Events List
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List of Events
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Monday, February 17, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
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, 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 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Livestreamed via YouTube
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Description:
Holocaust survivor Ninetta Feldman remembers fleeing her aunt’s house and hiding in an ancient Greek fortress to keep safe from the falling bombs during World War II. As life grew more dangerous for Jews living in their town of Agrinio, Ninetta and her family sought refuge in a remote mountain village controlled by the Greek resistance. To evade Nazi German patrols in the village, they often retreated further up the mountain, hiding in caves and in the forest. Then, one day in 1944, they witnessed Nazi troops burning the village below, their last safe haven. Watch to discover what happened next to Ninetta and her family.
SpeakerNinetta Feldman, Holocaust Survivor and Museum Volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Watch live at youtube.com/ushmm. You don’t need a YouTube account to view our program. After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum's YouTube page.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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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 19, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Studio Movie Grill- Royal Lane
11170 N Central Expy
Dallas, TX 75243-6904
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Description:
Blind Spot is funded by The Mitzi Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose purpose is to engage in educational activities and projects (including the production and marketing of Blind Spot) that explain and expose antisemitism of all kinds.
Ticket prices: $15 advance and $18 at the door
To register, click here.
7:00 pmIn Partnership with Stand with Us
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
at 4:00pm -
5:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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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:
October H8te
Directed by Wendy Sachs
Run time: 100 min. | Country: USA | 2024 | Language: English | Documentary
From executive producer Debra Messing and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Wendy Sachs, OCTOBER H8TE is a searing documentary about the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses, on social media, and on the streets of America after October 7th.
To register, click here.
Carla Cutler210-302-6828cutlerc@jcc-sa.org
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Monday, February 24, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual via Zoom
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Description:
Live and Be Counted: A Boy’s Heroic Tale of Survival, Faith and FamilyAlfons Sperber was only 11 years old when he began his narrow escape from the grips of the German Anschluss of Austria in 1938, eventually being hidden in a Christian monastery in France and crossing over the Alps into Switzerland, before gaining passage to the United States in 1948. His story was recently told through a poignant and moving novel Live and Be Counted, written by his grandson, Ron Siesser. The book was Amazon’s top new release for young adults in October.The presentation will include special video footage of recent interviews with Alfons Sperber, who is a resident of Hillcrest, Queens.Ron Siesser lives in Teaneck, NJ and is an HR executive in the confectionary sweets industry. On the side, he coaches high school softball and helps prepare students for their Bar Mitzvahs.
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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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually via Zoom
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Description:
At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the horrors of the Holocaust were in danger of being forgotten.
In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the remarkable true story of Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. In honor of the release of his new book, The Prosecutor, join author Jack Fairweather as he speaks about Fritz’s fight for justice in a virtual program followed by a Q&A.
Jack Fairweather is the author of the Costa Book Award winner The Volunteer, a #1 bestseller in the UK that’s been hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He served as a correspondent for The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph, where he was the paper’s Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Rachel Stern will present insights into the art and life of the German-Jewish artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) and the mission of The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art.
Fritz Ascher, a painter, graphic artist, and poet, was recommended to the art academy in Königsberg by the renown German painter Max Liebermann at the age of 16. From 1913 onwards, he gained recognition as a painter in Berlin. Ascher was a keen observer of his era; the devastation of World War I and the revolutionary turmoil in Berlin inspired him to explore Christian and mystical themes, which he reinterpreted in innovative ways. Following the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jewish-born artist faced a ban on creating, exhibiting, and selling his work. During the pogroms of November 9/10, 1938, he was arrested and subsequently interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the Potsdam Gestapo prison.Ascher survived the Shoah from 1942, finding refuge in a cellar in Berlin-Grunewald. During these harrowing and isolating years, he composed poetry. Post-1945, Ascher developed a distinctive artistic style, drawing inspiration from the nearby Grunewald, focusing on landscapes while remaining faithful to his expressionist visual language. He lived a reclusive life until his passing on March 26, 1970.Rachel Stern is the founding director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York. She emigrated to the USA in 1994, wrote for AUFBAU and worked for ten years in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Most recently, she published a selection of poems by Fritz Ascher, Poesiealbum 357 (Wilhelmshorst: Märkischer Verlag 2020) and co-edited with Ori Z Soltes “Welcoming the Stranger. Abrahamic Traditions and Its Contemporary Implications” (New York: Fordham University Press 2024), and co-edited with Jutta Götzmann the exhibition catalogue “Love and Betrayal. The Expressionist Fritz Ascher from New York Private Collections” (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Publishers 2024)..
This event is organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, NJ. It is co-sponsored by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York, NY where it is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.”
To register, click here.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
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 is an in-person program. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum.
At a time when the world is in turmoil and conflict, diplomacy is needed to face America’s greatest challenges. Can today’s seemingly insurmountable struggles be softened by negotiation? And what is the role of education in this mission? Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat joins us to share his thoughts drawn from wide-ranging experiences as a diplomat and negotiator who served multiple U.S. administrations.
About the Speaker
Throughout his years of public service in six different presidential administrations, Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat has held a number of key senior positions, including Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, and Special Representative on Holocaust-Era Issues. Ambassador Eizenstat also led efforts to provide belated justice for victims of the Holocaust and Nazi tyranny, negotiating major agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, French, and other European countries for restitution of property, payments for forced laborers, recovery of looted art, bank accounts, and payment of insurance policies. He currently serves as the Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council.
The Ambassador's book will be available for purchase at the program.
To purchase tickets, click here.
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Friday, February 28, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre
5601 S. Braeswood Blvd
Houston, TX 77096
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Description:
October H8te
Tuesday, April 1 | 7:30 PM
$15 Member | $21 Public
Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre
Documentary Film Subject Tessa Veksler in attendance.
Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread on social media. Featuring dozens of interviews with well-known politicians, academics, activists and impressive student leaders, Sachs' documentary illustrates how Jewish students are dealing with the scourge of antisemitic campus movements.
This film contains disturbing content.
To buy tickets, click here.
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