Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Monday, July 7, 2025
(all day)
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General
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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 July 7th and closes August 3rd.Optional Final Project: Due August 3rd.
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 register, click here.
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Monday, July 28, 2025
(all day)
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Grants & Contests
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N/A
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N/A
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
(all day)
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Films
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Anti-Semitism on College Campuses & October 8 Movie Showing
Email Cindy for more information, c.simon@tarrantfederation.org.
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Friday, August 8, 2025
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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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:
Join DHHRM on select Fridays this summer to hear the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, refugees, and hidden children, as well as second generation survivors.
About the Speaker
Ron Schwarz is the son of Holocaust survivor Charles Schwarz, Z”L. As a child during the war, Charles was hidden by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), a Jewish aid organization based in Paris. Through a very risky border crossing, Charles escaped to Switzerland. After the war, he was reunited with his parents in England.
Community Partners
Dallas AfterschoolGreenhill SchoolJewish Federation of Greater DallasSouthwest Jewish CongressTexas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission
To register in person, click here. To register to attend virtually, click here.
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Sunday, August 10, 2025
at 4:00pm -
6:00pm
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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:
Runtime 108 min | Israel, Poland | 2025 | Hebrew, Polish
Regina and her granddaughter Mika embark on a journey to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II. But their quest quickly unravels. Regina unexpectedly decides to abandon the mission entirely, leaving Mika lost and confused. To complicate matters further, an irritating distant relative keeps appearing at every turn. Just as Mika finds herself falling for a charming tour guide, Regina seizes the opportunity to pursue her own hidden agenda: finding her long-lost love, from whom she was separated seventy years ago.
Based on the graphic novel by Rutu Modan, The Property stars beloved actress Rivka Michaeli and has been nominated for 4 Israeli Academy Awards.
Tickets are $15/pp.
To register, click here.
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Monday, August 11, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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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 enhanced understanding for your students.
Course Details:
Course opens August 11th 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 register, click here.
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Tuesday, August 12, 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 a Holocaust survivor or a Holocaust liberator through pre-recorded testimonies.
Showtimes will be:
Tuesday-Friday at 10:00 AM & 1:00 PM
Saturdays at 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Tuesday, August 12th- Saturday August 16th: Lea Novera, Spanish Testimony, Auschwitz Survivor
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
(all day)
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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 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Tuesday August 19th- Saturday August 23rd : Edith Maniker, Kindertransport Survivor
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 12:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
This 2-day workshop will help educators understand the basics of Judaism, where antisemitism came from and how it evolved, America's largest wave of Jewish immigration, and what Jewish American identity looks like today.
Stipend amount: $150
To apply: Summer Institute Application 2025
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Focus of our next virtual event is the Kindertransport, a heroic rescue mission, which saved about 10,000 children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland from certain death, just before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
Starting on August 13, you can view the film My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports on your home device (until August 21).
To register, click here.
Join film director
Melissa Hacker in conversation with Rachel Stern about My Knees Were
Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports. In the talk, Melissa will show a
new short film on the Kindertransports, 256,000 miles
from home, which travels with four Kindertransport survivors as they
retrace the journey they took 80 years earlier, as unaccompanied child
refugees.
In the nine months
just prior to World War II close to 10,000 children were sent, without their
parents, to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and
Poland. These children were rescued by the Kindertransport movement. Most of
the children never saw their parents again. Those courageous parents who had
the strength to send their children off to an unknown fate soon boarded
transports taking them to concentration camps. The story of the
Kindertransports is an extraordinary piece of history – untold far too long.
The children who lived the trauma and terror of being uprooted from secure
homes tell compelling stories.
Watch the trailer here.
The filmmaker Melissa Hacker’s mother, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley, neé Birnholz, (Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, The Hustler, The Miracle Worker, Tootsie, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January 1939. She is a strong presence in the film talking about her experiences alongside other former child refugees, many of them women. Ruth and the writer Lore Segal, also a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna, remember the antisemitism of schoolmates and neighbors, the violence and their fears on November 9, 1938, the difficult decision their parents had to make to send them off into the unknown, and their lives in the United Kingdom. We learn about their postwar lives in North America, and hear from their children, the second generation. Hacker creates space for all to talk and reflect, making this film a moving and invaluable record of testimony.
Melissa Hacker is the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor from Vienna, Austria, and the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association. Melissa is a filmmaker who made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination and shown worldwide. Honors received For Ex Libris, A Life in Bookplates, Melissa’s current work in progress, include a Fulbright Artist-in-Residence award in Vienna, and residencies at Yaddo, VCCA, Playa, Willapa Bay AIR, Saltonstall, Millay, and the LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture.
Artist Samson Schames and his wife Edith were also able to flee Nazi persecution to Great Britain:
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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:
For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a Jewish family in 1942 during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. When she was just a baby, her parents moved the family into hiding in an attic in Amsterdam. They lived under the constant threat of discovery, denunciation, and deportation, endured air raids, and often had very little to eat. Despite all this, Louise's mother and father tried to give her as normal a childhood as possible. Watch to learn more about Louise’s secret life in the attic.
SpeakerLouise Lawrence-Israëls, 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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Tuesday, August 26, 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 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Tuesday August 26th- Saturday, August 30th : Eva Mozes Kor, Auschwitz survivor
To find out more, click here.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, but Michelle Weinfeld’s grandfather survived. In From Generation to Generation: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity in the Aftermath of the Shoah, Weinfeld weaved her story with that of her grandfather, Poppy. Poppy’s account of loss and rebuilding, layered with the author’s journey to self-acceptance in the face of antisemitism, shows readers that trauma does not affect only the individual, but can transcend generations.
With its heartfelt anecdotes of family holidays, gripping stories of survival, and painful realizations about identity, From Generation to Generation is a universal story of overcoming adversity and not falling victim to negative experiences.
Michelle Weinfeld graduated from the University of Maryland with a Masters in Finance and has gone on to work as a CPA. Passionate about Jewish learning, Weinfeld is involved with 3GNY, a nonprofit focused on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors who educate people about the Holocaust through family stories. Weinfeld’s love of history and storytelling drove her to write her debut intergenerational memoir, From Generation to Generation.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
(all day)
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General
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
In this virtual
event, the German-born artist Samson Schames (1898-1967) will be discussed by a
panel of experts: Annika Friedman (Germany) will elaborate on the artist’s
beginnings in Frankfurt, Rachel Dickson, PhD (UK) will give an insight into the
work he made in British exile, and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD (USA) will speak about
the work he created in his new home, New York. The presentations will be
followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by Rachel Stern.
Samson Schames came
from a long-established Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). With the
support of his uncle, renowned gallery owner Ludwig Schames, he made his way
into the 1920s art scene and began his training as a painter, graphic artist, and
stage designer. Schames’ designs, drawings, and oil paintings from his time in
Frankfurt testify to his deep connection to his hometown and her
landscapes.
After the National
Socialists rose to power in 1933, Schames was only able to exhibit his
works in exhibitions of the Jüdischer Kulturbund or in his own
studio. In 1937, at least seven of his works were confiscated from public
collections as part of the Nazi campaign against "Degenerate Art."
Schames fled to England via Holland after the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938. In 1940, he was interned in Huyton Camp, near Liverpool, as a so-called ‘enemy alien’. After his release he exhibited extensively in London and became known for his mosaics in which he incorporated broken and found materials scavenged from bombsites.
In 1948, Schames immigrated to the USA, where he continued his career until he died in 1967.
This event is part of the online series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.
To register, click here.
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