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Monday, October 6, 2025
(all day)
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General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
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, October 6th and will remain open through November 2nd.
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 register, click here.
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Saturday, November 1, 2025
at 4:00pm -
6:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Ln, Austin, TX 78731
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Description:
Year: 2025Run time: 27 minLanguage(s): HebrewSubtitles: English subtitlesGenres: Drama | short
Anna, a nursing assistant, works as a caregiver to Maxim, a bitter Holocaust survivor and former painter. Living together in a small, aging house, she witnesses his daily struggle with dementia – a condition he stubbornly refuses to acknowledge. When his doctor presents a promising treatment option, Anna embarks on a creative quest to raise the necessary funds, revealing the unexpected depths of their relationship.WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: A well-made drama about the complex relationship between a Holocaust survivor and his caregiver.
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Saturday, November 1, 2025
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Ln, Austin, TX 78731
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Description:
Director(s): Judith Colell | 2025 | 100' | Belgium, Spain
It’s 1943, and Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the Jews across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jérôme, a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel will find himself embroiled in a dangerous odyssey that will awaken in him and his wife, Mercé, old ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War.WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: A gripping WWII drama with a delicious twist at the end. This is NOT a Holocaust movie.
$13 per person (online ticket price), $15 per person
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Sunday, November 2, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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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:
Join us as Holocaust survivor Eva Balcazar shares her remarkable story of resilience in the face of Nazi oppression. She will recount her childhood, her beloved parents, and their forced migration from Germany following Kristallnacht in 1938.
For more information, click here.
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Monday, November 3, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
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 November 3rd and closes November 30th.Optional Final Project: Due November 30th.
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, November 3, 2025
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
I Seek A Kind Person is a gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope that tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.
In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death.
83 years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger comes across the ad that saved his father, Robert, from the Nazis. Robert had kept this a secret, like almost everything else about his traumatic Viennese childhood, until he took his own life. Drawn to the shadows of his family’s past and starting with nothing but a page of newspaper ads, Borger traces the remarkable stories of his father, the other advertised children, and their families, each thrown into the maelstrom of a world at war.
From a Viennese radio shop to the Shanghai ghetto, internment camps and family homes across Britain, the deep forests and concentration camps of Nazi Germany, smugglers saving Jewish lives in Holland, an improbable French Resistance cell, and a redemptive story of survival in New York, Borger unearths the astonishing journeys of the children at the hands of fate, their stories of trauma and the kindness of strangers.
Julian Borger is the Guardian’s senior international correspondent based in London. He covered the Balkan wars in the 1990’s and served as The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and in Washington as bureau chief and then global affairs editor. Borger was part of the Guardian team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism, for its coverage of the Snowden files on mass surveillance. He also won the 2016 One World Media press award for Syria’s Truth Smugglers, about the investigation of the war crimes of the Assad regime. Borger has written two books: The Butcher’s Trail (2016) about the manhunt for Balkan war crimes, and I Seek A Kind Person (2024) about Jewish children saved from the Nazis with the help of newspaper adverts.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
(all day)
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik – a Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project – tells the story in over a baker’s dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black Americans and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. Culled from over five thousand Yiddish and English newspaper articles of the period, and thanks to new research from previously inaccessible materials, the book reveals fresh insights into the impossible-to-overstate influence of Yiddish culture on New York City. Containing fifty images, many of which have never before been published, the book is complemented by an online interactive Google Map linked to over one hundred of the historic locations discussed in the book, with additional graphics and resource materials. The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City is a vivid, entertaining, and accessible compendium of both New York’s and New York’s Ashkenazic past and present, showcasing the culture’s persistent resiliency.
Sapoznik will be in conversation about his book with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
Henry H. Sapoznik is an award-winning author, radio and record producer, and performer of Yiddish and American traditional and popular music. A child of Holocaust survivors and a native Yiddish speaker, Sapoznik was one of the architects of the 1970s klezmer revival and in 1985 founded and directed the internationally renowned event “KlezKamp” which he ran for thirty years. Sapoznik was nominated for five Grammy awards as a performer and producer on over 50 recordings. He co-produced the Peabody Award-winning NPR series The Yiddish Radio Project in 2002 while his collection of over 1,000 Yiddish broadcasts is now housed at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Sapoznik is currently recording the audiobook of The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City and writing The Stations That Spoke Your Language: A Century of Yiddish American Radio for MacFarland Press for 2027.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University and Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw. Her books include Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); and They Called Me Mayer July: Painted and Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt). She was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to the creation of POLIN Museum. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences served as Vice-Chair of ICMEMO International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes. She advises on museum and exhibition projects in Germany, Vienna, Lithuania, Belarus, Albania, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
at 7:00pm -
8:30pm
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Commemorations
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Location:
To be shared upon registration
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Description:
The Night of Broken Glass featuring Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, wife of Holocaust survivor Theodore Bikel
Ms. Bikel will share the story of a young Theodore, born in Vienna, Austria, watching the destruction and violence on the “Night of Broken Glass” from behind the curtains of his home, hiding with his parents.
To find out more information, click here.
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Students are invited to join their teachers for this interactive exploration of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass." In examining this watershed event in Holocaust history, it is essential to bring forward the stories of the people who lived through those dark days in November 1938. Using personal artifacts and historical resources, Sheryl Ochayon, Project Director for Echoes & Reflections at Yad Vashem, will engage with students to highlight these stories and discuss their meaning today.
This webinar connects to Unit 3 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
In this three session online class, Professor Steve Swerdlow will explore the history, meaning and modern implications of genocide and mass atrocities. The class will begin by exploring the history of the term genocide, how it differs from ethnic cleansing, and the Genocide Convention of 1948. Then, focusing on the aftermath of Rwanda and Bosnia in the 1990s, the class will cover the international mechanisms to prevent genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and to punish perpetrators. In the final session, Professor Swerdlow will conclude by sharing his own field work on this subject from Ukraine, the South Caucuses and Central Asia.
Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, heading the organization’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and founding its Kyrgyzstan field office. Swerdlow has worked as a consultant with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Earlier Swerdlow was a fellow in the U.S. State Department’s Young Leaders for Public Service program in Russia and worked as a human rights monitor for the Union of Council for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) as their Caucasus monitor in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Russia.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Ln, Austin, TX 78731
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Description:
124 minutes | Poland | 2025Using beautiful hand-drawn animation to bring the past to life, “Among Neighbors” investigates the story of a small, rural town where the longstanding peace between Jewish and Polish neighbors was shattered by World War II. Now, in an era where difficult truths about the past are being silenced for political gain, the film focuses on one of the last living Holocaust survivors from the town, and an aging eyewitness who saw Jews murdered there — six months after the Nazis were defeated. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash (“Crime After Crime,” Sundance Film Festival), “Among Neighbors” is an evocative and heart-pounding murder mystery with urgent political relevance.
In a Syrian border village in the early 80’s, little Sero attends school for the first time. A new teacher has arrived with the goal of making strapping Panarabic comrades out of the Kurdish children. To enable paradise to come to earth, he uses the rod to forbid the Kurdish language, orders the veneration of Assad and preaches hate of the Zionist enemy- the Jews. The lessons upset and confuse Sero because his long-time neighbors are a lovable Jewish family. With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film depicts a childhood which manages to find light moments between dictatorship and dark drama. Little Sero gets involved in dangerous pranks with his friends, and dreams of having a television so he can finally watch cartoons. But he also experiences how the adults around him are increasingly crushed by the despotism, violence and nationalism which surround them. The film was inspired by the director’s personal experiences, and so his bitter-sweet memories connect the Syrian tragedy to the present.
Q&A with director Mano Khalil will play immediately after the film in-theater and be available as bonus content for virtual participants.
WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: At first glance this appears to be another holocaust testimony, but the film is so much more. Ten years in the making, Yaacov Goldstein’s journey from a small Polish town to life in Israel is a riveting story, expertly told through interviews and animation. At the same time the film deals with important testimony from some of his Polish neighbors about actions perpetrated by some Polish villagers agains the Jews. The film has an unexpected and very touching ending providing a element of mystery to this excellently crafted movie.
$13 pp online/$15 pp in person
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European history; rather, they incorporate perspectives and voices not always considered in more traditional Holocaust studies.The new book Global Approaches to the Holocaust asks: What happens when scholars shift their focus from an exclusively European perspective of the Holocaust? What new insights are gained from exploring the impact of the Holocaust from outside the European milieu? How do countries that were not directly affected by Nazi policies of occupation and extermination remember the Holocaust? What does an expansive approach to the Holocaust entail? With essays about North and South Africa, Mauritius, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, the Philippines, the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan, Palestine, Colombia, New Zealand, and more, Global Approaches to the Holocaust seeks to create a critical voice in Holocaust studies that encompasses not only Europe but also Asia, Africa, South and North America, Australia, and the Middle East.
Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, co-editors of Global Approaches to the Holocaust, will be in conversation about the book with Dr. Laura B. Cohen, Executive Director of the Harriet and Kenneth Kupfberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York.
Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the executive director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust and Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp.
Mehnaz Afridi is a professor of religion & Philosophy and director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University. She is the author of Shoah through Muslim Eyes.
Dr. Laura B. Cohen is the Executive Director of the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York where she oversees public programming, exhibitions, educational initiatives, and community outreach. Her research focuses on contested narratives and education at atrocity site memorials that builds upon her extensive fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Poland, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Dr. Cohen serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and on the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University and previously spent 14 years in the corporate sector, including at MTV: Music Television and Ogilvy and Mather.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
at 4:45pm -
6:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Ln, Austin, TX 78731
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Description:
The gripping story of Jewish refugees seeking safety in Finland during WWII. As Nazi influence grows, the Finnish-Jewish businessman Abraham Stiller risks everything to protect the refugee community. This powerful film showcases courage, resilience, and the fight for hope amidst overwhelming adversity.WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: A well told drama of what happended to a Jewish community from an unusual place during WWII—Finland.
$13 pp (online ticket price), $15 per person
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
at 5:00pm -
6:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Mike Wolff was born in Breslau, Germany in 1936. In 1939, he was one of the youngest children to join a Kindertransport out of Nazi Germany to Great Britain.
To RSVP, click here.
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Sunday, November 9, 2025
at 7:30pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
The Legacy Midtown Park
8240 Manderville Lane
Dallas, TX 75231 United States
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Description:
Join Americans for Ben-Gurion University’s Dallas Chapter, the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, the Dallas Jewish Film Festival, and The Legacy – Midtown Park for a special screening of the award-winning documentary film “Who Are the Marcuses?” Learn about the inspiring story of Lottie and Howard Marcus, Holocaust refugees whose transformative donation to Israel’s Ben-Gurion University is a remarkable lesson of the power of philanthropy and the desire to make a difference. Film screening will followed by a talkback with Ellen Marcus.
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