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New Year's Day (Office Closed)
New Year's Day (Office Closed)
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General
Jan 1, 2021 (All Day) The THGC office will be closed. Click for more info |
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A Survivor's Liberation Experience
A Survivor's Liberation Experience
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 5, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 5, 2021 at 3:00pm Echoes & Reflections invites teachers and their students to participate and hear from Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan, author of "Four Perfect Pebbles", a Scholastic Book recommended for grades 6-12. Click for more info |
2021 THGC Student Contests in Poetry & Visual Arts Open
2021 THGC Student Contests in Poetry & Visual Arts Open
All Day
Grants & Contests
Jan 6, 2021 (All Day) Every student participating must submit their application, parent/guardian permission form, and honesty clause form by 4:00 P.M. C.S.T. on Friday, March 5, 2021 Click for more info
HMMSA Elementary Holocaust Education Workshop
HMMSA Elementary Holocaust Education Workshop
4:00pm - 6:00pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 6, 2021 at 4:00pm Ends Jan 6, 2021 at 6:00pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) for this two-hour workshop reviewing Holocaust history and best practices for grades K-5 instruction. Click for more info |
HMMSA Secondary Holocaust Education Workshop
HMMSA Secondary Holocaust Education Workshop
4:00pm - 6:00pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 7, 2021 at 4:00pm Ends Jan 7, 2021 at 6:00pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) for this two-hour workshop reviewing Holocaust history and best practices for grades 6-12 instruction. Click for more info
DocsTeach in the Classroom: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DocsTeach in the Classroom: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
7:00pm - 9:00pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 7, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 7, 2021 at 9:00pm Join the National Archives and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a webinar on American responses to the refugee crisis and to the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. Click for more info |
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Planning for 2021 Holocaust Remembrance Week
Planning for 2021 Holocaust Remembrance Week
4:00pm - 5:10pm
(1h 10m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 10, 2021 at 4:00pm Ends Jan 10, 2021 at 5:10pm Join the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, and Holocaust Museum Houston for a panel discussion about the available resources at each institution that can be used during the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week (January 25-29, 2021). Click for more info |
THGC Non-Profit Grant Winter Cycle Closes
THGC Non-Profit Grant Winter Cycle Closes
All Day
Grants & Contests
Jan 11, 2021 (All Day)
2021 Dr. Steinberger Outstanding Educator Award of $1,000 Opens
2021 Dr. Steinberger Outstanding Educator Award of $1,000 Opens
All Day
Grants & Contests
Jan 11, 2021 (All Day) All Steinberger Award applications and supporting documents must be submitted electronically by 4:00 P.M. C.S.T. on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Click for more info
Antisemitism in the Arab World: Roots, Reasons and Prospects for a Solution
Antisemitism in the Arab World: Roots, Reasons and Prospects for a Solution
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 11, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Jan 11, 2021 at 11:00am Join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) for a groundbreaking seminar series entirely in Arabic (with simultaneous English interpretation). Click for more info
Isolation and Social Death in Nazi Germany
Isolation and Social Death in Nazi Germany
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 11, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 11, 2021 at 3:00pm Join the San Antonio Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the 9th Annual Holocaust Learn & Remember. Learn about the isolation experienced by Jews from Texas A&M San Antonio Professor of History & THGC Commissioner Dr. Edward B. Westermann. Click for more info
Movie Monday Film Discussion: The Pianist
Movie Monday Film Discussion: The Pianist
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Films
Starts Jan 11, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 11, 2021 at 8:00pm The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum will host its first Movie Monday Film Discussion of 2021 on January 11th. "The Pianist" will be discussed by Dr. Sara Abosch-Jacobson and Dr. Galit Gertsenzon. Click for more info
Isolation and Social Death in Nazi Germany
Isolation and Social Death in Nazi Germany
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 11, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 11, 2021 at 8:00pm Join the San Antonio Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the 9th Annual Holocaust Learn & Remember. Learn about the isolation experienced by Jews from Texas A&M San Antonio Professor of History & THGC Commissioner Dr. Edward B. Westermann. Click for more info |
Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies: A Framework for Analysis
Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies: A Framework for Analysis
8:30am - 9:30am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 12, 2021 at 8:30am Ends Jan 12, 2021 at 9:30am Join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) for its Research Fellows Seminar Series on "Fighting Antisemitism on the Battefield of Ideas". Click for more info
Lost Narratives: The Holocaust, Antisemitism and Ethno-Religious Violence in the Ex-Yugoslavia
Lost Narratives: The Holocaust, Antisemitism and Ethno-Religious Violence in the Ex-Yugoslavia
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 12, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Jan 12, 2021 at 11:00am Join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) for a groundbreaking seminar series entirely in Spanish (with simultaneous English interpretation). Click for more info |
Communities of Hate: Why People Join Extremist Movements
Communities of Hate: Why People Join Extremist Movements
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Jan 13, 2021 at 8:30am Ends Jan 13, 2021 at 9:00am Amid a surge in antisemitic incidents more than 75 years after the Holocaust, join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and experts to learn what motivates people to join extremist groups. Click for more info
Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism
Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 13, 2021 at 3:00pm Ends Jan 13, 2021 at 4:00pm Learn more about Echoes & Reflections "Gringlas Unit on Contemporary Antisemitism", which provides an inquiry-based and student-centered learning approach to teach about antisemitism and hate and make connections to Holocaust history. Click for more info
DocsTeach in the Classroom: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
DocsTeach in the Classroom: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
6:00pm - 8:00pm
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 13, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 13, 2021 at 8:00pm Join the National Archives and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a webinar on American responses to the refugee crisis and to the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. Click for more info |
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The Dimensions of Memory: The Future of Holocaust Testimony
The Dimensions of Memory: The Future of Holocaust Testimony
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 17, 2021 at 1:00pm Ends Jan 17, 2021 at 2:00pm The Ghetto Fighters' House, in partnership with the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and the USC Shoah Foundation, will host a virtual lecture in the International Virtual Lecture Series "Talking Memory" on the cutting-edge new technologies in storytelling and virtual reality and how they are being implemented in the museum space. Click for more info |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Office Closed)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Office Closed)
All Day
General
Jan 18, 2021 (All Day) The THGC office will be closed. Click for more info |
Confederate Heroes Day (Office Closed)
Confederate Heroes Day (Office Closed)
All Day
General
Jan 19, 2021 (All Day) The THGC office will be closed. Click for more info
Building Insights to Navigate Antisemitism & Hate -- New Student Course from ADL
Building Insights to Navigate Antisemitism & Hate -- New Student Course from ADL
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 19, 2021 at 3:00pm Ends Jan 19, 2021 at 4:00pm Be among the first to receive a behind-the-scenes tour of ADL's new student digital course on antisemitism, created in collaboration with Everfi. Coupled with Echoes & Reflections, this course can enrich students' learning about the Holocaust and historical and contemporary antisemitism. Click for more info |
One Hand, One Heart: An intergenerational celebration of Broadway and Yiddish Songs
One Hand, One Heart: An intergenerational celebration of Broadway and Yiddish Songs
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 20, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 20, 2021 at 7:00pm In an event celebrating hope for the future, Wagner College music students will perform for the community an act of intergenerational joy and interfaith unity. Click for more info |
Panel Discussion "Women and Genocide"
Panel Discussion "Women and Genocide"
9:00am - 10:30am
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 21, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 21, 2021 at 10:30am Join the United Nations Department of Global Communications for Episode 4 of the live discussion series "Beyond the long shadow: engaging with difficult histories" as they examine the experience of women and the place of gender in the Holocaust, the genocide in Srebrenica, and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Click for more info
Lunch & Learn - The History of Holocaust Education: The American Approach
Lunch & Learn - The History of Holocaust Education: The American Approach
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 21, 2021 at 12:00pm Ends Jan 21, 2021 at 1:00pm The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Lunch & Learn Series features quarterly programs on Holocaust history and human rights topics in an informal setting to encourage questions and discussion. Click for more info |
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Why did a Hassidic Holocaust survivor build a hospital?
Why did a Hassidic Holocaust survivor build a hospital?
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 11:00am Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 12:00pm The Laniado Sanz Medical Center invites you to a Zoom session to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click for more info
1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment
1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment
1:00pm - 2:30pm
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 1:00pm Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 2:30pm Please join the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) as they discuss the changing landscape of Holocaust education in the face of these challenges, and explore the 1938Projekt lesson modules as one tool that can provide relevance to students. Among other points, they will talk about ways that the lessons of the Holocaust can be made relevant for today’s students. Click for more info
Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate
Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 3:00pm The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation presents "Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate: Empower students during International Holocaust Remembrance Day". Click for more info
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 3:00pm Marking the liberation of Auschwitz, International Holocaust Remembrance Day allows us to reflect upon the profound tragedy of the Holocaust. Click for more info
Author Talk for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Author Talk for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
4:30pm - 5:30pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 4:30pm Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 5:30pm The Vermont Holocaust Memorial invites you to join us as we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a free, live, virtual talk by Jack Fairweather, author of "The Volunteer: the true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz." Click for more info
Music of Remembrance presents "Art From Ashes"
Music of Remembrance presents "Art From Ashes"
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 24, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 24, 2021 at 8:00pm Continuing its annual tradition of honoring the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Music of Remembrance (MOR) will present Art From Ashes, an online concert marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click for more info |
Holocaust Remembrance Week
Holocaust Remembrance Week
All Day
(5 days)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 Ends Jan 29, 2021
My Mother's Amazing Survival - Winslow Swárt
My Mother's Amazing Survival - Winslow Swárt
8:30am - 9:30am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 8:30am Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 9:30am Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the first of two live presentations on Monday, January 25th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
Lest We Forget Exhibition Launch
Lest We Forget Exhibition Launch
9:00am - 10:00am
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 10:00am In honour of 27 January, International Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of the Holocaust, which marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris will host the “Lest We Forget” photo exhibition by German-Italian photographer Luigi Toscano. Click for more info
The Untold Story of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
The Untold Story of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
9:00am - 10:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 10:00am The Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy at IDC Herzliya, together with the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, are pleased to announce the hosting of a unique online seminar: The Untold Story of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe: 80 Years since the Babyn Yar Massacre Commemoration, Memory, Oblivion, and History Click for more info
My Mother and Grandmother: What They Endured - Ginny Wind
My Mother and Grandmother: What They Endured - Ginny Wind
12:30pm - 1:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 12:30pm Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 1:30pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the second of two live presentations on Monday, January 25th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
How Did the World Respond? The Jewish Refugee Crisis
How Did the World Respond? The Jewish Refugee Crisis
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 3:00pm Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 4:00pm This Echoes & Reflections webinar will help educators integrate the topic of refugees into their Holocaust instruction by making connections between the experiences of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust and refugee experiences today. Click for more info
Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate
Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 25, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 25, 2021 at 7:00pm The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation presents "Tactics of Resistance - Responding to Hate: Empower students during International Holocaust Remembrance Day". Click for more info |
Holocaust Remembrance Week
All Day
(5 days)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 Ends Jan 29, 2021
My Mother's Life in Hungary - Anita Goldberg (Spanish)
My Mother's Life in Hungary - Anita Goldberg (Spanish)
9:00am - 10:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 26, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 26, 2021 at 10:00am Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the first of two live presentations on Tuesday, January 26th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
The Untold Story of Regina Jonas: The First Ordained Female Rabbi - Rabbi Mara Nathan
The Untold Story of Regina Jonas: The First Ordained Female Rabbi - Rabbi Mara Nathan
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 26, 2021 at 1:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2021 at 2:00pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the second of two live presentations on Tuesday, January 26th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
BESA: A Code of Honor - Muslim Albanians Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
BESA: A Code of Honor - Muslim Albanians Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
4:00pm - 5:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 26, 2021 at 4:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2021 at 5:00pm Join The Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center for a live discussion about the experiences of Albanian Muslims who -- at great risk to themselves and their families -- saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Click for more info
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 26, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2021 at 7:00pm The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies along with Queens University’s Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice and UNCC’s Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies invites you to an online program with Prof. Jim Waller, the Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, on "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder". Click for more info
Special Event with Author/Filmmaker Heather Dune Macadam
Special Event with Author/Filmmaker Heather Dune Macadam
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 26, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 26, 2021 at 8:00pm Please join the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas as Ms. Macadam discusses her current project, producing and directing the documentary film 999 based on her book containing the remarkable untold stories of the young women who were part of the first official transport to Auschwitz. Click for more info |
Holocaust Remembrance Week
All Day
(5 days)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 Ends Jan 29, 2021
Discussion "Lessons of the Holocaust - A UN Perspective on Global Antisemitism"
Discussion "Lessons of the Holocaust - A UN Perspective on Global Antisemitism"
8:15am - 9:15am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 8:15am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 9:15am An event with H.E. Mr. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and United Nations Focal Point to monitor antisemitism. The event is organized by B’nai B’rith International. Click for more info
Eisenhower’s Foresight: Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust
Eisenhower’s Foresight: Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 8:30am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 9:00am On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Susan Eisenhower, author of "How Ike Led," to learn about her grandfather’s vigilance to preserve the truth of the Holocaust. Click for more info
My Grandmother: Art & Resistance - Helen Pankowsky
My Grandmother: Art & Resistance - Helen Pankowsky
9:30am - 10:30am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 9:30am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 10:30am Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the first of two live presentations on Wednesday, January 27th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
United Nations Annual Holocaust Commemoration
United Nations Annual Holocaust Commemoration
10:00am - 12:00pm
(2h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 12:00pm Organized jointly by the Department of Global Communications and UNESCO, in partnership with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Given the current COVID-19 situation in New York, a virtual commemorative event will be held, reflecting the importance of the occasion and the issue. Click for more info
Passing on the Torch
Passing on the Torch
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 11:00am On 27th January 2021 JRoots together with international partners invite you and your family to be a part of the largest online gathering of Holocaust survivors to commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day. The Passing on the Torch ceremony will unite survivors, their descendants and those dedicated to the legacy of the Holocaust. Click for more info
Panel Discussion "Holocaust Denial & Distortion"
Panel Discussion "Holocaust Denial & Distortion"
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 11:00am Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 12:00pm A panel discussion, organized together with UNESCO and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, will discuss Holocaust denial and distortion after the UN Holocaust Memorial Ceremony. Click for more info
USHMM 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
USHMM 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
12:00pm - 12:30pm
(30m)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 12:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 12:30pm Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as they commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click for more info
Women in the Holocaust - Liz Reichman
Women in the Holocaust - Liz Reichman
1:30pm - 2:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 1:30pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 2:30pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the second of two live presentations on Wednesday, January 27th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
The Wannsee Conference Now & Then
The Wannsee Conference Now & Then
1:30pm - 2:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 1:30pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 2:30pm Join the University of Minnesota & The Ray Wlpow Institute for this free webinar which will give an overview of the meeting at Lake Wannsee on January 20, 1942 in its larger historical context and discuss its relevance in the wake of rising antisemitism in Germany and Europe today. Click for more info
Analyzing Propaganda & Teaching Media Literacy
Analyzing Propaganda & Teaching Media Literacy
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 3:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 4:00pm With the increasing escalation of disinformation, it's essential to equip youth with media literacy skills. This Echoes & Reflections webinar provides the tools to teach about the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support students to critically analyze media in today’s world. Click for more info
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski
4:30pm - 5:30pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 4:30pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 5:30pm The National Jewish Theater Foundation (NJTF) - Holocaust Theater International Initiative (HTII) "Remembrance Readings," in association with the New York Library for the Performing Arts is honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day 1/27/2021 by showcasing the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics' original production of Remember this: The Lesson of Jan Karski, starring Oscar-Nominated actor David Strathairn. Click for more info
Women of the Trials of Nuremberg
Women of the Trials of Nuremberg
5:00pm - 6:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 5:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Please join the Chicago-Kent College of Law Center on National Security and Human Rights Law for a presentation focusing on the women who took part in the Nuremberg Trials. Click for more info
Under Siege Again? Holocaust Distortion and the Rise of Hate Crimes Against Jews
Under Siege Again? Holocaust Distortion and the Rise of Hate Crimes Against Jews
5:00pm - 6:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 5:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp, join the Harriet & Kenneth KupferBerg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College for a conversation about how antisemitism at the international, national, and regional levels fuels Holocaust distortion, as well as the challenges in prosecuting religiously-based hate crimes locally. Click for more info
Community Holocaust Remembrance Day Event in Honor of Margit Feldman
Community Holocaust Remembrance Day Event in Honor of Margit Feldman
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Join the Raritan Valley Community College Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and The Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon, & Warren Counties for an online "Community Holocaust Remembrance Day Event in Honor of Margit Feldman." Click for more info
Virtual Tour: Esther and the Dream of One Loving Human Family
Virtual Tour: Esther and the Dream of One Loving Human Family
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Tour the American Visionary Art Museum's most beloved exhibited works in the museum's history—the fabric stories of Holocaust survivor Esther Krinitz that recount her memories as a teenager in Nazi Poland. The tour is given by Esther's daughter, Bernice Steinhardt, and observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click for more info
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Join the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education as Dr. Edith Sheffer shares her research on the true story of Dr. Hans Asperger, whose groundbreaking work on children prompted a new era for People with Disabilities. Click for more info
Voices of Hope International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
Voices of Hope International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Voices of Hope & Jewish Federation Associates of Connecticut present their 11th Annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration honoring Bea Israel, Z"l with the 2021 Chesed Award. Click for more info
Online Concert: Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje perform Songs from Testimonies, Volume Two
Online Concert: Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje perform Songs from Testimonies, Volume Two
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 6:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm The Yale Institute for Sacred Music, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, and the Fortunoff Video Archive invite the public to an online performance of songs from the Archive's forthcoming recording "Shray Hertsele Shray: Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume Two." Click for more info
A 3G Perspective: Preserving the Memory of Auschwitz Survivors
A 3G Perspective: Preserving the Memory of Auschwitz Survivors
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 8:00pm Join 3GNY on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to hear from the descendants of the Auschwitz camps in a panel discussion hosted by 3G community leaders across the US and Israel Click for more info
18 Voices: A Liberation Day Reading
18 Voices: A Liberation Day Reading
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 7:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 8:00pm More than one million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust and countless others survived. Some, like Anne Frank, kept diaries in which they confided their hopes, fears, and experiences. Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, for a special virtual reading of excerpts from these diaries. Click for more info
Dear Erich - A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
Dear Erich - A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
8:00pm - 9:00pm
(1h)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 27, 2021 at 8:00pm Ends Jan 27, 2021 at 9:00pm On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Holocaust Center for Humanity will honor the six million Jewish victims and millions of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and our commitment to developing educational programs that help prevent future genocides. Please join the Holocaust Center for Humanity for a special virtual performance of excerpts from the jazz opera Dear Erich, performed by Ted Rosenthal, composer and jazz pianist, and two Seattle area opera singers. Click for more info |
Holocaust Remembrance Week
All Day
(5 days)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 Ends Jan 29, 2021
Panel Discussion "Nazi Rise to Power & the Weimar Constitution"
Panel Discussion "Nazi Rise to Power & the Weimar Constitution"
9:00am - 10:30am
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 28, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 28, 2021 at 10:30am Join the United Nations Department of Global Communications for a panel discussion entitled "Nazi Rise to Power & the Weimar Constitution". Click for more info
My Parents' Holocaust Experiences - Robi Jalnos
My Parents' Holocaust Experiences - Robi Jalnos
10:00am - 11:00am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 28, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Jan 28, 2021 at 11:00am Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the first of two live presentations on Thursday, January 28th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
How My Mother Weathered the Storm - Varda Ratner
How My Mother Weathered the Storm - Varda Ratner
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 28, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Jan 28, 2021 at 3:00pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the second of two live presentations on Thursday, January 28th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info |
Holocaust Remembrance Week
All Day
(5 days)
Commemorations
Starts Jan 25, 2021 Ends Jan 29, 2021
My Mother: How She Survived - Lala Gossen
My Mother: How She Survived - Lala Gossen
10:30am - 11:30am
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 29, 2021 at 10:30am Ends Jan 29, 2021 at 11:30am Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the first of two live presentations on Friday, January 29th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info
My Father and What He Withstood - Sharon Greenwald
My Father and What He Withstood - Sharon Greenwald
2:30pm - 3:30pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jan 29, 2021 at 2:30pm Ends Jan 29, 2021 at 3:30pm Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the second of two live presentations on Friday, January 29th, in commemoration of the 2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Click for more info |
Defining Genocide: Educator Workshop Part I
Defining Genocide: Educator Workshop Part I
9:00am - 10:30am
(1h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Jan 30, 2021 at 9:00am Ends Jan 30, 2021 at 10:30am This workshop will discuss the history and ramifications of the term genocide, and its applications across multiple cases, from the Holocaust to the Canadian Indian residential schools. They will also explore rationales for teaching about genocide, and share resources to help you achieve your goals. Click for more info |
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Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students - 3 Part Program
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students - 3 Part Program
All Day
Workshops
Feb 1, 2021 (All Day) Sign up for Echoes & Reflections' first 3-Part Online Course of 2021, which includes new interactive learning tools that create a more collaborative environment for educators as they enhance their Holocaust teaching skills and guide students in building a brighter future. Click for more info
THGC February 2021 Quarterly Meeting
THGC February 2021 Quarterly Meeting
8:30am - 3:30pm
(7h)
Commission Meetings
Starts Feb 1, 2021 at 8:30am Ends Feb 1, 2021 at 3:30pm The Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC) is holding its quarterly meeting on Monday, February 1, 2021 beginning at 8:30 A.M. Every quarter the THGC holds a meeting, open to the public, in order to review its current projects and initiatives. The Commission invites any member of the public who might be interested in its mission to this meeting. Click for more info |
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My Father Was a Nazi
My Father Was a Nazi
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Feb 2, 2021 at 2:00pm Ends Feb 2, 2021 at 3:00pm Arthur Wollschlaeger was a highly decorated German tank commander during the second World War and was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler himself. In this Echoes & Reflections webinar, hear from his son Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, a convert to Judaism, who will share his spiritual journey of coming to terms with his father's past. Click for more info |
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Childhood after Atrocity Crimes: Hope for Peace, Dignity and Equality
Childhood after Atrocity Crimes: Hope for Peace, Dignity and Equality
10:00am - 11:30am
(1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Feb 4, 2021 at 10:00am Ends Feb 4, 2021 at 11:30am Join the United Nations Department of Global Communications for a civil society briefing which will examine the approaches taken to support children who survived the Holocaust. Click for more info
Liberate History: Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History
Liberate History: Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Feb 4, 2021 at 3:00pm Ends Feb 4, 2021 at 4:00pm To honor Black History Month, join Echoes & Reflections and Demetrius Hobson from Liberate History, an organization that curates African American History lessons, who will share resources to support instruction of African American History in the U.S., and engage in conversations on connections to Holocaust education. Click for more info |
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Listening Contrapuntally to Witness Testimonies of Terezín
Listening Contrapuntally to Witness Testimonies of Terezín
4:00pm - 5:00pm
(1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Feb 5, 2021 at 4:00pm Ends Feb 5, 2021 at 5:00pm Referencing archival materials related to the documentary Goethe and Ghetto (1996), Wlodarski will share how her own contrapuntal listening revealed opportunities for scholarly self-reflection, listening beyond the dominant discourse of the film, and analytical critique of the film’s content. Click for more info |
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