Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 1, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 1, 2025 at 7:00pm

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For this presentation, David Kertzer will be in conversation about his latest book, The Pope at War, with Charles R. Gallagher.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 2, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 2, 2025 at 3:00pm

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Commissioner Providence Nkurunziza is an author, inspirational speaker, and a women and children advocate.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 3, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 3, 2025 at 7:00pm

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Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi society removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because they did not fit into their vision of the racial national community. They forcibly displaced “undesirables” eastward into ghettos, simultaneously expanding their borders to create “living space” for their citizens.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 6, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 6, 2025 at 3:00pm

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Yehuda Meisels was already on an “enemy of the state” list when he was sent on one of the first transports to Auschwitz. We will hear the compelling story of courageous actions that got him on the list, his time in Auschwitz, and the miracles that led to him surviving that camp, the death march and his rescue by a Texas soldier. Learn more of Yehuda’s story shared by his grandson, Yair Alan Griver.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 6, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 6, 2025 at 3:00pm

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Join us as Dr. Nils Roemer presents the final lecture of our annual Spring Professor Lecture Series.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 7, 2025 at 7:00pm
Ends Apr 7, 2025 at 8:00pm

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Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a three-part series on contemporary antisemitism. Through these public programs, we aim to foster an increased understanding of this long-standing hatred, to discuss the alarming increase in antisemitism globally and in the United States, and to identify concrete steps that can be taken to confront and disrupt antisemitism. For these sessions, we will convene a diverse group of experts to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 9, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 9, 2025 at 12:00pm

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Curator Erik Riedel will present the work of the painter and graphic artist Léo Maillet, who changed his original name Leopold Mayer in exile, reflecting the numerous fractures in his biography. After his dramatic escape from a deportation train bound for Auschwitz, Maillet lived in the French Cévennes under a false identity from 1942 onwards.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 10, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 10, 2025 at 3:00pm

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American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles of bodies, walking skeletons on the verge of death, and other unspeakable horrors. This shocking discovery prompted Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower to visit and bear witness to the atrocities himself.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 10, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 10, 2025 at 8:00pm

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Join the Austin community for an evening of learning at the Dell JCC and choose from a variety of classes related to Yom HaShoah, Yom HaZikaron, and Yom HaAtzmaut!
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 16, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Apr 16, 2025 at 1:00pm

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Join us for a compelling Virtual Coffee Encounter with Adi Rabinowitz Bedein, Holocaust educator and international lecturer, as she explores the miracles of Passover through the lens of Holocaust history. How did Jews observe Passover in ghettos and camps? What lessons can we draw for today, especially in light of October 7th? This thought-provoking discussion will connect the past to our present, inspiring reflection on faith, resilience, and responsibility.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 16, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Apr 16, 2025 at 1:00pm

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“The timing of our escape was indeed a miracle,” remembers Holocaust survivor Frank Cohn about his arrival in New York City on October 30, 1938. Frank and his mother got out of Nazi Germany just weeks before Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”), when authorities and ordinary citizens committed a wave of violent, orchestrated attacks across the country on Jewish people, their businesses, and their places of worship.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 12:00pm

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When the documentary and street photographer Jill Freedman went to Poland in April 1993, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, she wrote that she made the journey as a pilgrim “to mourn the dead, to honor them,” along with the “survivors, their children, old soldiers and witnesses.”
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 3:00pm

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Experience the powerful story of Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg Cohen in an afternoon of storytelling and discussion.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Apr 24, 2025 at 5:00pm
Ends Apr 24, 2025 at 6:00pm

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In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join Kean College for a virtual discussion about the implications for Holocaust education in the face of rising antisemitism, the impact of the October 7 terrorist attack, and the changing political landscape in the US and across the globe. Featuring Dr. Oren Stier, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.
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