Events List
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List of Events
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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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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
at 12:00pm -
1:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a professional development program centered around the legacy of the Holocaust in the creation of the State of Israel.
The first part is an hour-long virtual lecture given by NYU Professor Avinoam Patt, building on key themes that are explored in his book Israel and the Holocaust. In this in-depth lecture, Professor Patt will focus on how Holocaust memory has shaped Israel’s identity, politics, and culture from the pre-state period to today.
Shortly following the talk, participants will receive a free physical copy of Professor Patt’s new book, Israel and the Holocaust. Participants will have until April 29th to finish the book, at which time they will come to the Museum and attend an hour-long tour led by museum staff of highlighted artifacts related to the themes explored throughout the book, followed by an hour-long discussion facilitated by Professor Patt. Participants will be able to ask questions and occupy a space for discussion and sharing experiences with teaching the Holocaust in relation to the creation of Israel.
Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University. Dr. Patt previously held the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut, where he served as Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. From 2007-2019 he was the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Hartford, where he served as director of the Museum of Jewish Civilization. He also previously worked as the Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Participants will be eligible to receive CTLE credit.
To register, click here.
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Monday, February 9, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Diana Mara Henry’s I Am André is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts in Munich, as a Jewish youth whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940. André becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French while working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British, he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England. His network betrayed during his absence, he is arrested on his return to France. André then begins an even more perilous journey through interrogations in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace, before being transferred to Dachau and Allach, ahead of the advancing Allies. Many vintage photographs and letters from his agents come to illustrate this heart-pounding story of a debonair young man in a broken world who remade himself as a cunning fighter for freedom.
Diana Mara Henry has devoted her professional life to social causes and political movements. She grew up speaking French and attended the Lycée Français de NY. Her concentration at university (Brandeis MA 2000, Harvard B.A. 1969, Ferguson History Prize, 1967) was in Government; she was an editor at the Harvard Crimson. Her first great accomplishment was in photojournalism. After her initial visit to concentration camp Natzweiler/KLNa in 1985, her independent scholarship focused on the camp and its political prisoners. André Joseph Scheinmann and Diana worked together to create this final version of his memoirs. After he was gone, she discovered much of his past that remained in the shadows. That story came to light when the family vault yielded a treasure trove – the letters that he kept for the honor of his comrades in the struggle and the government papers of three countries to document his true identity in dark times. She has been invited to present at academic conferences around the world to speak about Natzweiler and about André, but she came to know him best through her work on this book, as seen at www.iamandre.live.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
at 6:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
In-person registration includes a 6 p.m. reception followed by the 7 p.m. program.
Attendees are also welcome to tour the Kindertransport exhibition before and after the program.
In early 1939, few Americans were focused on the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler’s policies in Germany and Austria. One ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles—both in Europe and in the United States—Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children. Steven Pressman, author and documentarian of 50 Children, joins us to share their story.
About the Speaker
Steven Pressman, a veteran newspaper and magazine journalist, served as a reporter and editor at various publications. He is the author of 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany, and the director and producer of a documentary on the same subject (2013). His films, Holy Silence (2020), The Levys of Monticello (2022), and Moses Ezekiel: Portrait of a Lost Artist (2024) have been well received.
Special Short Film Screening
Featured at the beginning of this program will be a screening of Kinder Doll: A Kindertransport Story, a stop-motion animation short film about two fictional children, Otto and Edith, who board a train to Britain with their most prized possessions - a teddy bear and a doll. Created by animation students at UT Dallas, the six-minute film captures the story of refugee children who fled Nazi persecution without their parents.
About Kindertransport – Rescuing Children from the Brink of War
Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War showcases the astonishing rescue effort that, in nine months, brought thousands of unaccompanied children from Nazi-occupied Europe to the United Kingdom. Through personal artifacts, stories, and firsthand testimony, those who lived through the “Kindertransport,” German for “children’s transport,” tell its history. The exhibition offers a moving look at the rescue effort, the painful choices parents made to send their children to safety, and the lives their children began in the United Kingdom. This exhibition serves as a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of honoring the legacy of those who endured unimaginable suffering.Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War was created and organized by Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin.
On view from September 18, 2025, to February 15, 2026.
To buy tickets, click here.
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
at 4:00pm -
5:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center (DGA)
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Award-winning author and filmmaker Laurence Rees will present this year's Einspruch Lecture Series on the Holocaust.
To learn more, visit the Einspruch Lecture Series page.Click here to register online, which is required.
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Monday, February 16, 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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Monday, February 16, 2026
at 12:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
UTD
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
Award-winning author and filmmaker Laurence Rees will present this year's Einspruch Lecture Series on the Holocaust. Lunch will be served.To learn more, visit the Einspruch Lecture Series page.Click here to register online, which is required.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online Webinar
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Description:
A continuation of Holocaust Museum Los Angeles series, this lecture explores the community that Holocaust survivors built in Australia.
In the post-war years, Melbourne and Sydney were the principal centers of Holocaust survivor settlement in Australia, with more than 30,000 arrivals between the late 1930s and 1960, almost tripling the size of the country’s small Jewish population. Melbourne received the largest number of survivors, to have one of the highest per-capita survivor populations outside Israel. Many were from eastern Europe, with largest numbers from Poland, and their arrival transformed Melbourne’s Jewish community which to that time had been dominated by Anglo-Jewish Australians, fostering a vibrant Yiddish-speaking culture.
Melbourne's survivors formed tight-knit networks, often working in manufacturing, textiles, and small businesses in the city’s garment district. A handful of suburbs became centers of survivor life, with a network of Jewish welfare organizations and cultural institutions. Survivor-led landsmanshaftn, Yiddish cultural societies and newspapers, schools, and new synagogues flourished, fostering communal continuity. Holocaust education and memorialization was a priority, leading to the establishment of the Holocaust Museum in 1984, now a major communal institution.
In contrast, Sydney attracted larger numbers of survivors from Hungary, Germany and Austria and was more dispersed geographically and culturally. Survivors often entered small business, textiles, and trades. Sydney’s Jewish life became more diverse, although less tightly concentrated and with less Yiddish influence. The talk highlights how these divergent urban settings produced distinct patterns of rebuilding, identity formation, and community leadership among Australia’s Holocaust survivors.
Andrew Markus is Emeritus Professor in Monash University’s School of International, Historical and Philosophical Studies. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and in 2021 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He served as the founding Director of the Monash University's Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization. His research specialization is in the field of racial and ethnic relations and public opinion. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 academic articles, reference works and reports, and a number of books, including Australian Race Relations 1788–1993 (1994); Australia’s Immigration Revolution (2009); and Second Chance: A History of Yiddish Melbourne (2018).
Please note that this talk will be held Thursday at 4:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)/Friday at 10:00 AM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
To register, click here.
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Sunday, February 22, 2026
at 2:00pm -
3:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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Description:
This is an in-person program.
Join DHHRM at 2 p.m. for light bites, followed by the 2:30 p.m. workshop.
Capturing a loved one’s story can feel overwhelming. In this workshop, the Museum’s Director of Library & Archives will guide participants through the basics of interviewing family members, offer practical tips for collecting oral histories, and share simple strategies for preserving family stories for future generations.
Meet the Facilitator
Felicia Williamson, MLIS, CA, serves as director of library and archives at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. In this role, she leads efforts to preserve and expand access to the Museum’s collection of rare books, artifacts, and oral history testimonies.
The Museum has received several grants in support of this work, including funding from the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission to catalog oral histories; the Institute of Museum and Library Services to process and make artifact collections accessible; and, most recently, the Claims Conference to catalog and digitize 4,003 of its most significant Holocaust-related items.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, German and European Studies, with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and a Master of Library and Information Science with an archives concentration from Louisiana State University. A certified archivist, Williamson is an active member of the Society of Southwest Archivists and the American Alliance of Museums, and she currently serves on the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board.
Registration open for Generations. Email programs@dhhrm.org to register.
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