Events List
Below is list of upcoming events for your site.
List of Events
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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General
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Location:
University of Texas at Dallas
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Description:
Join UTD for the final lecture in our 2026 Spring Lecture Series, where Dr. Jennifer Cantrell-Sutor will present "The Geography of Remembrance: Time, Space, and the Collective Memory of the Romani Genocide."In May 2005, the German government officially dedicated the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.” Another seven years would pass before a separate memorial was completed, commemorating the murder of the Sinti and Roma during National Socialism. The temporal and geographic distance separating these historic monuments is not unique to Germany’s Holocaust memorialization efforts; many European countries have designated separate dates for the commemoration of the Holocaust’s Jewish and Roma victims. Exploring the impact of this type of historic fragmentation, Dr. Cantrell-Sutor’s presentation examines the ways in which national commemoration activities have ultimately shaped the collective memory of the Roma genocide.Please register for this event online via this link: Spring Professor Lecture Series, Dr. Jennifer Cantrell-Sutor – Fill out form
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:30pm
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Commemorations
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Location:
For location, please register
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Description:
Please join Holocaust Museum Houston for the citywide Yom HaShoah Observance
For location, please register.
Please bring valid ID.
Large bags and backpacks prohibited.
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Monday, April 20, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto took many forms. Through the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski — known to many educators from Salvaged Pages — explore YIVO's newly redesigned Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum. This immersive digital experience brings hundreds of artifacts from YIVO’s renowned archive of 24 million items to life through interactive storytelling, animations, and explorable 3D environments. Join YIVO's Chief of Staff Shelly Freeman and Exhibition Developer Shara Feit for a guided tour of the exhibition and discover how to bring the history of the Holocaust and the human story of this remarkable teenager to your students. This webinar connects to Units 4, 5, and 7 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 21, 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, April 21, 2026
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online Via Zoom
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Description:
Register to join the Jewish American Heritage Month Webinar on April 21st at 7pm. You will recieve the zoom link for the webinar in your email after registration.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
New York Times best-selling author Alex Kershaw, Resident Historian for Friends of the National World War II Memorial, joins Echoes & Reflections to tell the incredible true story of Felix Sparks, a Texas-born officer who fought in WWII from the beaches of Sicily to the gates of Dachau.
Don't miss this harrowing and inspiring story of heroism and leadership exhibited by an exceptional member of the Greatest Generation, and the complexity of liberation for the survivors of the Holocaust and the soldiers who rescued them.
This webinar connects to Unit VI on the Echoes & Reflections website.
To register, click here.
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Saturday, April 25, 2026
(all day)
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Austin, Texas
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Description:
The Austin Rwandan Community invites you to commemorate Kwibuka32. This is a commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
12 pm Memorial site VisitCasa Marianella821 Gunter St. Austin, Texas 787021 pm-5 pm Memorial CeremonyTexas Capitol1100 Congress Ave.Austin, Texas 78701
5 pm-7:45 pmTexas Capitol1100 Congress AveAustin, Texas 78701
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Saturday, April 25, 2026
at 2:30pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004
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Description:
https://9368a.blackbaudhosting...The Texas Jewish Historical Society (TJHS) is pleased to announce a special afternoon program and film screening at Holocaust Museum Houston on April 25, 2026, presented as part of the TJHS Annual Gathering. The featured documentary, Grit & Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas, received grant support from TJHS. Admission to the film is free of charge and advance reservations may be made through the Holocaust Museum Houston website.
The afternoon program will run from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and will begin at 2:30 pm with a special 30-minute presentation by 6th grade students from The Emery/Weiner School titled “Texas Jewish Stories – Family Histories on the Journey to Texas.” These students will share personal family narratives that reflect the diverse paths Jewish families took in building lives across the state.
At 3:00 pm, the program will continue with the screening of Grit & Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas, a documentary directed by Barbara Rosenthal. Following the film, Rosenthal will participate in a Q&A session with the audience.
Grit & Grace explores nearly 200 years of Texas history through the lives and legacies of five influential Jewish women—Olga Kohlberg, Gussie Oscar, Dr. Ray K. Daily, Fania Kruger, and Frances Kallison. Their leadership and dedication in fields such as philanthropy, medicine, education, and civic engagement helped shape communities across Texas and contributed to a more inclusive and dynamic society.
Through personal stories and expert insights, the documentary highlights the intersection of Jewish, female, and Texan identities while preserving important histories that might otherwise be lost.
This program is one component of the Texas Jewish Historical Society’s Annual Gathering weekend in Houston. For the complete itinerary, registration details, and additional information, please visit www.TXJHS.org.
To register, click here.
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Sunday, April 26, 2026
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Online
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Description:
A $10 suggested donation enables us to present programs like this one.
This unique performance is the culmination of eight months of heartfelt collaboration between four Holocaust survivors and high school students. The diverse group of high school students will portray stories of the Holocaust survivors who survived Auschwitz concentration camp, ghetto life in Hungary, persecution in the Netherlands, and antisemitism in Morocco. Through the lens of the survivors’ childhood stories, group members explore issues of war, loss, trauma, and resilience while forming deep and meaningful relationships that dissolve the barriers between generations. On stage, students will re-enact wartime experiences while survivors will narrate their stories. Join us on April 26th at 2 PM to celebrate the 14th season of Witness Theater!
To register, click here.
To learn more about Witness Theater program and to view our past performances, please visit our website.
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Monday, April 27, 2026
at 3:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Georgetown Public Library
402 West 8th Street
Georgetown, 78633 United States
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Description:
In recognition of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Lucy Taus Katz along with Congregation Havurah Shalom of Sun City, Texas and in partnership with the Georgetown Public Library have created a thought-provoking and inspiring program titled “The Heroes of a Hidden Child: One Survivor’s Story of Gratitude” This program will take place at The Georgetown Public Library’s Hewlett Room, located at 402 West 8th Street in Georgetown, Texas on Sunday, April 27th 2025 from 3-5pm. The event is FREE and all are welcome.
To learn more, click here.
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Monday, April 27, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Online
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Description:
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a virtual panel discussion on the change in storytelling as the baton is passed from survivor testimony to their children. This panel will focus on three documentary films – Family Treasures Lost and Found, directed by Marcia Rock and produced by Karen A. Frenkel, My Underground Mother, directed by Marisa Fox and UnBroken, directed by Beth Lane – all created from a second-generation perspective.
Marisa Fox, Karen A. Frenkel, and Beth Lane will be in conversation about their films with Professor Avinoam Patt, Director of the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
This program was produced by Marcia Rock, Director, News and Documentary at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
About the speakers:
Marisa Fox is an award-winning journalist and the film director of My Underground Mother. As a correspondent for Haaretz, New York Newsday, New York and a contributor to The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, CNN, Forward and The New York Times, she has reported on major news stories from 9/11 to the opioid crisis, from January 6th to October 7th , and is a “she source” for Gloria Steinem’s Women’s Media Center, specializing in gender, genocide, wartime sexual trauma and radical extremism. She also served as a magazine editor and cover story writer for InStyle, O, Elle, Billboard, Details, The Hollywood Reporter and a television producer for FX, MTV, Vh1 and Channel 13-WNET. Her work has earned awards and nominations from the American Society of Magazine Editors. My Underground Mother, Fox’s directorial debut, won the Best Documentary jury award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, and led her to curate one of the only women’s Holocaust monuments and a digital exhibit of women’s testimonies with USC’s Shoah Foundation. She is currently writing a book about her search for her mother’s missing past.
Karen A. Frenkel is an award-winning technology and science journalist, author, and filmmaker. In addition to producing Family Treasures Lost and Found, Karen wrote a tie-in memoir of the same title. Her previous award-winning documentaries appeared on public television. Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing won Best Documentary in a Small Market, EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award). net.LEARNING won the National Education Reporting First Prize Television Documentary Feature. She is the co-author with Isaac Asimov of Robots: Machines in Man’s Image and three books on physics for children. Her many articles have appeared in national and trade magazines, and newspapers and their websites, including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Communications of the ACM, Discover, Essence, FastCompany.com, Forbes, Science Magazine, Scientific American, Technology Review, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and U.S. News and World Report. Family Treasures on Facebook, www.familytreasuresfilm.com, Educational Distributor: GOODDOCS, www.familytreasuresmemoir.com.
Beth Lane is the award-winning actor, director, producer and writer of UnBroken, a feature documentary uncovering her family’s extraordinary story of survival and resilience. Her directorial debut can be seen on Netflix and it has screened in more than 70 cities worldwide and received numerous honors, including Best Documentary Premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival. Most recently, Beth received an Anthem Award for Human & Civil Rights in Documentary Film, recognizing UnBroken for its social impact and contribution to dialogue around moral courage, resistance and human dignity. At the core of Beth’s work is a lifelong commitment to storytelling that expands empathy and connection. Grounded in bridge-building and dialogue, she uses personal narrative to spark understanding, civic engagement and meaningful action. A sought-after keynote speaker and moderator, she regularly curates and participates in panels focused on film, human rights, social impact and spirituality. Beth is the founder and President of The Weber Family Arts Foundation, a non-profit commited to combating antisemitim and hate by advancing awareness, engagement and compassion through the arts. @bethlanefilm. @unbrokenthefilm @theweberfamilyartsfoundation
Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of multiple books on Jewish responses to the Holocaust, including Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009); co-editor of a collected volume on Jewish Displaced Persons, titled We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010); and is a contributor to several projects at the USHMM including Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1938-1940 (2011). He completed a book on the early postwar memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, 2021). Together with David Slucki and Gabriel Finder, he is co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and, with Laura Hilton, Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (2020). His most recent books include Israel and the Holocaust (2024) and the document collection, The Surviving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2024).
About the films:
In Family Treasures Lost and Found, journalist Karen A. Frenkel unravels her family’s World War II mysteries using investigative skills, genealogical methods, digital and real-world archives, and visits to Kraków, Lviv, Tarnów, and Vienna. Karen’s parents and one grandparent survived in uncommon ways; not forced into concentration camps, they survived on the run with extraordinary luck. Her father married an American tourist visiting Poland in early 1939. He arrived in Cuba on a French ship while the St. Louis was at anchor and, like its passengers, was refused entry. His first wife, black sheep of the family that owned the famous dairy restaurant Ratner’s, had a married gangster lover. They expected Dr. Frenkel to front for them. Instead, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Karen’s mother was a teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland. Later, her parents insisted that they separate and sent false papers so that she could pose as a Catholic. She sustained this ruse as a slave laborer in Germany. Viewers glimpse the culture of pre-war assimilated Jews due to a rare, huge family archive of hundreds of photographs, portraits, and artifacts brought from Berlin by Karen’s great-grandparents. Karen reveals her relatives’ resistance to fascism and the reasons for the survivors’ silence. In hopes of inspiring others, Karen shows how a journalist indefatigably follows leads, solves many mysteries, honors her parents and the lost, and ensures that memories of a destroyed culture will endure.
My Underground Mother: “You think you know your mother until you don’t,” says filmmaker Marisa Fox. Tamar was a New York doctor’s wife who claimed she fled her native Poland on the cusp of World War II and was never a Holocaust “victim.” Twenty years after her death, Fox, a journalist and mother, learns Tamar had a secret identity and chases down leads that span the globe, uncovering a story of Nazi trafficking and a defiant band of sisters in a women’s forced labor camp. Dogged research, extraordinary archival imagery and staggeringly candid interviews reveal a portrait of a woman who dared to be the hero of her own story, transforming herself from Nazi slave to freedom fighter, from refugee to spy and saboteur, ultimately reinventing herself as a matriarch in America. A real-life story of a daughter coming to terms with a woman who went to extraordinary lengths not to be defined by trauma.
UnBroken is the miraculous true story of the seven Weber siblings, ages 6-18, who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their youthful bravado and the kindness of strangers, following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent German farmer, the children spent two years on their own in war torn Germany. Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Climactically separated from their father, the siblings are forced to declare themselves as orphans in order to escape to a new life in America. Unbeknownst to them, this salvation would become what would finally tear them apart, not to be reunited for another 40 years. Filmmaker Beth Lane, daughter of the youngest Weber sibling, embarks on a quest to retrace their steps, seeking answers to long-held questions about her family’s survival. The film examines the journey of the Weber family as told through conversations with living siblings – now in their eighties and nineties – while Beth and her crew road trip across Germany, following the courageous, tumultuous, and harrowing path taken by her family over seventy years ago.
To register, click here.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Online via Zoom
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Description:
Join us for a special conversation with Holocaust survivor Joe Alexander and World War II veteran Dr. Richard Baum. Joe was born in 1922 in Kowal, Poland. After surviving several camps, he was eventually liberated in Dachau in April 1945. Richard was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1925. He served in the 20th Armored Division of the United States Army, the unit that liberated Dachau. To commemorate the anniversary of Dachau's liberation, the two of them will reflect about this time in their lives, and the decades that followed.
TO RSVP, click here.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
Virtual
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Description:
Join us for a live and interactive Jewish heritage journey through Warsaw, Poland, with a meaningful focus on the history and legacy of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Led by our guide in real time, we will walk through the streets of the former ghetto area, exploring where daily life once unfolded for hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents before the devastation of the Holocaust. As we stand in the places where acts of courage and resistance took place in 1943, we will reflect on the extraordinary bravery of those who rose up against overwhelming odds in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Along the way, we will discuss the historical context of prewar Jewish Warsaw, the creation of the ghetto under Nazi occupation, and the enduring legacy of remembrance carried forward at sites such as the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Together, we will honor the resilience, humanity, and strength of a community whose story continues to shape Jewish identity and collective memory, experienced live and interactive as we explore Warsaw today. Co-presented with Wowzitude.
To register, click here.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
at 4:30pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
University of Texas at Dallas
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Description:
Please join us as we celebrate the life and memory of Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth. You can learn more about Dr. Ozsváth on her In Memoriam page.
More details will be posted as they develop.
To register, click here.
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
at 5:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Naveen Jindal School of Management (JSOM), Executive Dining Room
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
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Description:
There will be a pre-event reception at 5:30pm, and the panel discussion will begin at 6pm. More details will be updated as they are finalized.
To register, click here.
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