Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts May 1, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends May 1, 2024 at 3:00pm

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This webinar will explore the transformation of the German police, staffed by "ordinary men," into an instrument of state repression and genocide under the Nazi regime.
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Starts May 1, 2024 at 7:00pm
Ends May 1, 2024 at 8:00pm

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The Nazi party introduced antisemitic exclusionary laws shortly after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor in January 1933. While Jews were the primary target of persecution and murder, those who did not fit the “Aryan” ideal espoused by the Nazis were also persecuted under exclusionary regulations, including Black people, and Sinti and Roma in Germany, among others.
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Starts May 2, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends May 2, 2024 at 7:00pm

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Dara Horn, the award-winning author of six books, will speak to participants about her body of work and offer educators tangible methods to elevate and celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month in their classrooms.
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Starts May 5, 2024 at 10:00am
Ends May 5, 2024 at 12:00pm

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"The iconography of antisemitism: Continuity and Change”
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Starts May 6, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends May 6, 2024 at 3:00pm

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This interactive webinar will focus on the importance of memorialization, and show strategies to read and engage with prominent memorials throughout the United States.
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Starts May 6, 2024 at 6:45pm
Ends May 6, 2024 at 8:00pm

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A multi-generational program commemorating the Holocaust in homes around Greater Houston.
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Starts May 7, 2024 at 6:30pm
Ends May 7, 2024 at 8:00pm

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Anna Salton Eisen, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, shares her father’s experience surviving slave labor & concentration camps.
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Starts May 9, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends May 9, 2024 at 3:00pm

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Female homosexuality was not explicitly criminalized in Nazi Germany, but queer women were still viewed and persecuted as an outsider group.
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Starts May 9, 2024 at 6:30pm
Ends May 9, 2024 at 8:30pm

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Israeli journalist Dvir Bar-Gal shares his decades of research into the story of the Shanghai Ghetto, & how it served not only as a refuge for European Jews, but also became an important center for Jewish culture and history in an uncertain time.
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Starts May 14, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends May 14, 2024 at 7:00pm

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Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.
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Starts May 14, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends May 14, 2024 at 7:00pm

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In her book Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust, historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war.
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Starts May 15, 2024 at 3:00pm
Ends May 15, 2024 at 4:00pm

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It's critical for young people to understand the dangers of antisemitism today and the threat that it poses to both Jewish and non-Jewish populations.
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Starts May 19, 2024 at 11:30am
Ends May 19, 2024 at 12:30pm

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Joel and Karmela Waldman will be in conversation about Joel’s book "Surviving the Survivor: A Brutally Honest Conversation about Life (& Death) with My Mom: A Holocaust Survivor, Therapist & My Podcast Co-Host." Moderated by Jim Axelrod, CBS News Senior Correspondent.
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Starts May 19, 2024 at 2:00pm
Ends May 19, 2024 at 3:00pm

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This unique performance is the culmination of seven months of heartfelt collaboration between five Holocaust survivors and sixteen students. It honors and shares the survivors’ stories, celebrates these extraordinary individuals, and highlights the life-changing lessons they have imparted to the students. The performance is created based on the stories told by the Holocaust survivors to the high school students. On the stage, the survivors will be narrators while students will re-enact their wartime experiences.
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Starts May 20, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends May 20, 2024 at 7:00pm

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Explore the untold narratives of female heroes of the Kielce pogrom who were killed in the antisemitic attack, as well as those who survived, including survivor Niusia Borensztajn Nester.
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Starts May 22, 2024 at 6:30pm
Ends May 22, 2024 at 8:00pm

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Mark Weitzman is Chief Operating Officer for the World Jewish Restitution Organization where he plays a leading role in organization’s advocacy and negotiations efforts to recover Jewish properties in Europe in pursuit of a measure of justice for Holocaust survivors, their families, and Jewish communities.
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Starts May 23, 2024 at 3:00pm
Ends May 23, 2024 at 4:00pm

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Rachael Cerrotti looks at how memory is an essential aspect of identity using photographs, video, audio, interviews & classroom resources
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Starts May 23, 2024 at 6:00pm
Ends May 23, 2024 at 7:00pm

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“Antisemitism, U.S.A.” is an online conversation event featuring key contributors from the upcoming podcast of the same name, including noted scholars Mark Oppenheimer, Britt Tevis, Zev Eleff, Lincoln Mullen, Sarah Imhoff, and Kirsten Fermaglich. An official program of Jewish American Heritage Month, this event provides a deep dive into the pervasive issue of antisemitism in American history and its implications today.
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Starts May 28, 2024 at 4:00pm
Ends May 28, 2024 at 5:00pm

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Using the power of media and propaganda to ignite pre-existing hatreds, perpetrators of genocide dehumanized victims to encourage average citizens and neighbors to turn against their fellow persons.
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