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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 |
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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 |
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
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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
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 |
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 |
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
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
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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Senate Bill 1828 charges the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission with developing or approving materials for a statewide Holocaust Remembrance Week. Provided is a list of approved resources.
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