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Monday, February 9, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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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.
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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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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)
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