egalitarian environment framed by Jewish tradition and in an atmosphere of joy and mutual caring
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