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November 2020

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Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism - 3 Part Program
Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism - 3 Part Program All Day
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Nov 2, 2020 (All Day)
Echoes & Reflections' online course, "Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism", will give you the resources needed to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate lessons on contemporary antisemitism and support students to recognize and combat antisemitism and hate in their schools and communities.
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Marking Kristallnacht through a Social Justice Lens
Marking Kristallnacht through a Social Justice Lens 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 9, 2020 at 12:00pm
Ends Nov 9, 2020 at 1:00pm
Join Echoes & Reflections for this webinar, delivered by an educator from Yad Vashem, about the November 9-10 event that made persecution of the Jews visible and undeniable.
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The Night of Broken Glass through a Survivor's Eyes
The Night of Broken Glass through a Survivor's Eyes 8:30am - 9:00am (30m)
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Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 8:30am
Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 9:00am
Join Holocaust survivor and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer Susan Warsinger to learn about her experience and the moment her parents decided to send her away to try to save her.
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Moving Memory to Action with Holocaust and Human Rights Education
Moving Memory to Action with Holocaust and Human Rights Education 9:30am - 10:30am (1h)
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Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 9:30am
Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 10:30am
Join Echoes & Reflections for this special program with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites, museums, and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights, educators will learn how to use the lessons of history as a vehicle for change and help students to mobilize memory into action.
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Exploring Genocides through Testimony
Exploring Genocides through Testimony 4:00pm - 5:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 4:00pm
Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 5:00pm
During this webinar, led by a facilitator from the USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore the Echoes & Reflections Teaching about Genocide resource, and gain tools for teaching about genocide using testimony and other primary source materials.
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History Highlights: The Development of Modern Human Rights
History Highlights: The Development of Modern Human Rights 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 7:00pm
Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 8:00pm
Select Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M. C.D.T. the History Highlights lecture series features Holocaust and human rights topics presented by Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum historians and educators.
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Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention & How People Resist
Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention & How People Resist 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 12, 2020 at 11:00am
Ends Nov 12, 2020 at 12:00pm
Join the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, and Andrea Pitzer, author and journalist, for a discussion about what gives rise to camps, including why their use expanded exponentially in the last decade, and what strategies have been successful in opposing them.
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Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest
Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 12, 2020 at 2:00pm
Ends Nov 12, 2020 at 3:00pm
This program is being delivered in collaboration with the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University. This program will highlight key Echoes & Reflections resources and content to support the 22nd Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest theme, Sharing Strength: Sustaining Humanity.
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Using the Pyramid of Hate to Expand Social Justice
Using the Pyramid of Hate to Expand Social Justice 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 13, 2020 at 11:00am
Ends Nov 13, 2020 at 12:00pm
Using primary sources and visual history testimony from Echoes & Reflections, this webinar helps teachers and their students examine events at each stage of the pyramid and enhances their understanding of how the progression might have been interrupted during the period prior to and during the Holocaust.
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Distorting the Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Politicization of History and Memory
Distorting the Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Politicization of History and Memory 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 15, 2020 at 11:00am
Ends Nov 15, 2020 at 12:00pm
In this presentation, Mark Weitzman will trace the roots of denial and distortion and present an overview of the situation today, focusing on how the history of the Holocaust is being rewritten by nationalist apologists, political opportunists and how this message is spread online.
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Virtual Home-school Day
Virtual Home-school Day 1:00pm - 3:30pm (2h 30m)
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Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 1:00pm
Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 3:30pm
Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a virtual afternoon of learning for home-school students!
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Acts of Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust
Acts of Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 2:00pm
Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 3:00pm
Participate in this Echoes & Reflections webinar, led by a facilitator from Yad Vashem, to explore the many different ways that Jews resisted with their spirits, not with their weapons, while under Nazi occupation.
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The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians
The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 6:00pm
Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 7:00pm
The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians A webinar hosted by Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Teaching Antisemitism throughout History
Teaching Antisemitism throughout History 1:00pm - 2:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 17, 2020 at 1:00pm
Ends Nov 17, 2020 at 2:00pm
Participate in this interactive Echoes & Reflections workshop with the Institute for Curriculum Services to gain the tools to teach about ancient antisemitism and to make connections to how this hatred manifested in Nazi Germany and continues to persist in society today.
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The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor: Ben Ferencz 75 Years Later
The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor: Ben Ferencz 75 Years Later 9:30am - 10:30am (1h)
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Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 9:30am
Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 10:30am
Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum live on Facebook, 75 years after the Nuremberg trials began, to learn Ben's inspiring story and why his motto is: “Never give up.”
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Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 3:00pm
Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 4:00pm
This webinar, presented by Echoes & Reflections and The Defiant Requiem Foundation, will provide historical context and classroom resources to enhance instruction around spiritual resistance during the Holocaust.
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Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials
Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 7:00pm
Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 8:00pm
This decades-long, global effort to bring Nazi perpetrators to justice represents the largest and most sustained effort to prosecute mass atrocities and genocide in the history of the world. Outlining this global struggle for justice, join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and Devin Pendas will explain how these trials worked and what impact they had on the postwar world.
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Holocaust Education in Desperate Times
Holocaust Education in Desperate Times 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 20, 2020 at 11:00am
Ends Nov 20, 2020 at 12:00pm
Join Simone Schweber as she discusses Holocaust education and the multiple contexts within which it is positioned including state and national education policy contexts, the global contexts of climate change and the rising appeal of authoritarian populism, surges of antisemitism and a seemingly renewed acceptability of racism.
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These Are My Last Words - A Webinar on Spiritual Resistance
These Are My Last Words - A Webinar on Spiritual Resistance 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 23, 2020 at 2:00pm
Ends Nov 23, 2020 at 3:00pm
Noam Gitin, Head of Overseas Groups and Young Leadership Section at Yad Vashem, will lead this Echoes & Reflections webinar and guide participants toward creating a meaningful discussion in the classroom.
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History Highlights: Genocide Denial
History Highlights: Genocide Denial 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
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Starts Nov 24, 2020 at 7:00pm
Ends Nov 24, 2020 at 8:00pm
Select Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M. C.D.T. the History Highlights lecture series features Holocaust and human rights topics presented by Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum historians and educators.
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Prepare to Teach the Holocaust in the New Year
Prepare to Teach the Holocaust in the New Year All Day
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Nov 30, 2020 (All Day)
Join Echoes & Reflections' final online course of the year to gain the knowledge and tools to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and guide your students to become change-makers in the year ahead.
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Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History
Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h)
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Starts Dec 3, 2020 at 3:00pm
Ends Dec 3, 2020 at 4:00pm
Join Echoes & Reflections and special guest Christopher Miller, Senior Director of Education at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, who will highlight learning resources to support classroom instruction on African American history, and engage in conversations about connections to Holocaust education.
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HMMSA Reads "94 Maidens"
HMMSA Reads "94 Maidens" 5:30pm - 6:30pm (1h)
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Starts Dec 3, 2020 at 5:30pm
Ends Dec 3, 2020 at 6:30pm
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) invites you to join them on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 5:30 P.M. C.S.T. for their HMMSA Reads Book Club featuring author Rhonda Fink-Whitman.
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November 2020

Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism - 3 Part Program

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  • Mon, Nov 2 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Marking Kristallnacht through a Social Justice Lens

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  • Mon, Nov 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

The Night of Broken Glass through a Survivor's Eyes

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  • Tue, Nov 10, 8:30am - 9:00am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live

Moving Memory to Action with Holocaust and Human Rights Education

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  • Tue, Nov 10, 9:30am - 10:30am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Exploring Genocides through Testimony

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  • Tue, Nov 10, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

History Highlights: The Development of Modern Human Rights

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  • Tue, Nov 10, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention & How People Resist

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  • Thu, Nov 12, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest

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  • Thu, Nov 12, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Using the Pyramid of Hate to Expand Social Justice

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  • Fri, Nov 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Distorting the Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Politicization of History and Memory

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  • Sun, Nov 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Virtual Home-school Day

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  • Mon, Nov 16, 1:00pm - 3:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Acts of Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust

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  • Mon, Nov 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians

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  • Mon, Nov 16, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  montclair.edu/music/cali-live

Teaching Antisemitism throughout History

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  • Tue, Nov 17, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor: Ben Ferencz 75 Years Later

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  • Wed, Nov 18, 9:30am - 10:30am
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Facebook Live

Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt

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  • Wed, Nov 18, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials

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  • Wed, Nov 18, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Holocaust Education in Desperate Times

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  • Fri, Nov 20, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

These Are My Last Words - A Webinar on Spiritual Resistance

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  • Mon, Nov 23, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

History Highlights: Genocide Denial

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  • Tue, Nov 24, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

Prepare to Teach the Holocaust in the New Year

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  • Mon, Nov 30 (all day)
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History

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  • Thu, Dec 3, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Webinar

HMMSA Reads "94 Maidens"

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  • Thu, Dec 3, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
  • Calendar:   Workshops
  • Location:  Zoom

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