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ADL: Words to Action Teen & Parent Event
ADL: Words to Action Teen & Parent Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Feb 25, 2024 at 5:00pm Ends Feb 25, 2024 at 7:00pm Empowering Jewish Students to Address Antisemitism in Their Lives- Meeting for teens & their parents. Click for more info |
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The First Olympics Under Nazi Rule in Germany: The Games of The IV Winter Olympiad- Echoes & Reflections
The First Olympics Under Nazi Rule in Germany: The Games of The IV Winter Olympiad- Echoes & Reflections
5:00pm - 6:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Feb 28, 2024 at 5:00pm Ends Feb 28, 2024 at 6:00pm Echoes & Reflections' facilitator Todd Hennessy looks at the Winter Olympic games played in Germany & the experiences of Jewish athletes. Click for more info |
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Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany
6:30pm - 8:30pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Feb 29, 2024 at 6:30pm Ends Feb 29, 2024 at 8:30pm Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. Click for more info |
USHMM- Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
USHMM- Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 1, 2024 at 11:00am Ends Mar 1, 2024 at 12:00pm During World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler leveraged her vast network to smuggle food, medicine, and supplies into the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland—and smuggle Jewish children out. Click for more info |
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UTD: “The Legacy of the Holocaust by Bullets in Contemporary Mass Crimes and Genocides”
UTD: “The Legacy of the Holocaust by Bullets in Contemporary Mass Crimes and Genocides”
9:00am - 10:30am
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 3, 2024 at 9:00am Ends Mar 3, 2024 at 10:30am Marco Gonzalez, Executive Director of Yahad-In Unum, presents the Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture in conjunction with the 54th Annual Scholars' Conference. Click for more info
UTD: “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”
UTD: “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”
6:30pm - 8:30pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 3, 2024 at 6:30pm Ends Mar 3, 2024 at 8:30pm “But I Live”: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (New Jewish Press, 2022), a collection of three graphic novellas, renders oral testimonies into distinct visual narratives. For each of the three novellas, a Holocaust survivor was paired with a comics artist to co-create a graphic narrative drawing on the survivors’ lived experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. In this presentation, Dr. Charlotte Schallié will provide insights into the process of co-creation, the notion of relational memory, and the importance of honoring reciprocity in survivor-led testimony-sharing practices. Click for more info |
"Salvaged Pages": Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust- ISGAP
"Salvaged Pages": Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust- ISGAP
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 4, 2024 at 10:00am Ends Mar 4, 2024 at 11:00am Professor Alexandra Zapruder, National Jewish Book Awardee; Author, “Salvaged Pages” Click for more info
Women In Resistance- Echoes & Reflections
Women In Resistance- Echoes & Reflections
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 4, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 4, 2024 at 3:00pm Sheryl Ochayon, Project Director from Yad Vashem shares the story of women who smuggled dynamite out of the factory where they were forced to work in order to stage armed resistance. Click for more info |
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio Reads: Beneath the Scarlet Sky
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio Reads: Beneath the Scarlet Sky
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 5, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Mar 5, 2024 at 7:00pm Join us on Zoom for our discussion of Beneath the Scarlet Sky. Click for more info |
USHMM- A Priest in a Nazi Collar: German Military Chaplains and the Holocaust
USHMM- A Priest in a Nazi Collar: German Military Chaplains and the Holocaust
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 7, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Mar 7, 2024 at 7:00pm Christian chaplains served in the German military during WWII, what role did Catholic priests & Protestant pastors play in the Holocaust? Click for more info |
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DHHRM- Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
DHHRM- Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 11, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 11, 2024 at 2:00pm Rosian Zerner was confined to the Kovno Ghetto & escaped through a hole under the fence. Click for more info |
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 12, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 12, 2024 at 2:00pm Bert Romberg was born in Germany, his mom planned for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself & securing spots for Bert and his sister Magie on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with English citizens. Click for more info
USC Shoah Foundation: Soviet Antisemitism
USC Shoah Foundation: Soviet Antisemitism
1:00pm - 3:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 12, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 12, 2024 at 3:00pm Izabella Tabarovsky is the Kennan Institute Senior Advisor on Regional Partnerships and Programming. Click for more info |
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 13, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 13, 2024 at 2:00pm Hanna Schrob was born in 1936 in Holland. The Nazis invaded Holland in 1940. 2 years later, Hanna & her family were arrested by the Gestapo & deported to Westerbork Transit Camp. The family was held in Westerbork for over 6 months fearing deportation to the East. After transfer to other camps in Western Europe, Schrob & her family were liberated by the U.S. Army in France in late 1944. The family emigrated to the U.S. afterward. Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections- Hungary: The Last Chapter of the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections- Hungary: The Last Chapter of the Holocaust
2:00pm - 4:00pm
(2h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 13, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 13, 2024 at 4:00pm March 1944 Hungarian Jews were deported, most to Auschwitz. How did it happen so late in the war? Click for more info |
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 14, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 14, 2024 at 2:00pm Dr. Andras Lacko was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. In a twist of fate, Lacko contracted scarlet fever in 1944 & was saved from ghettoization & subsequent deportation to Poland. He survived the Holocaust in a military hospital and was later reunited with his mother & father after the Soviet liberation of Budapest. Click for more info |
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
DHHRM: Spring Break Survivor Speaker Series
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 15, 2024 at 1:00pm Ends Mar 15, 2024 at 2:00pm Magie Furst was born in Astheim, Germany in 1929. In 1938, her mother planned for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself and securing spots for Furst and her brother on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with English citizens. Click for more info |
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Echoes & Reflections: How Could This Happen? Answering Your Students' Toughest Questions About the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections: How Could This Happen? Answering Your Students' Toughest Questions About the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 18, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Mar 18, 2024 at 4:00pm Webinar about answering & engaging in discussions between teachers and their students vital to Holocaust education. Click for more info
"Women in Art: Polish Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis"
"Women in Art: Polish Jewish Women Who Fought the Nazis"
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 18, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Mar 18, 2024 at 7:00pm The lives of women during the Holocaust as author Judy Batalion chronicled their remarkable lives in her book "The Light of Days". Now, based on black and white photographs that have survived, artist Paula Blumenfeld is telling their stories visually, portraying in their faces their resolve, courage, selflessness, and dedication. Click for more info |
Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, “BENT”
Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, “BENT”
10:30am - 11:30am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 19, 2024 at 10:30am Ends Mar 19, 2024 at 11:30am A conversation about “BENT,” the 1979 play subsequently adapted for the big screen, which explores the persecution of Queer men in Nazi Germany, during and after the Night of Long Knives in 1934. Click for more info |
Paragraph 175: The Contemporary Impact of Nazi-era Homophobia and Persecution
Paragraph 175: The Contemporary Impact of Nazi-era Homophobia and Persecution
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 20, 2024 at 11:00am Ends Mar 20, 2024 at 12:00pm Dr. Jake Newsome, Scholar and Author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, for a discussion about Paragraph 175’s significance, other Nazi-era attacks against the LGBTQIA+ community, as well as how this history is reflected in contemporary anti-transgender legislation. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections- Teaching about The Armenian Genocide
Echoes & Reflections- Teaching about The Armenian Genocide
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 21, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Mar 21, 2024 at 4:30pm The history of the Armenian Genocide is both nuanced and complex. Click for more info |
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MJH Commemorating Arthur Szyk's 130th Birthday
MJH Commemorating Arthur Szyk's 130th Birthday
6:00pm - 7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 25, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Mar 25, 2024 at 7:30pm Injustice Illuminated: The Holocaust Art of Arthur Szyk. Scholar Irvin Ungar puts on a four-part lecture series about Arthur Szyk. Szyk became the most important anti-Nazi artist in America during World War II and the leading artist for the rescue of European Jewry. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections- Women Rescuers During the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections- Women Rescuers During the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 26, 2024 at 3:00pm Ends Mar 26, 2024 at 4:00pm Rescue during the Holocaust was rare and undertaken at great risk to both the rescuer and those being rescued. One of the most well-known rescue attempts during the era of the Holocaust was that of the Frank family in Amsterdam. Join Program Manager Jennifer Goss as she provides classroom-ready resources and student activities to explore what motivated female rescuers with a focus on Miep Gies and her choice to partake in the rescue efforts for those in the Secret Annex. Click for more info |
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Temple Beth-El Sisterhood Holocaust Presentation & Tour
Temple Beth-El Sisterhood Holocaust Presentation & Tour
10:30am - 12:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Mar 31, 2024 at 10:30am Ends Mar 31, 2024 at 12:00pm Please join Temple Beth-El Sisterhood for a light breakfast, tour, and a presentation by a second-generation survivor at the Holocaust Memorial of San Antonio on Sunday, March 31st at 10:30 a.m. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
ISGAP - “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements”
ISGAP - “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements”
10:00am - 1:00pm
(3h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 2, 2024 at 10:00am Ends Apr 2, 2024 at 1:00pm “Antisemitism in Women's Rights Movements” Click for more info
Echoes & Reflections- A Liberator & a Spy
Echoes & Reflections- A Liberator & a Spy
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 2, 2024 at 2:00pm Ends Apr 2, 2024 at 3:00pm Deborah Levine speaks about her father, Aaron Levine, an Army intelligence officer who led a career as a liberator & spy. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
"Strangers in Their Own Land: Jewish Self-Awareness in Holocaust Memoirs"
"Strangers in Their Own Land: Jewish Self-Awareness in Holocaust Memoirs"
3:30pm - 4:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 3, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Apr 3, 2024 at 4:30pm Professor Dorian Stuber leads a discussion on short excerpts describing the realization of what it means to be oppressed. Click for more info
2024 Genocide Awareness Lecture featuring Loung Ung
2024 Genocide Awareness Lecture featuring Loung Ung
4:30pm - 5:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 3, 2024 at 4:30pm Ends Apr 3, 2024 at 5:30pm Peace is not a wish. Peace is not something you want, dream of, and wait for others to deliver. Peace is an action. Many, many actions. Whether in one’s heart, community, or world, peace requires our daily actions. With over three decades of experience as a student activist, a professional agent of change working on campaigns to end violence against women, landmines, and child soldiers, Loung will explore how we can all lead in our daily lives to make a difference in our world. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info
The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime French History
The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime French History
3:30pm - 5:00pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 4, 2024 at 3:30pm Ends Apr 4, 2024 at 5:00pm On July 16-17, 1942 in Occupied Paris, more than 13,000 French Jews were arrested by French Police. The victims were held in deplorable conditions at the Vélodrome d'Hiver or Vel d'Hiv, an indoor cycling stadium until they were sent to detainment camps outside of Paris where they either died or were deported to concentration camps. Dr. Eileen Angelini’s presentation will discuss how the Vichy Government planned this round-up and how the French government and people have since dealt with the pain. Click for more info
El Paso Holocaust Museum- "Unveiling Truths: Decoding Antisemitism in Media Narratives"
El Paso Holocaust Museum- "Unveiling Truths: Decoding Antisemitism in Media Narratives"
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 4, 2024 at 6:00pm Ends Apr 4, 2024 at 7:00pm In-person panel discussion on an engaging exploration into the complexities of antisemitism in the media. The museum will delve deeply into the themes of the captivating novel, "Some Kind of Hate", by Sarah Darer Littman. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
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Texas State University: Genocide Awareness Symposium
All Day
(12 days)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 1, 2024 Ends Apr 12, 2024 Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi, the Department of Philosophy is organizing a Genocide Awareness Symposium. This event will see some of the most distinguished professors in Genocide Studies and Prevention from across the US and Canada addressing a range of pertinent issues. Click for more info |
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