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1 Hadassah - El Paso \| The Butterfly Project 2024 Hadassah - El Paso \| The Butterfly Project 2024 1:00pm - 3:00pm (2h) General Starts Dec 1, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Dec 1, 2024 at 3:00pm Join Hadassah El Paso to paint ceramic butterflies together while learning important lessons of the Holocaust through stories, art, and photographs, and honor the 1.5 million children who perished. Click for more info	2 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	3 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 HMMSA Reads: "Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America" with author Faris Cassell HMMSA Reads: "Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America" with author Faris Cassell 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h) General Starts Dec 3, 2024 at 7:00pm Ends Dec 3, 2024 at 8:00pm Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "this dying hell"—the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Click for more info	4 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 MJH \| The History of Antisemitism: “The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral” Book Talk MJH \| The History of Antisemitism: “The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral” Book Talk 6:00pm - 8:00pm (2h) General Starts Dec 4, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2024 at 8:00pm On July 30, 1902, tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of New York’s Lower East Side to bid farewell to the city’s chief rabbi, the eminent Talmudist Jacob Joseph. All went well until the procession crossed Sheriff Street, where the six-story R. Hoe and Company printing press factory towered over the intersection. Without warning, scraps of steel, iron bolts, and scalding water rained down and injured hundreds of mourners, courtesy of antisemitic factory workers, accompanied by insults and racial slurs. Click for more info MJH \| “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” Book Talk MJH \| “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” Book Talk 6:00pm - 8:00pm (2h) General Starts Dec 4, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2024 at 8:00pm Reinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982, as his retirement neared, his long-concealed secret came to light. The chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School outside Chicago had been a Nazi, a member of the SS, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during World War II. Click for more info	5 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 \| Rutka's Notebook: The Gripping Diary of a Polish-Jewish Teenager Echoes & Reflections \| Rutka's Notebook: The Gripping Diary of a Polish-Jewish Teenager 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h) General Starts Dec 5, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Dec 5, 2024 at 3:00pm Rutka Laskier was a sensitive and precocious 14-year old who perished in the Holocaust - but the diary she left behind is especially resonant with teenagers and remains a terrific primary resource to teach about the Holocaust. Click for more info Celebrating 96 Years of Courage: Honoring Holocaust Survivor Howard Chandler Celebrating 96 Years of Courage: Honoring Holocaust Survivor Howard Chandler 3:00pm - 4:30pm (1h 30m) General Starts Dec 5, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 5, 2024 at 4:30pm Classrooms Without Borders celebrates the 96th birthday of Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler, whose remarkable story has touched the lives of hundreds of educators and students worldwide. Click for more info	6 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	7 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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
8 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	9 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	10 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 Monthly Jewish Study- Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism Monthly Jewish Study- Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism 7:00pm - 8:30pm (1h 30m) General Starts Dec 10, 2024 at 7:00pm Ends Dec 10, 2024 at 8:30pm Monthly Jewish Study - Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism at Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands. Click for more info	11 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	12 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 \| Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir and Journey of Discovery Echoes & Reflections \| Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir and Journey of Discovery 2:00pm - 3:00pm (1h) General Starts Dec 12, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Dec 12, 2024 at 3:00pm Max Friedman is the son of two Holocaust survivors who met after their liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and who had lost everyone and everything they knew and loved. Click for more info HMH \| “Houston Survivor Series: Liberation” Exhibition Opening HMH \| “Houston Survivor Series: Liberation” Exhibition Opening 6:00pm - 8:00pm (2h) General Starts Dec 12, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 12, 2024 at 8:00pm This exhibit will feature Houston-area Holocaust Survivors in the fifth installment of our Houston Survivor Series. Observing the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of most concentration camps across Europe, this installment will focus on local survivors who experienced liberation and went on to become an integral part of the Houston community. Click for more info	13 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	14 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 International eConference on Holocaust Studies International eConference on Holocaust Studies All Day (2 days) General Starts Dec 14, 2024 Ends Dec 15, 2024 Presented jointly by the Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas, the conference organizing committee proudly announces the 2024 International eConference on Holocaust Studies. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, educators, and creators from all over the world to explore the complex and multifaceted relationships between technology, Holocaust memory, and human rights. Click for more info
15 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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 International eConference on Holocaust Studies All Day (2 days) General Starts Dec 14, 2024 Ends Dec 15, 2024 Presented jointly by the Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas, the conference organizing committee proudly announces the 2024 International eConference on Holocaust Studies. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, educators, and creators from all over the world to explore the complex and multifaceted relationships between technology, Holocaust memory, and human rights. Click for more info	16 Echoes & Reflections \| Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust All Day (15 days) General Starts Dec 2, 2024 Ends Dec 16, 2024 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. Use this course to provide 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	17 Echoes & Reflections \| "Humanity Owes This Vow": The Actions and Inaction of Pope Pius XII During the Holocaust Echoes & Reflections \| "Humanity Owes This Vow": The Actions and Inaction of Pope Pius XII During the Holocaust 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h) General Starts Dec 17, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 17, 2024 at 4:00pm The Catholic Church and in particular, Pope Pius XII, have faced intense scrutiny for their actions, and inaction during the Holocaust. Click for more info	18	19	20	21
22	23	24 Christmas Eve Day (Office Closed) Christmas Eve Day (Office Closed) All Day General Dec 24, 2024 (All Day) The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed. Click for more info	25 Christmas Day (Office Closed) Christmas Day (Office Closed) All Day General Dec 25, 2024 (All Day) The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed. Click for more info	26 Day After Christmas (Office Closed) Day After Christmas (Office Closed) All Day General Dec 26, 2024 (All Day) The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed. Click for more info	27 Christmas Holiday Break (office closed) Christmas Holiday Break (office closed) All Day General Dec 27, 2024 (All Day) The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.	28
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December 2024

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Hadassah - El Paso | The Butterfly Project 2024

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Sun, Dec 1, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Echoes & Reflections | Rescue & Rescuers during the Holocaust

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Mon, Dec 2 - Mon, Dec 16, 2024
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HMMSA Reads: "Inseparable: The Hess Twins' Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America" with author Faris Cassell

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Tue, Dec 3, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Location: Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio 12500 Northwest Military HighwaySan Antonio, TX, 78231

MJH | The History of Antisemitism: “The Chief Rabbi’s Funeral” Book Talk

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Wed, Dec 4, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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MJH | “Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil” Book Talk

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Wed, Dec 4, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Echoes & Reflections | Rutka's Notebook: The Gripping Diary of a Polish-Jewish Teenager

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Thu, Dec 5, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Celebrating 96 Years of Courage: Honoring Holocaust Survivor Howard Chandler

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Thu, Dec 5, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
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Monthly Jewish Study- Getting a Handle on Modern Antisemitism

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Tue, Dec 10, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Location: Congregation Beth Shalom of the Woodlands 5125 SHADOWBEND PLACE THE WOODLANDS, TX, 77381

Echoes & Reflections | Painful Joy: A Holocaust Family Memoir and Journey of Discovery

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Thu, Dec 12, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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HMH | “Houston Survivor Series: Liberation” Exhibition Opening

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Thu, Dec 12, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Location: Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline Houston, TX , 77004

International eConference on Holocaust Studies

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Sat, Dec 14 - Sun, Dec 15, 2024
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Echoes & Reflections | "Humanity Owes This Vow": The Actions and Inaction of Pope Pius XII During the Holocaust

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Tue, Dec 17, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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