Events List
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Monday, November 11, 2024
at 4:00pm -
6:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Campus of the San Antonio Jewish Community
12500 NW Military Hwy.
San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
At the age of 19, Jewish soldier Nathan Hilu was assigned to guard Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. He went on to channel his memories into compellingly manic, childlike art, aka “Nathanism,” which this film brings to life through vivid animations. Now in his 90s and living in NYC, Hilu is a chutzpah-filled outsider artist whose story probes the nature of truth and the power of the desire to be heard. – Karen McMullen
Director: Elan Golod, Elan Golod
Executive Producer: Caryn Capotosto, Caryn Capotosto
Producer: Melanie Vi Levy, Elan Golod, Melanie Vi Levy, Elan Golod
Cinematographer: Jason Blevins, Jason Blevins
Editor: Elan Golod, Elan Golod
Language: English, German, English, German
Country: United States of America, United States of America
Year: 2023
To register, click here.
Carla Cutler210-302-6828cutlerc@jcc-sa.org
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Through The Willesden Project, the USC Shoah Foundation has developed testimony-based activities for primary classrooms. These activities are part of a global initiative to use the power of music and story to help build empathetic, knowledgeable, and resilient students. The activities include topics such as music and resilience, migration and refugees, and generational legacy. Recent testimony-based IWalks created will be featured.Join, USC Shoah Foundation’s Raquel Diaz-Serralta, Ed.D, Learning & Development Specialist for primary grades to learn how to access testimony-based educator resources in IWitness that feature primary education, explore instructional and historical resources to support testimony-based teaching, including the recent virtual IWalks designed for the primary level. These resources align with Echoes & Reflections’ guidelines for teaching upper primary grades.This webinar connects to Unit 10 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
at 2:00pm -
3:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
“Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses” is an in-depth seminar series led by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a distinguished scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This series aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of genocide, examining its historical origins, legal definitions, and instances in the post-Holocaust era. Each session delves into key aspects of genocide, offering scholarly insights and fostering a deeper comprehension of this critical issue.
Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Dr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies.
He was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked, transformed, improved, broadened and deepened, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes, sixteen million words with 25,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, where he authored its Report to the President.
Berenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences, a collection of essays on Jews, Judaism and Christianity, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Session 3: November 13 Post-Holocaust Genocides
This session examines genocides that have occurred since the Holocaust, including those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. Participants will study the causes, characteristics, and consequences of these atrocities, exploring the roles of ideology, political power, and social dynamics in their occurrence. The session will also discuss the international community’s responses to these genocides, including humanitarian interventions, legal prosecutions, and efforts at prevention and reconciliation.
By the end of this series, participants will have gained a thorough understanding of the concept of genocide, its historical development, and the ongoing challenges in addressing and preventing such crimes.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
at 5:30pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online Via Zoom
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston, Centropa, and the Holocaust Center for Humanity for a free webinar for teachers. Through this interactive webinar, educators will learn how to teach about memory and the memorialization of historic events; engage students in a geography-based approach around what the Holocaust was and how it was humanly possible; and explore how personal stories—coupled with geography—can inform our learning about the Holocaust in specific places.
Using Google Earth, film clips, and primary source interview excerpts from Centropa, participants will study the placement of the memorial, explore its efficacy as a public remembrance, and discuss what it teaches us about the actions of Hungarians against their Jewish neighbors. Attendees will receive all materials needed to teach this lesson, which they will be able to use to build context for reading books such as The Yellow Star House, by Paul Regelbrugge, one of the presenters. These resources are appropriate and desinged for grades 6-12.
Centropa, a historical institute based in Vienna, interviewed 1,200 elderly Jews living in 15 European countries. Our respondents shared their entire life stories spanning the 20th c. as they showed us their old family photographs, which we digitized. Centropa offers teachers primary sources (annotated photos, interviews), and secondary sources (short films, podcasts, websites) teachers use to create projects for teaching digital literacy, critical thinking, and global awareness. All resources are free.
Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims, and honoring the survivors’ legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice, and apathy.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands
5125 SHADOWBEND PLACE
THE WOODLANDS, TX, 77381
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Description:
Monthly Jewish Study - Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism at Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
(all day)
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Movie theatres in Texas
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Description:
A REAL PAIN follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Runtime: 89 minutes.
To view the trailer, click here.
To buy tickets, find the screenings here.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Shearith Israel
Dallas, Texas
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Description:
Shabbat-In-The Round & Dinner with Providence Nkurunziza November 15 | 6pmTopletz Auditorium & Levine Community CourtJoin us for a special Shabbat-In-The-Round Service and experience a warm and engaging hour of spirited singing and beautiful harmonies with our talented Klei Kodesh and guest percussionists. During Shabbat dinner we are honored to welcome Providence (Umugwaneza) Nkurunziza of Fort Worth serves as a commissioner on the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) and is the founder of the Kabeho Neza Initiative. She is a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, where she lost her parents, five siblings, and numerous extended family members. Two of Providence's uncles and their entire families were victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, thus she lives to be their voice and speak about what they endured.Providence volunteers with fellow Rwandan Genocide survivors to advocate for the women and girls who were assaulted and infected with HIV/AIDS during the genocide. She currently leads educational programs in the United States to educate and raise awareness. She recently authored a memoir, Next Couple Hours, which focuses on education about the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, dealing with loss and trauma, and, most importantly, preventing genocides from happening in the future.Nkurunziza received a bachelor’s degree in Administrative Science from the University of Kigali in Rwanda.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
at 1:00pm -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
The Ghetto Fighters’ House Invites You to a Special Talking Memory Book Launch Event
‘Arbeit Macht Frei’: Representations and Meanings in Art
Opening Remarks: Yigal Cohen, CEO, Ghetto Fighters’ House
Speakers: Prof. Shelley Hornstein
Remembering through Art
Dr. Batya Brutin
Preserving the Memory: Holocaust Icons in Post Holocaust Visual Art
Join us for the book launch of Dr. Batya Brutin’s book Arbeit Macht Frei, the third and final book in her trilogy on Holocaust icons in visual art. Our guest speaker is Prof. Shelley Hornstein, who will give a lecture on how objects of visual art: sculpture, photographs, and paintings, function to convey history and attempt to serve up narratives about the past, asking whether art succeeds at transmitting sufficiently into the present the evil and atrocities of the Holocaust. The ongoing debate is tackled in an exhibition she will discuss entitled The Evidence Room (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016) where archival documents from Auschwitz form the basis of plaster reliefs, drawings, photographs and sculpture to challenge our concept of the real through representation. Rather than deaden our gaze, these objects double as communicative devices that transport past events into the now and reinforce how documents fuel the making of artforms that can effectively convey through reification the power of truth.
Dr. Batya Brutin will then give a lecture describing her journey writing the trilogy. She will discuss Jewish and non-Jewish artists that used Holocaust icons to manifest their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, messages, and political opinions on social, cultural, and political issues. Ass well, in her lecture, Dr. Brutin will explore how these artists utilize in their artworks famous images of the little boy with his hands raised during the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation, the blue line of serial numbers forcibly tattooed on the prisoners’ forearms in Auschwitz, and the well-known phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Sets You Free”) on concentration camps gates, especially the one in Auschwitz The presentation will combine the personal point of view of each artist and the general trends and processes indicating the attitude of the artists toward these icons.
This program is in participation with Remember the Women Institute, Women in the Holocaust International Study Center, Moreshet Holocaust and Study Center, Classrooms Without Borders, Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
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5:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center (DGA)
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Event Details
Dr. Stacy Gallin will present the Fall 2024 Einpsruch Lecture Series on Sunday, November 17 and Monday, November 18.
Followed by a reception.
These lectures are presented free of charge, pre-register online here.
Dr. Gallin is the founder and director of the Benjamin Ferencz Institute for Ethics, Human Rights and the Holocaust (formerly the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust).
About Dr. Gallin
Dr. Gallin founded Athletes Against Antisemitism and Discrimination in July 2023 as a way to engage athletes—both at the student level and beyond—and empower them to use their platform to help raise awareness regarding the Holocaust, antisemitism and other forms of identity-based hate. She is a regular contributor for the Globe Post, the Times of Israel and Forbes Media, where she writes and speaks about issues related to ethics, law, public policy and human rights through the lens of the Holocaust. Dr. Gallin co-edited the book, Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights, published in summer 2022 and available open access as part of the “Project on Bioethics and the Holocaust,” a partnership between the Ferencz Institute and the USC Shoah Foundation to develop new and innovative educational programming, including a multi-media curriculum. She also teaches an international course on ethics, human rights and the Holocaust through the Global Network for Medical, Health Professions and Bioethics Education, of which she is the Co-Chair of Education.
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Monday, November 18, 2024
at 9:00am -
10:30am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Naveen Jindal School of Management (JSOM), Executive Dining Room
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Event Details
Dr. Stacy Gallin will present the Fall 2024 Einpsruch Lecture Series on Sunday, November 17 and Monday, November 18.
9 a.m. pre-lecture reception; lecture at 9:30 a.m.
These lectures are presented free of charge, pre-register online here.
Dr. Gallin is the founder and director of the Benjamin Ferencz Institute for Ethics, Human Rights and the Holocaust (formerly the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust). About Dr. Gallin
Dr. Gallin founded Athletes Against Antisemitism and Discrimination in July 2023 as a way to engage athletes—both at the student level and beyond—and empower them to use their platform to help raise awareness regarding the Holocaust, antisemitism and other forms of identity-based hate. She is a regular contributor for the Globe Post, the Times of Israel and Forbes Media, where she writes and speaks about issues related to ethics, law, public policy and human rights through the lens of the Holocaust. Dr. Gallin co-edited the book, Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights, published in summer 2022 and available open access as part of the “Project on Bioethics and the Holocaust,” a partnership between the Ferencz Institute and the USC Shoah Foundation to develop new and innovative educational programming, including a multi-media curriculum. She also teaches an international course on ethics, human rights and the Holocaust through the Global Network for Medical, Health Professions and Bioethics Education, of which she is the Co-Chair of Education.
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Monday, November 18, 2024
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto took many forms. Through the diary of a teenager, explore the new online exhibition by the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research on Yitskhok Rudashevski, who describes daily life in the Vilna ghetto. Through the exhibition, you will gain insights into cultural resistance and the fierce passions of this young boy in the face of dire adversity. Led by the YIVO Director of Digital & Chief Curator of the Online Museum Karolina Ziulkoski, explore the online exhibition, Yitskhok’s diary, and rare artifacts from the YIVO archive to bring the human story of this remarkable teenager to your students.
To register, click here.
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Monday, November 18, 2024
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis’s trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg’s book Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia.
Robert Weinberg is the Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore, where he has taught for thirty-five years. His research has focused on the revolution of 1905 in Odessa; pogroms; antisemitism; Birobidzhan; anti-Judaism campaigns; and the Jewish Question.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via YouTube
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Description:
Holocaust survivor Peter Gorog has no memories of his father, Árpád. Sent away in August 1940 by Hungarian authorities to perform forced labor, Árpád wrote home regularly to his wife and baby boy. In one letter, he wrote, “I gaze on the pictures I have, and they give me strength to struggle.” But at one point, the letters stopped. Then, in March 1944, after Nazi Germany occupied Hungary, Jews in Budapest faced increasing danger. Peter recalls sitting at the breakfast table as police charged in and took away his mother. Watch to discover what happened next.
SpeakerPeter Gorog, Holocaust Survivor and Museum Volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Watch live at youtube.com/ushmm. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum's YouTube page.
First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a free screening of the documentary Family Treasures Lost and Found. In the film, journalist Karen A. Frenkel channels the driving force of discovery to investigate her parents’ unspoken WWII stories. Her research leads her to astonishing revelations of her family’s journeys through Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and New York, and sheds light on the hidden truths surrounding the tragic losses experienced by several of her family members. Through the act of documenting their histories, these relatives cease to be mere names when their stories are fully uncovered. These riveting stories of survival, luck, and loss have the power to captivate viewers of all generations and serve as an inspiration for many to delve into their own family histories.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
at 1:00pm -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Tali Nates
Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education, memory, reconciliation, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018), Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023).
In 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa.
In 2010, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015), the Gratias Agit Award (2020, Czech Republic), the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022, Germany).
Sara E. Brown, Ph.D
Sara E. Brown, Ph.D. is the Regional Director of American Jewish Committee San Diego. She holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She was a director of Chhange, a Holocaust, human rights, and genocide education non-profit and managed post-secondary education programming for USC Shoah Foundation. Sara has taught courses on history, human rights, and mass violence, conducted genocide-related research in Rwanda, and served as a project coordinator in refugee camps in Tanzania. Sara is the author of Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide. She has consulted for a number of international organizations, including the United Nations.
To register, click here.
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