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El Paso & Las Cruces Jewish Film Festival All Day (29 days)
Films
Starts Feb 2, 2025
Ends Mar 30, 2025
The Jewish Federation of El Paso & Las Cruces and the Jewish Community Foundation of El Paso are proud to bring a curated selection of internationally acclaimed Jewish films to the community.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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Echoes & Reflections | Decoding Propaganda: Empowering Critical Thinking through Media Literacy, March 2025 All Day (14 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 17, 2025
Ends Mar 30, 2025
Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching strategies to help your students understand how to analyze propaganda and learn media literacy skills. 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.
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March of Remembrance Dallas
March of Remembrance Dallas 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
General
Starts Mar 30, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Mar 30, 2025 at 3:00pm
The March of Remembrance, also known as March of Life, is an international organization that honors the survivors and victims of the Holocaust while promoting healing and reconciliation between victims, perpetrators, and their descendants. It was birthed in Tübingen, Germany by Jobst Bitner, a theologian and activist, as a German-Christian response to the Holocaust.
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Ambiguous Belief in the World: Post-Holocaust Cinema and Sterne
Ambiguous Belief in the World: Post-Holocaust Cinema and Sterne 2:00pm - 4:00pm (2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 30, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Mar 30, 2025 at 4:00pm
Can movies about the Holocaust instill faith in the world? If yes, how? And how much does a film’s country of origin matter when it comes to answering these questions?
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Houston Jewish Film Festival | An Evening of Shorts
Houston Jewish Film Festival | An Evening of Shorts 7:00pm - 9:00pm (2h)
Films
Starts Mar 30, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Mar 30, 2025 at 9:00pm
This evening there will be a collection of shorts centered around Nazism, exploring faith, and a third-generation survivor story.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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César Chávez Day
César Chávez Day All Day
General
Mar 31, 2025 (All Day)
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe César Chávez Day will be out of the office.
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Houston Jewish Film Festival | An American Tail
Houston Jewish Film Festival | An American Tail 10:00am - 12:00pm (2h)
Films
Starts Mar 31, 2025 at 10:00am
Ends Mar 31, 2025 at 12:00pm
Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-nominated 1986 animated feature tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, a mischievous Russian Jewish mouse who sails with his family to America in 1885 to escape antisemitism.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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Echoes & Reflections | Virtual Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum Focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto & the Uprising
Echoes & Reflections | Virtual Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum Focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto & the Uprising 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
General
Starts Apr 1, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 1, 2025 at 3:00pm
In commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which began on April 19, 1943, join Yad Vashem educator Yael Eaglstein for a virtual tour of specific galleries of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem.
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ICS!: Ready, Set, JAHM!
ICS!: Ready, Set, JAHM! 3:30pm - 4:30pm (1h)
Workshops
Starts Apr 1, 2025 at 3:30pm
Ends Apr 1, 2025 at 4:30pm
Join ICS & AJH for a learning workshop. It will go over the history & significance of Jewish American Heritage Month. Student-ready resources will be offered to explore Jewish American identity, and history.
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MJH | “The Pope at War” Book Talk
MJH | “The Pope at War” Book Talk 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 1, 2025 at 7:00pm
For this presentation, David Kertzer will be in conversation about his latest book, The Pope at War, with Charles R. Gallagher.
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HJFF | October H8te
HJFF | October H8te 7:30pm - 9:00pm (1h 30m)
Films
Starts Apr 1, 2025 at 7:30pm
Ends Apr 1, 2025 at 9:00pm
Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread on social media.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda Commemorative Event featuring Providence Nkurunziza
1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda Commemorative Event featuring Providence Nkurunziza 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 2, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 2, 2025 at 3:00pm
Commissioner Providence Nkurunziza is an author, inspirational speaker, and a women and children advocate.
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HMMSA Reads: Drunk on Genocide
HMMSA Reads: Drunk on Genocide 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
General
Starts Apr 2, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 2, 2025 at 8:00pm
Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination.
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Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived
Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived 7:00pm - 8:30pm (1h 30m)
Films
Starts Apr 2, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 2, 2025 at 8:30pm
Now, more than 100,000 of these Holocaust memorial stones have been installed in sidewalks around Europe. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Jane Wells traces the impact of these stones and the healing they bring to individuals and communities in the Netherlands.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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USHMM | 2025 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture
USHMM | 2025 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 3, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 3, 2025 at 7:00pm
Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi society removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because they did not fit into their vision of the racial national community. They forcibly displaced “undesirables” eastward into ghettos, simultaneously expanding their borders to create “living space” for their citizens.
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Houston Jewish Film Festival | Kidnapped
Houston Jewish Film Festival | Kidnapped 7:30pm - 8:30pm (1h)
Films
Starts Apr 3, 2025 at 7:30pm
Ends Apr 3, 2025 at 8:30pm
Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio delves into his country's antisemitic past with the unsettling 1850s story of young Edgardo Mortara, who was controversially taken from his Jewish family in Bologna after a secret baptism by the family's nanny.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025 All Day (28 days)
Workshops
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Ends Apr 6, 2025
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.
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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Yehuda Meisels
HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Yehuda Meisels 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 6, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 6, 2025 at 3:00pm
Yehuda Meisels was already on an “enemy of the state” list when he was sent on one of the first transports to Auschwitz. We will hear the compelling story of courageous actions that got him on the list, his time in Auschwitz, and the miracles that led to him surviving that camp, the death march and his rescue by a Texas soldier. Learn more of Yehuda’s story shared by his grandson, Yair Alan Griver.
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UTD | Fragments of Memory: The Holocaust and Its Aftermath
UTD | Fragments of Memory: The Holocaust and Its Aftermath 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 6, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 6, 2025 at 3:00pm
Join us as Dr. Nils Roemer presents the final lecture of our annual Spring Professor Lecture Series.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Kean University | “The Making of A Holocaust Center at Keene State College”
Kean University | “The Making of A Holocaust Center at Keene State College” 11:00am - 11:45am (45m)
Workshops
Starts Apr 7, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 7, 2025 at 11:45am
In 2024, Dr. Paul Vincent published A Holocaust Center at Keene State College: The First 24 Years, 1983-2007, which traces the origins of the Holocaust Resource Center and its evolution into the Cohen Center.
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DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 1
DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 1 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 7, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 7, 2025 at 8:00pm
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a three-part series on contemporary antisemitism. Through these public programs, we aim to foster an increased understanding of this long-standing hatred, to discuss the alarming increase in antisemitism globally and in the United States, and to identify concrete steps that can be taken to confront and disrupt antisemitism. For these sessions, we will convene a diverse group of experts to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence
HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence 6:30pm - 9:00pm (2h 30m)
General
Starts Apr 8, 2025 at 6:30pm
Ends Apr 8, 2025 at 9:00pm
The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating and alarming trends of the 2020s, Antiscience and Antisemitism.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence
HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence 9:00am - 4:00pm (7h)
General
Starts Apr 9, 2025 at 9:00am
Ends Apr 9, 2025 at 4:00pm
The conference “Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence,” organized by Dean Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine and Professor Matthias Henze of Rice University, will be hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston. It examines the junction of two accelerating and alarming trends of the 2020s, Antiscience and Antisemitism.
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Léo Maillet (1902-1990): The Broken Mirror Presentation by Erik Riedel, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Léo Maillet (1902-1990): The Broken Mirror Presentation by Erik Riedel, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 9, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 9, 2025 at 12:00pm
Curator Erik Riedel will present the work of the painter and graphic artist Léo Maillet, who changed his original name Leopold Mayer in exile, reflecting the numerous fractures in his biography. After his dramatic escape from a deportation train bound for Auschwitz, Maillet lived in the French Cévennes under a false identity from 1942 onwards.
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Echoes & Reflections | I Survived the Farhud: The Untold Story of the Vanished Jews from Arab Lands
Echoes & Reflections | I Survived the Farhud: The Untold Story of the Vanished Jews from Arab Lands 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Workshops
Starts Apr 9, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 9, 2025 at 3:00pm
Joe Samuels is a Holocaust survivor who was a refugee from Iraq. For over five decades he didn’t discuss the trauma of the Farhud, a pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad in June 1941 that he experienced when he was 10 years old.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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USHMM | “Indescribable Horror”: When Eisenhower Witnessed the Holocaust
USHMM | “Indescribable Horror”: When Eisenhower Witnessed the Holocaust 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 10, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 10, 2025 at 3:00pm
American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles of bodies, walking skeletons on the verge of death, and other unspeakable horrors. This shocking discovery prompted Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit and bear witness to the atrocities himself.
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Shalom Austin | Yoms Educational Electives
Shalom Austin | Yoms Educational Electives 6:00pm - 8:00pm (2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 10, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 10, 2025 at 8:00pm
Join the Austin community for an evening of learning at the Dell JCC and choose from a variety of classes related to Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut!
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Passover Begins
Passover Begins All Day
General
Apr 12, 2025 (All Day)
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Passover will be out of the office.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025
Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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UTD | "Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art"
UTD | "Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art" 10:00am - 4:00pm (6h)
Exhibits
Starts Apr 15, 2025 at 10:00am
Ends Apr 15, 2025 at 4:00pm
This special display, based on the collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, features works created between 1945 and 1947 and attempts to investigate how survivors reacted to the liberation through art. For most of these survivor-artists, the ability to paint again signified freedom and renewed independence.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Virtual Coffee Encounter - Miracles Amid Darkness: Passover During the Holocaust & Lessons for Today
Virtual Coffee Encounter - Miracles Amid Darkness: Passover During the Holocaust & Lessons for Today 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 16, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Apr 16, 2025 at 1:00pm
Join us for a compelling Virtual Coffee Encounter with Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Holocaust educator and international lecturer, as she explores the miracles of Passover through the lens of Holocaust history. How did Jews observe Passover in ghettos and camps? What lessons can we draw for today, especially in light of October 7th? This thought-provoking discussion will connect the past to our present, inspiring reflection on faith, resilience, and responsibility.
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USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Frank Cohn
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Frank Cohn 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 16, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Apr 16, 2025 at 1:00pm
“The timing of our escape was indeed a miracle,” remembers Holocaust survivor Frank Cohn about his arrival in New York City on October 30, 1938. Frank and his mother got out of Nazi Germany just weeks before Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”), when authorities and ordinary citizens committed a wave of violent, orchestrated attacks across the country on Jewish people, their businesses, and their places of worship.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
Click for more info
 
Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Echoes & Reflections | Genocide: The Greatest Crime
Echoes & Reflections | Genocide: The Greatest Crime 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h)
Workshops
Starts Apr 17, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ends Apr 17, 2025 at 4:00pm
Genocide has been called the greatest crime for many reasons, it ruptures history, creating a devastating barrier between the past and future. Teaching about genocide provides an opportunity to engage students in deep reflection about choices made by individuals, leaders, governments, and larger society at different points in time.
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THGAAC Grant Recipient Orientation
THGAAC Grant Recipient Orientation 6:30pm - 7:30pm (1h)
Grants & Contests
Starts Apr 17, 2025 at 6:30pm
Ends Apr 17, 2025 at 7:30pm
The THGAAC Grants Specialist will hold virtual FAQ meetings throughout the letter of intent and application periods.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Good Friday Holiday
Good Friday Holiday All Day
General
Apr 18, 2025 (All Day)
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Good Friday will be out of the office.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 7, 2025
Ends Apr 20, 2025
Rescue during the Holocaust was not the norm, but it is an important topic for students to examine as a way to illuminate the rare bright spots amidst the overwhelming darkness of this historical tragedy.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Passover Ends
Passover Ends All Day
General
Apr 20, 2025 (All Day)
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Passover will be out of the office.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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San Jacinto Day (Office Closed)
San Jacinto Day (Office Closed) All Day
General
Apr 21, 2025 (All Day)
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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MJH | Teaching the Holocaust Through Film, A Three-Part Series
MJH | Teaching the Holocaust Through Film, A Three-Part Series 3:30pm - 5:00pm (1h 30m)
General
Starts Apr 21, 2025 at 3:30pm
Ends Apr 21, 2025 at 5:00pm
When teaching the Holocaust, film can be one of the most compelling, yet complicated educational tools available for a talented educator.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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Echoes & Reflections | Honoring Armenian Genocide Awareness Day: Teaching About Genocide Denial with Testimony
Echoes & Reflections | Honoring Armenian Genocide Awareness Day: Teaching About Genocide Denial with Testimony 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h)
Workshops
Starts Apr 22, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ends Apr 22, 2025 at 4:00pm
Armenian Genocide Awareness Day falls on April 24th to commemorate the victims of this atrocity.
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 10, 2025
Ends Apr 23, 2025
This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the types of rescue that occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe and to consider the moral and ethical choices that non-Jews made in order to help Jews survive.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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USHMM | 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education
USHMM | 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education All Day (3 days)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Ends Apr 25, 2025
At this free, virtual conference, discover the latest practices in accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust with leading historians and educators. Bring the Museum’s collection into your classroom with instructional strategies and resources that highlight survivor testimonies, artifacts, diaries, and historical documents to support instruction across subject areas and inspire all students to think critically about how and why the Holocaust happened.
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Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah All Day (2 days)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Ends Apr 24, 2025
Yom HaShoah is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators and for the Jewish resistance in that period.
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USHMM | National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance
USHMM | National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance 9:00am - 10:00am (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 9:00am
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 10:00am
The US Congress established Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust. The Museum leads the national ceremony in the US Capitol and encourages observances throughout the country. At this dangerous time of surging antisemitism, it is more important than ever that we gather to remember the victims and honor the survivors.
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Forth Worth Federation | Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Remembrance Day
Forth Worth Federation | Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Remembrance Day 6:30pm - 8:00pm (1h 30m)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 6:30pm
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 8:00pm
Fort Worth community commemoration of Yom HaShoah.
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Zikaron BaSalon - Memories in the Living Room
Zikaron BaSalon - Memories in the Living Room 6:45pm - 7:45pm (1h)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 6:45pm
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 7:45pm
Zikaron BaSalon is an intimate, meaningful and inspirational way to commemorate the Holocaust. Houston’s Jewish community has been part of Zikaron BaSalon since 2017. Every Zikaron BaSalon event is different as each location hears a different story of survival.
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Shalom Austin | Yom HaShoah Remembrance Event
Shalom Austin | Yom HaShoah Remembrance Event 7:00pm - 8:30pm (1h 30m)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 8:30pm
Join the Austin community for a Holocaust Remembrance Event featuring a keynote address by Dr. Victoria Aarons, a leading scholar in the field of Holocaust literature. The event will include a memorial service with the reading of names, candle lighting, prayers and more in honor of the victims. This ceremony is a time for reflection, unity, and a commitment to ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust endure for future generations.
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HMMSA | Yom HaShoah Community Observance
HMMSA | Yom HaShoah Community Observance 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 8:00pm
Yom HaShoah Community Observance
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Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin 7:30pm - 8:30pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 23, 2025 at 7:30pm
Ends Apr 23, 2025 at 8:30pm
Experience the power of resilience and remembrance with Murry Sidlin’s Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín — a multimedia concert-drama that commemorates the remarkable story of courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who performed the ambitious Verdi Requiem while enduring the depths of human degradation.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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USHMM | 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education All Day (3 days)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Ends Apr 25, 2025
At this free, virtual conference, discover the latest practices in accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust with leading historians and educators. Bring the Museum’s collection into your classroom with instructional strategies and resources that highlight survivor testimonies, artifacts, diaries, and historical documents to support instruction across subject areas and inspire all students to think critically about how and why the Holocaust happened.
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Yom HaShoah All Day (2 days)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Ends Apr 24, 2025
Yom HaShoah is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators and for the Jewish resistance in that period.
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UTD | Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)
UTD | Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) All Day
Commemorations
Apr 24, 2025 (All Day)
Join the UTD community to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This annual event will feature traditional readings by faculty, staff, students, and community members of poetry, prose, and personal testimony in a variety of languages as well as a performance by our University Choir.
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For I See Old Things Happening Again: Jill Freedman’s “Missing Generations” Presentation by Susan Chevlowe
For I See Old Things Happening Again: Jill Freedman’s “Missing Generations” Presentation by Susan Chevlowe 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 12:00pm
When the documentary and street photographer Jill Freedman went to Poland in April 1993, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, she wrote that she made the journey as a pilgrim “to mourn the dead, to honor them,” along with the “survivors, their children, old soldiers and witnesses.”
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Kupferberg Holocaust Center | Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education
Kupferberg Holocaust Center | Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education 5:00pm - 6:00pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 5:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 6:00pm
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for a discussion about the implications for Holocaust education in the face of rising antisemitism, the impact of the October 7 terrorist attack, and the changing political landscape in the US and across the globe.
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Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education
Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education 5:00pm - 6:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 5:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 6:00pm
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Kean College for a virtual discussion about the implications for Holocaust education in the face of rising antisemitism, the impact of the October 7 terrorist attack, and the changing political landscape in the US and across the globe. Featuring Dr. Oren Stier, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.
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DHHRM | Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2025
DHHRM | Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 8:00pm
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, honors the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust while celebrating the resilience of those who survived. To mark the 80th anniversary of liberation, the program will include stories of those who liberated concentration camps across Europe.
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El Paso | Yom HaShoah Commemoration
El Paso | Yom HaShoah Commemoration 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 8:00pm
Join EPHM at Temple Mount Sinai on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at 6 PM for the Yom HaShoah Commemoration to honor those who were murdered in the Holocaust, local survivors, and their families.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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USHMM | 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education All Day (3 days)
General
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Ends Apr 25, 2025
At this free, virtual conference, discover the latest practices in accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust with leading historians and educators. Bring the Museum’s collection into your classroom with instructional strategies and resources that highlight survivor testimonies, artifacts, diaries, and historical documents to support instruction across subject areas and inspire all students to think critically about how and why the Holocaust happened.
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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DHHRM | Remembering the Armenian Genocide
DHHRM | Remembering the Armenian Genocide 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 26, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 26, 2025 at 3:00pm
Often referred to as the first genocide of the twentieth century, the Armenian Genocide was marked by the systematic persecution, deportation, and mass murder, under the cover of World War I, of approximately 1 million Armenian Christians living in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923
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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025 All Day (14 days)
General
Starts Apr 14, 2025
Ends Apr 27, 2025
In this dynamic online course, educators examine the pursuit of justice at Nuremberg, the effect the trials had on our understanding of the Holocaust, how survivors coped with the trauma to build new lives in its aftermath, and how we remember and memorialize the Holocaust today.
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St. Kevork Armenian Church | Armenian Genocide and Holy Martyrs Service at the Church
St. Kevork Armenian Church | Armenian Genocide and Holy Martyrs Service at the Church 9:30am - 11:00am (1h 30m)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 27, 2025 at 9:30am
Ends Apr 27, 2025 at 11:00am
Armenian Genocide and Holy Martyrs Service at the Church
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Holocaust Remembrance Day | The Heroes of a Hidden Child: One Survivor's Story of Gratitude
Holocaust Remembrance Day | The Heroes of a Hidden Child: One Survivor's Story of Gratitude 3:00pm - 5:00pm (2h)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 27, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ends Apr 27, 2025 at 5:00pm
During the presentation Lucy Taus Katz, a holocaust survivor herself will engage attendees with the sharing of her story as a hidden child. Join as Lucy reflects on the selflessness of those who saved her and the profound lessons she carries forward.
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HMH | Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance
HMH | Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance 3:00pm - 4:30pm (1h 30m)
Commemorations
Starts Apr 27, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ends Apr 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Please join the Houston community in observance of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6,000,000 Jewish people who lost their lives during the Holocaust. During this annual commemoration, we will mourn the loss of all who perished, honor those who survived and come together as a community to remember and reflect.
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MJH | Virtual Walking Tour: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
MJH | Virtual Walking Tour: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 10:00am - 4:00pm (6h)
General
Starts Apr 30, 2025 at 10:00am
Ends Apr 30, 2025 at 4:00pm
On this live-streamed walking tour, MJH will explore the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the context in which it took place. Beginning on April 19, 1943, the Uprising was the largest act of military resistance undertaken by Jews during World War II and marked the first significant civic uprising in occupied Europe.
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Through the Lens of Photo 1C: 80 Years After Liberation
Through the Lens of Photo 1C: 80 Years After Liberation 5:30pm - 7:30pm (2h)
General
Starts Apr 30, 2025 at 5:30pm
Ends Apr 30, 2025 at 7:30pm
DJHS Archivist, Jessica Schneider Adams, will participate in a panel discussion as part of a presentation by Debbie Pfister and Marshall Coleman of the Ackerman Center detailing their work with photographs that inform Holocaust Liberation.
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THGAAC EDUCATION GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE
THGAAC EDUCATION GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE All Day
Grants & Contests
May 2, 2025 (All Day)
Please refer to the THGAAC's Education Grant Handbook prior to completing. Applications for the 2025 Education Grant will be accepted March 31-May 2, 2025.
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April 2025

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El Paso & Las Cruces Jewish Film Festival

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  • Location:  Alamo Draft House El Paso, 79912 United States

Echoes & Reflections | Examining the Holocaust and World War II: Teaching with The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, March 2025

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Echoes & Reflections | Decoding Propaganda: Empowering Critical Thinking through Media Literacy, March 2025

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March of Remembrance Dallas

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  • Location:  SMU Hughes-Triff Student Center 3140 Dyer St. Dallas, TX 75205

Ambiguous Belief in the World: Post-Holocaust Cinema and Sterne

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  • Location:  Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO) 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

Houston Jewish Film Festival | An Evening of Shorts

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  • Location:  Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Kaplan Theatre 5601 S. Braeswood Blvd Houston, TX 77096

César Chávez Day

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Houston Jewish Film Festival | An American Tail

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Echoes & Reflections | Virtual Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum Focusing on the Warsaw Ghetto & the Uprising

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ICS!: Ready, Set, JAHM!

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MJH | “The Pope at War” Book Talk

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HJFF | October H8te

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1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda Commemorative Event featuring Providence Nkurunziza

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HMMSA Reads: Drunk on Genocide

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  • Location:  Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio 12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231

Houston Jewish Film Festival | Here Lived

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  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Houston, TX , 77004

USHMM | 2025 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture

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  • Thu, Apr 3, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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  • Location:  Virtually

Houston Jewish Film Festival | Kidnapped

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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Yehuda Meisels

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  • Location:  Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio 12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231

UTD | Fragments of Memory: The Holocaust and Its Aftermath

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  • Location:  Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO) 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, April 2025

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Kean University | “The Making of A Holocaust Center at Keene State College”

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DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 1

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  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum 300 N. Houston Street Dallas, TX 75202

HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence

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  • Location:  Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Houston, TX , 77004

HMH | Antiscience and Antisemitism: An Alarming Convergence

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Léo Maillet (1902-1990): The Broken Mirror Presentation by Erik Riedel, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

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Echoes & Reflections | I Survived the Farhud: The Untold Story of the Vanished Jews from Arab Lands

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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue and Rescuers during the Holocaust, November 2025

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USHMM | “Indescribable Horror”: When Eisenhower Witnessed the Holocaust

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Shalom Austin | Yoms Educational Electives

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  • Location:  Shalom Austin 7300 Hart Lane Austin, Texas 78731

Passover Begins

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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025

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UTD | "Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art"

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  • Location:  Ackerman Center (JO 4.800) 800 W. Campbell Road, JO 31 Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

Virtual Coffee Encounter - Miracles Amid Darkness: Passover During the Holocaust & Lessons for Today

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USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Frank Cohn

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Echoes & Reflections | Genocide: The Greatest Crime

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  • Location:  Online via Zoom

THGAAC Grant Recipient Orientation

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  • Thu, Apr 17, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Grants & Contests
  • Location:  Online via Zoom

Good Friday Holiday

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  • Fri, Apr 18 (all day)
  • Calendar:   General

Passover Ends

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  • Sun, Apr 20 (all day)
  • Calendar:   General

San Jacinto Day (Office Closed)

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  • Mon, Apr 21 (all day)
  • Calendar:   General

MJH | Teaching the Holocaust Through Film, A Three-Part Series

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  • Mon, Apr 21, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  Online via Zoom

Echoes & Reflections | Honoring Armenian Genocide Awareness Day: Teaching About Genocide Denial with Testimony

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  • Tue, Apr 22, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Online via Zoom

USHMM | 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education

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  • Wed, Apr 23 - Fri, Apr 25, 2025
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  Virtual conference

Yom HaShoah

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  • Wed, Apr 23 - Thu, Apr 24, 2025
  • Calendar:   General

USHMM | National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 9:00am - 10:00am
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Online livestreamed

Forth Worth Federation | Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Remembrance Day

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Beth-El Congregation 4900 Briarhaven Rd Fort Worth, TX 76109

Zikaron BaSalon - Memories in the Living Room

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 6:45pm - 7:45pm
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  Homes across Houston

Shalom Austin | Yom HaShoah Remembrance Event

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Dell JCC 7300 Hart Lane Austin, TX 78731

HMMSA | Yom HaShoah Community Observance

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Congregation Rodfei Sholom 3003 Sholom DriveSan Antonio, TX, 78230

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

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  • Wed, Apr 23, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center 2301 Flora St., Dallas, TX 75201

UTD | Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)

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  • Thu, Apr 24 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC) 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

For I See Old Things Happening Again: Jill Freedman’s “Missing Generations” Presentation by Susan Chevlowe

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  • Thu, Apr 24, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Online

Kupferberg Holocaust Center | Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education

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  • Thu, Apr 24, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Online via Zoom

Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education

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  • Thu, Apr 24, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Virtual event

DHHRM | Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2025

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  • Thu, Apr 24, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Congregation Shearith Israel 9401 Douglas Ave. Dallas, Texas 75225

El Paso | Yom HaShoah Commemoration

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  • Thu, Apr 24, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Temple Mount Sinai, 4408 North Stanton Street, El Paso, TX 79902, USA

DHHRM | Remembering the Armenian Genocide

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  • Sat, Apr 26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum 300 N. Houston Street Dallas, TX 75202

St. Kevork Armenian Church | Armenian Genocide and Holy Martyrs Service at the Church

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  • Sun, Apr 27, 9:30am - 11:00am
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  St. Kevork Armenian Church 3211 Synott Road Houston, TX 77082

Holocaust Remembrance Day | The Heroes of a Hidden Child: One Survivor's Story of Gratitude

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  • Sun, Apr 27, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Georgetown Public Library 402 W. 8th Street Georgetown, Texas

HMH | Citywide Yom HaShoah Observance

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  • Sun, Apr 27, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Calendar:   Commemorations
  • Location:  Congregation Brith Shalom 4610 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX 77401

MJH | Virtual Walking Tour: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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  • Wed, Apr 30, 10:00am - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  Virtual

Through the Lens of Photo 1C: 80 Years After Liberation

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  • Wed, Apr 30, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   General
  • Location:  SP/N Gallery UT Dallas Synergy Park North 1 Gallery (3000 Waterview Pkwy, Richardson, TX 75080)

THGAAC EDUCATION GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE

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  • Fri, May 2 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Grants & Contests
  • Location:  Virtual

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