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Monday, March 10, 2025
(all day)
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Workshops
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Online
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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; 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, March 10th and will remain open through April 6th.
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, click here.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
Virtual presentation via Zoom
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In commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which began on April 19, 1943, join Yad Vashem educator Yael Eaglstein for a virtual tour of specific galleries of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. The tour will cover the gallery in the Museum that contains artifacts, films and other treasures related to the Warsaw Ghetto, as well as the gallery that deals with the Uprising, 82 years ago.
This webinar connects to Units 4 and 7 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Workshops
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Online via Zoom
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Description:
May is Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), celebratingJewish American achievements and contributions to the U.S.Join ICS for engaging workshops exploring Jewish Americanheritage to enrich your instruction.
Join the Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) and the Weitzman National Museumof American Jewish History for a 60-minute virtual professional learning workshop.You’ll understand the history and significance of Jewish American Heritage Month(JAHM) and gain student-ready resources that explore Jewish American identity,history, and experience in your classroom.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II.
In 2020, Pius XII’s archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzer–widely recognized as one of the world’s leading Vatican scholars–has been mining this new material ever since, revealing how the pope came to set aside moral leadership in order to protect the church.
For this presentation, David Kertzer will be in conversation about his latest book, The Pope at War, with Charles R. Gallagher.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author David Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, and Research Professor at Brown University. His latest book, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, was published with Random House in 2022, as well as British, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, and Chinese editions. David’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, published with Random House in 2014, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2015. It also won the American Historical Association prize for best book in Italian history. Eleven foreign editions have been published. Most noteworthy among his numerous other published works is The Popes against the Jews, published with Knopf/Vintage in 2001, which examines the Vatican’s role in the rise of modern anti-Semitism, and has been published in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese, Turkish, and British editions. David’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, published with Knopf/Vintage, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997 and has been published in eighteen foreign editions. Kertzer is an authority on Italian politics, society, and history; political symbolism; and anthropological demography. Past president of both the Social Science History Association and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, he is co-founder and served for many years as co-editor of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. In 2005 Kertzer was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2006 to 2011, he was the Provost of Brown University.
Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., is Professor of History at Boston College. For the 2024-2025 academic year, he is serving as the Francis C. Wade Chair at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. In 2017, he was the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, & the Jews, at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. In 2009, his book, Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII (Yale University Press, 2008), won the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize. His 2021 book, Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten History of the Christian Front was published by Harvard University Press and won a Catholic Press Association Award for History. Gallagher is interested in religion and right-wing movements, the Holocaust, American Catholicism, Vatican diplomacy, and the intersection of religion and espionage. His current Wade Chair project looks at how German intelligence recruited, retained, and used Catholic clerics to act as spies in the United States during World War II.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston
5601 S. Braeswood Blvd
Houston, TX 77096
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Description:
October H8teTuesday, April 1 | 7:30 PM$15 Member | $21 PublicDocumentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan TheatreDocumentary 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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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Online via Zoom
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Description:
Commissioner Providence Nkurunziza is an author, inspirational speaker, and a women and children advocate. As a genocide survivor, she believes there is a responsibility to bear witness to save the next generation from falling into the same trap of experiencing such sinister events, since nobody is immune to the genocide.
To register for the community session, click here.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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General
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, TX , 77004
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston, in partnership with the Houston Jewish Film Festival, for a screening of the film Here Lived.
Artist Gunter Demnig started his Stolpersteine project in 1992. Now, more than 100,000 of these Holocaust memorial stones have been installed in sidewalks around Europe. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Jane Wells traces the impact of these stones and the healing they bring to individuals and communities in the Netherlands.
To get tickets, click here.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually
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Description:
Territorial Expansion in Nazi Europe and the United States
Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi society removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because they did not fit into their vision of the racial national community. They forcibly displaced “undesirables” eastward into ghettos, simultaneously expanding their borders to create “living space” for their citizens. In a different context, the United States expanded its borders westward between 1801 and the 1970s. To free up land for its growing population, the United States violently removed Indigenous peoples, whom some Americans perceived as incompatible with national and racial ideals.
Join us to examine the intersections and divergences in these two histories of expansion, which were based on racist and antisemitic ideologies.
Speakers
Dr. Elise Boxer, Director, Institute of American Indian Studies; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of South Dakota; Author, “The Book of Mormon as Mormon Settler Colonialism” in Essays on American Indian & Mormon History
Dr. Edward B. Westermann, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M University–San Antonio; Author, Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Moderator
Dr. Wendy Rohleder-Sook, Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Law, and Political Science; Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of Pre-Law/Legal Studies, Fort Hays State University
This in-person and livestream discussion is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
To RSVP. click here.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
at 7:30pm -
8:30pm
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Films
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Location:
Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre
5601 S. Braeswood Blvd
Houston, TX 77096
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Thursday, April 3 | 7:30 PMDrama | Directed by Marco Bellocchio | 2024 | Italy, France, Germany | Italian, Hebrew with English subtitles | 134 minutes | Kaplan Theatre
Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio delves into his country's antisemitic past with the unsettling 1850s story of young Edgardo Mortara, who was controversially taken from his Jewish family in Bologna after a secret baptism by the family's nanny. Bellochio's somber but visually elegant style paints a vivid picture of Edgardo's fractured identity and turn towards Catholicism, his parents' desperate fight for his return and the corruption of Pope Pius IX's Church that led to monumental changes in Italian history.
Moderated discussion follows the film.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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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:
Yehuda Meisels was already on an “enemy of the state” list when he was sent on one of the first transports to Auschwitz. We will hear the compelling story of courageous actions that got him on the list, his time in Auschwitz, and the miracles that led to him surviving that camp, the death march and his rescue by a Texas soldier.
Learn more of Yehuda’s story shared by his grandson, Yair Alan Griver, on April 6, 2025 at 2pm.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO)
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Join UTD as Dr. Nils Roemer presents the final lecture of our annual Spring Professor Lecture Series.
This event is being offered free of charge to the public, but please register online here.
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Monday, April 7, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy. Use this course to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Course Details:Course begins April 7th, 2025 at 7am ET.About 4 hours to complete – at no cost.Proceed at your own pace, 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:Explore a sound pedagogy for planning and implementing Holocaust education in the classroom.Identify forms of assistance provided to Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust, including the Kindertransport.Examine the role and impact of antisemitism on rescue efforts.Discuss how the Kindertransport and other avenues of rescue were considered a “choiceless choice” for Jews.Explore how rescuers are both extraordinary and ordinary as well as the impact studying the choices of rescuers during the Holocaust can have on our choices today.Explore various resources and tools to support your teaching of the complex ideas of rescue and support in the context of the Holocaust.
To register, click here.
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Monday, April 7, 2025
at 11:00am -
11:45am
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In 2024, Dr. Paul Vincent published A Holocaust Center at Keene State College: The First 24 Years, 1983-2007, which traces the origins of the Holocaust Resource Center and its evolution into the Cohen Center. This lunchtime webinar will feature the author in conversation with Prof. Rodney Obien, KSC College Archivist, as they discuss the making of this institutional history.
Speaker Bios: Dr. Paul Vincent was director of the Cohen Center from 1998-2007. He is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust & Genocide Studies and chaired the department from its founding in 2008 until retiring in 2017. Prof. Rodney Obien heads Keene State College's special collections & archives and teaches in the MA program in History & Archives. He was the editor of the book published by Dr. Vincent.
This webinar is hosted by the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in partnership with the KSC Archives. It is free and open to all; attendees must register in order to access the webinar.
To register, click here.
This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.
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Monday, April 7, 2025
at 7:00pm -
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:
Session 1: Contemporary AntisemitismIn the first session of this series, experts will discuss elements of 20th century antisemitism and aspects of contemporary antisemitism. The discussion will include the alarming rise of antisemitic rhetoric and actions following the October 7th attacks.
About the Speakers
Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. The author and editor of 24 books, he was also the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He was Project Director overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the first Director of its Research Institute and later served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors in 32 languages and 57 countries.
Berenbaum's work in film has won Emmy Awards and Academy Awards. He has developed and curated Museums in the United States, Mexico, North Macedonia and Poland and his award winning exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away has been in Madrid and Malmo, New York, Kansas City and most recently at the Ronald Regan Library in California and will soon open in Boston.
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Small has convened groundbreaking academic seminar series, conferences and programming in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at top-tier universities around the world. Small was also the Founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a North American university.
Small is the author of numerous books and articles including: The ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Two (2016) and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume One (2015). Small has also served as a consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the European Parliament, United Nations, Israeli Knesset, the Kigali International Forum on Genocide, as well as various European Parliaments and leading think tanks in China, India, and the Americas.
About the Moderator
Dr. David Patterson serves as the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Austin at Dallas. He is a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Association for Jewish Studies. He is a consultant to many national organizations, including the Philadelphia Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He was also a participant in the Weinstein Symposium on the Holocaust.A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, Patterson has published more 30 books and more than 140 articles and chapters in journals and books in philosophy, literature, Judaism, Holocaust and education. Patterson’s most recent book is Genocide in Jewish Thought (2012). He has his doctorate from the University of Oregon.To register, click here.
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