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Echoes & Reflections | The "Final Solution" in the East
Echoes & Reflections | The "Final Solution" in the East
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 2, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 2, 2025 at 4:00pm The “Holocaust by Bullets” was the method used for the mass murder of Jews and Roma across Eastern Europe, distinct from the approaches in the West. Click for more info |
HMLA | Where They Settled: Sweden
HMLA | Where They Settled: Sweden
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 3, 2025 at 1:00pm Ends Dec 3, 2025 at 2:00pm Survivors were housed in makeshift facilities such as former military camps, received medical care in Swedish hospitals, and were drawn into heated debates over whether they should settle permanently or prepare for re-emigration to Palestine, the United States, or elsewhere. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | Through Their Eyes: Photographs As Primary Sources in Holocaust Education
Echoes & Reflections | Through Their Eyes: Photographs As Primary Sources in Holocaust Education
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 4, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2025 at 4:00pm Photographs capture more than a moment in time; they serve as critical primary sources that you can use in the classroom to foster critical thinking and confront Holocaust denial. Click for more info
HMLA | Collecting and Preserving Traumatic Histories: Archivists in Conversation
HMLA | Collecting and Preserving Traumatic Histories: Archivists in Conversation
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 4, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 4, 2025 at 7:00pm Archivists from diverse institutions examine their practices for caring for and managing objects that represent collective and personal tragedies. Click for more info |
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HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: The Story of Sonja van der Stam
HMMSA | Survivor Speakers Series: The Story of Sonja van der Stam
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 7, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Dec 7, 2025 at 3:00pm Sonja van der Stam was born in the Netherlands and survived for two years in three different concentration camps before being liberated at 14 years old. After the war she lived in an orphanage where she discovered a love and a talent for track and field. Click for more info |
MJH | “The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto” Book Talk
MJH | “The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto” Book Talk
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 8, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 8, 2025 at 7:00pm With The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising, Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger Elizabeth R. Hyman adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five, young, Polish Jewish women who helped lead the Jewish resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid Jews in hiding across occupied Poland and Eastern Europe. Click for more info |
MJH | Spiegelman’s Maus and Podwal’s Lamentations with Richard McBee
MJH | Spiegelman’s Maus and Podwal’s Lamentations with Richard McBee
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 9, 2025 at 6:00pm Ends Dec 9, 2025 at 7:00pm Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, marks an important rupture in the lineage of survivor testimony. It presents a narrative of survivor testimony through the lens of an adult child of a survivor in a highly unorthodox medium, an early example of the graphic novel or commix format. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Echoes & Reflections | Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 10, 2025 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 10, 2025 at 4:00pm Join Echoes & Reflections and ADL for a special webinar marking the release of the Hidden Child Foundation’s new book, Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Click for more info |
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HMMSA | Saving the Arts in WWII: The Work of the Monuments Men and Women in Europe
HMMSA | Saving the Arts in WWII: The Work of the Monuments Men and Women in Europe
2:00pm - 3:30pm
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 14, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Dec 14, 2025 at 3:30pm Join the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, a department of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, for an up-close look at the art curators, historians, and scholars who saved most of the art looted by the Nazis and Japanese during World War II, led by Bill Chiego, former Director of the McNay Art Museum. Click for more info |
Echoes & Reflections | Virtual Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum Focusing on Liberation
Echoes & Reflections | Virtual Tour of the Yad Vashem Museum Focusing on Liberation
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 16, 2025 at 2:00pm Ends Dec 16, 2025 at 3:00pm Join Yad Vashem educator Yael Eaglstein for an immersive virtual tour of specific galleries of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem related to liberation and the end of World War II. Click for more info |
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Alfred Münzer
USHMM | 2025 First Person Series: Alfred Münzer
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Dec 17, 2025 at 12:00pm Ends Dec 17, 2025 at 1:00pm Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to go into hiding separately from Al and his two older sisters. Al was just months old when he was placed with a Dutch Indonesian family and their Muslim nanny, who cared for him for nearly three years. Click for more info |
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