Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Congregation Beth Yeshurun
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Description:
Please join us in observance of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6,000,000 Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this annual commemoration, we will mourn the loss of all who perished, honor those who survived and come together as a community to remember and reflect.
Coordinated by the Yom HaShoah Steering Committee and Holocaust Museum Houston
Funding for this service is generously provided by:The Morgan Family Endowment Fund, the Morgan Family Center and the Morgan Family Foundation
To livestream this event please visit this link.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Lampasas Performing Arts Center
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Description:
The County Line Community Band will present their Holocaust Remembrance Concert on Sunday, May 5 at 3 p.m. It will take place at the Lampasas Performing Arts Center on the Northeast Lakeview College, 1201 Kittyhawk Rd in Live Oak.
The band will be joined by the 323rd Army Band, stationed on Fort Sam, to present this touching and inspirational concert. Moving stories of music and how it served as a source of strength, faith and hope during the Holocaust are featured.
The story of the composition of Ani Ma’Amin on a train ride to the concentration camp and the secretly defiant performance of Kol Nidrei by the Violinist of Auschwitz are highlighted. Music composed at Auschwitz by imprisoned musicians will be performed and the story of how music was used by the SS to veil the true horror of their purpose are revealed.
This concert will prove to be a discovery of hope and faith through music while serving as a source of heartfelt remembrance for those that perished in the Holocaust. The concert is free and open to the public.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Temple Shalom
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Description:
Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2024 at Temple Shalom
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Shalom Austin
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Description:
Join us for Yom HaShoah at the 2024 Shalom Austin Holocaust Remembrance Event hosted and organized by Phil Klein. The program includes guest speakers, inspiring video montages, vocal soloists with piano accompaniment, and a special candle-lighting ceremony. Content is appropriate for children 10 and older.
To register for this event, click here.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
How do we choose to remember the Holocaust in the United States? To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) in Israel, join Tyler J. Goldberger of William & Mary to explore the questions and issues behind remembrance of this genocide. This interactive webinar will focus on the importance of memorialization, and show strategies to read and engage with prominent memorials throughout the United States. The webinar will empower educators to teach about the role and interpretation of memorials in remembering the past and connects to the Justice, Life, and Memory after the Holocaust unit on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
at 5:00pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Keynote: Nathan Hilu: Art as Memory After the Holocaust
For 70 years, Nathan Hilu was unable to stop drawing, flooded with memories from the days when the US military assigned him to guard top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, keeping them from committing suicide before their verdict was announced. Born to a Syrian Jewish family that immigrated to the States, Hilu remembered with vivid clarity the encounters that changed his life, but what really happened in Nuremberg? Did his vivid memories deceive him? To commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join “Nathan-ism” documentary director Elan Golod, for a discussion of the film and reflections on art as memory.
The event is organized by the KHC and 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.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
at 6:45pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Homes around greater Houston
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Description:
Join us for a multi-generational program commemorating the Holocaust in homes around Greater Houston.
You will be matched to a home by your zip code.
Register here to RSVP.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Temple Beth-El
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Description:
Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed by the Jewish community each spring, and is a national memorial day in Israel. The San Antonio Community observes Yom Hashoah at a different San Antonio synagogue every year. This observance uses Jewish traditions to remember the victims of the Holocaust, we invite all San Antonio Community members to join in remembering those whose lives were lost during the Holocaust.
This year's community observance will include a presentation from the Joshua Greene, author of Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend. Joining the author will be Ivan Wilzig, the son of Siggi Wilzig.
Learn more and RSVP HERE
Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of San Antonio and the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio in cooperation with Chaba Center for Jewish Life & Learning, Chabad La Cantera, Chabad of Boerne, Congregation Beth Am, Congregation Agudas Achim, Congregation Rodfei Sholom, Congregation Shalom of San Antonio, Temple Beth-El.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Temple Rodef Sholom
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Description:
Anna Salton Eisen, is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. She is a Jewish educator, and the author of two books: The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust memoir, relating her father’s experience surviving slave labor & concentration camps; and Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
In her dynamic, multimedia presentation, Anna will share her father’s Holocaust journey through 10 concentration camps in Poland, Germany, and France. She travels with her father back to Poland to uncover his story and presents his original Holocaust artwork (housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem). Through her Holocaust archival research work as an Ambassador to the Arolsen Archives, Anna searches for and discovers the children of her father’s fellow concentration camp prisoners and several of his American liberators and shares these emotional reunions.
Signed books will be available for $15
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
LOOK Theater Dallas
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Description:
2022, 84 minutes, German & Hebrew
Directed by Roberta Grossman
A documentary film about the reparation negotiations between the German government Israel, and holocaust survivors for "compensation" for suffering and loss of property.
To order tickets, click here.
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Explore one of the world’s oldest religions. This session will cover Judaism’s beliefs, behaviors, and experiences of belonging. You’ll gain digital activities to incorporate into your classroom as well as the content to help your students understand the basics of Judaism.
This workshop primarily supports 6-12 educators. However, all are welcome to participate!
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Female homosexuality was not explicitly criminalized in Nazi Germany, but queer women were still viewed and persecuted as an outsider group. What did their lives look like in a discriminatory society where they were not formally targeted?
Join us on March 15 as Samuel Clowes Huneke, author of the award-winning States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany, uncovers stories about queer women during the Third Reich—their treatment in society and opportunities to resist.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Join us as Israeli journalist Dvir Bar-Gal shares his decades of research into the story of the Shanghai Ghetto, and how it served not only as a refuge for European Jews, but also became an important center for Jewish culture and history in an uncertain time.
In 1930’s Nazi Germany, Jews and other communities targeted by the Reich found themselves desperate to find refuge in foreign lands. Due to antisemitism and strict immigration laws at that time, many Jews were trapped and unable to escape to safety. One of the few, and one of the most unknown places in which Jews were able to find shelter, was the Chinese Port City of Shanghai.
Please register here if planning on attending.
This event is free, but has suggested donation amounts.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
A complex hero. A forgotten story. The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust . . .
Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen—a forensically detailed report that eventually reached Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Pope.
And yet too few heeded the warning that Vrba had risked everything to deliver. Though Vrba helped save two hundred thousand Jewish lives, he never stopped believing it could have been so many more.
This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man—a gifted “escape artist” who, even as a teenager, understood that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death. Rudolf Vrba deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust.
Register here.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry.
In her book Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust, historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples’ fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the exhilaration of the brides’ early romances coexisted with survivor’s guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land.
Robin Judd is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, where she directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History Fellowship program.
To register, click here.
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