Events List
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
at 1:00pm -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
This talk by Gwynne Robins explores the history of the Holocaust survivor community in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Initially, due to discriminatory immigration laws, the survivor community in South Africa began as a small one. In 1952, survivors formed She’erith Hapletah, a group which provided survivors with social, emotional and financial-support and eventually led to the construction of Holocaust memorials. In the 1960s, large groups of Sephardi survivors from Rhodes fleeing violence in Congo immigrated to Cape Town, making this city home to more survivors from Rhodes than anywhere else around the world. Therefore, the survivor community began to host an annual Yom HaShoah commemoration in Cape Town in both Ladino and Yiddish. The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre later played a key role in making Holocaust education mandatory in South African schools, creating teaching materials and inspiring similar centres in Durban and Johannesburg. In response to Holocaust denier David Irving's proposed visit, She’erith Hapletah published a memoir collection consisting of testimonies from the survivor community in the city. To this day, survivors play a crucial role in the Centre and in the city's Holocaust education initiatives.
Gwynne Robins was the deputy director of the Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies. She has arranged annual communal Yom HaShoah ceremonies and administered the Holocaust compensation through the Claims Conference. She was also an interviewer for USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive and edited the book In Sacred Memory: Recollections of the Holocaust by Survivors Living in Cape Town. In addition to this book, she has edited multiple Holocaust survivor testimonies, family memoirs and written books and articles on local Jewish history. For her scholarship, she earned a prestigious award in recognition for her many years of distinguished service to the Board and to Jewish historical scholarship in South Africa.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Livestreamed
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Description:
Effective ways to teach historical understanding and promote literacy goals
Holocaust literature can immerse students in the past, helping them consider how the events of the Holocaust affected people and communities. During this free virtual program, seasoned educators will discuss the importance of incorporating accurate historical context when teaching about the Holocaust in middle and high school classrooms. The program will highlight instructional strategies that strengthen literacy skills and will explore resources based on the Museum’s primary source collection that help students understand how and why the Holocaust happened.
Key Takeaways:
Approaches for learning essential historical context while building literacy skillsEffective strategies to develop key skills, such as close reading, writing, analysis, research, listening, speaking, and reflectionIntroduction to foundational teaching resources supporting the use of Holocaust literatureInformation about professional development opportunitiesAdvantages of cross-curricular connectionsGet Your Free Book
Panelists will share strategies for examining Holocaust literature. For example, Lois Lowry's Number the Stars is one of many valuable works that can engage students in the classroom. To support the discussion, a copy of Number the Stars will be mailed directly to program registrants (available for educators with a US or US territory mailing address).Panelists
Kim Blevins-Relleva, Educator Programs Manager, William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sarah Schurman, High School English Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia; Museum Teacher Fellow
Dorian Stuber, English Professor Emeritus, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas; Editor, Critical Insights: Holocaust Literature
Kristen Tinch, District-Level Instructional Coach, Fayette County School District, Kentucky
Moderator
Gretchen Skidmore, Director, Education Initiatives, William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
To register, click here.
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline
Houston, Texas 77004
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Description:
With stunning video clips and dramatic photographs, Emmy Award-nominated producer Joshua M. Greene explores existential and pedagogical issues surrounding the transmission of Holocaust memory in this public lecture. Audience members will be challenged as they reconsider beloved movies and books by hearing an informed exposition of what lies behind the messages of popular media.
This event is free to attend and includes a meet and greet with Greene.
To register, click here.
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Friday, October 24, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military Highway
San Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Join the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and the Voices of the Shoah generational survivor committee for a Holocaust Survivor Family Reunion Weekend. The weekend includes a Shabbat dinner, Havdalah and Desserts, and a Sunday Family Picnic for all!
Registration and advance payment required to attend events. Locations will be provided upon registration. Our deadline for registration is October 10, 2025.
A block of hotel rooms is being held under the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio at the Estancia del Norte at a rate of $152 per night (plus tax). Please contact the hotel directly to make your reservations. Room rate will be held until September 24.
organized and hosted by Voices of the Shoah, a committee of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio comprised of Holocaust descendants
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, October 28, 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:
Located in Austria next to a granite quarry, Mauthausen was one of the most brutal sites in the Nazi concentration camp system, including the infamous “Stairs of Death”. Join Echoes & Reflections Facilitator and Holocaust educator Todd Hennessy as he offers guidance and appropriate pedagogical approaches on how to teach about the concentration camp system through this important site. Utilizing visual history testimony, photographs, and information on how the site functions today, educators will gain valuable strategies to help students engage critically with the legacy of Nazi crimes and the importance of sites of memory today.
This webinar connects to Unit 5 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Seville, seventeenth century. Whispers can end a life; candlelight carries code. In The Silver Candlesticks, Linda Chavez follows Guiomar, a young woman who discovers her family’s hidden Jewish identity just as the Spanish Inquisition tightens its grip. What unfolds is a reckoning: a daughter guarding an inheritance of faith, a wife choosing love over fear, a mother weighing survival against truth.
Chavez began this novel after learning—through Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Finding Your Roots—that some of her own ancestors were Converso Jews, a discovery that set off nearly a decade of research. A former White House Director of Public Liaison and a longstanding Hispanic leader, she was the highest-ranking woman in President Reagan’s White House; in 2001 she became the first Latina nominated to the U.S. Cabinet; and in 2000 the Library of Congress named her a Living Legend.
That personal thread gives the story its spark. Candlesticks passed from hand to hand become a promise kept across generations. Streets, markets, and kitchens feel alive. Power moves in the shadows. The questions land close to home: Who am I when the world tells me to hide, and what does courage cost?
Join Chavez in conversation with Rick Salomon, Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and a longtime Museum leader. They will probe religious identity under pressure, the machinery of repression, and how histories of forced conversion echo in today’s debates over immigration and rising authoritarianism.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
To be shared upon registration
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Description:
Join us alongside author Dr. Victoria Aarons for an evening exploring Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma & Memory.
Employing memory as her controlling trope, in her novel Dr. Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss. The intergenerational dialogue established by Aarons’ reading of these narratives speaks to the on-going obligation to bear witness to the Holocaust. Examined together, these intergenerational works bridge the erosions created by time and distance.
As a genre of witnessing, these graphic stories, in retracing the traumatic tracks of memory, inscribe the weight of history on generations that follow.
Dr. Aarons holds the position of OR and Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University.
To find out more, click here.
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtually
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Description:
Germany’s first experiment with democracy, the Weimar Republic, began in 1918 and ended, tragically, in 1933, when the Nazi Party came to power. The Weimar Republic faced significant challenges, but its collapse was not inevitable – and nor was the Nazi takeover. The failure of democracy and the rise, in its place, of a racist, expansionistic dictatorship were the results of conscious decisions made by politicians and millions of ordinary voters. Responding to defeat in war and economic crises, Germans assigned blame to scapegoats and shunned political compromise, ultimately succumbing to their impatience with what they perceived as the messiness of democracy.
Join Professor Alan E. Steinweis from the University of Vermont as he launches our professional development series “The Holocaust: One Year at a Time” with an in-depth examination of 1933.
Alan E. Steinweis is Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he has been teaching since 2009. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Hannover, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Munich, and Augsburg, and has long been affiliated with the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin. His books include Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany (1993); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (2006); Kristallnacht 1938 (2009); and, most recently, The People’s Dictatorship: A History of Nazi Germany (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The Lone Assassin: Georg Elser’s Attempt to Assassinate Hitler and the Memory of Anti-Nazi Resistance.
Currently active schoolteachers and paraprofessionals are eligible to apply. This program has a one-time tax-deductible fee of $18.00. Scholarships to cover the fee are available. To apply for a scholarship, please email: education@mjhnyc.org.
Participants will be eligible to receive CTLE credit.
To register, click here.
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