Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Monday, January 6, 2025
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Echoes & Reflection's 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; 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:
Modules Open: Monday, January 6thOptional Final Project and Course Close: Sunday, February 2nd
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 enroll, click here.
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Sunday, February 2, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
Join the Houston Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, together with Holocaust Museum Houston, for an innovative program for children ages 5-13. Fania’s Heart, written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Richard Rudnicki, tells the true story of the creation of a heart-shaped book in Auschwitz and the women who risked their lives to create it. This inspiring story recounts the resiliency and courage of the women who treated each other with humanity, despite the horrors inflicted upon them. Following the reading, attendees will participate in an interactive activity designed to reflect upon the themes of the book. Children are invited to attend with a parent(s) or grandparent(s). The program is open to interested families, whether or not your family includes Holocaust survivors.
To register, click here.
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Monday, February 3, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online
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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; approximately 6 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 three modules for a 6-hour certificate.Final module includes additional time to complete optional final project for a 10-hour certificate.Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Opens February 3rd and closes March 2nd.Optional Final Project: Due March 2nd.
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 enroll, click here
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
From 1937 to 1941 the open port of Shanghai allowed more than 18,000 undocumented Jews seeking refuge from Nazi Germany to temporarily settle in the Hongkow area of the city. There, a one square mile unwalled ghetto was set up to house the refugees. Manfred “Manny” Sigmund Gabler was only one year old when his parents arrived in the city on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Manny joins us to recount growing up in Shanghai, his experience of the war as a young child, and his family’s journey to the United States.
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.
Registration is required, to learn more click here.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Hybrid- online & in person at Aaron Family JCC
7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX
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Description:
Antisemitism has been described as a virus that mutates. In each historical period, hatred of Jews takes on a different form or focus, often as a reaction to the prevailing ideology of the time – be it religious, racist, or political.
In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and the ongoing war in Gaza, antisemitism is, once again, reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. Therefore, it is crucial for learners to understand the historical processes that have given rise to today’s antisemitism. This understanding will help them comprehend the underlying forces and the recurring tropes used to depict Jews and the Jewish State over time.
In this six-part course, learners will explore pivotal periods, such as the interactions between Jews and early Christianity and Islam, medieval manifestations in Christian Europe, the rise of racially motivated antisemitism leading to the Holocaust, the influence of communism and Islamism on perceptions of Jews, and the contemporary landscape of antisemitism, encompassing both extreme right-wing and left-wing ideologies.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the development of antisemitism since ancient times.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
at 4:30pm -
5:30pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Holocaust and genocide education often frame people and groups in terms of binaries, such as victim-perpetrator or bystander-upstander. While these binaries can help make the complex narratives of the Holocaust and other genocides more approachable and offer moral absolutes for learners, it is also important to examine the complexities of individual choices and actions.
Join Holocaust and genocide education scholars and Echoes & Reflections facilitators Drs. George Dalbo and Irene Ann Resenly to learn about how to complicate traditional binaries of perpetrator-victim and bystander-upstander in Holocaust and genocide education. Using Echoes & Reflections resources from Units II, VII, and XII, participants will explore more nuanced approaches to understanding individual and collective roles and actions during the Holocaust and other genocides.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
American flutist and sociomusicologist Dr. Christine Beard will examine the role music played during the Holocaust. This poignant and informative lecture-recital explores how music served as a form of resistance and allowed prisoners to temporarily “escape” their inhumane circumstances, how the Nazis used music to inflict mental and emotional torture, and what music was banned by the SS Kultur Kamer. Featuring works for flute by composers from across Europe whose lives were tragically cut short by the Nazis’ soulless plan for genocide labeled “The Final Solution,” this program aims to serve not only as a memorial to those lost but also as a reminder that discrimination has no place in a civilized society.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio
12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
Schmuel Lewent survived the Lodz Ghetto only to be transported to the infamous Auschwitz death camp with his wife and 2-month-old baby child. The child didn’t survive the trip and at selection, his wife was sent to the gas chamber. Schmuel was condemned to slave labor at Auschwitz where he toiled for over three years. Schmuel’s survival is miraculous and the story an inspiration.
Learn more of Schmuel’s story and his strength to survive Auschwitz concentration camp shared by his son, Russell Kassman, on February 9, 2025 at 2pm.
To register, click here.
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Monday, February 10, 2025
(all day)
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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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 enhance understanding for your students.
Course Details:
Course opens February 10th 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, click here.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Hybrid- online & in person at Aaron Family JCC
7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX
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Description:
Antisemitism has been described as a virus that mutates. In each historical period, hatred of Jews takes on a different form or focus, often as a reaction to the prevailing ideology of the time – be it religious, racist, or political.
In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and the ongoing war in Gaza, antisemitism is, once again, reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. Therefore, it is crucial for learners to understand the historical processes that have given rise to today’s antisemitism. This understanding will help them comprehend the underlying forces and the recurring tropes used to depict Jews and the Jewish State over time.
In this six-part course, learners will explore pivotal periods, such as the interactions between Jews and early Christianity and Islam, medieval manifestations in Christian Europe, the rise of racially motivated antisemitism leading to the Holocaust, the influence of communism and Islamism on perceptions of Jews, and the contemporary landscape of antisemitism, encompassing both extreme right-wing and left-wing ideologies.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the development of antisemitism since ancient times.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Sometimes teachers of the Holocaust begin with the Holocaust itself, and not with an understanding of what Judaism is or who Jews are. It is important to understand that Judaism, and Jewish life, were and are incredibly rich and meaningful. In this webinar, Rabbi Fred Guttman will help educators understand the basics of Judaism by sharing information relevant to the study of the Holocaust in order to teach the topic.
This webinar connects to Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Hybrid- online & in person at Aaron Family JCC
7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX
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Description:
Antisemitism has been described as a virus that mutates. In each historical period, hatred of Jews takes on a different form or focus, often as a reaction to the prevailing ideology of the time – be it religious, racist, or political.
In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and the ongoing war in Gaza, antisemitism is, once again, reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. Therefore, it is crucial for learners to understand the historical processes that have given rise to today’s antisemitism. This understanding will help them comprehend the underlying forces and the recurring tropes used to depict Jews and the Jewish State over time.
In this six-part course, learners will explore pivotal periods, such as the interactions between Jews and early Christianity and Islam, medieval manifestations in Christian Europe, the rise of racially motivated antisemitism leading to the Holocaust, the influence of communism and Islamism on perceptions of Jews, and the contemporary landscape of antisemitism, encompassing both extreme right-wing and left-wing ideologies.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the development of antisemitism since ancient times.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
From Nazi Party rallies to the race laws of 1935 to the trials of 1945-1949, Nuremberg played a central role in the Holocaust. Utilizing personal artifacts, primary sources, and the four charges brought against the Nazis by the victorious Allies, join Courtroom 600 Project Director Laurie Pasler and Curriculum Advisor Dave Fript as they demonstrate how the Nuremberg Trials can effectively teach the origins of World War II—and demonstrate how Nazi racial ideology was a driving force behind the war and the Holocaust.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Hybrid- online & in person at Aaron Family JCC
7900 Northaven Road, Dallas, TX
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Description:
Antisemitism has been described as a virus that mutates. In each historical period, hatred of Jews takes on a different form or focus, often as a reaction to the prevailing ideology of the time – be it religious, racist, or political.
In the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and the ongoing war in Gaza, antisemitism is, once again, reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. Therefore, it is crucial for learners to understand the historical processes that have given rise to today’s antisemitism. This understanding will help them comprehend the underlying forces and the recurring tropes used to depict Jews and the Jewish State over time.
In this six-part course, learners will explore pivotal periods, such as the interactions between Jews and early Christianity and Islam, medieval manifestations in Christian Europe, the rise of racially motivated antisemitism leading to the Holocaust, the influence of communism and Islamism on perceptions of Jews, and the contemporary landscape of antisemitism, encompassing both extreme right-wing and left-wing ideologies.
Join us to deepen your understanding of the development of antisemitism since ancient times.
To register, click here.
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