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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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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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MJH | Teaching the Holocaust Through Film, A Three-Part Series
MJH | Teaching the Holocaust Through Film, A Three-Part Series
12:00pm - 1:30pm
(1h 30m)
General
Starts May 4, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends May 4, 2025 at 1:30pm
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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DHHRM | The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport- An Evening with Mona Golabek
DHHRM | The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport- An Evening with Mona Golabek
5:00pm - 8:00pm
(3h)
General
Starts May 5, 2025 at 5:00pm
Ends May 5, 2025 at 8:00pm
Based on her book The Children of Willesden Lane and featuring some of the world’s greatest classical music, concert pianist MONA GOLABEK shares her mother’s riveting story of survival during World War II.
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Echoes & Reflections | My Holocaust Legacy: A Blessing, Not a Burden Featuring Dr. Alex Kor
Echoes & Reflections | My Holocaust Legacy: A Blessing, Not a Burden Featuring Dr. Alex Kor
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 6, 2025 at 3:00pm
Ends May 6, 2025 at 4:00pm
The son of Mickey and Eva Mozes Kor, two Holocaust survivors, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been an incredible journey, from his unique upbringing in Indiana to his present-day mission of carrying on his parents’ inspiring legacy.
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ICS| Teaching About Judaism
ICS| Teaching About Judaism
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 7, 2025 at 3:30pm
Ends May 7, 2025 at 4:30pm
Explore one of the world’s oldest religions. This session will cover Judaism’s beliefs, behaviors, and experiences of belonging. You’ll gain digital activities to incorporate into your classroom as well as the content to help your students understand the basics of Judaism.
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Echoes & Reflections | Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections | Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 8, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends May 8, 2025 at 3:00pm
In this talk Peter Hayes traces the ways by which the German corporate world became deeply implicated in—and in many respects indispensable to—the Nazi regime’s persecution, exploitation, and murder of Europe’s Jews.
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DHHRM | What Are We Fighting For? Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust
DHHRM | What Are We Fighting For? Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
General
Starts May 8, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends May 8, 2025 at 8:00pm
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was familiar with the horrors of war. However, he was stunned by what he saw in April 1945 when visiting Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, the first Nazi camp liberated by American troops. He invited the media and others to document the dead, dying, and starving prisoners.
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1525: A Student Club Combating Antisemitism Across Texas!
1525: A Student Club Combating Antisemitism Across Texas!
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 8, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends May 8, 2025 at 8:00pm
Please join us on Zoom to bring together over 1,000 students from across Texas to share tools and resources to combat antisemitism. Please feel free to share this opportunity with any organizations you think would help spread the word.
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MJH | Stories Survive: “Hidden in Plain Sight” Book Talk
MJH | Stories Survive: “Hidden in Plain Sight” Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
General
Starts May 12, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends May 12, 2025 at 7:00pm
Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars.
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DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 2
DHHRM | Crucial Conversations: Challenging Antisemitism - Session 2
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts May 13, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends May 13, 2025 at 8:00pm
In this session, experts will discuss the rise of antisemitism on college campuses within the United States and Europe. The conversation will focus on antisemitic speech and action on campuses, what drives this rhetoric, and what we might see in the future.
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ICS: Jewish Americans
ICS: Jewish Americans
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 14, 2025 at 3:30pm
Ends May 14, 2025 at 4:30pm
We’ll examine the rich diversity and history of Jewish Americans, and gain insights that deepen the understanding of identity for all students. Teachers of world history, U.S. history, ethnic studies, human geography and world religions will all find relevant applications and resources in this workshop.
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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Sam Cohen
HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Sam Cohen
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 18, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends May 18, 2025 at 3:00pm
Sam grew up in Salonika, Greece. When the Nazis entered Greece, Sam and his family were forced to move into the ghetto by Germans after Passover in 1943. Keeping a promise with his friend Jacques that they would stay together no matter what, Sam took the place of Jacques’ brother when the two were summoned to work forced labor. Sam and Jacques were taken to a concentration camp where they later escaped during their daily work laying down railroad tracks and ultimately joined the resistance.
Learn more of Sam’s remarkable story as told by his son, Jerome Cohen.
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Echoes & Reflections | Unsettled Heritage: Traces of Jewish Life and The Memory of the Holocaust in Poland
Echoes & Reflections | Unsettled Heritage: Traces of Jewish Life and The Memory of the Holocaust in Poland
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts May 20, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends May 20, 2025 at 3:00pm
What happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places of worship that remained in Poland after the Holocaust? How are they perceived, experienced, and interacted with by Polish society from 1945 to the present?
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Memorial Day Holiday (Office Closed)
Memorial Day Holiday (Office Closed)
All Day
General
May 26, 2025 (All Day)
The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed.
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