Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 3, 2026 at 12:00pm
Ends Feb 3, 2026 at 1:30pm

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Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a professional development program centered around the legacy of the Holocaust in the creation of the State of Israel. The first part is an hour-long virtual lecture given by NYU Professor Avinoam Patt, building on key themes that are explored in his book Israel and the Holocaust. In this in-depth lecture, Professor Patt will focus on how Holocaust memory has shaped Israel’s identity, politics, and culture from the pre-state period to today.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 9, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Feb 9, 2026 at 7:00pm

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Diana Mara Henry’s I Am André is an amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts in Munich, as a Jewish youth whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940.
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General

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Starts Feb 11, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Feb 11, 2026 at 8:00pm

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In early 1939, few Americans were focused on the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler’s policies in Germany and Austria. One ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles—both in Europe and in the United States—Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children. Steven Pressman, author and documentarian of 50 Children, joins us to share their story.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 15, 2026 at 4:00pm
Ends Feb 15, 2026 at 5:30pm

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Award-winning author and filmmaker Laurence Rees will present this year's Einspruch Lecture Series on the Holocaust.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 16, 2026 at 12:00pm
Ends Feb 16, 2026 at 2:00pm

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Award-winning author and filmmaker Laurence Rees will present this year's Einspruch Lecture Series on the Holocaust. Lunch will be served.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 19, 2026 at 6:00pm
Ends Feb 19, 2026 at 7:00pm

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In the post-war years, Melbourne and Sydney were the principal centers of Holocaust survivor settlement in Australia, with more than 30,000 arrivals between the late 1930s and 1960, almost tripling the size of the country’s small Jewish population. Melbourne received the largest number of survivors, to have one of the highest per-capita survivor populations outside Israel.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Feb 22, 2026 at 2:00pm
Ends Feb 22, 2026 at 3:30pm

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Capturing a loved one’s story can feel overwhelming. In this workshop, the Museum’s Director of Library & Archives will guide participants through the basics of interviewing family members, offer practical tips for collecting oral histories, and share simple strategies for preserving family stories for future generations.
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