Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
at 6:00pm -
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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Location:
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
at 3:00pm -
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
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
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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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual Event
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Description:
This virtual program examines how journalists, photographers, radio broadcasters, and newsreel filmmakers reported on the Nuremberg trials and helped bring unprecedented international attention to the court, not only shaping public attention but also how the trials are remembered today.
Reyna Stovall is a master's candidate in Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and French from Fordham University Lincoln Center, where she graduated summa cum laude and cursus honorum. She was previously a docent with the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio.
This program is sponsored by the San Antonio Public Library and Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio as part of the 14th Annual Holocaust: Learn and Remember series.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
(all day)
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Writer, art historian, and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Loebl, whose life paralleled much of the events revisited in Plunder and Survival, takes a new look at the Nazis ruthless attack on modern art and at their unprecedented looting of private, mostly Jewish art collections in Austria, Holland, and France. Eighty-five years after the end of the hostilities, the book examines a sizable fraction of the art that miraculously survived, especially in American art museums. In addition to art, leading artists, art professionals, scholars and architects, fled Hitler’s realm; their contributions to their new homeland helped to shift the center of art world from Europe to the United States.
Suzanne Loebl will be in conversation about the book with Abigail Wilentz.
Suzanne Loebl is the author of fourteen books, most recently America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. She was born into an art-collecting family in Germany and escaped the Nazis as a teenager by hiding in Belgium. Her other books include America’s Art Museums: A Traveler’s Guide to Great Collections Large and Small and a memoir on her experience during World War II, At the Mercy of Strangers: Growing Up on the Edge of the Holocaust. In 2012, Loebl received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Abigail Wilentz has developed books on art, design, photography, fashion, lifestyle, and other topics as an editor at Universe Publishing, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, at Watson-Guptill Publications, and independently with agents and authors. She has written several books commissioned by publishers and directed a custom publishing line for the luxury fashion brand Brioni.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online Webinar
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Description:
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: Luke Berryman, Founder of The Ninth Candle, a nonprofit that works with schools across America to improve Holocaust Education and author of his upcoming book, Resisting Nazism.
To RSVP, click here.
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 21, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Las Palmas Library Branch
515 Castroville RdSan Antonio, TX, 78237
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Description:
This fascinating presentation will focus on the institutional, situational, and personal judgments about the Final Solution, i.e., the Nazi plan to eliminate Europe's Jewish population. The lecture will also place emphasis on the Selection process at Auschwitz, where inmates were either designated to go to the gas chamber or to perform forced labor.
Dr. Barnes is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of the Incarnate Word and a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio.
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Sunday, January 25, 2026
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
Due to inclement weather predicted for this weekend, this program is now VIRTUAL via Zoom. We apologize for this change and look forward to seeing you online.
There is no cost to attend this event, but registration is required. To register, click the "buy" button.
Marking the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, International Holocaust Remembrance Day allows us to reflect upon the profound tragedy of the Holocaust while coming together to share a moment of peace and hope for the future. This year’s commemoration features a conversation between Faris Cassell, author of Inseparable: The Hess Twins’ Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America, and Holocaust survivor Marion Ein Lewin, whose family is the subject of the book.
Torn from their home in Amsterdam, Cassell will trace the story from the Hesses’ prosperous pre-war life in Germany to their desperate ride in a bullet-strafed boxcar through the rubble of the collapsing Third Reich. Join us to discover the story of a family’s love that endured the most sinister of circumstances, serving as an inspiration to all.
About the Speakers
Faris Cassell, award-winning investigative journalist, is the author of Inseparable: The Hess Twins’ Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America. Her first book, The Unanswered Letter, won a 2021 National Jewish Book Award and an American Society of Journalists and Authors biography award. Cassell earned her M.S. in journalism with honors from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in History from Mt. Holyoke College. She lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon.
Marion Ein Lewin (née Hess) and her twin brother, Steven Hess, were six years old when they were taken by the Nazis from Holland to Bergen-Belsen, where they endured brutal conditions and lived in a state of fear. The twins and their parents were imprisoned there for approximately one year, narrowly escaping being sent to Auschwitz. After liberation, they moved to the United States.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, January 25, 2026
at 3:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
“Sometimes I’m afraid the tale might be forgotten. Sometimes I’m afraid it is forgotten already.” Told primarily through his own eloquent words, the film seeks to understand the man behind the searing and widely read memoir Night. Penetrating at the heart of the known and unknown, the film dives into the author’s legacy as one of the most influential survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust.
WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: An exceptional biography of one of the best-known survivors of the Shoah. A special event for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
BONUS PROGRAMMING: Post film discussion and Q&A with Marc Winkelman, close personal friend of Elie Wiesel.
$15
To learn more, click here.
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Monday, January 26, 2026
(all day)
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Virtually
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Description:
Join Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a free, live virtual field trip from the Holocaust/Shoah Wing in the permanent exhibition (45 minutes - 6th grade and up) or the Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War Special Exhibition (30 minutes - 4th grade and up). Your students will be guided by expert tour leaders who will connect live from the exhibition, offering a unique opportunity to explore Holocaust history, powerful artifacts, and firsthand testimonies.
Complete the registration form to receive your connection link and embark on this unforgettable journey of remembrance and learning. See the attached flyer for more information.
To register, click here.
Tours from Holocaust Wing in Permanent Exhibition (45 minutes - 6th grade and above)
January 26: 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
January 27: 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
January 28: 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
January 30: 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Tours from Kindertransport - Rescuing Children on the Brink of War Special Exhibition (30 minutes - 4th grade and up)
January 26: 8:30 a.m.
January 27: 9:00 a.m.
January 28: 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
January 30: 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
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Monday, January 26, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Nazism has always faced resistance – from the German artists who risked their lives by drawing caricatures of the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try to expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Dr. Luke Berryman’s Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to far-right extremism across the generations.
Dr. Luke Berryman is the Founder and CEO of The Ninth Candle, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that helps schools to improve Holocaust education. Luke has written about the Holocaust and antisemitism for newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and The Guardian, and for pedagogy journals like Education Week and Chalkbeat. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the use of classical music in Nazi propaganda at King’s College London.
To register, click here.
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Monday, January 26, 2026
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
The FJMC Committee to Combat Antisemitism will commemorate International Holocaust Day with a discussion on current challenges and trauma for the Jewish people.
Dr. Dean Bell, President and CEO of the Spertus Institute will share perspectives on the work of the Spertus Institute to train and educate Jewish leaders to fight antisemitism.
He will also discuss his new book, “Judaism, History and the Environment,” Engaging creatively with Jewish texts and history, this book explores the interplay between history, Judaism, and the environment through the prism of natural disasters.
Dr. Dean P. Bell is the ninth President and CEO of Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, where he also holds a faculty appointment as Professor of History.
He has served on the faculty of institutions including DePaul University, Northwestern University, Hebrew Theological College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley.
A leading voice for the advancement of Jewish higher education, Dr. Bell has served as President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies.
A historian by training, he is widely published in the areas of medieval and early modern Jewish history as well as early modern cultural responses to disaster. His book Plague in the Early Modern World: A Documentary History (Routledge) was published in late 2019, uncannily just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. He served as an expert on pandemic history for a range of media and organizations during the height of the COVID-19 crisis.
His current research and publications focus on explorations of vulnerability, resilience, and religious leadership.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. HMH will commemorate and honor the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust with free admission on Tuesday, January 27.
To reserve tickets, click here.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day by introducing your students to an important mission – recovering the identities and memory of those whom the Nazis sought to erase. Sheryl Ochayon, Yad Vashem's Project Director, will use the database and Pages of Testimony of Yad Vashem to tell the stories of some of the lives lost in the Holocaust. Yad Vashem announced in November that it has reached a milestone in recovering the names of 5 million of the 6 million victims.
To register, click here.
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