Events List
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List of Events
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
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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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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