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Echoes & Reflections | "Never Shall I Forget": Creating Context for Teaching Night, January 2025
All Day
(14 days)
General
Starts Jan 13, 2025 Ends Jan 26, 2025 Echoes & Reflections presents this asynchronous online course for a guided, facilitator-led exploration of resources that support the teaching of Elie Wiesel’s seminal text, "Night". Click for more info
HMH | International Holocaust Remembrance Day
HMH | International Holocaust Remembrance Day
12:00pm - 5:00pm
(5h)
General
Starts Jan 26, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2025 at 5:00pm The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. HMH will commemorate and honor the six million Jews and other innocent victims of the Holocaust with free admission Sunday, January 26. Click for more info
March of Remembrance Houston
March of Remembrance Houston
2:00pm - 5:00pm
(3h)
General
Starts Jan 26, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2025 at 5:00pm Join at the Holocaust Garden of Hope for the March of Remembrance, a meaningful journey of reflection, education, and unity, and the unveiling of Exhibit 3 in the garden! Click for more info |
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MJH | Auschwitz and Beyond: Remembering Life During and After the Holocaust
MJH | Auschwitz and Beyond: Remembering Life During and After the Holocaust
12:00pm - 2:15pm
(2h 15m)
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Starts Jan 27, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2025 at 2:15pm Join us for a professional development program to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. During this event we will learn from Professor Natalia Aleksiun as she explores the lives of former inmates at Auschwitz during the years immediately following liberation. Click for more info
HMH | International Holocaust Remembrance Day Featuring Special Guest Speaker Amir Tibon
HMH | International Holocaust Remembrance Day Featuring Special Guest Speaker Amir Tibon
7:00pm - 8:30pm
(1h 30m)
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Starts Jan 27, 2025 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2025 at 8:30pm Join the Houston community to hear Amir Tibon’s gripping true story of how he and his family were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023, by Tibon’s own father, a retired IDF general. Click for more info
What Once Was: A Holocaust Remembrance Play
What Once Was: A Holocaust Remembrance Play
8:00pm - 9:00pm
(1h)
General
Starts Jan 27, 2025 at 8:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2025 at 9:00pm On January 27, 2025, the El Paso Community Foundation and El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center will present ‘What Once Was…A Holocaust Remembrance Play,’ a reimagined version of a Holocaust Remembrance program originally produced at the Chamizal National Memorial Theatre on May 4, 1981. Click for more info |
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The Exile of the Musicians: A Film by Iván Cherjovsky & Silvia Glocer
The Exile of the Musicians: A Film by Iván Cherjovsky & Silvia Glocer
7:00pm - 9:00pm
(2h)
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Starts Jan 28, 2025 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 28, 2025 at 9:00pm Join director Iván Cherjovsky for a screening and discussion of his new documentary. The film tells the story of musicians who fled the Nazis and took refuge in Argentina. Click for more info |
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HMH | Survivors & Descendants Family Program
HMH | Survivors & Descendants Family Program
2:00pm - 3:30pm
(1h 30m)
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Starts Feb 2, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Feb 2, 2025 at 3:30pm oin the Houston Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, together with Holocaust Museum Houston, for an innovative program for children ages 5-13. Fania’s Heart, written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Richard Rudnicki, tells the true story of the creation of a heart-shaped book in Auschwitz and the women who risked their lives to create it. Click for more info |
DHHRM | Survival in Shanghai: Manny Gabler
DHHRM | Survival in Shanghai: Manny Gabler
6:00pm - 8:00pm
(2h)
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Starts Feb 4, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Feb 4, 2025 at 8:00pm From 1937 to 1941 the open port of Shanghai allowed more than 18,000 undocumented Jews seeking refuge from Nazi Germany to temporarily settle in the Hongkow area of the city. Manny joins us to recount growing up in Shanghai, his experience of the war as a young child, and his family’s journey to the United States. Click for more info |
HMH | Hope, Resistance, and Torture: The Role of Music During the Holocaust
HMH | Hope, Resistance, and Torture: The Role of Music During the Holocaust
6:30pm - 8:30pm
(2h)
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Starts Feb 6, 2025 at 6:30pm Ends Feb 6, 2025 at 8:30pm American flutist and sociomusicologist Dr. Christine Beard will examine the role music played during the Holocaust. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections | A Conversation with Author Gordon Korman & Survivor Rachelle Goldstein
Echoes & Reflections | A Conversation with Author Gordon Korman & Survivor Rachelle Goldstein
5:00pm - 6:00pm
(1h)
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Starts Feb 11, 2025 at 5:00pm Ends Feb 11, 2025 at 6:00pm Join ADL Education, Echoes & Reflections, renowned author Gordon Korman & survivor Rachelle Goldstein of the Hidden Child Foundation to delve into the role of storytelling in understanding antisemitism—past and present. Click for more info |
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Presidents' Day (Office Closed)
Presidents' Day (Office Closed)
All Day
General
Feb 17, 2025 (All Day) The Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission office will be closed. Click for more info |
A History of Hatred: The Ever-Present Threat of Antisemitism
A History of Hatred: The Ever-Present Threat of Antisemitism
11:00am - 12:30pm
(1h 30m)
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Starts Feb 19, 2025 at 11:00am Ends Feb 19, 2025 at 12:30pm In this six-part course, learners will explore pivotal periods, such as the interactions between Jews and early Christianity and Islam, medieval manifestations in Christian Europe, the rise of racially motivated antisemitism leading to the Holocaust, the influence of communism and Islamism on perceptions of Jews, and the contemporary landscape of antisemitism, encompassing both extreme right-wing and left-wing ideologies. 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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