BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Classrooms Without Borders - ECPv6.11.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Classrooms Without Borders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Classrooms Without Borders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T210000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230808T135502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T140637Z UID:10000890-1692817200-1692824400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:SNEAK PEAK Golda DESCRIPTION:Directed by Academy Award® winner Guy Nattiv\, Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.\n  \nIsraeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren)\, faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction\, must navigate overwhelming odds\, a skeptical cabinet\, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber)\, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world. \nThis special event\, held two days before its nationwide release (August 25) will feature an exclusive Q&A with Helen Mirren and director Guy Nattiv.\n \n\n \nIN PERSON EVENT ONLY: DOORS OPEN at 6:30pm ET \nAMC Waterfront 22\n300 West Waterfront Dr.\, West Homestead\, Pennsylvania 15120 URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/sneak-peak-golda/ LOCATION:AMC Waterfront 22\, AMC Waterfront 22 300 West Waterfront Dr.\, West\, Homestead\, Pennsylvania 15120\, 15120\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MV5BODI4NTc5NWItNjA0Yi00MjMyLWEyMGItMTMwYTdhOTNmNjlmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTA2MDU0NjM5._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T123000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230711T010913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T143651Z UID:10000742-1692702000-1692707400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) and Reverberations for The 21st Century DESCRIPTION:  The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) and Reverberations for The 21st Century\n  \nThis workshop highlights lessons on the Armenian Genocide on how the Armenians preserve their culture since the genocide and how current geopolitics in the Middle East perpetuate early 20th century hatreds.  The workshop leaders\, Jackie Kemper and Mary Johnson\, attended the inaugural study tour of the Genocide Education Project in the summer of 2022 and will share information on the Genocide Education Project as well as lesson plans focusing on the legacy of the Armenian Genocide. \nJackie Kemper:  Jackie teaches in York\, PA.  Over her 25 year career she has taught middle and high school history at all levels (Honors\, Academic and Dual enrollment).  She is currently teaching World History\, Honors Government\, Holocaust Literature\, Modern 20th Century and a WW2/Holocaust elective. She has been teaching the Holocaust since 2001 and has created three courses that focus on the Holocaust and Genocide.  Her commitment to Holocaust Education led her to earn a MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 2016 from Gratz College.  She was appointed as a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow for 2018-2019.  In the summer of 2022 she participated bin the Genocide Education Armenian Fellowship in Armenia and has committed to sharing her experience with other educators. \nMary Johnson\, Ph.D.:  Mary began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in Northern Nigeria.  She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Washington University.  Following graduate school she taught Women’s Studies and European History at Washington University and Temple University and spent two years as a visiting fellow at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.  From 1983 til 2020\, she was the Senior Historian for Facing History and Ourselves\, facilitating seminars and workshops\, writing curricula and conducting research.  Currently\, she is an affiliate and adjunct professor for the Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Program at Stockton University.  Her recent research focuses on the Nanjing atrocities and the Comfort Women and connections between Climate Change and Mass Violence/Genocide.  She is also in the process of writing Teaching Tough Topics: Holocaust and Genocide Education in the 21st Century (2023 expected publication). \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://stockton.zoom.us/j/95831653943 \nNo passcode is necessary. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-armenian-genocide-1915-23-and-reverberations-for-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230808T113837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T114004Z UID:10000888-1692025200-1692030600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINAL SOLUTION DESCRIPTION:How did the Nazis plan the Holocaust?\n\n\nThis webinar will explore the systematic mass murder of the Jews that came to be known as the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”\n\nUsing primary sources\, Yad Vashem educator Jonathan Matthews will take us through the progression of critical decisions that led to the genocide of European Jewry.\n\nThis webinar connects to the Echoes & Reflections Final Solution Unit. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-development-of-the-final-solution/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230813T203000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230808T193849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T201627Z UID:10000891-1691953200-1691958600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Modeling and Teaching Peace: Bringing Big Concepts into Everyday Life DESCRIPTION:Modeling and Teaching Peace:\nBringing Big Concepts into Everyday Life\nHow do we introduce peace-building language? \n \nJess Kavinsky brings us an overview of conflict\, systems thinking\, and a breakdown of the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Eight Pillars of Peace. \n \nWe’ll learn about different models for building sustainable peace\, geared toward educators who wish to teach concepts of peace-building with their students. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/modeling-and-teaching-peace-bringing-big-concepts-into-everyday-life/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230801T210000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230703T163752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T163810Z UID:10000741-1690898400-1690923600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Villa Maria Education & Spirituality Center 10th Annual Nostra Aetate  DESCRIPTION:The 10th Annual Nostra Aetate \n\nTuesday\, August 1\, 2023 at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal \n\nNostra aetate (from Latin: “In our time”) is the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council. Passed by a vote of 2\,221 to 88 of the assembled bishops\, this declaration was promulgated on 28 October 1965 by Pope Paul VI. It is the shortest of the 16 final documents of the Council and “the first in Catholic history to focus on the relationship that Catholics have with Jews.” It “reveres the work of God in all the major faith traditions.” It begins by stating its purpose of reflecting on what humankind has in common in these times when people are being drawn closer together. \nDr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal  will present two lectures: \n\nThe Rabbi who was a Monk: On Christians Monasticism and the Babylonian Talmud at 2:00 pm\nWhen a Heretic and a Rabbi Meet: On Jewish-Christian Dialogues over Scripture at 7:00 pm.\n\nThis event is free. An optional dinner is being offered for $10 per person at 5:25 pm. \nEvent is co-sponsored by Rev. George Balasko and Rabbi Joseph P. Schonberger. \nMichal Bar-Asher Siegal is a scholar of rabbinic Judaism. Her work focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian interactions in the ancient world and compares between Early Christian and rabbinic sources. She is a faculty member at The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, and was an elected member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences. She is the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies\, Yale University Associate Professor.  Her first book is Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2013\, winner of the 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award). Her second book is Jewish – Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity: Heretic Narratives of the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge University Press\, 2019\, a finalist\, National Jewish Book Award \, 2019). \nRegistration is preferred. \nLecture Cost: Free to the public – Optional Dinner Cost: $10 \nFor more information: vmesc.org or call 724-964-8886. \nVMESC is in Villa Maria\, PA\, approximately one mile from the Pennsylvania/Ohio state line. From Ohio\, travel 422 East\, turn right onto Evergreen Road.  From Pennsylvania\, travel 422 West\, turn left onto Evergreen Road\, travel one mile and turn right onto Villa Marie Road and follow the signage for 225 Villa Marie Road. It’s about an hour from Pittsburgh. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/villa-maria-education-spirituality-center-10th-annual-nostra-aetate/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T213000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230505T171009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T171155Z UID:10000733-1690740000-1690752600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:KNOWbodies: Knowledge Through Perspective Speaker Series Welcomes Steven Pressman\, Director/Producer of the documentary\, 'The Levys of Monticello' Sunday\, July 30th\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:Steven Pressman\, Director/Producer of the documentary\, ‘The Levys of Monticello’\n  \nA history enthusiast and admirer of Jefferson\, Pressman loves telling “great Jewish stories no one has ever heart of – Little known episodes in American History.” \n  \n \nWhen Thomas Jefferson died in 1826\, he left behind a mountain of personal debt\, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello and all of its possessions. ‘The Levys of Monticello’ is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of the Levy family\, who owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. This remarkable story also addresses the criticism and antisemitism they faced as they tirelessly worked to preserve the historic estate for the education of generations to come. \nShowing of the Levys of Monticello\, followed by a talk with Mr. Pressman and Q&A. \nLauri Ann West Community Center Members: $10 \nNon Members: $15 \n\nAdvance registration is required. \n*Food will be available to purchase from Aspinwall Everyday Gourmet Cafe \nPlease direct all questions to Nadine Ostrowski at nfostrowski@lauriannwestcc.org or 412-828-8566. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/knowbodies-knowledge-through-perspective-speaker/ LOCATION:Lauri Ann West Community Center 1220 Powers Run Road Pittsburgh\, PA 15238\, 1220 Powers Run Road\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15238\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230625T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230608T180109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T114025Z UID:10000740-1687701600-1687707000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House: Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: Filling in the Gaps DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series \nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps\nJune 25th : The Iasi Pogrom in Romania  \nOpening Remarks: \nYigal Cohen \nCEO\, Ghetto Fighters’ House \nGuest Speakers: \nGreta Barak \nArchivist\, Ghetto Fighters’ House \nWartime Commemoration of the Iasi Pogrom: Yitzhak Benditer’s Synagogue Memorial Plaques \nH.E. Dr. Radu Ioanid\, \nAmbassador of Romania in the State of Israel \nThe Iasi Pogrom:  One of the Most Brutal Chapters in the History of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust \nLyonell Flis\, Holocaust child survivor of the Iasi pogrom will give testimony \nThe first program in this series will focus on the pogrom of Iasi that took place on June 29\, 1941.  Greta Barak from the Ghetto Fighters’ House will present a memorial tablet from the museum’s archive that commemorates the names of the worshippers at one of the synagogues in Iasi (Jassy) who were massacred in the pogrom that took place there. \nDr. Radu Ioanid\, Ambassador of Romania in the State of Israel\, will give a presentation on why the Holocaust in Eastern Europe is still a forgotten one\, including the pogrom in Iasi. As he will show\, this pogrom was a major outbreak of violent anti-semitism\, yet it was neither isolated nor fortuitous; rather\, it was part of a long series of mass murders committed by Romanian fascists. The pogrom was organized by the SSI (the Romanian Intelligence Service) in co-ordination with the General Staff of the Romanian Army. At least 6\,000 Jews were murdered in the town of Iasi and another 2\,600 perished in two death trains. The perpetrators were Romanian soldiers\, gendarmes and police mobs from Iasi\, and German soldiers. The Iasi pogrom was followed by the systematic deportation and extermination of the Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina\, and by the extermination of Ukrainian Jews from Transnistria. \nThe program will conclude with the personal testimony of Lyonel Fliss\, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Johannesburg today. He was 6 years old at the time of the pogrom in Iasi. His relatives were murdered there and on the death trains. Last year\, he received the highest medal of honour from the Romanian government. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-romanian-jewry-during-the-holocaust-filling-in-the-gaps/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1-32-6-25-web-copy-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T102446Z UID:10000848-1687363200-1687368600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nOur 6th and Final session in this Series\nFeaturing a Conversation with Michael Berenbaum and Elliot Resnick on “Representative Sol Bloom: The Moral Conflicts of an American-Jewish Congressman During the Holocaust”\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nElliot Resnick\, PhD \n \nElliot Resnick\, PhD\, is the former chief editor of The Jewish Press and the author of several books\, including the soon-to-be-published America First: The Story of the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust. \nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square \nMay 17th 2023 A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum on the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea.\n\n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230327T022523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230616T002033Z UID:10000870-1686837600-1686843000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nOur 5th Session will feature \nDr. William Frederick Meinecke Jr. \nGerman Professionals and the Holocaust\n  \nThe most significant perpetrators of the crimes committed during the Holocaust are well known: Hitler\, Himmler\, and Heydrich\, as well as the SS\, among others. But less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors\, lawyers\, teachers\, civil servants\, officers\, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions\, when taken together\, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply\, the Holocaust could not have happened without them. This program will explore the motives and contribution of ordinary German professionals and their contribution to the Nazi racial agenda and to Nazi crimes. \nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr. \n29 May 2012\, Historian\, William Meinecke\, stands for a staff portrait\nWilliam Frederick Meinecke Jr.: Born May 16\, 1961 in Baltimore Maryland. He received his undergraduate degree in German and History from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County in 1983. He attended the University of Bonn and Berlin in Germany and received his MA (1988) and also his Ph.D. (1998) in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. The title of his dissertation was Conflicting Loyalties: The Supreme Court in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1945. In 1992 William joined the staff of the Wexner Learning Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.  He was on the design team of the center’s multi-media program on the Holocaust\, the Historical Atlas of the Holocaust (Book and CD-ROM) and the Student Learning web site on the Holocaust. His book\, Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust was published by the Museum in December 2007. In June 2000 William joined the staff of Museum’s Education Division. For the last twenty years William has worked with law enforcement officers\, judges\, prosecutors and attorneys in the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust training program. He is currently working in the Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education on programming for the Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC \n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-5/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230427T213048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T153621Z UID:10000878-1686236400-1686241800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Traces: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Traces Trilogy: Portraits of Resistance\, Survival and Resolve\nwith Executive producer\nDr. Judith S. Goldstein and Writer Samuel George\nModerated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nEncouraging resistance and resilience through \ndocumentary film\n  \nHumanity in Action is a proud producer of enlightening\, affecting and poignant documentary films. From short animated films to feature-length documentary productions\, Humanity in Action films tackle difficult and harrowing subject matter\, while calling viewers to take on increased democratic responsibility in line with the organization’s mission. \nSeventy-seven years after the fall of Nazi Germany\, the Holocaust stands as a staggering crime against humanity\, and the world continues to grapple with the deep void of the six million souls lost. Yet\, in the face of unfathomable horror\, fleeting moments of bravery and generosity remind us of our capacity for courage and compassion even under the most harrowing circumstances. \nThe Traces trilogy brings three such histories to life and to new audiences. Developed by an international team of documentarians\, researchers and animators\, the trilogy preserves these critical stories for future generations. \nThe Traces trilogy is a Humanity in Action production\, with generous support from the Alfred Landecker Foundation and the Danish Foreign Ministry. It includes the films Voices in the Void\, Two Trees in Jerusalem and My Father’s War. \n \n\n \n\n\nExecutive producer Dr. Judith S. Goldstein \nDr. Goldstein received a Bachelors degree from Cornell University in 1962 with a concentration on European and American history. As a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Columbia University\, she then studied for a Masters degree in European history. In 1972\, Judith completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University after writing her dissertation on “The Politics of Ethnic Pressure: The American Jewish Committee Fight Against Immigration Restriction:1906-1917.” This work was the beginning of a sustained concentration on immigration and diversity in America and Europe. She then continued to work at Columbia University over 10 years by focusing on an oral history project on Ethnic Groups and American Foreign Policy. In 1992\, William Morrow published her book Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities. In 2006\, Rutger University Press published Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and American Dreams. Judith worked as the Executive Director of Thanks To Scandinavia\, started by the Danish pianist Victor Borge to acknowledge Scandinavians who resisted Nazism and protected Jews during the Second World War. In 1997\, Judith founded Humanity in Action and has served as its Executive Director until April 2023. Programs have included fellowships and internships in Europe and the United States\, annual publications\, photography exhibitions\, films\, and conferences. Over 23 years the organization has engaged over 2\,750 college and university students in its programs and raised over $31 million. Judith has served on the Board of The Frances Perkins Foundation and the Somes Pond Center\, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nWriter Samuel George \nis a documentary filmmaker\, writer\, and an analyst of international affairs. His films bring viewers up close and personal to people and communities facing the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. From the Turkish-Syrian border\, to the maquiladora districts of Juarez\, Mexico\, to incipient political movements in Naples\, Italy\, George’s films offer candid reflections of daily life that allow viewers to draw their own conclusions. Serving as the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Global Market & Digital Advisor\, his recent documentaries include Out to Vote\, Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington\, DC\, and Swing State Florida. His written projects include the graphic book The No Collar Economy\, and its follow-up\, Our Digital World. George holds a master’s degree in international politics and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington\, DC. He is currently completing a PhD at that same institution. \n\n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. \n\n\n\nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-traces-portraits-of-resistance-survival-and-resolve/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dfa462d70b541c6ed3e3f4efb8ac0887-acCdfS.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230607T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230607T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230519T155125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T155125Z UID:10000737-1686139200-1686144600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:“Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1968)\, from Berlin to New York. A Life in Photography” DESCRIPTION:“Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1968)\, from Berlin to New York. A Life in Photography”\n  \nPhotographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) survived two world wars to become one of the world’s most highly-paid fashion photographers and a key influence on the development of photography as an art form. An experimenter and innovator\, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings\, collages\, portraits and nudes\, celebrity portraiture\, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. Yet one of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century is little known today – and the reasons for this lie in his unconventional lifestyle. \n \nIn this talk\, Paris-based granddaughter Nadia Blumenfeld Charbit gives her personal insights into the life and work of the photographer Erwin Blumenfeld. Introduced by Rachel Stern\, director of the Fritz Ascher Society. Organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, New York. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/erwin-blumenfeld-1897-1968-from-berlin-to-new-york-a-life-in-photography/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230605T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230524T152447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T155237Z UID:10000739-1685977200-1685980800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:WHY DIDN’T THE ALLIES BOMB AUSCHWITZ? DESCRIPTION:Could the Allies have done more during the Holocaust to stop the murders in the extermination camps or to slow down the progression of events thereby saving lives?\n\nThe question of what the Allies could have or should have done has been widely discussed and debated. Dr. Joel Zisenwine\, head of Yad Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nation Department\, offers an insightful look into this question.\n\n\nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/why-didnt-the-allies-bomb-auschwitz/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230524T151814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T152032Z UID:10000738-1685631600-1685635200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION DESCRIPTION:How do we address Holocaust denial? \nIn this webinar\, Dr. Efraim Zuroff\, known as “The Last of the Nazi Hunters\,” discusses how to debunk Holocaust denial and speaks on Holocaust distortion\, a new and growing threat that seeks to rewrite the narrative of the Holocaust. \nThis webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 11 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-denial-and-distortion/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230428T134005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T153805Z UID:10000877-1684681200-1684686600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:'Cycles of Violence and Peace in Cambodia' DESCRIPTION:Honoring the National Day of Remembrance for the \nCambodian Genocide\n\n\nCambodia’s story is often dominated by the 3 years and 8 months when the Khmer Rouge controlled the country. The horrors of this time\, in the midst of 3 decades of war\, often overshadows the incredible resiliency of Cambodians in overcoming such violence and working to bring peace to their country. \nJoin us as we explore Cambodia’s history through a timeline (cycle) and four stained glass windows. These windows reflect the country’s turbulent history\, but more importantly remind us that Cambodia’s future is brighter than the past. \n\n\nកាស ស្ព័រ – Casper Gils \nDirector of the Cambodia Peace Gallery \nBorn in 1985\, Casper Gils is Museum Director of the Cambodia Peace Gallery in Battambang and in his free time an enthusiastic historian and long distance cyclist. \nCasper was born in the Netherlands and is engaged to Pisey Seng\, who is a teacher at Ek Phnom High School in Battambang. \nIn the Netherlands he studied archaeology and mainly worked on Neolithic and WW2 excavations and educational programs in order to make archaeology understandable for the public. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/cycles-of-violence-and-peace-in-cambodia/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Email-Promo-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230411T104831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230502T165725Z UID:10000876-1684677600-1684683000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Talking Memory program marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special\nTalking Memory program marking\nthe 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\nOpening Remarks\nYigal Cohen\, CEO Ghetto Fighters’ House \nJulia Mackiewicz\, Polish Institute in Tel Aviv \nRound Table: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel \nGuest Speakers: \nTamar Herzberg – Yad Mordechai\nNoam Leibman – Moreshet\nAnat Bratman-Elhalel – Ghetto Fighters’ House \nKeynote Speaker: \nDr. Avinoam Patt \nThe Battle of Warsaw’s Jews: The Afterlife of the Revolt \nOn April 23\, 1943\, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency delivered the news of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt\, relaying a report received in Stockholm the day before with the headline “Nazis Start Mass-Execution of Warsaw Jews on Passover; Victims Broadcast S.O.S.” The timing of the revolt\, taking place as it did in the spring of 1943\, the deadliest year of WWII for European Jewry\, influenced the manner in which it was reported\, interpreted\, and understood. Through an examination of the ways in which the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was reported in April and May of 1943\, we can begin to understand how and why the event was transformed into both a symbol of Jewish resistance\, Jewish sacrifice\, and Jewish martyrdom during and after World War II. Soon after the revolt was suppressed in May 1943\, representatives from the Jewish Labor Bund in New York and the Zionist movement in the Yishuv began to dispute both the heroes of the revolt and its true political and ideological significance. While historians have generally seen the politicization of the revolt occurring after the war\, with the first encounter of the survivors with their new homes\, the polemics of 1944 between the Bund and the Labor Zionists (with the role of the Revisionists left out of early narratives) makes clear that within one year of the revolt\, the battle for credit in Jewish public opinion meant the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was too great a symbol to relinquish to the political enemy. By the first anniversary after the Uprising (April 19\, 1944) Jewish communities organized solemn commemorations in New York\, London\, Tel Aviv and elsewhere to recall Warsaw as a “fortress of freedom” and as the “Masada of Warsaw.” Responding to this politicization during the war\, it was the surviving ghetto fighters themselves who would play a critical role in writing their own “three lines in history.” \nThis program is in partnership with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, Yad Mordechai Museum\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-program-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/30-5-21-web-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230327T022648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230521T133447Z UID:10000871-1684418400-1684423800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:Join CWB and our partners as we explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses. \n “Holocaust Cinema: How ‘A Film Unfinished’ Questions Archival Footage” \nFeaturing Annette Insdorf \nThe growing genre of Holocaust Cinema includes films made by members of the third generation of survivors in Israel. \nInsdorf will discuss two exemplary documentaries: “Numbered” (2012\, Dana Doron & Uriel Sinai\, Israel\, 55 minutes) focuses on the tattoos of Auschwitz survivors – who view their numbers in unique ways – as well as the process of recording and representing survivors. “A Film Unfinished” is directed by Yael Hersonski (2010\, Israel\, 88 minutes). She juxtaposes archival footage of the Warsaw Ghetto – taken by Nazis throughout May 1942 – with a contemporary interrogation of whether images can be trusted. \nAnnette Insdorf \n \nAnnette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and Moderator of the popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92Y\, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study\, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives\, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut\, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman\, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes\, currently in its fourth printing. \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 Memory Studies: Museums and Memorials\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23 2023 Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023  Ethics and Law\nApril 27th 2023 Education URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-6/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T154710Z UID:10000847-1684339200-1684344600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMay 17th 2023 Session Featuring\nA conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum \nDuring the 1930s and 1940s there were a number of films depicting Hitler and the Nazi assault against the Jews – it was not yet called the Holocaust\, in fact it was a “crime without name.” As part of our five part series on America and the Holocaust\, we will consider the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea. \nMichael Berlin\, screenwriter and founder of the Jewish Film Festival of Orange County\, CA. \nMichael Berlin\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of Screenwriting\, Cal State Long Beach\, screenwriter and producer\, currently works for ABC and Wide World Disney. He has written and produced over 150 episodes of dramatic TV scripts ranging from award winning “Cagney and Lacy\,” “Miami Vice\,” “Quantum Leap\,” “The Commish\,” “Murder She Wrote\,” and “Sisters” to Steven Spielberg’s “Earth 2” and Gene Rodenbury’s “Earth: Final Conflict.” Feature film credits include “Breaking Point\,” “Gaudi\,” “Robo Warriors\,” and “Anguish\,” the winner of 10 European awards including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival\, Spain. A Ph.D. psychologist\, he is a former associate professor of Psychology and Film and dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Developmental Studies in Los Angeles. He has been the host of Orange County’s University Synagogue Jewish Film Festival for 10 years\, and is currently Adjunct Film Curator at the Bower’s Museum of Cultural Art. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n April 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-5-2/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230426T173122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T163153Z UID:10000883-1683817200-1683822600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-game-changers-with-director-noam-sobovitz/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/poste-rgb-eng-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230423T121553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T121553Z UID:10000885-1683730800-1683734400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment DESCRIPTION:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment\n \nSince the end of WWII\, many explanations have been offered as to why the Nazis and their collaborators perpetrated the Holocaust.  These range from early childhood abuse\, the impact of Prussian militarism\, and a human propensity to follow orders. Today it is clear that there is no one explanation\, but many factors that led people to become perpetrators. Dr. Robert Rozett\, senior historian at Yad Vashem\, will address many of these factors and the role of public discourse in setting the stage for the Holocaust. This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/perpetrators-of-the-holocaust-a-reassessment/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230423T121144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T121654Z UID:10000882-1682953200-1682956800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study DESCRIPTION:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study\n \nWhat was life like for those trapped inside the Lodz ghetto? When the Germans sealed off the ghetto on May 1\, 1940\, 164\,000 Jews were imprisoned in Lodz\, the second largest of over 1\,000 ghettos in Europe. Using photography and testimony\, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will provide insight into the four long years the ghetto existed\, and its many unique characteristics. This webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 4 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \nLiz Elsby has worked at Yad Vashem since 2006 as a Holocaust Educator and museum tour guide. She guides educational groups in Poland\, Prague\, Terezin and Berlin\, as well as teaching about the Holocaust to teachers in the USA through Yad Vashem and Echoes and Reflections. Liz is also an artist\, illustrator and graphic designer and lives with her family in Jerusalem\, Israel. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-lodz-ghetto-an-in-depth-study/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230302T152506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T153018Z UID:10000867-1682604000-1682609400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry DESCRIPTION:An 8 Part Series exploring the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through unique and previously unexplored lenses\n  \nOur 3rd Session will feature \nWhy Should We Care? \nThe Holocaust and Public Humanities \nwith Professor Björn Krondorfer \n  \nClassrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Madene Shachar\, Director\, “Talking Memory” online lecture series & International Educational Programs the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, Esther Toporek Finder\, member of the GSI Coordinating Council\, Generations of the Shoah and in partnership with Liberation75 is pleased to embark on this new innovative series “The Holocaust as an Interdisciplinary Tapestry”. \nThis 8 part series will engage with scholars and experts who grapple with themes related to Holocaust studies. The series will explore the multifaceted discipline of Holocaust Studies through different lenses. The series will include scholars whose research and publications shed new light in this field of study that continues to grow and develop. Our experts will challenge us to understand the causes\, impacts\, and legacies of the Holocaust. \nWhile we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, we want to stay alert to the fact that for students learning about it today\, this history is more than three generations ago. We should not assume that either students\, teachers or the general public easily connect to the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Krondorfer will talk about his experiences with Public Humanities projects that help to connect us to the Holocaust. \n \nProf Bjorn Krondorfer \nBjörn Krondorfer is Regents’ Professor and the Director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. As Endowed Professor of Religious Studies\, he also teaches in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University\, Philadelphia. His field of expertise is religion\, gender\, and culture\, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. His scholarship helped to define the field of Critical Men’s Studies in Religions. \nIn 2007-08\, he was guest professor at the Institute of Theology and the History of Religion at the Freie University Berlin\, Germany\, and he held the status of visiting Faculty Affiliate at the University of the Free State\, South Africa. He received a Senior Research Fellowship at the Vrije University in Amsterdam (2016/2017) and is the recipient of the Norton Dodge Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievements. He is currently the VP of the “Association of Public Religious and Intellectual Life” (APRIL) and in 2020 was elected chair of the “Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Human Rights Studies.” He has been invited to speak\, present his research\, and facilitate intercultural seminars in Armenia\, Australia\, Austria\, Belgium\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Canada\, Finland\, Germany\, Italy\, Israel & Palestine\, Poland\, South Africa\, South Korea\, Switzerland\, The Netherlands\, United Kingdom\, and the United States \nAs director of the Martin-Springer Institute\, he has organized several international academic symposia. He has mentored the creation of several exhibits: Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto; Resilience: Women in Flagstaff’s Past and Present; and the permanent installation of a Berlin Wall exhibit at NAU. He has curated the art exhibitions Wounded Landscapes (2014) and Echoes of Loss: Artistic Responses to Trauma (2018). In 2019\, he has been awarded a one-month residential fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute on the theme of “truth and reconciliation.” \nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and Chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF). She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust and genocide education\, memory\, reconciliation\, and human rights. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. Tali has been involved in the creation and production of dozens of documentary films\, published many articles and contributed chapters to different books among them God\, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015)\, Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018)\, Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021) and The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). \nIn 2021 she was part of the 12-member Expert Group of the Malmö Forum\, serving in an advisory capacity to the Secretariat of the Malmö Forum on their programme on Holocaust remembrance\, education and actions to combat antisemitism. Tali serves on many Advisory and Academic Boards including that of the Contested Histories Initiative\, the Interdisciplinary Academic Journal of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. \nIn 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in \nSouth Africa by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015)\, the Gratias Agit Award (2020\, Czech Republic)\, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (2021) and the Goethe Medal (2022\, Germany). \nThank you to our Partners\n \n \n \n \n \nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC\n\nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\nMarch 23 2023 Eli M. Rosenbaum and Dr. Tamir Hod  on Achieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-holocaust-as-an-interdisciplinary-tapestry-4/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22-2-web-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T155925Z UID:10000846-1682524800-1682530200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring:\nCharles Gallagher S.J.\,  on Nazis in Copley Square\n  \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n \nFather Gallagher is a Professor of History at Boston College who has written an  important book about Nazi activities – German and American Nazi  activities – in Boston. It is a major study of how German government officials and Nazi allies in America \, most especially the  German American Bund worked in tandem to try to undermine US support for Britain and for Jews and to strengthen American isolationism in the crucial pre-war years. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMay 17th 2023 featuring’s Session: A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-3/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T170000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230414T213957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T214833Z UID:10000881-1682262000-1682269200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage DESCRIPTION:Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play\, Etty\, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943\, we meet a remarkable young Dutch woman: insightful\, determined\, poetic\, sensual. \nThrough the voice of actress Susan Stein\, Hillesum speaks directly to her audience\, frankly\, and with compassion–even for the enemy. Seeking the meaning of her life–and all life–during the terror of Nazi occupation\, Hillesum discovers a reality she calls God and opens herself to the power of being fully alive and present\, bearing witness to the catastrophe unfolding around her. \nIn her gentle yet forthright way\, Hillesum asks us not to leave her at Auschwitz\, but to let her have a “little bit of a say” in what she hopes will be a new world. \n \n\nSusan Stein\, Author & Performer \n\n\nSusan Stein is the author of Etty\, an adaptation of Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters. Susan picked up the diaries in 1994 for fifty cents at a yard sale after her friend\, Joan\, recommended it. After reading the diaries\, Susan wanted to give something back to Etty. She wanted to make a play of Etty’s words and bring her to people who might not read the diaries themselves. \nShe began distilling the diaries and letters in 2006 meeting weekly with New York director and actor\, Austin Pendleton to bring her adaptation to the stage. Etty has been performed in black box theatres\, studios\, libraries\, schools and major theatres around the country and internationally. Some of these venues include: Yad Vashem\, Israel; 59e59 Theaters\, New York; Next Theatre\, Illinois; Philly Fringe Festival\, Pennsylvania; Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, Scotland; Smith College\, Massachusetts; Boston College; Boston University; University of Ghent\, Belgium; Bowery Poetry Club\, New York; Fort Monmouth Army Base\, New Jersey; The Museum of Jewish Heritage\, New York; Anne Frank Center USA\, Peekskill Performing Arts Center\, New York; and the Etty Hillesum Center in Deventer\, The Netherlands. \nSusan Stein appeared in Arthur Miller’s American Clock\, directed by Austin Pendleton. She was seen at Luna Stage in A Parent’s Evening. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science and Purchase College\, SUNY. She served for thirteen years on the faculty of Princeton Day School in Princeton\, NJ teaching Dramatic Literature\, playwriting and the history and literature of the Holocaust. \nStudent Matinees April 19\, 20 & 21 at 10 AM \nContact ellen@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net to schedule Student Matinees \nPublic Performances \n\nApril 21 & 22 at 8:00 pm \nApril 23 at 3:00 pm URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-adapted-and-performed-by-susan-stein-at-the-carnegie-stage/2023-04-23/ LOCATION:off the WALL productions\, 25 West Main Street\, Carnegie\, 15106\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.25x5.5-Flyer-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T220000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230414T213957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T214833Z UID:10000880-1682193600-1682200800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage DESCRIPTION:Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play\, Etty\, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943\, we meet a remarkable young Dutch woman: insightful\, determined\, poetic\, sensual. \nThrough the voice of actress Susan Stein\, Hillesum speaks directly to her audience\, frankly\, and with compassion–even for the enemy. Seeking the meaning of her life–and all life–during the terror of Nazi occupation\, Hillesum discovers a reality she calls God and opens herself to the power of being fully alive and present\, bearing witness to the catastrophe unfolding around her. \nIn her gentle yet forthright way\, Hillesum asks us not to leave her at Auschwitz\, but to let her have a “little bit of a say” in what she hopes will be a new world. \n \n\nSusan Stein\, Author & Performer \n\n\nSusan Stein is the author of Etty\, an adaptation of Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters. Susan picked up the diaries in 1994 for fifty cents at a yard sale after her friend\, Joan\, recommended it. After reading the diaries\, Susan wanted to give something back to Etty. She wanted to make a play of Etty’s words and bring her to people who might not read the diaries themselves. \nShe began distilling the diaries and letters in 2006 meeting weekly with New York director and actor\, Austin Pendleton to bring her adaptation to the stage. Etty has been performed in black box theatres\, studios\, libraries\, schools and major theatres around the country and internationally. Some of these venues include: Yad Vashem\, Israel; 59e59 Theaters\, New York; Next Theatre\, Illinois; Philly Fringe Festival\, Pennsylvania; Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, Scotland; Smith College\, Massachusetts; Boston College; Boston University; University of Ghent\, Belgium; Bowery Poetry Club\, New York; Fort Monmouth Army Base\, New Jersey; The Museum of Jewish Heritage\, New York; Anne Frank Center USA\, Peekskill Performing Arts Center\, New York; and the Etty Hillesum Center in Deventer\, The Netherlands. \nSusan Stein appeared in Arthur Miller’s American Clock\, directed by Austin Pendleton. She was seen at Luna Stage in A Parent’s Evening. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science and Purchase College\, SUNY. She served for thirteen years on the faculty of Princeton Day School in Princeton\, NJ teaching Dramatic Literature\, playwriting and the history and literature of the Holocaust. \nStudent Matinees April 19\, 20 & 21 at 10 AM \nContact ellen@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net to schedule Student Matinees \nPublic Performances \n\nApril 21 & 22 at 8:00 pm \nApril 23 at 3:00 pm URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-adapted-and-performed-by-susan-stein-at-the-carnegie-stage/2023-04-22/ LOCATION:off the WALL productions\, 25 West Main Street\, Carnegie\, 15106\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.25x5.5-Flyer-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230414T213957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T214833Z UID:10000879-1682107200-1682114400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage DESCRIPTION:Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play\, Etty\, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943\, we meet a remarkable young Dutch woman: insightful\, determined\, poetic\, sensual. \nThrough the voice of actress Susan Stein\, Hillesum speaks directly to her audience\, frankly\, and with compassion–even for the enemy. Seeking the meaning of her life–and all life–during the terror of Nazi occupation\, Hillesum discovers a reality she calls God and opens herself to the power of being fully alive and present\, bearing witness to the catastrophe unfolding around her. \nIn her gentle yet forthright way\, Hillesum asks us not to leave her at Auschwitz\, but to let her have a “little bit of a say” in what she hopes will be a new world. \n \n\nSusan Stein\, Author & Performer \n\n\nSusan Stein is the author of Etty\, an adaptation of Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters. Susan picked up the diaries in 1994 for fifty cents at a yard sale after her friend\, Joan\, recommended it. After reading the diaries\, Susan wanted to give something back to Etty. She wanted to make a play of Etty’s words and bring her to people who might not read the diaries themselves. \nShe began distilling the diaries and letters in 2006 meeting weekly with New York director and actor\, Austin Pendleton to bring her adaptation to the stage. Etty has been performed in black box theatres\, studios\, libraries\, schools and major theatres around the country and internationally. Some of these venues include: Yad Vashem\, Israel; 59e59 Theaters\, New York; Next Theatre\, Illinois; Philly Fringe Festival\, Pennsylvania; Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, Scotland; Smith College\, Massachusetts; Boston College; Boston University; University of Ghent\, Belgium; Bowery Poetry Club\, New York; Fort Monmouth Army Base\, New Jersey; The Museum of Jewish Heritage\, New York; Anne Frank Center USA\, Peekskill Performing Arts Center\, New York; and the Etty Hillesum Center in Deventer\, The Netherlands. \nSusan Stein appeared in Arthur Miller’s American Clock\, directed by Austin Pendleton. She was seen at Luna Stage in A Parent’s Evening. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science and Purchase College\, SUNY. She served for thirteen years on the faculty of Princeton Day School in Princeton\, NJ teaching Dramatic Literature\, playwriting and the history and literature of the Holocaust. \nStudent Matinees April 19\, 20 & 21 at 10 AM \nContact ellen@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net to schedule Student Matinees \nPublic Performances \n\nApril 21 & 22 at 8:00 pm \nApril 23 at 3:00 pm URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-adapted-and-performed-by-susan-stein-at-the-carnegie-stage/2023-04-21/ LOCATION:off the WALL productions\, 25 West Main Street\, Carnegie\, 15106\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.25x5.5-Flyer-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230308T172737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T175159Z UID:10000868-1682002800-1682008200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Air Born DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Air Born:\nwith Liat Eini-Netzer & moderator Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA fascinating little-known historical tale is stirringly recounted in Air Born\, an inspiring documentary that brings the story of the children who grew up in Israeli air force bases housing projects of the 1960s and 1970s. \nIn a civilian housing complex surrounded by a bustling military base where his father served\, director Yoram Ivry recalls his childhood protected by a fence and a guard with an endless feeling of freedom and security\, full of dramatic events that influenced his life and the lives of so many other children who grew up in the shadow of wars. \nCelebrating the heroism and derring-do attitude of Israeli pilots\, Air Born also touchingly conveys a valuable history lesson that is both informative and inspirational. \nLiat Eini-Netzer is a senior partner at B. Levinbook & Co. \n \nMs. Eini-Netzer lives in Tel Aviv\, married and mother of 3 children. \nMs. Eini-Netzer has 30 years of experience in every aspect of civil and commercial litigation\, in all courts\, and in all areas of substantive law. She has represented clients including leading corporations in Israel and abroad\, the majority of banks in Israel\, overseas banks\, various financial bodies\, institutions\, public companies\, and more. \nMs. Eini-Netzer also possesses outstanding specialist expertise and experience in banking regulation. In addition\, her unique skills ideally position her to advise service providers\, primarily banks\, and represent them in standard form contracts. \nFurthermore\, Ms. Eini-Netzer provides pro bono legal representation and assistance for non-profit organizations that strive to advance worthy causes. She also lectures at various forums and seminars on a range of subjects\, including banking law. \nAvi Ben-Hur \nScholar in Residence \n\n\n\nAvi Ben-Hur is an Israeli-American scholar and guide who has been living in Jerusalem since 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi directed a national guiding school for Archaeological Seminars. Avi is a lecturer and field guide in the University of Haifa’s Tourism school and has taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. \nAs a scholar in residence\, Avi has run seminars for Classrooms Without Borders and the Florence Melton School for Adult Jewish Education in Greece\, Berlin\, Prague\, Israel and Poland. \nAvi’s expertise lies in the geo-political issues underlying the Arab-Israeli conflict\, Interfaith encounters and in Holocaust studies. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-air-born/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/14596f1d3f430f58d767546f7dd0fe22-hZeHfl.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230208T184439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T193514Z UID:10000856-1681743600-1681747200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Liberation and Return to Life: An American liberator's story DESCRIPTION:Liberation and Return to Life: An American liberator’s story\n  \nAs the Allied forces liberated war-torn Europe\, what did they bear witness to as their units entered unfamiliar territory? John L. Withers of Greensboro\, North Carolina\, was commander of the U.S. Army’s all-black Quartermaster Truck Company 3511 that had been tasked with supplying emergency provisions to the German town of Dachau in May 1945. Victims of racial abuse themselves\, they were shocked to discover Jewish survivors of the Dachau concentration camp. Today’s webinar is presented by John L. Withers’ own son\, John L. Withers II\, who penned his father’s experiences in Balm in Gilead.  \nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 6 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n  \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/liberation-and-return-to-life-an-american-liberators-story/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230403T152007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T154541Z UID:10000875-1681732800-1681738200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah online lecture “Early Israeli and American Artists: Re-visioning the Holocaust” DESCRIPTION:“Early Israeli and American Artists: Re-visioning the Holocaust”\n\n\nThis online talk focuses on three Israeli and three American familiar and unfamiliar artists working in very diverse styles and not typically thought of as focusing on the Holocaust. Each of them\, however\, has offered powerful reflections on the defining catastrophe of the twentieth century. \n\nBarnett Newman\, the foremost verbal spokesman for the chromatic side of the abstract expressionist movement redefining American painting in the early 1950s\, offers an unexpectedly intense reflection on the question of theodicy. Mordecai Ardon\, in the process of assuming leadership of the Bezalel school in Jerusalem at around the same time\, balances between abstraction and figuration in depicting the Nazi-engendered chaos. Ygal Tumarkin’s sculpture turns Holocaust chaos into upside-down order and Mauricio Lasansky’s drawings turn stridently to Nazi malfeasance to ask how evil can be envisioned. Micha Ullman’s installation addresses the void after the aftermath of Nazi destruction—and Geoffrey Laurence questions how we can and must shape the post-Holocaust future. Each of these artists contributes to the endlessly complex dialogue—between Jews and Christians\, humans and humans\, and humans and God—that is the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust.\n\n\nOri Z Soltes\, PhD\, teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines\, from art history and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum\, and has curated more than 90 exhibitions across the country and overseas. He has authored or edited 25 books and several hundred articles and essays. Recent volumes include Our Sacred Signs: How Jewish\, Christian and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source; The Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust; and Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art & Architecture; and Growing Up Jewish in India: Synagogues\, Ceremonies\, and Customs from the Bene Israel to the art of Siona Benjamin.\n\n\nThis event is organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art\, New York. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/yom-hashoah-online-lecture-early-israeli-and-american-artists-re-visioning-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230330T130921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T162456Z UID:10000872-1681657200-1681662600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Israel at 75 Reflections for Yom Ha'atzmaut DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Israel’s accomplishments\nsince its founding in 1948\n\n\n\nRabbi Jonty Blackman \n \n\n\n\n\nJonty has led many seminars and missions in Poland and Israel and is a gifted educator and a fascinating storyteller. Jonty has a unique way of connecting his teachings to his audience\, such that their experience of learning leaves a deep and enduring impact on their lives. He weaves together Jewish history with philosophy\, culture with archaeology\, and the tragedy of the Holocaust with probing\, source-based theological questions. His intricate knowledge of Jewish history and the Holocaust\, combined with his analytical and sensitive approach to challenging philosophical questions offers students a profound educational experience. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/israel-at-75-reflections-for-yom-haatzmaut/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/bbffb73347ceb5a210972da732483d1d-ElOVNu.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260709T005101 CREATED:20230330T152503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T155049Z UID:10000873-1681227000-1681232400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Poland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust Remembrance Sites in Poland DESCRIPTION:On April 11\, please join CWB Participant Alumni from Carnegie Mellon University for a presentation featuring Stephen Brockmann:\n\nPoland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust Remembrance Sites in Poland\n \nTuesday\, April 11\n3:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nPosner Hall 340\n\n\nIn summer 2022\, Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate Talia Oliver and professor of German Stephen Brockmann traveled to Poland to visit Holocaust memorial sites with Classrooms Without Borders. During their trip\, they were joined by Holocaust survivor Howard Chandler and a large group of students and teachers from Pittsburgh and elsewhere. At this talk\, they will talk about their experiences in Poland as well as their encounters with Ukrainian refugees. \nFree and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/poland-personally-and-holocaust-remembrance-experiences-of-students-and-faculty-touring-holocaust-remembrance-sites-in-poland/ LOCATION:PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/unnamed.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR