Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Thursday, January 1, 2026
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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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Monday, January 5, 2026
(all day)
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General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was the Nazi policy to murder all of the Jews. It replaced earlier policies for forced relocation with a policy of systematic annihilation, and resulted in the murder of 6 million European Jews. This course utilizes primary resources and responsible pedagogy to empower educators to teach this difficult topic with care, courage, and confidence in the classroom.
Course Details:
Course opens January 5th at 7AM EDT; approximately 5 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 5-hour certificate.Graduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Learning Goals:
Explore effective pedagogy when teaching the "Final Solution" and gain capacity and confidence to teach this difficult topic.Definite the "Final Solution" and explain how it was driven by Nazi racial ideology which included virulent antisemitism.Summarize th epurpose of the mobile killing squads and death camps in Nazi Europe, and the systems used to carry out mass annihilation.Identify various forms of resistance that some Jewish people engaged in while imprisoned in concentration camps -- including spiritual, cultural, and armed resistance -- to help students recognize how victims maintained their humanity despite the constant threat of death.Discover and learn how to incorporate a variety of primary resources in your classroom to document conditions of life and death in the camps to gain better understanding of the conditions victims endured during the period when the Final Solution was being carried out.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
Join us for a compelling online book talk with historian Scott D. Seligman, author of The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906, as he unpacks a dramatic and little known chapter in American Jewish history. Set in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, this meticulously researched account begins in the winter of 1905-1906 when a Brooklyn elementary school principal urged his Jewish students to be “more like Jesus Christ,” sparking outrage in the community and inspiring mass mobilization. What followed was a citywide boycott of public school Christmas pageants by Jewish families, a protest that triggered an enormous antisemitic backlash and raised urgent questions about religion, identity, and citizenship in the United States.
Seligman’s book details how the Jewish community of New York, led by activist Albert Lucas and backed by Orthodox, Reform, and immigrant voices alike, refused to remain silent. They challenged the public school system, pressured the school board to limit sectarian religious practices in schools, and confronted the backlash head-on. In doing so, they forged a formative model for how American Jews engaged with public schooling, the boundaries of religious expression, and the meaning of belonging.
Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning writer of narrative non-fiction and biography with an interest in the history of hyphenated Americans. He specializes in bringing little-known but crucial moments in history to life with drama and meaning. A former corporate executive who holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton and a master’s degree from Harvard, he has written three books on American Jewish history, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902, which won gold medals in history in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Reader Views Literary Awards and was a finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards. He lives in Washington, DC.
Virtual
TuesdayJanuary 6, 20267:00 PM (ET)
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this one.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
at 6:30pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a very special evening with Dr. Michael Berenbaum as he presents the Spector/Warren Fellowship Public Lecture: Resilience and Resistance During the Holocaust: Lessons for Today. Dr. Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University. Dr. Berenbaum is also a writer, lecturer, and conceptual designer of museums and the development of historical films. He is the author and editor of twenty-four books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
In 1943, the German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Forty-seven women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play to other inmates as they left each morning and as they returned at the end of the day. They were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and members were sometimes summoned to give individual performances of an officer’s favorite piece of music. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, the orchestra was to save their lives. But at what cost? Anne Sebba’s The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz tells this story.
Anne Sebba FRSL is the prize-winning author of eleven books including the best-selling biography That Woman, a life of Wallis Simpson based on her discovery of 15 unpublished letters locked away in an attic trunk. Her next book was Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940’s about a wide variety of women and how they behaved in wartime Paris published in the US, UK, China, France and the Czech Republic, winner of the Franco-British award. She has also written biographies of Jennie Churchill, Mother Teresa and Laura Ashley among others.
In 2024 Anne was a judge for the inaugural non-fiction Women’s Prize. She makes regular television appearances and has presented programmes for BBC R3 and R4 including two about the pianists, Harriet Cohen and Joyce Hatto. She began her working career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters news agency, the first woman accepted on their graduate trainee scheme, and has also worked for the BBC world services in their Arabic department, although she does not speak a word of Arabic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, a Trustee of the National Archives Trust and a former chair of Britain’s 10,000 strong Society of Authors Management Committee.
In 2021 she published to great acclaim a life of Ethel Rosenberg, electrocuted in 1953 aged 37 for conspiracy to commit espionage following a trial with multiple miscarriages of justice, optioned for a feature film and shortlisted for the Wingate Prize. Her latest book is The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, a Story of Survival, published in the UK in March 2025, to commemorate the 80TH anniversary of the liberation of the camps and in the US in September 2025. The book will be translated into Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian and Chinese. Anne also works as a reviewer, journalist, after dinner speaker and lecturer on cruises, is an accredited speaker for the Arts Society as well as various other institutions and schools in the UK and US including the British Library, Royal Oak, English Speaking Union and the National Trust.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
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4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
After winning World War II 80 years ago, the Allied nations convened an international court in Nuremberg, Germany and prosecuted leading Nazis for war crimes. What were these Nuremberg trials? Were they fair? What did they accomplish? And how accurately is the history of the Nuremberg trial portrayed in the 2025 Hollywood movie Nuremberg? Hear international expert, writer, and professor John Q. Barrett discuss these questions.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, January 11, 2026
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3:30pm
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Films
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Deep within the forests of Eastern Europe, more than 25,000 Jewish partisans, also called resistance fighters, tirelessly waged war against the Nazis and their collaborators. Despite extraordinary odds, they escaped Nazi slaughter, transforming from young innocents to courageous men and women. Through personal photographs, letters, rare archival film footage, and historic war records, Four Winters - A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII weaves together a complex, layered story that illuminates the many ways in which Jews resisted the Nazis.
View a trailer of the film here.
Film run time: 1h 39m
To buy tickets, click here.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
This course will deepen student understanding of the Holocaust through The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, examining America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century and its role in World War II.
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 7 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 7-hour certificateGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.
Course Schedule:
Course opens Monday, January 12, and will remain open through February 8.
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 enroll, click here.
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Monday, January 12, 2026
at 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join educators from the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a one-hour virtual professional development session focused on TEA and Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission-approved, age-appropriate Holocaust lessons you can confidently use in your classroom.
This session will introduce best practices for teaching about the Holocaust, walk you through ready-to-use lesson materials, and share opportunities and resources available through the Museum for Holocaust Remembrance Week.
There is no registration fee for this professional development.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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1:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Who were the early resisters to Hitler and Nazism? What compelled them to sound the alarm on a fringe political group? How and why did they fail to stop them? And what lessons can draw from it for our own time?
From the moment that he stepped onto Germany’s political stage in the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler faced resistance. Cartoonists depicted him as a clown, a butcher, and a knock-off version of Mussolini. One playwright portrayed him as a crazy barber building a cult following with elaborate, unfulfillable promises. One writer produced a history of Nazism in which he described Hitler as a “lazy schoolboy,” among other things. This was all prior to Hitler’s seizure of power in January 1933.
Featured speaker: Dr. Daniel Greene, Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University and an expert on American responses to the Holocaust
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This is part of powerful webinar series, hosted by Holocaust museums and education centers across North America, 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 about additional upcoming webinars and to register for a Zoom link.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
During the Holocaust, acts of rescue were rare, with only a small number of individuals daring to risk their freedom and lives to save Jews from Nazi persecution. Those who did, driven by a selfless spirit, are honored as the "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Join author Richard Hurowitz for an engaging discussion about the remarkable heroes featured in his book, In the Garden of the Righteous, who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Don't miss this opportunity to explore their inspiring stories and integrate these lessons into your classroom curriculum.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
In this 3-session class, led by Professor Margarete Feinstein, discover the remarkable story of Holocaust survivors beginning to rebuild their lives while in Displaced Persons camps in occupied Germany.About
Photograph above courtesy of Holocaust Museum LA archival collection.
This class will be held Wednesdays, January 14, 21 and 28 at 6:00pm CST on Zoom.
Reserve your space in the class HERE. Tuition for this class is $36 for Museum members and $54 for non-members.
Not yet a member? Join HERE.
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Monday, January 19, 2026
(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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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Antisemitism has persisted for centuries, adapting to different eras but always based on a few dozen core conspiracy theories. This webinar will trace the historical arc of antisemitism, exploring how age-old prejudices evolved across time and place, how conspiracy theories about Jewish people have fueled violence and exclusion, and why these narratives continue to resurface in today’s social and political climate. Led by Brian Hughes, PhD, Director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Lab, we will examine the role that media plays in both preserving and renewing these theories, bringing the world’s oldest hatred in line with modern culture and current events.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, Irena’s Gift explores how reckoning with family betrayal, moral complexity, and hidden histories can reframe our identities—and why excavating these truths matters at a time when Jewish identity itself is under scrutiny.
In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Karen Kirsten’s mother, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two, when a letter arrived from a stranger. She also learned that the parents who raised her were actually her aunt and uncle. Joasia kept the letter hidden from her own daughter, Karen—until an innocent question revealed the truth.
Determined to help heal her mother’s pain, Karen set out to piece together a war-torn history. From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw to the vermin-infested prison where a Jewish woman negotiates with an SS officer to save her sister’s child, to the author’s upbringing in a Christian home, this is a story of resilience, sacrifice, intergenerational trauma, and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves and those we love.
Karen will be in conversation about her book with award winning author, Professor Robin Judd.
A former business executive, Karen Kirsten is an Australian-American author and Holocaust educator. She is the author of Irena’s Gift, a 2025 National Jewish Book Award finalist, winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama and Best Story of Overcoming. Karen’s essay, “Searching for the Nazi Who Saved My Mother’s Life” was selected by Narratively as one of their Best Ever stories and nominated for The Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Salon.com, Huffington Post, The Week, The Jerusalem Post, Boston’s National Public Radio station, The Boston Herald, The Christian Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, and more.
Robin Judd is Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University where she directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership Program in History. She is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 and Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust, which garnered two National Jewish Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2024 Ohioana non-fiction award. She currently chairs Ohio’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission and the Faculty Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute (US).
To register, click here.
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