Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
El Paso Holocaust Museum
715 N. Oregon
El Paso, TX 79902
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Description:
Join us Tuesdays-Fridays & Saturdays for a special showing of our brand new permanent exhibit: Dimensions in Testimony
Visitors can interact with Holocaust survivor or Holocaust liberator through pre-recorded testimonies.
Show times will be:
Tuesday-Friday at 10:00 AM & 1:00 PM
Saturdays at 3:00 PM
April 29th-May 3rd: Lea Novera, Spanish Testimony, Auschwitz Survivor
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Friday, May 2, 2025
(all day)
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Grants & Contests
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Please refer to the THGAAC's Education Grant Handbook prior to completing.Applications for the 2025 Education Grant will be accepted March 31-May 2, 2025.
To find out more, click here.
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
When teaching the Holocaust, film can be one of the most compelling, yet complicated educational tools available for a talented educator. Yet with so many documentary and feature films available on the topic, how are teachers supposed to decide what will work best for their students? In this series, co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, we will review appropriate criteria for choosing films to teach about the Holocaust, and suggest documentary and feature films that are appropriate and effective pedagogical tools.
May 4, 2025 (via Zoom 1:00 – 2:30pm), Teaching the Holocaust Using Recorded Testimony, Prof. Avinoam Patt.
Participants will be eligible to receive CTLE credit.To register, click here.
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Monday, May 5, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
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, May 5thOptional Final Project and Course Close: Sunday, June 1st
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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Monday, May 5, 2025
at 5:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Charles W. Eisemann Center
2351 Performance Dr | Richardson 75082
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Description:
Monday, May 5, 20255 pm Reception | 7 pm Performance
Charles W. Eisemann Center2351 Performance Dr | Richardson 75082
Join us for this internationally acclaimed theatrical production, filled with hope and the life-affirming power of music.
Based on her book The Children of Willesden Lane and featuring some of the world’s greatest classical music, concert pianist MONA GOLABEK shares her mother’s riveting story of survival during World War II.
Set in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg, this powerful stage production tells the true story of Lisa Jura, a 14-year-old musical prodigy whose dreams of becoming a concert pianist were cut short when Hitler’s armies were advancing in Vienna. Her parents were forced to make the difficult decision to choose one of their three daughters to secure safe passage on the children’s transport to London. They chose her, believing that her musical talent would give her the strength to survive. At a hostel on Willesden Lane, her music became a beacon of hope for not only her, but for the other children who found themselves in a devastating new reality – a life without their parents.
About Mona GolabekA Grammy nominee, Mona Golabek is the founder and president of the Hold On To Your Music Foundation. An author, recording artist, and internationally renowned concert pianist, she learned to play the piano from her mother. Mona has brought The Children of Willesden Lane production and her book to more than 10 million students and teachers across the globe.
About the KindertransportOn November 9–10, 1938, the Nazi regime violently attacked Jews across Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, destroying businesses, synagogues, and homes in what became known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). In the aftermath, the Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) began, a rare instance of a large-scale rescue effort that brought nearly 10,000 Jewish children to safety in Britain from Nazi-controlled territories between 1938 and 1940. For every child saved, 150 would perish in the Holocaust in the next five years. Like Mona’s mother, Honorary Chairs Magie Romberg Furst and Bert Romberg owe their survival to the kinder rescue efforts.
To purchase tickets, click here.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
The son of Mickey and Eva Mozes Kor, two Holocaust survivors, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been an incredible journey, from his unique upbringing in Indiana to his present-day mission of carrying on his parents’ inspiring legacy. From his mother’s controversial stance on forgiving the Nazis to his father’s unbridled optimism, Dr. Kor offers his own perspective on forgiveness as he nurtures his parents’ legacies in a world still fraught with antisemitism. Gain insight into how to bring testimony from second generation survivors into your classroom to help students understand the effects of the Holocaust and how it continues to shape the present and future.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual Via Zoom
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Description:
The one hour workshops are highly interactive and are hosted live on Zoom by ICS Educators. All topics can be easily integrated into the classroom with ready-to-use resources.
May is Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM), celebrating Jewish American achievements and contributions to the U.S.Join ICS for engaging workshops exploring Jewish American heritage to enrich your instruction.
Explore one of the world’s oldest religions. This session will cover Judaism’s beliefs, behaviors, and experiences of belonging. You’ll gain digital activities to incorporate into your classroom as well as the content to help your students understand the basics of Judaism.
This workshop primarily supports 6-12 educators. However, all are welcome to participate!
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
In this talk Peter Hayes traces the ways by which the German corporate world became deeply implicated in—and in many respects indispensable to—the Nazi regime’s persecution, exploitation, and murder of Europe’s Jews. He argues that these developments stemmed inexorably from decisions made and actions taken by the nation’s leading corporate executives in 1933, at the very outset of Nazi rule. Subjected to a corrupting combination of intimidation and temptation, Germany’s leading executives became participants in “the normalization of barbarism.” Yet, as Hayes also shows, few of these individuals later paid any price for their actions, thanks to the mistakes of American prosecutors, the onset of the Cold War, and a widespread cover up by German corporations that lasted until the 1990s.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was familiar with the horrors of war. However, he was stunned by what he saw in April 1945 when visiting Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, the first Nazi camp liberated by American troops. He invited the media and others to document the dead, dying, and starving prisoners. Eisenhower's defeat of Nazi Germany took on a moral hue. The Holocaust profoundly influenced his leadership of the United States and the Western Alliance during the Cold War. Join us to hear Jason S. Lantzer, Ph.D., author of Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust: A History, examine the conviction that shaped Eisenhower’s presidency and solidified American engagement in the postwar world.
There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click the "buy" button. Please register for one ticket per device used.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Please join us on Zoom to bring together over 1,000 students from across Texas to share tools and resources to combat antisemitism. Please feel free to share this opportunity with any organizations you think would help spread the word.
Kickoff featuring: Alan Dershowitz & Lizzy Savetsky
To register for the call.
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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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:
Come join the San Antonio community for a special watch party of the Impact: The San Antonio Jewish Oral History Project.
The film tells the story of the founding of the San Antonio Jewish community through the voices of some of its earliest families. Typically first generation Americans, many came here with nothing, and were heavily influenced by the cataclysmic events that roiled the world between two World Wars, the Great Depression, the 67 war, just to name a few. Within this backdrop, these people managed to build a strong Jewish community and turn their efforts outward toward the greater San Antonio community. The result of these interviews is Impact: The San Antonio Jewish Oral History Project.
Please join the San Antonio community to see how this extraordinary group of people shaped our values, our institutions, and San Antonio.
To register, click here.
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Monday, May 12, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual via Zoom
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Description:
Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family’s lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.
For this presentation, Julie Brill will be in conversation with Karen Kirsten.
Julie Brill has written for Haaretz, the Forward, Kveller, The Times of Israel, Balkan Insight, and elsewhere. She shares her family’s experiences in the Holocaust in middle and high school classrooms through Living Links. With so few Jewish survivors and descendants from Serbia, the story of the Shoah there has gone largely untold. Julie’s quest to understand and share what she learned led to Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia. Additionally, Julie is a lactation consultant, doula, childbirth educator, and the author of the anthology Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their Experiences. She is the mother of two adult daughters and lives near Boston. To learn more about Julie and to purchase her book, visit her website: www.JulieBrill.com.
Karen Kirsten is the author of Irena’s Gift, an Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival, a 2024 National Jewish Book Award finalist for Autobiography & Memoir, winner Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, and Australian Jewish Book Award finalist. Karen’s essay “Searching for the Nazi Who Saved My Mother’s Life” was selected by Narratively as one of their Best Ever stories and nominated for The Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Salon.com, Huffington Post, The Week, The Jerusalem Post, Boston’s National Public Radio station, The Boston Herald, The Christian Post, The Sydney Morning Herald and more.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Session 2: Campus Antisemitism at Home and Abroad
In this session, experts will discuss the rise of antisemitism on college campuses within the United States and Europe. The conversation will focus on antisemitic speech and action on campuses, what drives this rhetoric, and what we might see in the future.
Speakers to be announced!
About the Series
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a three-part series on contemporary antisemitism. Through these public programs, we aim to foster an increased understanding of this long-standing hatred, to discuss the alarming increase in antisemitism globally and in the United States, and to identify concrete steps that can be taken to confront and disrupt antisemitism. For these sessions, we will convene a diverse group of experts to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Our one hour workshops are highly interactive and are hosted live on Zoom by ICS Educators.
We’ll examine the rich diversity and history of Jewish Americans, and gain insights that deepen the understandings of identity for all students. Teachers of world history, U.S. history, ethnic studies, human geography and world religions will all find relevant applications and resources in this workshop.
This workshop primarily supports 6-12 educators. However, all are welcome to participate!
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
at 12:30pm -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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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:
Join the San Antonio community at the JCC for a historic and meaningful event as we unveil the First Texas Torah, on special loan from the Institute of Texan Cultures. Scribed in the mid-19th century and believed to have been brought from Germany, this remarkable artifact represents the deep-rooted history of Jewish life in Texas and serves as a testament to the traditions of early Jewish communities in our state.
Come out to learn more about this Torah's journey and its significance in Texas Jewish heritage.
This event is free and open to the community.
The Navasota Torah
This Torah is believed to have been brought from Germany to Texas in 1885 by Philip Hamburger. Philip and his family immigrated from Prussia (a historical region that included land in Poland, France, and Lithuania) to Evansville, Indiana, and then onto Navasota, Texas. The arrival of the Torah prompted the creation of the Congregation B’nai Abraham in Brenham. Then in 1964, Brenham lent the Torah to Shaar Hashalom. Congregation B’nai Abraham is now part of Congregation Tiferet Israel in Austin, TX. After its return from Shaar Hashalom, the Torah was then donated to the Institute of Texan Cultures in 2014. The Navasota Torah is 1534 inches, or 12 feet and 10 inches, long and made of sheepskin parchment.
Inscription
An inscription was added onto this Torah at the end of Deuteronomy. The inscription translates as follows: "I corrected this Sefer [Torah] for the Navasota congregation in the month of Menachem Av, 5657 [1897]. Chaim Schwartz, watchman of the House of Israel in Texas".
To register, click here.
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