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Monday, March 1, 2021
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Workshops
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Webinar
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Description:
Sign up for a 3-Part Online Course: "Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism," for a self-paced and facilitator-guided exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching of historical and contemporary antisemitism in today’s classrooms.
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, March 1, 2021
at 12:00pm -
1:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred,
hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of
awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts
and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum
Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach.
The goal of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred Program
is to cultivate upstanders who are aware of the power of hatred in
human decision making and to provide community members an opportunity to
learn important concepts of history, civic awareness, and social
justice. This program empowers community members to reflect and act.
We
must find ways to talk and interact with each other beyond boundaries.
At the same time, we must create ways to disallow hatred in our culture,
two actions that may seem contradictory, but are essential in this time
of our society’s history.
In each session of the Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred sessions,
Holocaust Museum Houston will share a critique of a piece of hate rhetoric, extremism, and/or
antisemitism, with the goal of educating the community on how to
recognize, reflect on and respond to hateful content.
Coordinated
with social media outreach, Holocaust Museum Houston will offer a series of six workshops
facilitated by Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D.; Holocaust and Genocide Education
Endowed Chair – Celebrating the Life of Survivor Naomi Warren.
Each session will be rebroadcast at 6:30 p.m. on its scheduled date.
Register here.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
(all day)
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General
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N/A
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Description:
The THGAAC office will be closed.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
How can Holocaust education empower students to advocate for democracy, justice, an end to racism and hate, and build a better future for all of us? Teaching about the Holocaust provides opportunities for civic learning by examining instances of democratic erosion in the past, such as the failure of Weimar Germany and ensuing spread of misinformation, polarization, distrust, othering, and antisemitism under Nazi rule, and applying those lessons to the present.
In this Echoes & Reflections webinar, educators will learn about how the Holocaust and civic engagement can be taught side by side to help students gain an understanding of how words, actions, and policies matter and prepare them to be effective global citizens.
Register here.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This program was originally scheduled for February 15 and was postponed due to power outages and severe weather.
Holocaust
Museum Houston, Houston Coalition Against Hate, Congregation Beth
Israel, and the Anti-Defamation League will collaborate on a panel
discussion on peacebuilding and combating hate and extremism.
PanelistsCarl Josehart is
an accomplished healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience.
He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Jewish Family
Service Houston and as the Board Chair for Holocaust Museum Houston.
Past experience includes 11 years as CEO of TIRR Memorial Hermann,
leadership experience in acute care, ambulatory care and earlier in his
career as a clinical social worker. Carl’s
career has been distinguished by a commitment to social justice and
serving underserved or historically disadvantaged populations including
individuals impacted by poverty, racial, ethnic or religious
discrimination and promoting equality for the LGBTQ+ community.
Marjorie Joseph currently serves as the Executive
Director for Houston Coalition Against Hate (HCAH). HCAH is a network of
community-based organizations, institutions, and leaders who come
together to reduce hate and encourage belonging. The Coalition is
committed to addressing all incidents of hate, bias, violence, and
discrimination, on the basis of a person or group’s religion,
race/ethnicity, gender, gender identity/expression, abilities, age,
sexual orientation, national origin, creed, immigration status, or
genetic information. HCAH does this through education, research,
relationship building, and prevention initiatives, as well as partnering
with organizations to host events that celebrate diversity and make
Houston strong.
Rabbi David Lyon
was ordained in 1990, at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion (HUC-JIR), in Cincinnati and has served as Senior Rabbi of
Congregation Beth Israel, in Houston, since 2004. Rabbi
Lyon is a Vice-President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
(CCAR). In Houston, Rabbi Lyon is a board member of the United Way of
Greater Houston; board member of Interfaith Ministries; a member of
ADL’s Coalition for Mutual Respect; and a member of the advisory board
of Holocaust Museum Houston. He is honored to be on of Houston’s Three
Amigos with Rev. Bill Lawson and Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza.
Dena Marks
is the Senior Associate Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s
Southwest Regional Office. Her main responsibility at ADL is publicity,
but she also serves as a liaison with law enforcement, facilitates
various training sessions, coordinates regional fact finding, handles
some discrimination complaints and staffs ADL’s International Affairs
Committee and Committee on Law Enforcement, Extremism and Antisemitism.
Before joining ADL in April of 1999, she spent 21 years in television
news.
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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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 10:00am -
5:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Help the Museum celebrate our 25th Anniversary and take advantage of FREE admission. Patrons will also receive complimentary cookies, along with 25% off on all HMH branded gifts in the Museum’s store. The first 25 visitors will earn a free one-year Director level membership good for two people.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the USC Shoah Foundation for a discussion with Faris Cassell about The Unanswered Letter.
She Uncovered an Untold Holocaust Story 75 Years after WWII Award-winning investigative journalist traveled across the globe to answer a family’s 1939 cry for help
Washington, D.C.—September 2, 2020 marks the 75th
anniversary of V-J Day, the official ending of World War II. Yet, there is an incredible story that has only now been uncovered by award-winning investigative journalist, Faris Cassell, in The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help.
In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes for their daughters. But now their money, connections, and emotional energy were nearly exhausted. Alfred begged the American recipient of the letter, “You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe. . . . By pure chance I got your address. . . . My daughter and her husband will go . . . to America. . . . Help us to follow our children. . . . It is our last and only hope. . . .”
After languishing in a California attic for over sixty years, Alfred’s letter came by chance into Cassell’s possession: “I felt like I held a life in my hands.” Questions flew off the page at her. Did the Bergers’ desperate letter get a response? Did they escape the Nazis? Were there any living descendants? For decades, Cassell could not rest until she discovered the ending of the story.
Cassell’s gripping narrative will immerse readers in the lives of the Berger family and bring them along on her journey in writing The Unanswered Letter, which led her to:
Over a hundred original letters from the Berger family as they pour out their joys, fears, hopes, and struggles to each other while scattered across the world, fleeing persecution
A previously unknown opportunity to assassinate Hitler—to which the Bergers were connected
Investigative trips across the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic, Belarus, and Israel in search of living descendants and more answers
A room in New York holding a century of family artifacts
Firsthand accounts from people who lived alongside the Bergers and who survived the Holocaust
A story that will move any reader, The Unanswered Letter is a poignant reminder that love and hope never die.
Author biographyFaris Cassell is a journalist and writer. She and her husband, Sydney, live in Eugene, Oregon. She earned a B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College and an M.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. Her decades of research into Alfred and Hedwig Berger’s story was supported by a Mount Holyoke Alumnae Scholarship and by the generous cooperation of the Berger family.
The Unanswered Letter placed first in the 2019 Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Literary Contest for Unpublished Works.
Join Zoom meeting here.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Even before the United States and
Italy went to war, various fascist and anti-fascist efforts impacted Italian
Americans. During the war over a half a million Italian citizens living in the
US (not American citizens) had to register as enemy aliens, thousands were
forced to resettle, and a small number were interned. In the same era Italian
soldiers and merchant marines were imprisoned throughout the United States.
Well before the war with Italy would end, the US government lifted restrictions
on Italian citizens in this country and, later still, the status of many
Italian POWs also changed.
The differing ways Italians and Italian Americans
were treated in the US were not only influenced by political concerns but also
by practices of xenophobia and racism, a point made especially clear in
comparison to the experiences of Japanese Americans. And yet, better understanding
the multiple realities of Italians in the US in this era helps complicate our
sense of how race and ethnicity shapes experiences in wartime and in peace.
Dr.
Laura Ruberto, Humanities professor at Berkeley City College, will reflect on
how political pressure, cultural visibility, and an emerging position of
whiteness helped build public acceptance of this immigrant community.
Register here.
This lecture is part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg
Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium
entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and
Dehumanization,” and is presented in partnership with the John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute at Queens College-CUNY and
the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, Cincinnati.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 5:00pm -
6:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
Join the Center for National Security and Human Rights Law for a discussion of the role of lawyers during the Nazi regime as the foundation for a review of the history of modern legal ethics, a summary of relevant requirements, and an analysis of how those requirements can help guide lawyers in today’s climate to help our society avoid the mistakes of history. This talk will examine questions such as: Does the legal profession need an ethical code to guide lawyers? Could the existence of an ethical code like the Model Rules of Professional Conduct have changed the course of the Nazi regime?
FeaturingEdward F. Malone, General Counsel and Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
Eric Muller, Academic Director, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) and Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics, University of North Carolina School of Law
Thorsten Wagner, Executive Director, Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE)
Register here.
Chicago-Kent Center for National Security and Human Rights Law is a forum in which scholars, practitioners, students, and the general public can grapple with the complex and evolving issues surrounding national security law, along with the manner in which society must balance the competing interests of security and freedom.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 6:30pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute presents
"Muslims and the Shoah: A Martin-Springer Institute Zoom Series"
comprised of four different speaker events. Join Robert Satloff as the
second speaker of this series.
Robert Satloff, The Washington Institute of Near East Policy. Author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories of the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands.
This event is free and open to the public, but you need to preregister by sending an email to Melissa Cohen.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Alyssa will focus on the story of her grandmother, Stefi
Greengrass. Stefi was born and raised in Hungary where she lived a
relatively normal and happy life. When she was 26 years old, Stefi and
her family were taken by the Nazis when they invaded Hungary as a part
of the Final Solution. Stefi survived numerous concentration camps
including Auschwitz II- Birkenau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen and
Bergen-Belsen where she was ultimately liberated.
While Stefi never told Alyssa her story of survival directly, she
diligently worked to learn her story through Stefi's recorded testimony
and by interviewing numerous family members whom Stefi confided with.
Alyssa is honored to share Stefi's story as a means to honor her and
continue educating our community.
Alyssa GreengrassAlyssa is the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors who passionately dedicates her time volunteering for numerous non-profit organizations to help educate and combat antisemitism.
She currently serves as chair of the Young Friends at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and volunteers with 3GNY. Through their educational training program WEDU, she has taught her grandparents stories to students in numerous schools throughout New York City.
Professionally, Alyssa works as a senior leadership giving officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center raising critical money for their cancer research and patient care initiatives. She earned her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and holds a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Register here.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
at 11:00am -
2:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a half-day workshop exploring the history of the Jews of
West and Sub-Saharan Africa and the importance of African perspectives
to Holocaust history. The program will highlight African scholars’
emerging interest in Nazi and Vichy race laws, forced labor, and
internment in the region. Scholars from Africa, Europe, Israel, and
North America will present African research and collections on the
cultural, spiritual, and social history of West African Jews.
Introductory RemarksAomar Boum, Associate professor, Anthropology Department, UCLA
Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Professor of History, Sady and
Ludwig Kahn Director of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish
Studies, and Viterbi Family Endowed Chair in Mediterranean Jewish
Studies
SpeakersChigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Assistant professor, English Department, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Alioune Dème, Assistant professor, History Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Ismaël Diadié Haïdara, Director, Fondo Kati
Ruth Ginio, Associate professor, General History Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Maguèye Kassé, Professor, German Studies Department, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Edward Kissi, Associate professor, Africana Studies Department, University of South Florida
Janice Levi, PhD candidate, History Department, UCLA
Sidi N'Diaye, Lecturer, New Sorbonne University, Paris, France
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Register here.
For more details about the program, visit this page. For questions, please contact Krista Hegburg.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
at 1:00pm -
2:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Circuses were a popular form of entertainment in Nazi Germany and
across Europe in the decades leading up to World War II. Jewish circus
artists helped shape the industry in the late 19th century, and
some—including a Jewish acrobat named Irene Danner—were saved by
circuses during the Holocaust.
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for a program exploring the lives and legacies of Jewish circus artists between 1860 and 1945 with Stav Meishar, a multidisciplinary performance maker, stage artist, academic researcher, and educator who has created and performed The Escape Act,
a one-woman show based on Danner’s story which also incorporates her
personal experiences as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors; and Dr. Marline Otte, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University and author of Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890–1933.
Register here.
A $10 suggested donation enables the Museum of Jewish Heritage to present programs like this one. They thank you for your support.
Public programming at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act; and other generous donors.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Workshops
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Location:
Webinar
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Description:
During the Holocaust, all Jews were targeted for annihilation, but the experiences and dilemmas of women were unique. To mark Women's History Month in March, this Echoes & Reflections webinar explores the female responses to the challenges that they faced during the Holocaust and examines and the struggle to hold on to identity.
Sheryl Ochayon, Program Director of Echoes & Reflections at Yad Vashem, will share voices and stories from Echoes & Reflections and Yad Vashem resources.
Register here.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
at 5:30pm -
6:30pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for their HMMSA Reads program as they discuss "Mila 18" by Leon Uris.
Visit hmmsa.org for more information.
Register here.
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