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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah
All Day
General
Sep 26, 2022 (All Day) Shana tova! Click for more info |
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Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah
All Day
General
Sep 27, 2022 (All Day) Shana tova! Click for more info |
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Holocaust Speaker Series: Helen Marks
Holocaust Speaker Series: Helen Marks
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 28, 2022 at 10:00am Ends Sep 28, 2022 at 11:00am The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 10:00AM (Central), features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Join Holocaust & Humanity Center on Wednesday, September 28 at 10:00AM via Zoom with Helen Marks. Click for more info
The Digitization of Genocide Memory: Consequences and Contestation
The Digitization of Genocide Memory: Consequences and Contestation
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 28, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Sep 28, 2022 at 12:00pm Join the Kupferberg Holocaust Center as Dr. David J. Simon, Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, discusses the memorialization of mass atrocities and genocide across a vast array of digital technologies, including both academic settings and unexpected virtual spaces like Minecraft, YouTube, and TikTok. Click for more info
The Enduring Legacy of Chaim Gross
The Enduring Legacy of Chaim Gross
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 28, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Sep 28, 2022 at 12:00pm This program delves into Gross’s biography, work, and the legacy that the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation continues to preserve for the public benefit. Featuring Mimi Gross, President of the Foundation and daughter of Renee and Chaim Gross, and Sasha Davis, Executive Director of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. Click for more info |
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"Forgotten, Ignored, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present"
"Forgotten, Ignored, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present"
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 29, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Sep 29, 2022 at 12:00pm Groundbreaking scholars Ethel Brooks, Ioanida Costache, and László Csősz move between past and present and draw upon testimonies and documents as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists. Click for more info
Foundations of Holocaust Education (Part 1 of 3)
Foundations of Holocaust Education (Part 1 of 3)
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Sep 29, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 29, 2022 at 7:30pm This is the first session of a three-part program sponsored by Yahad-In Unum and Echoes & Reflections. *Registration and attendance for all sessions is required, and sessions will not be recorded. Registration is limited to in-classroom teachers only.* Click for more info |
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Disability Awareness Month: “Science” That Maimed
Disability Awareness Month: “Science” That Maimed
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 3, 2022 at 8:30am Ends Oct 3, 2022 at 9:00am Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during Disability Awareness Month to learn about the innocent women subjected to experiments in the name of science. Click for more info
Fighting Back: Commemorating the Jewish Uprisings at Sobibór and Auschwitz
Fighting Back: Commemorating the Jewish Uprisings at Sobibór and Auschwitz
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Oct 3, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Oct 3, 2022 at 3:00pm The month of October marks the anniversaries of the uprisings that Jewish prisoners carried out at two Nazi death camps. In commemoration of these stunning acts of bravery, Echoes & Reflections will discuss these events, and resistance more broadly. Click for more info
HMMSA Workshop: Choices Matter: Complicity and Action During the Holocaust
HMMSA Workshop: Choices Matter: Complicity and Action During the Holocaust
5:30pm - 7:30pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Oct 3, 2022 at 5:30pm Ends Oct 3, 2022 at 7:30pm Examine the consequences of inaction and the courage and difficult choices of those who rescued and resisted during the Holocaust. Educators also learn how to support students to implement an action-oriented project influenced by the lessons of this history. Click for more info
Latino Americans Sacrificing to Serve Their Country
Latino Americans Sacrificing to Serve Their Country
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 3, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 3, 2022 at 7:00pm Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a special presentation by Christina Chavarría, Program Coordinator, Education Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the experience of Tony Acevedo, a devoted American despite his Mexican heritage discrimination. Click for more info |
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur
All Day
General
Oct 5, 2022 (All Day) It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Yom Kippur will be out of the office. Click for more info |
Holocaust by Bullets in Central and Eastern Europe (Part 2 of 3)
Holocaust by Bullets in Central and Eastern Europe (Part 2 of 3)
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 6, 2022 at 7:00pm Ends Oct 6, 2022 at 8:30pm This is the second session of a three-part program sponsored by Yahad-In Unum and Echoes & Reflections. *Registration and attendance for all sessions is required, and sessions will not be recorded. Registration is limited to in-classroom teachers only.* Click for more info |
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Hidden Children in Catholic France: Between Trauma and Normalcy
Hidden Children in Catholic France: Between Trauma and Normalcy
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Oct 11, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Oct 11, 2022 at 3:00pm During the Holocaust, Jewish children of all ages were at times hidden among other students within Catholic institutions as seen in films such as "Au Revoir Les Enfants." Their lives were completely uprooted as they were placed in a religious environment completely different from what they knew. Click for more info
Live Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger & Filmmaker Lynn Novick
Live Conversation with Holocaust Survivor Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger & Filmmaker Lynn Novick
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 11, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 11, 2022 at 7:00pm With the international debut of "The U.S. and the Holocaust," filmmaker Lynn Novick will be joined by featured Holocaust survivor Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger to discuss the importance of first-person testimony in teaching about Holocaust history, as well as American history. Click for more info |
Teaching About Americans and the Holocaust Using Historical Newspapers
Teaching About Americans and the Holocaust Using Historical Newspapers
3:30pm - 5:00pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 12, 2022 at 3:30pm Ends Oct 12, 2022 at 5:00pm Join the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn about how to utilize historical newspapers to teach about the American response to the Holocaust. Click for more info
A Reason for Survival: To Understand, To Educate, To Heal
A Reason for Survival: To Understand, To Educate, To Heal
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 12, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 12, 2022 at 7:00pm Holocaust & Genocide Education Network (HGEN), formerly the Ohio Council on Holocaust & Genocide Education (OCHGE), is offering a monthly dialogue series in 2022-2023. Named for Ohio Holocaust educator Renate Frydman—a founding member of HGEN, the Director of the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center, and the author of "Anschel’s Story"—the Frydman dialogue series brings a range of topics to educators seeking to develop their knowledge around the teaching of the Holocaust and genocide. Click for more info |
Mapping the Holocaust by Bullets
Mapping the Holocaust by Bullets
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 13, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Oct 13, 2022 at 12:00pm Join Dr. Ewa Schaller, Senior Program Officer, Educator and Education Coordinator at American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, for a discussion about investigations into the fate of the Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union. Click for more info
Confronting Rising Antisemitism and Right Wing Hate Groups in Germany
Confronting Rising Antisemitism and Right Wing Hate Groups in Germany
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 13, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Oct 13, 2022 at 12:00pm Join Arizona State University's Center on the Future of War and Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute for a discussion on the rise of antisemitism and right wing hate groups in Germany with Stephan Kramer, the President of the State Domestic Intelligence Service in Thuringia. Click for more info
It Happened in a Village in Eastern Europe - A Case Study (Part 3 of 3)
It Happened in a Village in Eastern Europe - A Case Study (Part 3 of 3)
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 13, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 13, 2022 at 7:30pm This is the final session of a three-part program sponsored by Yahad-In Unum and Echoes & Reflections. *Registration and attendance for all sessions is required, and sessions will not be recorded. Registration is limited to in-classroom teachers only.* Click for more info |
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Home-school Day
Home-school Day
9:00am - 12:30pm
(3h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 18, 2022 at 9:00am Ends Oct 18, 2022 at 12:30pm Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a day of learning for home-school students! Click for more info |
2022 First Person Series: Frank Cohn
2022 First Person Series: Frank Cohn
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 19, 2022 at 12:00pm Ends Oct 19, 2022 at 1:00pm 2022 First Person Series: Frank Cohn Conversations with Holocaust survivors Click for more info
Foundations of Holocaust Education
Foundations of Holocaust Education
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Oct 19, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Oct 19, 2022 at 3:00pm Participants will explore testimonies, maps, poems, and artwork to teach about antisemitism and intolerance, resistance and resilience, memory & justice after the Holocaust, while gaining a range of instructional strategies to support students' study and reflection of Holocaust and its ongoing meaning in the world today. Click for more info
Confronting the Past for the Sake of the Future
Confronting the Past for the Sake of the Future
5:00pm - 6:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 19, 2022 at 5:00pm Ends Oct 19, 2022 at 6:30pm Join the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College for "Confronting the Past for the Sake of the Future." Introducing "New Voices": An Innovative Approach to Holocaust Education Click for more info |
HOPE: Stories of Houston Survivors
HOPE: Stories of Houston Survivors
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Exhibits
Starts Oct 20, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 20, 2022 at 7:30pm Since 1996, Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) has been committed to honoring Holocaust survivors’ legacy and ensuring Houston survivor stories live on in perpetuity. Click for more info
Author Speaker Series featuring HMMSA: A Conversation with Dan Grunfeld
Author Speaker Series featuring HMMSA: A Conversation with Dan Grunfeld
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 20, 2022 at 7:00pm Ends Oct 20, 2022 at 8:00pm Author Speaker Series Co-presented with Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio: "By The Grace of The Game" by Dan Grunfeld Click for more info |
ArmeniaFest
ArmeniaFest
5:00pm - 10:00pm
(5h)
Commemorations
Starts Oct 21, 2022 at 5:00pm Ends Oct 21, 2022 at 10:00pm ArmeniaFest is an annual Armenian cultural and food festival that takes place in Carrollton, Texas and is organized by the Armenian community of the St. Sarkis Church. Click for more info |
ArmeniaFest
ArmeniaFest
12:00pm - 10:00pm
(10h)
Commemorations
Starts Oct 22, 2022 at 12:00pm Ends Oct 22, 2022 at 10:00pm ArmeniaFest is an annual Armenian cultural and food festival that takes place in Carrollton, Texas and is organized by the Armenian community of the St. Sarkis Church. Click for more info |
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ArmeniaFest
ArmeniaFest
12:00pm - 5:00pm
(5h)
Commemorations
Starts Oct 23, 2022 at 12:00pm Ends Oct 23, 2022 at 5:00pm ArmeniaFest is an annual Armenian cultural and food festival that takes place in Carrollton, Texas and is organized by the Armenian community of the St. Sarkis Church. Click for more info
PATCHES: The White Rose Society
PATCHES: The White Rose Society
1:00pm - 4:00pm
(3h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 23, 2022 at 1:00pm Ends Oct 23, 2022 at 4:00pm Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio annually hosts its PATCHES – Others Deemed Dangerous or Inferior program, which highlights other groups outside of the Jewish people victimized by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Click for more info
The Inextinguishable Symphony
The Inextinguishable Symphony
4:00pm - 5:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 23, 2022 at 4:00pm Ends Oct 23, 2022 at 5:00pm The Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami, School of Education & Human Development is proud to announce the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation Holocaust/Jewish themed Sunday Salon Series. Click for more info |
Studying Zionism and Israel in the PLO
Studying Zionism and Israel in the PLO
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 24, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 24, 2022 at 7:00pm In 1965, the PLO established a Research Center in Beirut dedicated to carefully analyzing what it referred to as "the Palestine Problem," a crucial element of which was "knowing the enemy." This meant researching the Jews, Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. In this lecture, Professor Jonathan Gribetz will introduce you to the PLO Research Center, upon which he is currently completing a new book, and discuss the importance of this group of activist researchers and intellectuals on the history of the PLO. Click for more info |
Antisemitism: Educating About the Dangers of Hate
Antisemitism: Educating About the Dangers of Hate
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Oct 25, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends Oct 25, 2022 at 4:00pm In Echoes & Reflections' new online activities for students, Explore the Past, Shape the Future, they explore this question and the role antisemitism played in the escalation of the Holocaust. Click for more info
White Supremacy in 2022: The Landmark Charlottesville Trial & The Path Forward
White Supremacy in 2022: The Landmark Charlottesville Trial & The Path Forward
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 25, 2022 at 7:00pm Ends Oct 25, 2022 at 8:30pm |
"Race" and Racism: Roots of Atrocity Crimes
"Race" and Racism: Roots of Atrocity Crimes
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 26, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Oct 26, 2022 at 12:00pm Join the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust for a discussion that focuses on the relationship of so-called “race theory” and racism to the committing of atrocity crimes and genocide, and how the belief in “race” shaped the history and the legacy of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Click for more info
Stories from Ukraine Webinar
Stories from Ukraine Webinar
4:30pm - 6:00pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Oct 26, 2022 at 4:30pm Ends Oct 26, 2022 at 6:00pm In this 90-minute online exploration of stories from Ukraine, Centropa will share user-friendly resources for teaching about Ukraine in the 20th and 21st centuries. Click for more info
Betrayal and Justice in Jewish Courts after the Holocaust
Betrayal and Justice in Jewish Courts after the Holocaust
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 26, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Oct 26, 2022 at 7:00pm Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a discussion about who was tried and how some Jews cleared their names. Click for more info |
Chroniclers and Smugglers: Documenting History and Preserving Culture as Resistance in the Warsaw and Vilna Ghettos
Chroniclers and Smugglers: Documenting History and Preserving Culture as Resistance in the Warsaw and Vilna Ghettos
4:00pm - 5:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 27, 2022 at 4:00pm Ends Oct 27, 2022 at 5:30pm Please join The Defiant Requiem Foundation on Thursday, October 27, 2022, from 4:00-5:30PM (CT) for a special online event focusing on two bold and meaningful acts of defiance carried out by Jews during the Holocaust. Click for more info
The Einsatzgruppen Trial: The Biggest Murder Trial in History
The Einsatzgruppen Trial: The Biggest Murder Trial in History
6:30pm - 8:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 27, 2022 at 6:30pm Ends Oct 27, 2022 at 8:00pm Join the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center with John Geiringer, a partner at Barack Ferrazzano law firm and a Co-Director of the Center for National Security and Human Rights Law at Chicago-Kent School of Law, as he delivers a compelling account of how the prosecution and defense responded to the challenge of prosecuting mass murder in a world where the concept of “genocide” was still in flux. Click for more info |
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Media Literacy and the Holocaust: Inquiry-Learning
Media Literacy and the Holocaust: Inquiry-Learning
4:00pm - 5:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 1, 2022 at 4:00pm Ends Nov 1, 2022 at 5:00pm In Echoes & Reflections' new online activities for students, Explore the Past, Shape the Future, they invite students to identify the importance of media literacy today through an examination of the impact of Nazi propaganda. Click for more info
Dissemination of Holocaust Education in India
Dissemination of Holocaust Education in India
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 1, 2022 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 1, 2022 at 8:00pm This talk will also address the need of creating awareness regarding the Holocaust in India through relevant examples, which would serve as the appropriate entry wedges to create awareness regarding Holocaust education in India. Click for more info |
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Legacies of Genocide: Mauthausen and its Memorialization
Legacies of Genocide: Mauthausen and its Memorialization
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 2, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Nov 2, 2022 at 12:00pm Do we have an ethical responsibility toward “violated spaces” like those of a former concentration camp? What legacy do such spaces create for us? And how might cultural differences alter our perceptions of the memorial in our 21st-century? Click for more info
Out of Exile. The Photography of Fred Stein (1909-1967)
Out of Exile. The Photography of Fred Stein (1909-1967)
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 2, 2022 at 11:00am Ends Nov 2, 2022 at 12:00pm Fred Stein lived through some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century. He escaped Nazi Germany; he mingled with Chagall and Brecht in Paris; and he debated with Einstein in New York. Click for more info
Determination and Rescue: The Inspirational Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter
Determination and Rescue: The Inspirational Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 2, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 2, 2022 at 3:00pm As a teenager, Avraham Perlmutter outwitted the Nazis overcoming every obstacle in his way. Click for more info
Author Talk: Dara Horn
Author Talk: Dara Horn
7:30pm - 9:30pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 2, 2022 at 7:30pm Ends Nov 2, 2022 at 9:30pm Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will discuss her book, "People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present." Click for more info |
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Understanding What We Are Remembering When We Remember the Holocaust
Understanding What We Are Remembering When We Remember the Holocaust
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Nov 3, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Nov 3, 2022 at 7:30pm This talk will offer guidance towards a clearer perspective on the Holocaust by identifying Nazism’s goals, describing the murderous endeavor’s stages and components, giving voice to the victims, and distinguishing between historical facts and popular myths. Click for more info
Hate Speech and the Return of Antisemitism
Hate Speech and the Return of Antisemitism
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 3, 2022 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 3, 2022 at 8:00pm The Boniuk Charitable Foundation announces the first in a series of summits addressing Hate Speech. HMH Associate Director of Education Amy Frake will serve on this panel discussion. Click for more info |
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