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Survivor Speaker Series: Varda Haendel Ratner | HMMSA
Survivor Speaker Series: Varda Haendel Ratner | HMMSA
2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
Starts Aug 30, 2026 at 2:00pm Ends Aug 30, 2026 at 3:00pm Join HMMSA to hear the testimony of second-generation Holocaust survivor, Varda Haendel Ratner. Click for more info |
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Series, Part Three: “Legacies and Meanings of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Series, Part Three: “Legacies and Meanings of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 2, 2026 at 12:00pm Ends Sep 2, 2026 at 1:00pm Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage to learn more about the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Dr. Zachary Mazur, Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, will discuss the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and its continued impact worldwide. Click for more info
Film Screening: They Fight with Cameras | DHHRM
Film Screening: They Fight with Cameras | DHHRM
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
Films
Starts Sep 2, 2026 at 7:00pm Ends Sep 2, 2026 at 8:30pm Join the DHHRM to watch archival U.S. Army Signal Corps wartime footage from D-Day to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. Click for more info |
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Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers: Christian Action and Inaction During the Holocaust | Echoes & Reflections
Perpetrators, Bystanders, Rescuers: Christian Action and Inaction During the Holocaust | Echoes & Reflections
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Sep 9, 2026 at 3:00pm Ends Sep 9, 2026 at 4:00pm During the Holocaust, Christians across Europe made choices that shaped the fate of millions. Some were active and ardent Nazis and perpetrators. Others stood by in silence. A courageous few risked their lives to help those in danger. What drove these decisions? And how do we teach students to examine this complex moral terrain? Click for more info |
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Young Lives Stolen: Experiences of Teenagers in the Ghettos | Echoes & Reflections
Young Lives Stolen: Experiences of Teenagers in the Ghettos | Echoes & Reflections
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Sep 14, 2026 at 3:00pm Ends Sep 14, 2026 at 4:00pm Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis forcibly imprisoned Jews in more than 1,100 ghettos across occupied Europe. For the teenagers who lived within those walls, the experience meant the sudden, violent loss of school, family routines, friendships, and the very possibility of a future. Their stories, told through diary entries, photographs, visual history testimony, and poetry, tell a complex narrative of suffering and death but also of love and hope. Click for more info |
Curator Talk: Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto | Museum of Jewish Heritage
Curator Talk: Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto | Museum of Jewish Heritage
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 15, 2026 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 15, 2026 at 7:00pm Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw for a deeper look at the new exhibition Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, an examination of one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance and historical preservation during the Holocaust: the creation of the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Click for more info
Meet the Author: Ruth E. Stitt | HMMSA
Meet the Author: Ruth E. Stitt | HMMSA
7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 15, 2026 at 7:00pm Ends Sep 15, 2026 at 8:00pm Join author Ruth Stitt as she shares her latest novel, When the World was Broken. Based on a true family story from the Holocaust, her third self-published book is based on letters between her American grandmother and her three Jewish cousins in Berlin. The correspondence continued from 1938 to 1942, chronicling the cousins' desperation to escape Nazi Germany and her grandmother's diligent, frustrating efforts to rescue them. Click for more info |
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Senate Bill 1828 charges the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission with developing or approving materials for a statewide Holocaust Remembrance Week. Provided is information on best practices and various lists of approved resources.
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