Events List
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Monday, February 1, 2021
(all day)
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Workshops
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Webinar
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Description:
As our nation continues to grapple with the recent violent insurrection from extremists at the U.S. Capitol, the lessons of the Holocaust are an important reminder of democracy's fragility, and each citizen's continued responsibility to uphold its values.
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.
Three interactive learning modules released over three weeks. Registration closes at 9am Eastern Time on Wednesday of the first week of the course, or when the course reaches capacity. Module I: First Week of the Course Module II: Second Week of the Course Module III: Third Week of the Course Optional Final Project due the Fourth Week of the CourseThis program introduces learners to:
Classroom-ready comprehensive print and online resourcesSound pedagogy for teaching about the HolocaustInstructional pathways to help students learn about the complex history of the HolocaustBackground information on the history of antisemitismStrategies to incorporate a range of primary sources, including visual history testimony, to classroom instruction
All the Details:
Program includes three interactive modules released over three weeksApproximately 6 hours to complete in total – at no costProceed at your own pace each week, be supported by an instructor, and enjoy interaction with other educatorsReceive a certificate of completion and join a network of educators teaching about the Holocaust and genocideFinal module includes additional time to complete optional project for a 10-hour certificateUpon completion (6 or 10 hours), option to earn graduate-level credit through the University of the Pacific. Learn more here.
Register here.
Echoes & Reflections delivers value to both experienced Holocaust educators who are supplementing their curricula and for teachers new to Holocaust education.
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Monday, February 1, 2021
at 8:30am -
3:30pm
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Commission Meetings
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
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.
Due to Governor Greg Abbott’s March 13, 2020 proclamation of a
state of disaster affecting all counties in Texas due to the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) and the Governor’s March 16, 2020 suspension of certain
provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act, the February 1, 2021 meeting of
the Commission will be held by video-conference, as otherwise
authorized under Texas Government Code section 551.127
Members of the public will have access and a means to
participate in this meeting, by two-way audio/video, by connecting to
the video access number identified above, or by clicking on the link
contained on the agency website's event calendar. The video
access number contained in this notice is subject to change by the
conference provider at any time. Members of the public are encouraged to
confirm the correct conference access number/link 24 hours before the
meeting by going to the agency website. An electronic copy of the agenda is available. A recording of the meeting will be available after February 1, 2021. To obtain a recording, please contact Joy Nathan, at 512.463.8815 or at joy.nathan@thgc.texas.gov.
For public participants, after the meeting convenes, the
presiding officer will call roll of board members and then of public
attendees. Please identify yourself by name and state whether you would
like to provide public comment. You may also email joy.nathan@thgc.texas.gov in advance of the meeting if you would like to provide public comment. When the Commission
reaches the public comment portion of the meeting, the presiding officer
will recognize you by name and give you an opportunity to speak. All
public comments will be limited to two (2)
minutes. All participants are asked to keep their microphones muted when they are not providing public comment.
Video Conference Zoom No. 810 1931 2721
Registration can be completed here.
The Commission may discuss and/or take action on any of the items listed in the agenda.
Note: The Commission may go into executive session (close its meeting
to the public) on any agenda item if appropriate and authorized by the
Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
Arthur Wollschlaeger was a highly decorated German tank commander during the second World War and was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler himself. After the war, Arthur and his wife concealed his role in the Holocaust and contrived a new narrative of his activity during those dark years. But, to their teenage son Bernd, the story didn't quite add up and there started his quest to search for the truth.
In this webinar, Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, today a convert to Judaism, shares the remarkable story of his spiritual journey of coming to terms with his father's past.
Register here.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The
Hungarian Holocaust constitutes a very special chapter of the
Holocaust. Although it took place very close to the end of World War II,
with deportations starting in May 1944, the Nazi industrial killing
machine was by then so sophisticated that some 565,000 Hungarian Jews
were murdered by the end of 1944. The speaker's parents both survived
the Hungarian Holocaust. The talk will cover the story of this chapter
of the Holocaust, as well as the stories of some of the survivors, and
some of its aftermath.
Moshe
Y. Vardi is a University Professor and the George Distinguished service
Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University.
Admission is free and open to the public. Guests will receive a private Zoom link so advance registration is required.
Register here.
All Holocaust Museum Houston programs and education initiatives are dependent upon philanthropic support. Please consider making a gift today to ensure the Museum can continue offering quality educational experiences.
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
at 10:00am -
11:30am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Microsoft Teams
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Description:
The briefing will examine the approaches taken to support children who survived the Holocaust and will consider how these approaches contributed to models adopted for contemporary practice for working with young people who have survived atrocity crimes.
Register here.
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
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.
Stories of freedom, resistance, resilience, and agency can be seen throughout history, and are particularly powerful narratives in Holocaust and African American history. The pedagogy for teaching each unique history is intertwined, with the need to focus on the human story, center the experience of the individual, and promote civic engagement.
During this Echoes & Reflections webinar, special guest Demetrius Hobson from Liberate History, an organization that curates African American History lessons to align to the CCSS, Cooperative Learning Strategies, and Five Tenets of Critical Race Theory, will highlight resources to support classroom instruction and increase student understanding of African American history in the U.S. Participants will also engage in conversation with Echoes & Reflections Deputy Director Melissa Mott about practical connections to Holocaust education.
Register here.
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
at 3:30pm -
4:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Learn more about the experiences of Albanian Muslims who - at great risk to their own lives - saved Jews during the Holocaust. Professional Development and BESA photo exhibit walk-through presented by Marlene W. Yahalom, PhD, Director of Education for the American Society for Yad Vashem.
For more information and to register, please contact:Dr. Adara Goldberg, Director, Holocaust Resource Centeragoldber@kean.edu | 908.737.4633
Kean University1000 Morris AvenueUnion, NJ 07083www.kean.edu
Educational resources will be distributed to workshop participants for classroom use. 1.5 hours Professional Development and co-curricular credits are provided.
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Friday, February 5, 2021
at 4:00pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Listening Contrapuntally to Witness Testimonies of Terezín with Professor Amy Wlodarski, Dickinson College
Over the past forty years, narratives about musical Terezín—the “model camp” designed by the Nazis to obscure the reality of their genocidal motives to international observers—have focused heavily on music’s redemptive and beneficial role as described by witnesses in postwar testimonial records. Borrowing from the ideas of postcolonial scholar Edward Said, musicologist Amy Lynn Wlodarski proposes the need for a more contrapuntal form of listening that would allow us to understand better how the power of past historiographies limits our contemporary listening and has created conditions for the possible silencing of alternative memories. 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.
Register here.
Presented by the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the School of Music, & the Center for Jewish Studies
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
at 3:30pm -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Centropa (www.centropa.org) is a historical organization that works with teachers to use our stories of 20th century Central European Jewish life to explore students' own stories, civic values, tolerance, and global citizenship. From 2000-2009, they asked elderly Jews in 15 European countries to tell them their entire life stories spanning the 20th century as they showed them their old family photographs. Centropa did not use video, or focus on the Holocaust, and they don't have a boxed curriculum. Teachers use our 22,000 old photographs, 1200 interviews, and short multimedia films to create the lessons they need for the students they teach—in history, ethics, geography, civics, foreign language, creative writing, English Language Arts, and film, art, and photography classes. Their materials cost nothing.
Holocaust Museum Houston (www.hmh.org) is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors’ legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.
Register here and you will be sent a Zoom registration link prior to the webinar. Questions?Contact Lauren Granite (granite@centropa.org), Katie Batenhorst (kbatenhorst@centropa.org), or Wendy Warren (wwarren@hmh.org) at Holocaust Museum Houston.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 10:00am -
11:00am
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Calendar:
Films
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Location:
Microsoft Teams
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Description:
The Windermere Children is a biographical drama about the recovery and rehabilitation of 300 young orphaned Jewish children who survived the Holocaust and were sent to the United Kingdom after the end of the Second World War. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with a historian and a Holocaust survivor.
Register here.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 10:30am -
11:30am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Dr. Deby Roitman
Strategic Advisor at Universidad Hebraica, México
Advisor at the Museo Judio Interactivo de Chile
“Jewish Identifiers: Reflections on Latin American Jewish Identity”
Dr. Deby Roitman will present this special lecture via Zoom. This
event is presented free of charge, but pre-registration is requested by clicking here.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education presents "The Nazi Olympics," open to educators, students, and members of the community.
For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Minimizing its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion, the regime exploited the Games to impress many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.
Register here.
For more information, contact Linda Medvin.
Funded in part by FDOE Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education. Presented in collaboration with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
Echoes & Reflections is proud to launch a new, unique lesson on prewar Jewish life with a focus on the lives of six teenagers from different countries. This webinar will guide educators through this new lesson to support classroom instruction and help students gain a deep understanding of the diversity of prewar Jewish life.
To understand what was lost in the Holocaust, we need to know what existed. Who were the Jews of Europe before WWII? Echoes & Reflections is proud to launch a new, unique lesson on Prewar Jewish Life in redesigned Unit 1. The centerpiece of the lesson is an exploration of the prewar lives of six teenagers from different countries, expressed in their own words through diary entries and other primary and secondary source material. This glimpse into their worlds allows students to see them as individuals and as teens, creating empathy and deepening understanding of the diversity of prewar Jewish life. During this webinar, Sheryl Ochayon of Yad Vashem will guide participants through key elements of this new lesson to support classroom instruction.
Register here.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 3:30pm -
6:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Media literacy skills have become essential for young people to successfully navigate and critically assess the ever-increasing amount of information they receive throughout their day - on social media, advertisements, television, and film. Therefore, it is crucial for students to comprehend and identify how media, both historically and in contemporary society, can be used as a tool to incite hate and violence against certain groups. This learning opportunity examines the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media, by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators will gain the tools to facilitate classroom discussions on the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support their students to critically analyze media in today’s world.This program is sponsored by The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and CHHANGE – Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, & Genocide Education.Register here.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
at 4:30pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Centropa (www.centropa.org)
is a historical organization that works with teachers to use our
stories of 20th century Central European Jewish life to explore
students' own stories, civic values, tolerance, and global citizenship.
From 2000-2009, they asked elderly Jews in 15 European countries to tell
them their entire life stories spanning the 20th century as they showed
them their old family photographs. Centropa did not use video, or focus
on the Holocaust, and they don't have a boxed curriculum. Teachers use
our 22,000 old photographs, 1200 interviews, and short multimedia films
to create the lessons they need for the students they teach—in history,
ethics, geography, civics, foreign language, creative writing, English
Language Arts, and film, art, and photography classes. Their materials cost nothing.
Holocaust Museum Houston (www.hmh.org)
is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6
million Jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors’
legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.
Register here and you will be sent a Zoom registration link prior to the webinar. Questions?Contact Lauren Granite (granite@centropa.org), Katie Batenhorst (kbatenhorst@centropa.org), or Wendy Warren (wwarren@hmh.org) at Holocaust Museum Houston.
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