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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
One of the most devastating chapters of the Holocaust occurred in Lithuania, where 95% of the prewar Jewish population was murdered. Join Echoes & Reflections Director of Holocaust Content and Pedagogy Jesse Tannetta to explore photographs, visual history testimonies, diary entries, and even a written pronouncement by Jewish resistance fighter Abba Kovner to learn how the Holocaust unfolded in this place. Utilizing responsible and effective pedagogical principles, discover how to engage with multiple perspectives to guide students into grappling with difficult questions about complicity, moral choice, and resistance.
This webinar connects to Units 5, 7, and 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtually
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Description:
As a young Jewish child, Joan Da Silva had to move from family to family to stay safe from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland, usually without her parents. She also had to pretend to be Catholic, as recorded on her false identity papers. To pull off this ruse, a rescuer taught Christian prayers to five-year-old Joan in the middle of the night.
In her first appearance on First Person, Joan will share her experiences. “I knew something terrible was happening. I knew that I must never tell anybody that I was Jewish. … Whatever was happening was something that was not going to happen to me … I was going to survive.”
SpeakerJoan Da Silva, Holocaust Survivor and Museum Volunteer
ModeratorBill Benson, Journalist and Host, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal).
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.
When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels—the minister of propaganda in Berlin—sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels’s thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.
Kehlmann’s latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator; and, today, it is “a call to strengthen our spines” (New York Review of Books).
Kehlmann will be in conversation about the book with Rick Salomon, a co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, and Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. He currently lives in Berlin and New York.
Richard A. Salomon is a graduate of Carleton College and Harvard Law School. Since 1994, Mr. Salomon has been the founder and CEO of Vantage Point Consultants. Vantage Point Consultants advises corporations on ways to optimize the expenditure of legal dollars, running the gamut from the drafting of Guidelines for Outside Counsel on cost management principles and converging the number of law firms utilized for common geographic and substantive markets to forging alternative fee arrangements with outside counsel and establishing preferred vendor programs for recurring categories of law-related charges. Vantage Point has worked with over 400 of the Fortune 500, including their General Counsel, throughout the world.
Mr. Salomon is involved in numerous philanthropic and social service-related activities. He is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; a co-founder, member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (2008 – present), the 2017 National Museum of the Year; a member of the Advisory Board of Garry Kasparov’s Renew Democracy Initiative; a member of the Hagel Leadership Council of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats; and a member of the Advisory Board for the Visas for Life Foundation (relating to Consul General Chiune Sugihara) since 1996. Mr. Salomon previously served on the Board of New York University’s Of Many Institute and the President’s Council of the Interfaith Youth Core. He has also organized and moderated many events with the 92Y, Temple Emanu-El’s Streicker Center, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Common Good, and many other venerable institutions.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
at 2:00pm -
3:15pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
By 1935, Hitler had been in power for two years. Instead of public displays of force, Nazi authorities now focused on systematizing violence. They did so by coopting existing institutions, concentrating power in the hands of a few, and passing laws to make their brutality appear respectable. These measures — among them the imposition of compulsory military service and the criminalization of sex and marriage between people defined as “Aryans” and “Jews” — were not as dramatic as the torchlight parades of 1933 or the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938, but they were essential steps in the Holocaust. This presentation explores the pivotal year of 1935 from multiple perspectives. We will end by watching a relevant scene from the classic movie, Judgment at Nuremberg.
Join Professor Doris Bergen from the University of Toronto in Part II of our professional development series “The Holocaust: One Year at a Time” with an in-depth examination of 1935.
Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author or editor of six books, including Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany (2023; winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize); and War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (4th edition 2024). Bergen is a member of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
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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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
(all day)
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General
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N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
(all day)
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General
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N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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Friday, November 28, 2025
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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N/A
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Description:
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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