Events

Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 10, 2025 at 1:00pm
Ends Jun 10, 2025 at 2:00pm

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Whitehouse meticulously pieces together her family’s tragic history while probing ethical questions about courage and complicity during the Holocaust. Through vivid storytelling, she highlights the risks taken by individuals like Dr. Pétri to protect Jewish lives amid the horrors of Vichy France and her contemporary quest to recognize Dr. Pétri as a Righteous Among Nations.
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Speaking Engagements

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

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In this session, experts will discuss concrete strategies to combat current-day antisemitism. Building on the foundation of history, knowledge, and understanding developed during the series, this session will serve as a call to action for all of us to engage in this work.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 13, 2025 at 1:00pm
Ends Jun 13, 2025 at 2:00pm

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Bert Romberg was born in Astheim, Germany in 1930. When Bert was eight years old, his mother made arrangements for the family to escape to England by obtaining a visa for herself and securing spots for Bert and his sister Magie on the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that allowed thousands of Jewish children to live with private English citizens.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 16, 2025 at 6:00pm
Ends Jun 16, 2025 at 7:00pm

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Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. With the help of a French country priest and others, they set out to rescue British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines—some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints hidden inside the trunk of their car.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 18, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Jun 18, 2025 at 1:00pm

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Holocaust survivor Ernie Brod was born in 1938, the same year Nazi Germany annexed Austria. After unleashing a wave of restrictive laws, arrests, and violence targeting the Jewish community, authorities ordered Ernie and his mother, Pepi, to report to a holding facility in Vienna.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 22, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ends Jun 22, 2025 at 3:00pm

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When Churchill and Stalin alluded to Nazi mass murder of civilians in early speeches, they said much less than they knew. Not until December 1942 did Allied governments issue a joint statement about Nazi Germany’s policy of exterminating the Jews of Europe. Roosevelt deferred his own public statement until March 1944. Why didn’t these leaders speak up sooner?
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 25, 2025 at 11:00am
Ends Jun 25, 2025 at 12:00pm

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In this book talk, author Michelle Young will present WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland (1898–1980), an unlikely heroine who infiltrated the Nazi leadership in Paris during World War II to save the world’s most treasured artworks.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 25, 2025 at 12:00pm
Ends Jun 25, 2025 at 1:00pm

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In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels organized the “Entartete Kunst” or “Degenerate Art” Exhibition at the Archeological Institute in Munich. The exhibition displayed works of modern art that the Nazis declared to be “degenerate” or unacceptable. While the intent of the exhibition was to disparage the so called “degenerate” artworks, it featured many artists who would go on to become internationally recognized.
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Speaking Engagements

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Starts Jun 27, 2025 at 1:00pm
Ends Jun 27, 2025 at 2:00pm

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Dr. Andras Lacko was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. In a twist of fate, Lacko contracted scarlet fever in 1944 and was saved from ghettoization and subsequent deportation to Poland.
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