Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 4, 2024 at 7:00pm
Ends Sep 4, 2024 at 8:00pm

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Between 1933 and 1945, many European Jews attempted to flee German- and Soviet-occupied areas to escape persecution and death. To their dismay, most countries closed their borders to Jewish refugees. One remaining free, open port was Shanghai, China whose International Settlements Quarter admitted about 17,000 emigrating Jews.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 8, 2024 at 1:00pm
Ends Sep 8, 2024 at 6:00pm

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Almost from the moment Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons emerged from the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt to revolutionize the banking world, the Rothschild family has been the target of myths, hoaxes, bizarre accusations, and constant, virulent antisemitism.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 9, 2024 at 9:30am
Ends Sep 9, 2024 at 5:30pm

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During the Holocaust, older Jews were among the first to be targeted for death or deportation to killing centers. Some wrote about their experiences in diaries and letters, and information can be found in other documentation and postwar testimony. Still, little is known about how older Jews endured persecution, how they responded, and their survival strategies.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 10, 2024 at 11:00am
Ends Sep 10, 2024 at 12:00pm

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Lest future generations know more about how Jews died than how they lived, Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-2009) made it his mission to remember the world of his childhood in images and words. Born in Opatów (Apt in Yiddish), Mayer left for Canada in 1934 at the age of 17.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 10, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends Sep 10, 2024 at 3:00pm

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Israel's team was comprised of Holocaust survivors who had made the difficult choice - after "returning to life" - to return to Germany to compete in what was supposed to be the spirit of the Olympic Games.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 15, 2024 at 1:30pm
Ends Sep 15, 2024 at 2:30pm

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STEPHAN JALNOS From the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, joining the resistance fighters, to Mathausen and more, hear Stephan’s story of survivor shared by his son, Robi Jalnos
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 17, 2024 at 3:00pm
Ends Sep 17, 2024 at 4:00pm

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Antisemitic incidents, including violent acts, reported in the United States have been on the sharp rise since 2021, with a staggering increase since October 2023.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 17, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends Sep 17, 2024 at 8:00pm

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During World War II, why didn’t the United States welcome Jewish refugees who were fleeing Europe or drop bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz? Moreover, why didn’t many individual Americans support further action? Dr. Rafael Medoff authored The Jews Should Keep Quiet, which documents how President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and other prominent Jewish leaders to stifle American Jewish criticism of his policies. Dr. Medoff joins us for a look into the Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 18, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends Sep 18, 2024 at 7:00pm

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Orthodox Jews suffered greatly during the Holocaust, yet their experiences have been inadequately studied by scholars. By examining diverse sources—including diaries, memoirs, letters, and photographs—USHMM can shed light on previously unknown aspects of Orthodox Jewish life during the Holocaust.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 22, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends Sep 22, 2024 at 3:00pm

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On April 23, 1945, the 90th overran the Flossenbürg concentration camp, finding about 1,500 prisoners who had not been evacuated on death marches. The unit's journal recorded that one of its motorized patrols entered the camp that day and found "a serious typhus epidemic" in "full swing." Learn more about the “Tough Ombres” in the 90th Infantry Division of the US Army in a presentation from Jacqueline Davis, Fort Sam Houston Museum director, and Dr. Ed Westermann, Regents Professor of History and a Piper Professor of 2023 at Texas A&M-San Antonio.
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Starts Sep 23, 2024 at 3:00pm
Ends Sep 23, 2024 at 4:00pm

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Join Megan Nevels, Sr. Associate Director of Jewish Community Engagement, ADL West and Jesse Tannetta, Director of Holocaust Content & Pedagogy for Echoes & Reflections to discuss the impact that rising antisemitism is having on students and school culture.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 23, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends Sep 23, 2024 at 7:00pm

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Mark Biederman’s twenty-year quest to find gold coins which his father’s family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis to concentration camps.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 25, 2024 at 11:00am
Ends Sep 25, 2024 at 12:00pm

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Sep 25, 2024 at 12:00pm
Ends Sep 25, 2024 at 1:00pm

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Holocaust survivor Andrew “Andy” Jampoler could not possibly remember the day his mother made the heartbreaking decision to leave him on the steps outside a Catholic church. Andy’s family had been on the run in Nazi-occupied Poland ever since the day he had been born in January 1942—hiding their Jewish identity to evade capture and likely death.
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Starts Sep 25, 2024 at 3:00pm
Ends Sep 25, 2024 at 4:00pm

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How well do you understand the mystical symbolism and the Jewish elements in Night? This exquisite memoir penned by Elie Wiesel has been translated into 30 languages and is taught in classrooms the world over. Yet, scattered throughout the book are powerful Jewish elements that are less understood.
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Starts Sep 29, 2024 at 5:00pm
Ends Sep 29, 2024 at 6:00pm

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Erika was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1944, Erika's mother managed to secure false papers for her family, and they lived under Christian identities in Budapest for the rest of the war.
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