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Survivor Speaker Series: Varda Haendel Ratner | HMMSA
Survivor Speaker Series: Varda Haendel Ratner | HMMSA
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
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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K-12 Jewish Families Forum: Advocating for Jewish Students Through Effective School Engagement
K-12 Jewish Families Forum: Advocating for Jewish Students Through Effective School Engagement
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Sep 1, 2026 at 7:00pm Ends Sep 1, 2026 at 8:30pm Hosted by Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, the K-12 Jewish Families Forum equips parents and caregivers with the knowledge, resources, and confidence to support Jewish students in non-Jewish educational settings. Click for more info |
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
Teaching About Judaism | Institute for Curriculum Services
Teaching About Judaism | Institute for Curriculum Services
5:30pm - 6:30pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Sep 2, 2026 at 5:30pm Ends Sep 2, 2026 at 6:30pm 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. 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
Root and Rise | Session 4: Speak Up, Stand Proud – Navigating Antisemitism
Root and Rise | Session 4: Speak Up, Stand Proud – Navigating Antisemitism
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Sep 2, 2026 at 7:00pm Ends Sep 2, 2026 at 8:30pm Root & Rise is a five-session leadership experience for Jewish adults ages 21–32, designed to foster meaningful connections, explore Jewish values, and empower the next generation of leaders shaping Jewish Dallas. Click for more info |
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The History of Antisemitism: “The Secret War Against Hate” Book Talk | Museum of Jewish Heritage
The History of Antisemitism: “The Secret War Against Hate” Book Talk | Museum of Jewish Heritage
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 8, 2026 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 8, 2026 at 7:00pm Tracing the extraordinary work of unsung heroes, The Secret War Against Hate provides a groundbreaking reconsideration of the legacy of the “Good War” and essential reading on how America today can beat hate once again and build a just and united nation. Click for more info |
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
Jewish Voices in Early America: Religious Liberty and Civic Participation | Institute for Curriculum Services
Jewish Voices in Early America: Religious Liberty and Civic Participation | Institute for Curriculum Services
5:30pm - 6:30pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Sep 9, 2026 at 5:30pm Ends Sep 9, 2026 at 6:30pm Explore the road to religious liberty by analyzing restrictive 1776 state constitutions through the lens of early Jewish American experiences to highlight their role in the shift toward full civic equality. 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
The History of Antisemitism: “Jewish Firebugs” Book Talk | Museum of Jewish Heritage
The History of Antisemitism: “Jewish Firebugs” Book Talk | Museum of Jewish Heritage
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Sep 14, 2026 at 6:00pm Ends Sep 14, 2026 at 7:00pm Jeffrey Marx delves into the social forces that created and then sensationalized the caricature of the Jewish arsonist, investigating how and why Jews became the only racial/ethnic group to be targeted this way in the United States. 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
(1h)
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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Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership | Echoes & Reflections
Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership | Echoes & Reflections
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Sep 22, 2026 at 3:00pm Ends Sep 22, 2026 at 4:00pm Dr. Ervin Staub, a survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Founding Director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence program at University of Massachusetts Amherst, will channel his experience and give practical suggestions regarding evil, goodness, and creating active responders. Click for more info |
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