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HMMSA | HMMSA Reads: "Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma & Memory"
HMMSA | HMMSA Reads: "Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma & Memory"
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Oct 29, 2025 at 7:00pm Ends Oct 29, 2025 at 8:00pm Join us alongside author Dr. Victoria Aarons for an evening exploring "Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma & Memory." Click for more info |
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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Holocaust Survivor Eva Balcazar
HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: Holocaust Survivor Eva Balcazar
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 2, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 2, 2025 at 3:00pm Join us as Holocaust survivor Eva Balcazar shares her remarkable story of resilience in the face of Nazi oppression. She will recount her childhood, her beloved parents, and their forced migration from Germany following Kristallnacht in 1938. Click for more info |
MJH | Stories Survive: “I Seek A Kind Person” Book Talk
MJH | Stories Survive: “I Seek A Kind Person” Book Talk
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 3, 2025 at 1:00pm Ends Nov 3, 2025 at 2:00pm "I Seek A Kind Person" is a gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope that tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. Click for more info |
MJH | “The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City” Book Talk
MJH | “The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City” Book Talk
All Day
Speaking Engagements
Nov 5, 2025 (All Day) The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik – a Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project – tells the story in over a baker’s dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black Americans and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. Click for more info |
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MJH | “Global Approaches to the Holocaust” Book Launch
MJH | “Global Approaches to the Holocaust” Book Launch
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 9, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 9, 2025 at 3:00pm The field of contemporary Holocaust studies is increasingly international in perspective. These approaches do not detach themselves from European history; rather, they incorporate perspectives and voices not always considered in more traditional Holocaust studies. Click for more info
HMLA | Online Holocaust Survivor Talk: Mike Wolff
HMLA | Online Holocaust Survivor Talk: Mike Wolff
5:00pm - 6:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 9, 2025 at 5:00pm Ends Nov 9, 2025 at 6:30pm Mike Wolff was born in Breslau, Germany in 1936. In 1939, he was one of the youngest children to join a Kindertransport out of Nazi Germany to Great Britain. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | Righteous Among the Nations: One Teacher's Personal Story
Echoes & Reflections | Righteous Among the Nations: One Teacher's Personal Story
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 11, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Nov 11, 2025 at 4:00pm The stories of non-Jews who were risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust are exceptional testaments to the human spirit. While a far too rare occurrence, these examples of bravery and sacrifice are an important lesson for students. Click for more info
DHHRM | Mittelman-Berman Holocaust Education Series: Fritz Bauer
DHHRM | Mittelman-Berman Holocaust Education Series: Fritz Bauer
6:00pm - 8:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 11, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Nov 11, 2025 at 8:00pm At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, a few of history’s most notorious war criminals were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. Fritz Bauer, a gay, Jewish judge from Stuttgart, Germany, survived the Nazis and made it his mission to force his countrymen to confront their complicity in the genocide of Europe’s Jews. His journey led him to the trail of Adolf Eichmann, a chief architect of the Holocaust, and to clashes with his own government as well as a hidden network of ex-Nazis and spies determined to silence him. Click for more info
JCC Dallas | Bookfest: "The Girls of the Glimmer Factory" by Jennifer Coburn
JCC Dallas | Bookfest: "The Girls of the Glimmer Factory" by Jennifer Coburn
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 11, 2025 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 11, 2025 at 8:00pm Hannah longs for the days when she used to be free, but now, she is a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt, a model ghetto where the Nazis plan to make a propaganda film to convince the world that the Jewish people are living well in the camps. Click for more info |
ADL | Behind the Screen: Youth Radicalization, Online Risks, and Solutions
ADL | Behind the Screen: Youth Radicalization, Online Risks, and Solutions
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 12, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Nov 12, 2025 at 4:00pm Youth increasingly encounter extremist ideologies in the digital spaces where they learn, socialize, and grow. As platforms evolve, so do the tactics used to find, recruit, and isolate young people. Click for more info
MJH | “Women of War” Book Talk
MJH | “Women of War” Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 12, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Nov 12, 2025 at 7:00pm From underground soldiers to intrepid spies, Women of War unearths the hidden history of the brave women who risked their lives to overthrow the Nazi occupation and liberate Italy. Click for more info
Confronting Anti-Semitism in America: Past, Present, and Future
Confronting Anti-Semitism in America: Past, Present, and Future
6:30pm - 8:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 12, 2025 at 6:30pm Ends Nov 12, 2025 at 8:00pm Anti-Semitism in America is no longer distant or rare – it has become more frequent, more visible, and more violent. Click for more info |
HMLA | What History Teaches: Between Terror and Resilience – Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
HMLA | What History Teaches: Between Terror and Resilience – Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 13, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 13, 2025 at 3:00pm Learn how German Jews created spaces of dignity, connection, and hope in the face of terror, prosecution, and prejudice in the 1930s. Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections | Teaching the Holocaust When Time is Limited: Essential Resources and Strategies
Echoes & Reflections | Teaching the Holocaust When Time is Limited: Essential Resources and Strategies
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 13, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Nov 13, 2025 at 4:00pm A common challenge for educators is how to teach the Holocaust effectively and responsibly within strict time constraints. Discover one and two-day lesson plans that utilize curated, classroom-ready resources including primary sources and visual history testimony to prioritize essential knowledge for your students while maintaining historical accuracy and sound instructional strategies. Click for more info |
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2025 Israel Now Forum
2025 Israel Now Forum
8:30am - 5:00pm
(8h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 16, 2025 at 8:30am Ends Nov 16, 2025 at 5:00pm Join Israel Now Forum (INF) this November for our in-person Forum – designed to inspire and educate the greater Dallas Ft. Worth community about the State of Israel in a non-partisan, non-denomination and pro-Israel manner. All friends of Israel, Jews and non-Jews, are invited to attend. The Forum’s unique format allows attendees to broaden and deepen their knowledge on topics of interest. Attendees will be able to select four specific sessions they prefer to attend from a wide variety of subjects. Each topic will be presented by industry leaders or expert-led panels in small groups and breakout sessions. Don’t miss this incredible unique experience! Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | The Holocaust in Lithuania: Complicity, Collaboration, and Resistance
Echoes & Reflections | The Holocaust in Lithuania: Complicity, Collaboration, and Resistance
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 18, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Nov 18, 2025 at 4:00pm One of the most devastating chapters of the Holocaust occurred in Lithuania, where 95% of the prewar Jewish population was murdered. Click for more info |
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Joan Da Silva
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Joan Da Silva
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 19, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Nov 19, 2025 at 1:00pm As a young Jewish child, Joan Da Silva had to move from family to family to stay safe from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland, usually without her parents. She also had to pretend to be Catholic, as recorded on her false identity papers. Click for more info
MJH | "The Director" Book Talk
MJH | "The Director" Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Nov 19, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Nov 19, 2025 at 7:00pm Global bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann’s new book The Director is “powerful and timely” (Jonathan Lemire for MSNBC’S Morning Joe) and “nothing short of brilliant” (Wall Street Journal). G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections | The "Final Solution" in the East
Echoes & Reflections | The "Final Solution" in the East
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 2, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 2, 2025 at 4:00pm The “Holocaust by Bullets” was the method used for the mass murder of Jews and Roma across Eastern Europe, distinct from the approaches in the West. Click for more info |
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HMLA | Where They Settled: Sweden
HMLA | Where They Settled: Sweden
1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 3, 2025 at 1:00pm Ends Dec 3, 2025 at 2:00pm Survivors were housed in makeshift facilities such as former military camps, received medical care in Swedish hospitals, and were drawn into heated debates over whether they should settle permanently or prepare for re-emigration to Palestine, the United States, or elsewhere. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections | Through Their Eyes: Photographs As Primary Sources in Holocaust Education
Echoes & Reflections | Through Their Eyes: Photographs As Primary Sources in Holocaust Education
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 4, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2025 at 4:00pm Photographs capture more than a moment in time; they serve as critical primary sources that you can use in the classroom to foster critical thinking and confront Holocaust denial. Click for more info
HMLA | Collecting and Preserving Traumatic Histories: Archivists in Conversation
HMLA | Collecting and Preserving Traumatic Histories: Archivists in Conversation
6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 4, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2025 at 7:00pm Archivists from diverse institutions examine their practices for caring for and managing objects that represent collective and personal tragedies. Click for more info |
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