Events List
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List of Events
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Online webinar
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Description:
Join Holocaust museums and education centers across North America for a powerful, multi-part webinar series exploring how democracy eroded and extremism took root in 1930’s Germany—and the urgent lessons we can draw today.
All sessions are free 60-minute Zoom webinars. Click on each individual lecture title for more information and to register for a Zoom link.Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle
Beth is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She earned her MA and PhD at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Griech-Polelle began her teaching career at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her most recent publication is a revised and expanded edition of Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and Traditions of Hatred. She has also published Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism, she has edited a revised and expanded the second edition of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today as well as editing, Trajectories of Memory, an examination of the Holocaust in History and in the Arts. She has published numerous articles, chapters in books and book reviews. Her most recent research involves examining the persecution of “Catholic non-Aryans” in Nazi Germany.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via virtual link
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Description:
Mira Knei-Paz is a 71-year-old Holocaust "baby survivor" born secretly in a pig shed in Austria after her mother escaped a deportation train. Her father was murdered at Auschwitz while she and her mother survived the war that killed 88% of Hungarian Jewry in four months. She is editor of the acclaimed memoir collection "Only Childhood Does Not Age – We Were Children in the Holocaust," featuring eight child survivors' stories from Eastern Europe, now being considered for English translation.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via YouTube
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Description:
Born into a Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam, Robert Teitel never got to know his parents. He never learned to play chess from his father, a master player. He never saw an exhibition of his mother’s photography. Before Robert turned one, the Nazis arrested Robert’s father as mass deportations of Jews from the Netherlands began. Robert’s mother placed him with a caretaker, where he could be “hidden in plain sight,” while she went into hiding herself.
In his first appearance on First Person, hear more about what happened to Robert and his family, a story that includes a “kidnapping,” an orphanage, and help from then-Congressman FDR, Jr.
SpeakerRobert Teitel, 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.
Marking 25 years, First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
To sign up for the event reminder, click here.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Exhibits
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
In-person registration includes a 6:oo p.m. reception followed by a 7:00 p.m. program.
In the wake of antisemitic violence perpetrated by Nazi Germany, Britain allowed Jewish children to settle temporarily in the United Kingdom. Jewish charities and other organizations, as well as private citizens, worked together on what became known as the Kindertransport. British families, schools, and others took in approximately 10,000 children fleeing persecution and death, the majority of whom never again saw their parents, who were murdered in the Holocaust. Some of these children rebuilt their lives in the United Kingdom, while others emigrated to the United States, Israel, Canada, and Australia, carrying with them their legacy of loss, survival, and resilience. Melissa Hacker, executive director of the Kindertransport Association, joins us to honor the extraordinary efforts of those who saved thousands of Jewish children and reflects on the enduring impact of their actions.
$10 per person | Free for Museum Members
To purchase tickets, click the "buy" button.
The Museum does not offer refunds for purchased tickets.
Museum Members receive early access for this program. Click here to become a Member.
Please note that membership takes 1-2 business days to process.
About Kindertransport – Rescuing Children from the Brink of War
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories, and firsthand testimony, those who lived through the “Kindertransport,” German for “children’s transport,” tell its history.
The exhibition offers a moving look at the rescue effort, the painful choices parents made to send their children to safety, and the lives their children began in the United Kingdom. This exhibition serves as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of honoring the legacy of those who endured unimaginable suffering.
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War was created and organized by Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin.
On view from September 18, 2025 to February 16, 2026.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Focusing on Mexico, this first session in our series explores different communities that Holocaust survivors built after liberation.
This talk by Dr. Yael Siman explores the early and later efforts of Holocaust survivors to remember and recount their experiences, and how the transmission of these stories to their families gave rise to the construction of Holocaust memory in Mexico—one that is both similar to and distinct from other Latin American memories. While this memory includes stories of persecution and forced migration, it also reveals multiple forms of adaptation and healing within a Mexican context that was hospitable, though not necessarily democratic.
Yael Siman earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. In 2024-2025 Siman was a fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (MFJC). She is Research Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City. Siman is co-author of the book Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances, published by Lexington Books in 2024, co-author of the article “From Europe to Mexico: The Unexpected Journey of Thirty Jewish Families Escaping Nazism,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, also published in 2024, and co-editor of the volume Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Settlement and Memory, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2025. She is currently conducting a research project on the migration trajectories and the memories of Holocaust survivors in Mexico.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
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Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the exhibition opening of Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling. Through contemporary paintings, Jacquelline Kott-Wolle’s work explores the key people, experiences, and community that shaped the artist. The exhibition traces the story of one North American Jewish family through five generations from 1925 to the present.
Paired with the artist’s own narration, the exhibition presents playful images of Jewish holidays, moments at Hebrew school and vacations as well as milestone celebrations marked by the artist’s family through the years. Kott-Wolle’s Jewish identity was informed by the experiences of her parents and grandparents who arrived in Canada in 1949 after the Holocaust. As a member of the ‘Second Generation,’ she reflects on how her forebears faced the enormous task of starting over upon surviving one of modern history’s darkest chapters. The exhibition includes paintings of this colorful cast of characters as they rebuild their lives and flourish in North America’s vibrant Jewish communities. Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling speaks to the resilience of newcomers who must navigate a painful past, contend with tradition and summon optimism for the future.
Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling is a series of contemporary oil paintings and short narratives about Jewish identity in North America. Together with her written reflections on being Jewish, Kott-Wolle takes the viewer on a journey into her grandmother’s kitchen at Passover, her Zeidi’s textile store, her summer camp and more.
To RSVP, click here.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Location will be sent closer to date
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Description:
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston for a screening of "Unsafe Spaces", a powerful short documentary film by Unpacked that shares real stories from young Jewish voices navigating hostility while standing up for who they are. Following the screening, Yoni Buckman, Senior Educator at Unpacked, will join Stuart Dow for a chat exploring the film's themes and how we can support the next generation as they navigate these critical issues.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Austin, TX *location disclosed upon registration*
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Description:
Join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Bad Faith at a local Austin theater. Bad Faith is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States.Watch the trailer here: https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
To register, click here.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
at 10:30am -
1:00pm
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General
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
In celebration of Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling, join Holocaust Museum Houston’s NEXTGen for a Challah Bake and an exclusive tour of the new exhibition.
Known for its signature braided shape, challah is a rich, slightly sweet bread that is a staple of Jewish traditions, particularly for the Sabbath, holidays, and religious rituals. Taking place directly before Rosh Hashanah, guests will make round challahs representing the cycle of the year past and the cycle of the year ahead of us.
Through contemporary paintings, Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling explores the key people, experiences, and community that shaped artist Jacquelline Kott-Wolle. Together with her written reflections on being Jewish, Kott-Wolle takes the viewer on a journey into her grandmother’s kitchen at Passover, her Zeidi’s textile store, her summer, camp and more.
Breakfast tacos and coffee will be served.
Tickets are $20 for NEXTGen Members and $25 for general admission. Ticket price includes Museum admission, parking, and baking supplies.
NEXTGen is an affinity group for young professionals ages 21-45 who share a common passion for Holocaust Museum Houston and its mission.
Not a NEXTGen member? Join today using discount code challah10 and get 10% off your membership.
For questions, contact Hayley Rosenberg at hrosenberg@hmh.org or 713-527-1621.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military Highway
San Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Susanne Jalnos was born in Rajka, Hungary that is a small town near the border of what was then Czechoslovakia. Her family consisted of her parents and a brother and sister. Anna’s father owned two butcher shops—one kosher and one non-kosher. On March 10, 1944, the Nazis marched into Hungary and changed her life forever.
Learn more of Susanne's remarkable story as told by her son on September 21, 2025 at 2pm.
To register, click here.
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Monday, September 22, 2025
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General
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII.In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were left behind in Germany, a nation in ruins. British and American soldiers attempted to repatriate the refugees, but more than a million displaced persons remained in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to. Most would eventually be resettled in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages, but no nation, including the United States, was willing to accept more than a handful of the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. When in June, 1948, the United States Congress passed legislation permitting the immigration of displaced persons, visas were granted to sizable numbers of war criminals and Nazi collaborators, but denied to 90% of the Jewish displaced persons. A masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw, The Last Million tells the gripping but until now hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness and of the Last Million, as they crossed from a broken past into an unknowable future, carrying with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and shows us how it is our history as well.
David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and History Today, and, according to The Economist, one of the “six must-read books on the Second World War”; The Patriarch, a New York Times Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, Nasaw was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” His father served in the Army Medical Corps in Eritrea during World War II.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, September 28, 2025
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Composer and pianist Albert Marquès will present a new Ampl!fy Voices project at Edmond J. Safra Hall, the haunting and heartfelt “Mir Zaynen Do,” a collaboration with 99-year-old Holocaust survivor Millie Baran. Set to Baran telling the story of her childhood in Poland and the unimaginable challenges she later endured in concentration camps and displacement camps, this concert features an all-star lineup of New York City jazz musicians, including Gilad Hekselman, Noa Fort, Roy Nathanson, and Ari Hoenig, who will perform with Marquès and his 11 year old daughter, Aviva.
Mir Zaynen Do (מיר זיינען דא) is also known as “Zog nit keyn mol,” “Partisan Song” or “The Song of the Warsaw Ghetto.” A Yiddish song inspired by news of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its lyrics were written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, a young Jewish inhabitant of the Vilna Ghetto. The song was adopted by Jewish partisan groups throughout Eastern Europe during World War II and became a symbol of resistance against Nazi Germany.
Albert Marquès is a Brooklyn based pianist and composer born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in 1986. His project Ampl!fy Voices creates musical collaborations with people whose stories must be told and heard. Marquès is known for his groundbreaking music project Freedom First with writer and poet Keith LaMar, who has spent 33 years in solitary confinement on death row in Ohio for a crime he did not commit. Freedom First is the first album in history by an artist on death row. Marquès continues to tour the U.S., Latin America and Europe to packed audiences, with LaMar performing live by phone from death row. Marquès has been featured in The New York Times, El Pais, NPR, Rolling Stone, People (magazine), Time Out, Le Figaro and press from all over the world. www.albertmarques.com/amplify
To register, click here.
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Monday, September 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 for a powerful two-day professional development experiene designed for educators across ELA, ESL, history, social studies, and more. This year’s conference focuses on inclusive, reflective, and impactful approaches to teaching historical narratives, identity and justice, fostering empathy in students to say ‘Never Again.’
Educators will explore stratgies, resources, and hands-on tools for teaching in ways that highlight meaningful connections, ignite critical thinking, and encourage students to engage with texts, ideas, and real-world issues across subject areas.
Special Presentations & Speakers Include:
Christina Chavarria from United States Holocaust Museum on Anthony Acevedo- Mexican American WWII medic & Holocaust SurvivorJewish-Mexican American history in El PasoHolocaust Survivor testimonies, primary sources & more!
When: Monday September 29th & Tuesday September 30th
For more questions please contact MaryLou Rocha at 915.351.0048 or MaryLou@elpasoholocaustmuseum.org
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