Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
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Exhibits
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Location:
Baylor University Libraries
One Bear Place #97148
Waco, TX 76798-7148
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Description:
After a successful tour of 50 libraries from 2021 to 2023, the Museum is continuing to partner with the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office to extend the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition to an additional 50 libraries across the United States from 2024 to 2026.
This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in April 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition addresses important themes in American history, including Americans’ responses to refugees, war and genocide in the 1930s and ‘40s. This exhibition will challenge the commonly held assumptions that Americans knew little and did nothing about the Nazi persecution and murder of Jews as the Holocaust unfolded.
Drawing on a remarkable collection of primary sources from the 1930s and ‘40s, the exhibition focuses on the stories of individuals and groups of Americans who took action in response to Nazism. It will challenge visitors to consider the responsibilities and obstacles faced by individuals—from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ordinary Americans—who made difficult choices, sought to effect change, and, in a few cases, took significant risks to help victims of Nazism even as rescue never became a government priority. The exhibit hopes to challenge people to not only ask “what would I have done?” but also, “what will I do?”
To learn more, click here.
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Monday, April 13, 2026
(all day)
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Calendar:
Exhibits
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Location:
Georgetown Public Library 402 W 8th St., Georgetown, TX
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Description:
This exhibit is suitable for grade levels 5–12 and adults.
Congregation Havurah Shalom is now scheduling free docent-led youth group tours, designed to help students engage with the material in an age-appropriate, meaningful, and thoughtful way. Educators, youth leaders, and homeschool groups are encouraged to reach out early to reserve their preferred dates.
The Georgetown Public Library in partnership with Congregation Havurah Shalom of Georgetown, TX will host the traveling exhibition “A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933–1942” from April 13 through May 21, 2026. This powerful exhibit from the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a deeply moving one that brings the Holocaust into sharp, personal focus through the true stories of five Jewish families who lived in the small German village of Roth—and whose lives were irrevocably changed by the rise of Nazism.
Using photographs, documents, artifacts, and eyewitness testimonies, the exhibition presents an intimate look at daily life in Roth and the step-by-step progression of restrictions, persecution, and deportation that ultimately led to the destruction of the community. The exhibit highlights the choices made by victims, perpetrators, resisters, collaborators, and bystanders—encouraging visitors to reflect on the consequences of prejudice and the importance of moral courage.
The final panels place Roth’s story within the broader historical context of the Holocaust and the experiences of other groups targeted by the Nazi regime.
For more information, click here.
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Saturday, May 2, 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:
To commemorate Pride Month, Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, will introduce its current 12-episode series on the experiences of LGBTQ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Eric will share clips from archival interviews that bring this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
12500 Northwest Military Highway
San Antonio, TX, 78231
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Description:
Survivor Speakers Series - 3rd Generation Survivor- Ophir Ram
Join us as Ophir Ram shares his grandparents' story of survivor during the Holocaust.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
at 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio 12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
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Description:
On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews set sail for a promised land: not Jerusalem or New York, as many on board had dreamed, but Texas. This was the beginning of the Galveston Plan, a forgotten episode of US history during which ten thousand Jews fled the persecution and brutality of the Russian Empire for the Gulf Coast. Journalist and historian Rachel Cockerell writes of this in her new book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, May 3, 2026
at 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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General
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Location:
Location once registration is complete
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Description:
Register your family for our special event on May 3rd, 4:00 PM at the park. We look forward to welcoming you and your children for a fun-filled day! Please complete the form below to reserve your spot. You will receive the location of the event once registration is completed.
To register, click here.
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Monday, May 4, 2026
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
How do we teach the Holocaust at a time of Holocaust distortion and trivialization in contemporary culture? The Holocaust is a global symbol of evil, but it has been decontextualized. Yoni Berrous, former Yad Vashem educator and current Head of the Teaching Resources Development Team at the National Library of Israel, will critically examine modern educational tools, digital media, and popular culture from a teaching perspective, offering practical guidance for educators on preserving historical accuracy and meaning in Holocaust education. This webinar connects to Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, May 5, 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:
Our webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.
This webinar critically examines contemporary efforts to rehabilitate the reputations of Holocaust-era perpetrators and fascist organizations, situating these developments within broader debates on historical memory, revisionism, and political culture. Led by Dr. Rob Williams, the Chief Executive Officer and Finci-Viterbi Chair of USC Shoah Foundation, the session will analyze the diverse motivations underpinning such efforts, including state-led initiatives, civil society actions, and diasporic influences, as well as less intentional forms of distortion rooted in misinformation or historical illiteracy. It will explore how these processes contribute to the normalization of antisemitism and other forms of exclusion, undermine democratic institutions, and function as a transnational phenomenon. Attendees will consider the implications for historical scholarship and public memory.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online
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Description:
From Berlin to the Bronx, from Holocaust survivor to American success story, Georgette Bennett’s new book Half-Jew, Full Life traces the extraordinary life of Gary “Pips” Phillips who defied the odds at every turn. With an Aryan mother and Jewish father, Pips could have escaped much of the Holocaust’s horrors. Instead, he made a fateful decision at age 13 to become a bar mitzvah just as the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, effectively choosing to be labeled a Jew under Nazi rule. Pips’s wartime experience is marked by daring escapes, improbable rescues, and survival while hiding deep within Nazi Berlin. Captured four times, he escaped thrice, choosing to remain in Nazi custody the fourth time as there was nowhere to run in bombed-out Berlin. At his place of confinement, he met his future wife, Olga Horvath, who had been imprisoned after surviving Auschwitz and the Death March to Bergen Belsen. After their marriage in chaotic post-war Berlin, they emigrated to the USA to start a new life.
Arriving in New York with nothing, Pips rose from waiter to co-owner of the world’s largest photo agency—despite never owning a camera. Unlike Pips, Olga was unable to escape the shadow of her Holocaust experiences, and in a horrifying twist, she threw herself off the roof of their gleaming luxury high-rise after more than 50 years of marriage, leaving Pips grief-stricken, but also able to reinvent himself one more time. This dramatic story brims with chance, love, loss, resilience, and reinvention, culminating in a poignant exploration of Jewish identity, memory, and legacy.
Georgette Bennett is a TED speaker, an award-winning sociologist, widely published author, popular lecturer, and former broadcast journalist. In 2021, she was selected as one of Forbes’ 50 over 50 Women of Impact (“Bennett joins Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Najat Arafat Khelil, and Susan Rice as women who helped shape the course of modern American foreign policy and human rights”). Bennett served with the U.S. State Department Religion and Foreign Policy working group on conflict mitigation, tasked with developing recommendations for the U.S. Secretary of State on countering religion-based violence. She is Past Chair of the Jewish Funders Network and serves on the Board of Third Way. In addition, she is an Advisory Board member for the International Rescue Committee and the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Bennett was a winner of a 2020 AARP Purpose Prize for her work with MFA. She is involved with dozens of organizations, having served on many boards, and she has been honored by numerous organizations, all of which gives her powerful leverage for publicizing the book.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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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:
Hear from Michael Emmett, M.D., as he examines the disturbing role physicians played in the Holocaust, and the complex legacy that followed. How did Nazi doctors, individuals previously sworn to heal, become central figures in eugenics, inhumane experimentation, and genocide? Emmett will trace the arc from these atrocities to the public trials at Nuremberg, in which several leading medical figures were held accountable for crimes against humanity. He will also confront a lesser-known dimension of the postwar reckoning, how U.S. medical experiments on vulnerable populations influenced the trials and shaped the international conversation on medical ethics.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Location to be shared upon registration
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Description:
Join author Edmund A. Kruzynski for an evening conversation about endurance, humanity, and the strength to survive the unimaginable.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
at 7:30pm -
8:30pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Aaron Family Jewish Community Center
7900 Northaven Rd
Dallas, Texas
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Description:
Join JCC Dallas for a special evening as we welcome Adeena Sussman to the J, in conversation with Rachel Pinn. Following the discussion, stay for a book signing and tastings from the cookbook.
Adeena Sussman is a best-selling cookbook author, writer, and chef whose work explores the intersection of Jewish, Israeli, and culinary cultures. Her most recent book Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours, was released in September 2023 and was an instant New York Times best-seller. She is currently working on her next cookbook, to be released in Spring 2026.
Her popular Instagram account takes followers along as she cooks, explores, and reports on food culture in Israel, where she moved in 2015. Since October 7, she has been working to highlight individuals affected by the day’s events and to campaign for the release of hostages in captivity,
Her previous cookbooks include Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen, as well the New York Times bestselling Cravings cookbook series, which she co-authored with Chrissy Teigen. Adeena has written about Israeli food for Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, Epicurious, Gourmet, and many others.
She lives footsteps from Tel Aviv's Carmel Market, where she shops and explores daily, taking inspiration from her adopted country's seasonal and cultural culinary rhythms.
To order tickets, click here.
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
at 2:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and Center for Jewish History as we explore the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Holocaust survivor who played in the Auschwitz orchestra. Through primary sources, testimony, and lesson plans, we will explore pedagogy for bringing this into your classroom.
Forced into factory labor, Anita joined a small resistance effort—forging papers for French prisoners of war—and was eventually arrested for forgery and attempted escape. After more than a year in prison she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she survived nearly a year because she played in the women’s orchestra, required to perform marches as prisoners left for forced labor and to entertain SS officers.
In 1945 she was evacuated to Bergen-Belsen, where starvation, disease, and death were pervasive. She was liberated by British forces on April 15, 1945. Anita came to England in 1946, built a career as a professional cellist, and in 1952 married the pianist Peter Wallfisch. She is the mother of two children and part of a multigenerational musical family. Her memoir, Inherit the Truth, 1939–1945, recounts her experiences.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and her son
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in Breslau (then Germany, now Wrocław, Poland) into a cultured, assimilated Jewish family where music, literature, and languages shaped daily life. A gifted cellist, she experienced early antisemitism and, as Nazi laws tightened, lost access to schooling and lessons. After The November Pogrom and failed efforts to emigrate, her family was trapped. Her parents were deported and murdered in 1942, leaving sixteen-year-old Anita and her sister alone.
Participants will receive CTLE credit.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, May 7, 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:
In Plunder & Survival: Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery and Migration of Nazi-Uprooted Art, Suzanne Loebl tells the story of the Nazi looting of art in World War II Europe by looking at the human side: the people who lost the art, those who stole and monetized it for Hitler, and those who helped save it. Plunder & Survival has a particular focus on art that escaped to America. Loebl, who grew up in Nazi Germany and hid as a teenager in wartime Belgium, interweaves this history with stories of her and her family’s own survival, as well as their art. “As a Holocaust survivor, Loebl’s writing displays a deep degree of sensitivity and level of poignancy. Readers are swept along as the author shares what happened, painting by painting, starting with the theft and then looking at a great many of the pieces that were recovered and restored to their rightful owners. . . . The writing is crisp throughout, and each segment about a piece of art brings us deftly into the next one.” —Jewish Book Council“Loebl has produced an in-depth art-historical examination of a dark time for European culture. Plunder and Survival represents a significant addition to our understanding of how and why the rapacious Nazis sought to erase art and artists they didn’t like.” —Art New EnglandSuzanne Loebl will be in conversation with Senior Education Programs Manager, Rachel Podber-Kennison.Suzanne Loebl is the author of fourteen books. 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.
Rachel Podber-Kennison grew up in the Jewish community of Atlanta and is the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivors. She aims to make Holocaust education accessible to all learning styles and is passionate about providing students with the resources they need to navigate and combat antisemitism in their schools and communities. She completed her undergraduate degree in Film and Television at Boston University, and as a student, single-handedly sorted and organized the Hebrew section of Elie Wiesel's archival collection. She holds a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, with a dissertation entitled "Heirlooms Held Hostage: The Fate of Nazi-Looted Art in Museum Collections". She has lectured on topics including museum ethics, Nazi-looted art, the experience of Jews in the Roman Empire, and intercultural relations in antiquity, including a live cooking demonstration on ancient Roman cooking. RSVP HERE
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Thursday, May 7, 2026
at 6:30pm -
8:30pm
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General
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N/A
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Description:
Come hear an evening of music celebrating the Jewish-American experience with the musicians of DACAMERA Young Artists.
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