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The Essence of Antisemitism
The Essence of Antisemitism 1:00pm - 2:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 25, 2021 at 1:00pm
Ends Apr 25, 2021 at 2:00pm
Please join Congregation Nishmat Am for their final presentation focusing on global antisemitism featuring THGAAC Commissioner Dr. David A. Patterson.
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Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred – Antisemitism: Its History and Legacy
Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred – Antisemitism: Its History and Legacy 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 26, 2021 at 12:00pm
Ends Apr 26, 2021 at 1:00pm
The goal of Holocaust Museum Houston's 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.
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2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Jeffrey Cymbler: Jewish Genealogy in Poland
2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Jeffrey Cymbler: Jewish Genealogy in Poland 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 26, 2021 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 26, 2021 at 7:00pm
Join Voices of Hope for a discussion with Jeffrey Cymbler.
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Curating a Centennial Exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Paris: History, Images, and the Context of the Shoah Memorial
Curating a Centennial Exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Paris: History, Images, and the Context of the Shoah Memorial 12:30pm - 2:00pm (1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 27, 2021 at 12:30pm
Ends Apr 27, 2021 at 2:00pm
Please join the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota for this year's Ohanessian Chair Lecture featuring Claire Mouradian, Professor Emerita of History, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
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The Holocaust & Dictatorship in Brazilian Literature
The Holocaust & Dictatorship in Brazilian Literature 4:00pm - 5:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 28, 2021 at 4:00pm
Ends Apr 28, 2021 at 5:00pm
Please join the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas for the last of three speakers in their annual Spring Lecture Series: Jewish and National Memory of Dictatorships in Latin America.
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France Divided: Understanding the WWII Occupation of France
France Divided: Understanding the WWII Occupation of France 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 28, 2021 at 6:00pm
Ends Apr 28, 2021 at 7:00pm
Join Dr. Eileen M. Angelini as she discusses the occupation of France during World War II.
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 30, 2021 at 11:00am
Ends Apr 30, 2021 at 12:00pm
Join the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas for a talk entitled "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil."
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Post-Soviet Patriotism, Nationalism, and Russian Orthodoxy
Post-Soviet Patriotism, Nationalism, and Russian Orthodoxy 1:00pm - 2:30pm (1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Apr 30, 2021 at 1:00pm
Ends Apr 30, 2021 at 2:30pm
Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute presents "Unholy Alliance: Nationalism and Christianity a Martin-Springer Institute Zoom Series" comprised of four different speaker events. Join Katya Tolstaya as the fourth, and final, speaker of this series.
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2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Ariel Burger: "Witness: Lessons From Elie Wiesel’s Classroom"
2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Ariel Burger: "Witness: Lessons From Elie Wiesel’s Classroom" 4:00pm - 5:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 4, 2021 at 4:00pm
Ends May 4, 2021 at 5:00pm
Join Voices of Hope for a discussion with Ariel Burger.
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New Beginnings: Jewish Refugees after the Holocaust
New Beginnings: Jewish Refugees after the Holocaust 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 4, 2021 at 6:00pm
Ends May 4, 2021 at 7:00pm
Please join the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for their presentation on Jewish refugees after the Holocaust.
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The Ballerina of Auschwitz
The Ballerina of Auschwitz 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 6, 2021 at 6:00pm
Ends May 6, 2021 at 7:00pm
Join Chabad of the shore and the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education for a not-to-be-missed program "The Ballerina of Auschwitz."
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Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Starting the Conversation
Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Starting the Conversation 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 6, 2021 at 7:00pm
Ends May 6, 2021 at 8:00pm
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for the first session of a four-part series on antisemitism.
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Nuremberg and the Modern Laws of War
Nuremberg and the Modern Laws of War 7:00pm - 8:30pm (1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 6, 2021 at 7:00pm
Ends May 6, 2021 at 8:30pm
John Geiringer, a partner at Barack Ferrazzano law firm and a Co-Director of the Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law (CRSHL) at the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law, will place the IMT in historical context and discuss how it led to the laws of armed conflict that we have today.
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Confronting Antisemitism: Testimony from Channy Chhi Laux
Confronting Antisemitism: Testimony from Channy Chhi Laux 7:30pm - 8:30pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 6, 2021 at 7:30pm
Ends May 6, 2021 at 8:30pm
The Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center invites families, teachers, and students ages 13+ to learn about the Cambodian Genocide through the eyes of Channy, who courageously survived, started a new chapter of her life in the United States, and wrote the award-winning Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide, 2017.
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Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred - Moving Beyond Hatred
Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred - Moving Beyond Hatred 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 10, 2021 at 12:00pm
Ends May 10, 2021 at 1:00pm
The goal of Holocaust Museum Houston's 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.
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Chhange 2021 Virtual Colloquium "We Will Be Heard"
Chhange 2021 Virtual Colloquium "We Will Be Heard" 8:30am - 9:30am (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 12, 2021 at 8:30am
Ends May 12, 2021 at 9:30am
Join Chhange’s 2021 Virtual Colloquium, featuring author and educator Alexandra Zapruder. Alexandra will speak about the significance of diaries written by Jewish teens during the Holocaust, along with the importance of literary and artistic expression created by teens throughout the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021 First Person Series: Theodora Klayman
2021 First Person Series: Theodora Klayman 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 12, 2021 at 12:00pm
Ends May 12, 2021 at 1:00pm
Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and Dora for a live conversation to learn about her Holocaust experiences and how she survived in hiding while many of her family were deported and killed in camps.
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American Political Leaders and Their Responses to the Holocaust
American Political Leaders and Their Responses to the Holocaust 1:00pm - 2:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 13, 2021 at 1:00pm
Ends May 13, 2021 at 2:00pm
Please join the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for their program discussing American political leaders and their responses to the Holocaust.
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Legacy of Blood: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Europe
Legacy of Blood: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Europe 7:30pm - 8:45pm (1h 15m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 13, 2021 at 7:30pm
Ends May 13, 2021 at 8:45pm
Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute presents "Pogroms and Riots: Anti-Black and Anti-Jewish Massacres, a Martin-Springer Institute Zoom Series" comprised of four different speaker events. Join Elissa Bemporad as the first speaker of this series.
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Lara's Treasures
Lara's Treasures 8:00pm - 9:30pm (1h 30m)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 16, 2021 at 8:00pm
Ends May 16, 2021 at 9:30pm
Join the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center and meet Lara Hana Brady, Hana's niece, and hear incredible stories behind artifacts from the Brady Family archive.
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The 1942 "Race Study" of Jewish Families in the Tarnów Ghetto
The 1942 "Race Study" of Jewish Families in the Tarnów Ghetto 10:30am - 11:30am (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 19, 2021 at 10:30am
Ends May 19, 2021 at 11:30am
The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education's May Virtual Lunch & Learn Program features Margit Berner focusing on the 1942 "race study" of Jewish families in the Tarnów ghetto.
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Historical Trauma and Cultural Healing in 2021
Historical Trauma and Cultural Healing in 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 19, 2021 at 1:00pm
Ends May 19, 2021 at 2:00pm
Please join the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for their discussion of historical trauma and healing in present.
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3GNY in Coversation with Tamir Goodman, "The Jewish Jordan"
3GNY in Coversation with Tamir Goodman, "The Jewish Jordan" 9:30am - 10:30am (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 23, 2021 at 9:30am
Ends May 23, 2021 at 10:30am
Join 3GNY in conversation with Tamir Goodman, former Pro-Basketball player and current successful entrepreneur, coach, and educator who credits his survivor grandmother for helping him to overcome life's obstacles.
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Unpacking "The Archive Thief"
Unpacking "The Archive Thief" 1:00pm - 2:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 24, 2021 at 1:00pm
Ends May 24, 2021 at 2:00pm
Please join the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for their program discussing "The Archive Thief" with Dr. Lisa Leff & Dr. Jonathan Brent.
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"Word, Blood, Redemption: The Essence of Antisemitism" by David Patterson
"Word, Blood, Redemption: The Essence of Antisemitism" by David Patterson 10:00am - 11:00am (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 25, 2021 at 10:00am
Ends May 25, 2021 at 11:00am
Join the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy & Professor David Patterson for "Word, Blood, Redemption: The Essence of Antisemitism."
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Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić
Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić 6:30pm - 7:30pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 25, 2021 at 6:30pm
Ends May 25, 2021 at 7:30pm
The Defiant Requiem Foundation invites you to a special conversation with board member Tommy Baer entitled Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić
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Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children in the Netherlands
Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children in the Netherlands 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 25, 2021 at 7:00pm
Ends May 25, 2021 at 8:00pm
Join Dr. Charlotte Decoster, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Director of Education, to learn more about the hiding experience of Jewish children in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.
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Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust 7:30pm - 8:30pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 25, 2021 at 7:30pm
Ends May 25, 2021 at 8:30pm
Northern Arizona University's Martin-Springer Institute presents "Pogroms and Riots: Anti-Black and Anti-Jewish Massacres, a Martin-Springer Institute Zoom Series" comprised of four different speaker events. Join Jeffrey Kopstein as the third speaker of this series.
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Undying Love. Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons' Camps
Undying Love. Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons' Camps 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 26, 2021 at 11:00am
Ends May 26, 2021 at 12:00pm
"Undying Love" tells the poignant, enduring, and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II.
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Dr. Robert Williams on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism
Dr. Robert Williams on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism 6:00pm - 7:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 26, 2021 at 6:00pm
Ends May 26, 2021 at 7:00pm
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and Dr. Robert Williams, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for a conversation about understanding and responding to antisemitism.
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Day of Action Against Antisemitism
Day of Action Against Antisemitism 3:00pm - 4:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts May 27, 2021 at 3:00pm
Ends May 27, 2021 at 4:00pm
During the Day of Action Against Antisemitism, the ADL will provide the tools to amplify your voice with thousands more to demand action and gather virtually for a rally at 3PM CDT to hear from prominent government officials as well as leaders from the Jewish community and civil rights organizations, among others.
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Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - A Life Dedicated to Art
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - A Life Dedicated to Art 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jun 2, 2021 at 11:00am
Ends Jun 2, 2021 at 12:00pm
The Berlin artist Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) is best known for her depictions of strong, sensual women and Berlin city life. But there is much more to her 70 years of artistic output, with unique sketches, paintings and sculptures. Her studio on Kurfürstendamm 29, which she occupied from 1920 until the end of her life, is almost unchanged and allows us to come very close to this artist and her work.
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Heroines of the Holocaust
Heroines of the Holocaust 11:00am - 12:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jun 3, 2021 at 11:00am
Ends Jun 3, 2021 at 12:00pm
Leading international scholars of the Holocaust and genocide will highlight women rescuers and resisters in daily life, in ghettos, forests, labor and death camps, including Jewish and non-Jewish women professionals and partisans. This symposium hopes to create a new narrative around agency in the Shoah and other genocides and to promote a rethinking of leadership in Holocaust resistance and rescue, which may inspire transformative activism today.
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Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Antisemitism in the United States
Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Antisemitism in the United States 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1h)
Speaking Engagements
Starts Jun 3, 2021 at 7:00pm
Ends Jun 3, 2021 at 8:00pm
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for the second session of a four-part series on antisemitism.
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May 2021

The Essence of Antisemitism

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  • Sun, Apr 25, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred – Antisemitism: Its History and Legacy

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  • Mon, Apr 26, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Jeffrey Cymbler: Jewish Genealogy in Poland

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  • Mon, Apr 26, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Curating a Centennial Exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Paris: History, Images, and the Context of the Shoah Memorial

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  • Tue, Apr 27, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

The Holocaust & Dictatorship in Brazilian Literature

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  • Wed, Apr 28, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

France Divided: Understanding the WWII Occupation of France

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  • Wed, Apr 28, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

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  • Fri, Apr 30, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Post-Soviet Patriotism, Nationalism, and Russian Orthodoxy

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  • Fri, Apr 30, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

2021 Voices of Hope Virtual Speaker Series: Ariel Burger: "Witness: Lessons From Elie Wiesel’s Classroom"

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  • Tue, May 4, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

New Beginnings: Jewish Refugees after the Holocaust

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  • Tue, May 4, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

The Ballerina of Auschwitz

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  • Thu, May 6, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Starting the Conversation

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  • Thu, May 6, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Nuremberg and the Modern Laws of War

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  • Thu, May 6, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Confronting Antisemitism: Testimony from Channy Chhi Laux

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  • Thu, May 6, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred - Moving Beyond Hatred

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  • Mon, May 10, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Chhange 2021 Virtual Colloquium "We Will Be Heard"

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  • Wed, May 12, 8:30am - 9:30am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Facebook Live

2021 First Person Series: Theodora Klayman

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  • Wed, May 12, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  YouTube

American Political Leaders and Their Responses to the Holocaust

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  • Thu, May 13, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Legacy of Blood: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Europe

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  • Thu, May 13, 7:30pm - 8:45pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Lara's Treasures

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  • Sun, May 16, 8:00pm - 9:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

The 1942 "Race Study" of Jewish Families in the Tarnów Ghetto

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  • Wed, May 19, 10:30am - 11:30am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Historical Trauma and Cultural Healing in 2021

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  • Wed, May 19, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

3GNY in Coversation with Tamir Goodman, "The Jewish Jordan"

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  • Sun, May 23, 9:30am - 10:30am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Unpacking "The Archive Thief"

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  • Mon, May 24, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

"Word, Blood, Redemption: The Essence of Antisemitism" by David Patterson

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  • Tue, May 25, 10:00am - 11:00am
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Evil Has a Name: Dinko Šakić

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  • Tue, May 25, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children in the Netherlands

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  • Tue, May 25, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust

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  • Tue, May 25, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Undying Love. Stories of Romance, Marriage and Rebirth in Displaced Persons' Camps

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  • Wed, May 26, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Dr. Robert Williams on Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism

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  • Wed, May 26, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Day of Action Against Antisemitism

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  • Thu, May 27, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) - A Life Dedicated to Art

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  • Wed, Jun 2, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Heroines of the Holocaust

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  • Thu, Jun 3, 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

Crucial Conversations: Confronting Antisemitism - Antisemitism in the United States

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  • Thu, Jun 3, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  • Calendar:   Speaking Engagements
  • Location:  Zoom

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