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List of Events
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Monday, July 1, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually via Zoom
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Description:
Our 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.
Summer 1942 marked the beginning of mass deportations of Jews from French soil to Auschwitz-Birkenau. For the first time, women and children were arrested in large numbers. By the end of July, the need to fill quotas led the authorities to deport parents from the internment camps without their children. Left alone to fend for themselves for a few more weeks, the children were ultimately deported as well.Led by Yad Vashem’s Emmanuelle Moscovitz, this webinar will shed light on the infamous Vélodrome d'hiver roundup and the family separation that ensued. Conserved in the Yad Vashem archives, we will analyze some of the letters written by deportees to their loved ones.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
(all day)
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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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Monday, July 8, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
Participate in this online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism in today’s classrooms. Antisemitism did not fade after World War II, but is a global phenomenon that continues to rise. Participation in this course will give you the tools needed to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate lessons on contemporary antisemitism for students.
Course Details:
Program includes three interactive modules released over three weeks; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no costProceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educatorsComplete all three modules for a 6-hour certificateFinal module includes additional time to complete optional final project for a 10-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Module I: Opens Monday, July 8thModule II: Opens Monday, July 15thModule III: Opens Monday, July 22ndOptional Final Project: Due August 5th
Program Outcomes:
Learn about the comprehensive resources available in Echoes & Reflections to support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism.Be introduced to a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust.Practice instructional strategies designed to help your students learn about the complex history of contemporary antisemitism that persists in their schools, communities, and the world.(Optional) Prepare a final project to take back to the classroom.Become part of a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocide.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually via Zoom
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Description:
Our 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.
It is rare to see photographs taken by Jewish victims in the ghettos. In most cases, the Jews did not have cameras and the photographs we have were taken by the perpetrators. In this webinar, Alexandra Impris - educator at The Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History - will focus on the everyday life in ghettos as seen through the photographs of Jews forced to live in them. The collection of Holocaust survivor Zvi Hirsch Kadushin from Kaunas, Lithuania reveals the nuances of ghetto life and how the Jews tried to survive the new challenges they faced every day, providing us with a better understanding of certain lesser-discussed aspects of the Holocaust.
This webinar connects to Unit 4 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual via Zoom
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Description:
The Third Reich was one of the bloodiest regimes in history, but are the atrocities committed during World War II being lost to modern memory? Through the framing of the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness testimony of American journalist William L. Shirer, this six-part documentary series from filmmaker Joe Berlinger explores the shocking rise and fall of Hitler and his enablers who were fueled through propaganda, censorship and a campaign of antisemitism.
Berlinger will be in conversation about the series with Deirdre van Dyk, William L. Shirer’s granddaughter, and Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual online
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Description:
Under threat from Nazi antisemitism, the young Jewish lawyer Curt Bloch (1908–1975) fled Dortmund for the Netherlands in 1933. He went into hiding there in 1942 and emigrated to the United States after the war. In his hiding place, from August 1943 to April 1945 Bloch produced a magazine with the telling title Het Onderwater Cabaret – “The Underwater Cabaret.”
Week by week, Curt Bloch created small-format booklets with artfully designed covers, containing a total of 483 handwritten poems in German and Dutch, embellished with artistic collages and photo montages. His cover designs and poems referred to political and military events, addressing his situation in hiding and the fate of his family. He unmasked Nazi propaganda with caustic irony and sardonic wit, yet always fully aware that the National Socialists were committing mass murder against the European Jews.
Curt Bloch preserved his unique legacy in his New York home for many decades. Through his daughter, Simone Bloch, it has come to the Jewish Museum Berlin, where it was shown to the public for the first time (February 9 – June 23, 2024). The unique work is a powerful testimony of creative resistance to war, disinformation, and persecution.
Aubrey Pomerance has directed the archives of the Jewish Museum Berlin, and the JMB branches of the archives of the Leo Baeck Institute New York and of the Wiener Holocaust Library, since 2001. He was born in Canada in 1959 and studied Jewish Studies and East and Southeast European History at the Free University of Berlin. In 1995/96, he became a research assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies there. From 1996 to 2001, Aubrey Pomerance was a research assistant at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History in Duisburg. At the Jewish Museum Berlin, he curated the exhibitions Roman Vishniac’s Berlin, Ruth Jacobi: Photographs, and Shrines, Papyri, and Winged Goddesses: The Archaeologist Otto Rubensohn, and was also one of the curators of the JMB’s new core exhibition, which opened in 2020. He publishes on German-Jewish commemorative culture, Jewish lives during the Nazi era, Jewish photographers in Berlin, archives, and archival education.
To register, click here.
This event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression” organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, New York.
Please donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Youtube
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Description:
In Nazi Germany, there was no escaping the steady drumbeat of lies and misinformation to build German pride and blame the Jews for society’s problems. Nazi propaganda was pervasive—from radio broadcasts and blockbuster movies to billboards and children’s books. Join us to find out how Hitler and the Nazi party deployed a sweeping campaign to win support, manipulate a nation, and eventually commit mass murder.
GuestDr. Steven Luckert, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Curator, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
HostDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Watch live on YouTube or Facebook. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum’s YouTube and Facebook pages.
To watch, click here.
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Lester and Sue Smith Campus
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
Please join us for the opening of this compelling and transformative exhibition featuring the masterful paintings and drawings of acclaimed artist David Kassan, capturing the poignant stories and portraits of Holocaust survivors.
Facing Survival stands as a profound testament to the enduring power of art in narrating the untold stories of resilience and survival. Through the evocative paintings and sketches meticulously crafted by Kassan, the exhibition unveils the profound journey of more than two dozen Holocaust survivors. By intertwining the visual representation of the survivors with the sketches revealing Kassan’s artistic process, this exhibition transcends conventional forms of testimony, forging a poignant visual language that surpasses the limitations of spoken or written word.
To RSVP, click here.
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Friday, July 12, 2024
at 9:00am -
3:30pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
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Description:
At the Museum. This is a joint session with Region 8 ESC. Featuring a virtual tour of our Holocaust/Shoah wing and a discussion of resources offered by the Museum.
To find out more, click here.
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Friday, July 12, 2024
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust & Human Rights Museum
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Description:
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 then emigrated to the U.S.
There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click the "buy" button. If you would like to tour the Museum, normal admission fees apply.
To virtually attend this event, register here.
To attend this event in person, click here.
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Monday, July 15, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online Course
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Description:
In this dynamic online course, offered in partnership between Echoes & Reflections and The Defiant Requiem Foundation, educators will explore how Jews continued to live creative and artistic lives against the backdrop of the Holocaust. By exploring the experience of Jews forcibly interned in the Terezin/Theresienstadt ghetto, participants will learn how these individuals used music, art, and other forms of creative expression as cultural and spiritual resistance in defiance of the Nazis who sought to dehumanize them.
How did the Jews resist oppression in the Terezin ghetto? What can we learn from their perseverance under these circumstances? In this asynchronous online course, educators examine the creation of the Terezin ghetto, the role of resistance, and how the prisoner performances of Verdi's Requiem inspired individuals then and now. This facilitator-led course also includes an exploration of Echoes & Reflections and The Defiant Requiem Foundation's resources that support your teaching strategies and enhanced understanding for your students.
Course Details:
Course opens July 15th at 7AM ET; approximately 4 hours to complete in total – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educators.Complete all activities for a 4-hour certificate.Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Apply sound pedagogy when planning and implementing Holocaust lessons. Understand the various types of resistance that Jewish individuals exhibited during the era of the Holocaust.Analyze how the prisoners’ performance of the Verdi Requiem in the Terezín ghetto represented an act of resistance.Identify and construct activities that contextualize this performance’s significance for use with students in a secondary classroom.
To enroll in this course, click here.
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Monday, July 15, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual online via Zoom
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Description:
Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland and its surrounding towns to worksites in Germany. Believing that they were helping their families to survive, these young people were thrust into a world where they labored at textile work for twelve hours a day, lived in barracks with little food, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps, where they were held until liberation in 1945.
Reconstructing their experiences from their own testimonies, this talk with Dr. Janine Holc, based on her book The Weavers of Tratenau, will explore how these teenaged girls and young unmarried women conceived of their future while they were held in these camps – how they supported each other and sustained their senses of themselves as Jews with a past, present, and future – while only gradually facing the reality of what had happened to Jewish life in Europe.
Dr. Janine Holc is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. She has published on democratic institutions in Poland, reproductive rights in Eastern Europe, the politics of Holocaust memory, and antisemitism. Her most recent book is The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust, published by Brandeis University Press in 2023.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
at 9:00am -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston Classroom
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a one-day educator workshop on teaching the Holocaust.
Educators will learn approaches to teaching the Holocaust using activities and resources designed for the classroom. Educators will be introduced to the Holocaust through tours of HMH’s Galleries and gain instructional strategies and resources to support Holocaust education in their classrooms.
Participants will receive HMH’s Holocaust Remembrance Toolkit containing lesson plans, primary sources, and student worksheets to utilize in their classroom. Lesson plans included in the Toolkit will be modeled and educators will obtain more information on free school programs and resources available through the Museum.
Teachers from the 6th-12th grade, in all subject areas, are encouraged to participate in this FREE workshop.
This workshop will credit 7 CPE and 6 GT hours.
To register for the workshop, click here.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
The Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators at Holocaust Museum Houston is a three-day program that moves beyond the general history of the Holocaust to explore the various dimensions and implications of the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights.
The program is directed toward educators on a secondary or higher level, but university students and educators of all levels who have a specific interest in, and background knowledge of genocide and the Holocaust, are invited to apply. The cost to attend the program is $50, which includes books and materials. Educators outside of the Greater Houston area are responsible for their own transportation/airfare and hotel accommodations.
APPLICATIONS DUE JUNE 30, 2024
Registration fee due July 10, 2024
Scholarships are available for first-time attendees (scholarship only covers the registration fee of $50).
2024 Focus: Teaching the Holocaust Through Literature and the Fine Arts
To apply, please visit:
https://hmh.org/KaplanInstitut...
FOR MORE INFORMATION,
PLEASE CONTACT: education@hmh.org | 713-527-1642
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtually via Zoom
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Description:
Using aerial photographs, ground photographs, and extensive eye-witness testimony, author and historical consultant Dr. Martin C. Dean examined the topography of Babyn Yar, located in modern-day Ukraine, to shed new light on one the largest mass shootings of Jews in German-occupied Europe. His recently published work, Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death, pieces together the story of the destruction of Kyiv’s Jews from September 29 to 30, 1941 using history’s shattered fragments, tracing their journey out of the city, and using discarded clothing and distinctive terrain as a trail of breadcrumbs to identify the killing site in the ravine. Dean joins us to discuss the Babyn Yar massacre, describe efforts by Jews to flee the city, and recount the Nazis’ attempt to cover up their crimes before hastily retreating the city.
To register, click here.
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