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Echoes & Reflections | How We Remember: The Legacy of the Holocaust Today, April 2025
All Day
(14 days)
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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. Click for more info |
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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. Click for more info
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. Click for more info |
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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)
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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. Click for more info |
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)
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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. Click for more info |
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)
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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. Click for more info |
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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. Click for more info |
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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. Click for more info |
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