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Monday, August 5, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
This course will deepen student understanding of the Holocaust through The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, examining America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century and its role in World War II.
Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of resources centered around clips from The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, that support teaching about the intersections of the Holocaust and World War II. Participants will explore topics such as antisemitism, immigration, xenophobia and the Final Solution. This course was developed in collaboration with Echoes & Reflections, Florentine Films, PBS LearningMedia and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. We applaud your commitment to teaching this topic and are eager to support you to ensure your students are able to engage in thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate learning. This course is appropriate for secondary educators teaching European, World and US history as well as other disciplines where the Holocaust is addressed.
Course Details
Program includes three interactive modules released over three weeks; approximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no costProgram includes a ready-to-use lesson plan that incorporates film clips from The U.S. and the HolocaustParticipants proceed at their own pace each week, are supported by an instructor, and enjoy asynchronous interaction with other educatorsEducators complete all three modules for a 6-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Course opens Monday, August 5th and will remain open through September 2nd.
Program Outcomes:
Apply sound pedagogy when planning and implementing Holocaust lessons. Understand how the Nazi ideology of racial antisemitism and territorial expansion led to and shaped World War II and the Holocaust.Analyze America’s response to the Holocaust within the context of World War II.Identify and construct activities that build context around clips from the film The U.S. and the Holocaust
To enroll in this course, click here.
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Monday, September 2, 2024
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
Our signature professional development program provides educators with classroom resources to help students build a profound understanding of the Holocaust, the history of antisemitism, and its enduring significance in today's world.
Participate in three modules which will provide you with an overview of Echoes & Reflections and its associated resources, a sound pedagogy for teaching about the Holocaust, background information on the history of antisemitism, and time to consider effective use of several primary sources when teaching about this complex topic.
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, September 2ndModule II: Opens Monday, September 9thModule III: Opens Monday, September 16thOptional Final Project: Due Monday, September 30th
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Learn about the comprehensive resources available in Echoes & Reflections.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 the Holocaust.Enhance your own knowledge about the history of antisemitism.Identify strategies for integrating visual history testimony into your Holocaust instruction.Develop strategies for introducing students to a variety of primary sources.(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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Monday, September 2, 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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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
at 8:30am -
12:30pm
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Commission Meetings
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Location:
TBD
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
(THGAAC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 4th,
2024 beginning at 8:30AM. Every quarter the
THGAAC holds a meeting, open to
the public, in order to review its current projects and initiatives.
The Commission invites any member of the public who might be interested
in its mission to this meeting.
Members of the public will have access and a means to participate in
this meeting, by two-way audio/video, by connecting to the video access
number identified below, by attending the meeting in person, or by
clicking on the link contained on the agency
website's event calendar. The video access number contained in this
notice is subject to change by the conference provider at any time.
Members of the public are encouraged to confirm the correct conference
access number/link 24 hours before the meeting by going to the agency
website. An electronic copy of the agenda will be available here. A
recording of the meeting will be available after September 4, 2024. To
obtain a recording, please contact Joy Nathan, at 512.463.8815 or via e-mail.
For public participants, after the meeting convenes, the presiding
officer will call roll of board members and then of public attendees.
Please identify yourself by name and state whether you would like to
provide public comment. You may also e-mail Joy Nathan
in advance of the meeting if you would like to provide public comment.
When the Commission reaches the public comment portion of the meeting,
the presiding officer will recognize you by name and give you an
opportunity to speak. All public comments will be limited to three (3)
minutes. All virtual participants are asked to keep their microphones muted when they are not providing public comment.
Zoom Video Conference Meeting ID: 883 4846 1426
Registration can be completed here.
The Commission may discuss and/or take action on any of the items listed in the agenda.
Note: The Commission may go into executive session (close its meeting
to the public) on any agenda item if appropriate and authorized by the
Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Between 1933 and 1945, many European Jews attempted to flee German- and Soviet-occupied areas to escape persecution and death. To their dismay, most countries closed their borders to Jewish refugees. One remaining free, open port was Shanghai, China whose International Settlements Quarter admitted about 17,000 emigrating Jews. Despite the Japanese occupation, and the unsanitary, dilapidated conditions of the crowded city, Shanghai served as an unexpected safe haven. Historian Dvir Bar-Gal joins us to share more about the arrival of Jewish refugees in the Hongkew District of Shanghai, their relationship with their Chinese and Japanese neighbors, and how the community of refugees adapted to life in China.
About the Speaker
Dvir Bar-Gal is an expert on Shanghai’s Jewish history. For twenty years, he led in-depth Jewish heritage tours throughout the city and searched for lost cemeteries. His work has culminated in multiple publications of photography collections, interviews, and guest speaking opportunities at various universities and organizations. Bar-Gal holds a degree in film studies and mass communications from Tel Aviv University.
About Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story
Explore the little-known history of the diverse, resettled Jewish community in Shanghai, including Iraqi Jews who arrived in the mid-1800s, Russian Jews who fled pogroms at the turn of the century, and German and Austrian Jews who desperately escaped the Nazis. With most countries limiting or denying entry to Jews during the 1930s, the free port of Shanghai became an unexpected safe haven for Jews attempting to flee the antisemitic policies and identity-based violence in Nazi-controlled Europe. Hidden History explores this multifaceted history of desperation, loss, and asylum through artifacts, survivor stories, and the photographic lens of prominent American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, who documented the Shanghai Jewish community in 1946 for the United Nations.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, September 5, 2024
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill - Royal Ln
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Description:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.Year:1999Runtime:112 minutesLanguage:German, HungarianSubtitle Language:English
Director:Rolf SchübelScreenwriter:Rolf Schübel, Ruth TomaProducer:Richard SchöpsCast:Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król, Ben BeckerCinematographer:Edward KłosińskiEditor:Ursula HöfProduction Design:Csaba Stork, Volker SchäferComposer:Rezsö Seress, Detlef PetersenSound Design:Ursula Höf
To buy tickets, click here.
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Monday, September 9, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online course
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Description:
Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching strategies to help your students understand contemporary antisemitism. We applaud your commitment to teaching this topic and are eager to support you to ensure your students are able to engage in thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate learning.
Course Details:
Course opens on September 9th at 7AM EST; approximately 4 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 activities for a 4-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Define contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, both different and the same as traditional forms of antisemitism present before and during the Holocaust.Discover and utilize classroom lessons and resources to help students explore the persistence, particularity, and impact of antisemitism worldwide including how antisemitism animates white nationalism.Explore ways to support students’ commitment and ability to respond to and prevent antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.Understand that all hatred is intertwined, reflect on the skills needed for students to respond effectively to antisemitism and other forms of bias.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived, Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-2009) made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in images and words. Born in Opatów (Apt in Yiddish), Mayer left for Canada in 1934 at the age of 17.
He had always told his family stories about growing up in Poland before the Holocaust. After his family begged him to paint what he could remember, Mayer finally picked up his brush in 1989 at the age of 73. To his amazement, the town of his childhood emerged in living color. Painting by painting, story by story, he had recreated the entire world of his youth. He created hundreds of paintings and drawings during the last 20 years of his life. The paintings and stories capture the curiosity of a boy who was fascinated by the world in which he lived, unaware of the tragedy to come. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 93 and was one of the last to have first-hand experience of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust.This lecture by the artist's daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, an acclaimed scholar of East European Jewish culture, will present the artist and his work in the context of two exhibition, one at the Jewish Museum in New York (2009) and the second at POLIN Museum (May 17–December 16, 2024). The exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw is staged as a dialogue between Mayer’s shtetl as represented in his paintings, and today’s Opatów as a post-Jewish town.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is the Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and University Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt), and Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki), among others. She has received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University of Haifa, and Indiana University. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to the creation of POLIN Museum, and received the 2020 Dan David Prize. She has served on Advisory Boards for the Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, and Jewish Museum Berlin, and is Vice-Chair of ICMEMOHRI, the International Committee of Memorial and Human Rights Museums. She advises on museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania, Belarus, Albania, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States.
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.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, September 10, 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:
In the Berlin Olympics of 1936, Hitler promoted his own agenda, but there was a later Olympics also held in Germany: the Munich Olympics of 1972 overshadowed by the tragic and deadly terror attack that targeted the Israeli team, nine of whom were taken hostage. Israel's team was comprised of Holocaust survivors who had made the difficult choice - after "returning to life" - to return to Germany to compete in what was supposed to be the spirit of the Olympic Games. Please join Yad Vashem educator, Yael Eaglstein, for this fascinating webinar.This webinar connects to Units 3 and 6 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, please click here.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
at 1:30pm -
3:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill- Royal Lane
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Description:
The true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he meets Abbey, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Year:2023Runtime:102 minutesLanguage:English
Director:Finn TaylorScreenwriter:Finn TaylorProducer:Jeanine Thomas, George RushExecutive Producer:Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin, Noah LangCo-Producer:Matthew Stillman, David Minkowski, Jennifer Goshay, Michael Manasseri, Mirka TaylorCast:Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert
To buy tickets, click here.
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
at 1:30pm -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
STEPHAN JALNOS
From the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, joining the resistance fighters, to Mathausen and more, hear Stephan’s story of survivor shared by his son, Robi Jalnos
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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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.
Antisemitic incidents, including violent acts, reported in the United States have been on the sharp rise since 2021, with a staggering increase since October 2023. These incidents often begin and are roused in subtle ways – from biased remarks and stereotypes to silence and complacency. Through testimonies available in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, students can engage with poignant accounts of antisemitic incidents from survivors of the Holocaust, as well as from those who have experienced contemporary forms of antisemitism.This webinar connects to Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
This program is presented in-person at the Museum. Registration includes a 6:00 p.m. reception followed by the 7:00 p.m. program.
There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click here.
During World War II, why didn’t the United States welcome Jewish refugees who were fleeing Europe or drop bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz? Moreover, why didn’t many individual Americans support further action? Dr. Rafael Medoff authored The Jews Should Keep Quiet, which documents how President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and other prominent Jewish leaders to stifle American Jewish criticism of his policies. Dr. Medoff joins us for a look into the Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust.
About the Speaker
Dr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, located in Washington, D.C., and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and Yeshiva University, among others, and he is a fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. He is former associate editor of the scholarly journal American Jewish History and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, and other leading reference volumes.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill - Royal Lane
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Description:
Torn from their families by the ravages of Hitler’s armies, men and women, many barely in their teens, escaped into the forests, banding together in partisan brigades; engaging in treacherous acts of sabotage, blowing up trains, burning electric stations, and attacking armed enemy headquarters. Against extraordinary odds, over 25,000 Jewish partisans courageously fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of WWII’s Belarus, Ukraine and Eastern Europe.The last surviving partisans relive their journey in FOUR WINTERS, sharing their stories of resistance. Director Julia Mintz shines a spotlight on their transformation from young innocents raised in closely knit Jewish communities and families, to becoming fierce partisan soldiers with enduring hope, grit, magnificent courage and deep humanity.
Featuring the photography of Faye Schulman, partisan photographer, clad in her signature leopard coat, and through a fusion of inspiring and powerful first-person interviews with stunning archival footage, FOUR WINTERS uncovers secrets held for lifetimes, revealing a heartfelt narrative of heroism, determination and resilience.Year:2022Runtime:90 minutesLanguage:English
Director:Julia MintzScreenwriter:Julia MintzProducer:Peter Fine, Julia Mintz, Dan SturmanExecutive Producer:Joseph Cooper, Marylyn Dintenfass, Emily Mandelstam, David M. Milch, Julia Mintz, Carla SingerCo-Producer:Zhen Cheah, Lee Feldscher, Brad HughesCast:Luba Abramowitz, Moshe Baran, Frank BlaichmanEditor:Peter Heady, Timothy A. Kuper, Tricia Reidy, Patricia SunshineComposer:Mike Higbee, Khalif Neville, Caleb Schmale, Jon Silbermann, Lev Zhurbin
To buy tickets, click here.
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill- Royal Lane
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Description:
The true story of Herbert Heller, who kept his experience as a teenage boy surviving for years in Auschwitz hidden from his family. That is until he meets Abbey, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.
Year:2023Runtime:102 minutesLanguage:English
Director:Finn TaylorScreenwriter:Finn TaylorProducer:Jeanine Thomas, George RushExecutive Producer:Debi Memmolo, Greg Taxin, Noah LangCo-Producer:Matthew Stillman, David Minkowski, Jennifer Goshay, Michael Manasseri, Mirka TaylorCast:Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert
To buy tickets, click here.
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