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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T140000
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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
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T150000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T150000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T140000
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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/
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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.
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LOCATION:Virtual
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T004816
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T220000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T163000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T133000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T163000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T170000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T160000
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SUMMARY:THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
DESCRIPTION:THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING\n  \nThe Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April 1943 is an iconic symbol of heroic resistance during the Holocaust. Who were the members of the youth movements that participated in this uprising? How were they able to resist\, after years of oppression\, starvation and persecution? In honor of Holocaust Memorial Day\, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will present this astonishing example of armed resistance\, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising. \n  \n  \nThis webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 7 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \n 
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T133000
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SUMMARY:“Sweet Kitsch\, I can’t do that.” Maria Luiko (1904-1941) With Wolfram P. Kastner and Mascha Erbelding\, both Munich (Germany)
DESCRIPTION:“Sweet Kitsch\, I can’t do that.”\nMaria Luiko (1904-1941)\nWith Wolfram P. Kastner and Mascha Erbelding\, both Munich (Germany)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe artistic work of Maria Luiko (1904-1941)\, born Marie Luise Kohn in Munich\, is characterized by an impressive diversity. In addition to drawings\, watercolors and oil paintings\, she created prints using various printing processes and paper cuts\, and designed book illustrations\, stage sets and marionettes. Already during her studies at the local Academy of Fine Arts and her training at the School of Applied Arts she was included in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace (Münchner Glaspalast).\nHer career was brutally cut short by the Nazi regime. In 1933 Luiko was expelled from the Reich Association of Fine Artists and was banned from exhibiting. Until 1939 she contributed to the Jewish Cultural Association and the Marionette Theater of Munich Jewish Artists. A large part of her graphic works\, in which she critically deals with the current living conditions and everyday situations\, were created during this time. On November 20\, 1941 Maria Luiko was deported to Kaunas in Lithuania together with her sister Dr. Elisabeth Kohn\, her mother Olga Kohn (nee Schulhöfer) and 996 other Jews and murdered there. \nPresentations by Wolfram P. Kastner\, curator and artist\, and Mascha Erbelding\, director of the Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection at Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich City Museum)\, will be followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A. Introduced by Rachel Stern\, director and CEO of the Fritz Ascher Society. \nImage above: Maria Luiko\, Beggar (Bettlerin)\, ca. 1935. Paper; Woodcut\, 30 cm x 38\,5 cm. Jewish Museum Munich (Jüdisches Museum München)\, Collection Maria Luiko \nMaria Luiko (1904-1941) was a daughter of the grain wholesaler Heinrich Kohn and Olga Schulhöfer\, her slightly older sister was the lawyer Elisabeth Kohn. The daughters lived in the Neuhausen district of Munich with their mother\, who was widowed in 1935. \nFrom 1923 Kohn studied eight semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the same time at the Munich School of Applied Arts\, where she also had her studio for a while. In 1924 she participated for the first time in an exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace\, this was followed by regular participations until 1931 and after the fire in the Glass Palace in 1931 she participated in the Munich Juryfreie. \nMarie Luise Kohn adopted the artist name Maria Luiko and was creatively active in a variety of ways. She was represented at local exhibitions with drawings\, watercolors and oil paintings as well as silhouettes\, lithographs\, woodcuts and linocuts. She also created book illustrations\, such as Ernst Toller’s Hinkemann in 1923 and Shalom Ben-Chorin’s 1934 book of poems The Songs of the Eternal Well. \nIn 1933 Luiko was expelled from the Reich Association of Fine Artists and was banned from exhibiting. Until 1939 she contributed to the Jewish Cultural Association and the Marionette Theater of Munich Jewish Artists. A large part of her graphic works\, in which she critically deals with the current living conditions and everyday situations\, were created during this time. Luiko made her studio available for exhibitions and theater rehearsals. In 1934\, she took part in the “Graphic Exhibition of Bavarian Jewish Artists” in Munich\, and in 1935/36 she designed the stage set for Semen Yushkevich’s play “Sonkin and the Main Hit”. In April 1936 she took part in the “Reich Exhibition of Jewish Artists” at the Berlin Jewish Museum.\nShe designed and created the puppets for the Munich Marionette Theater of Jewish Artists. \nMaria Luiko\, Munich Marionette Theater of Jewish Artists\, Marionette “Israelite” (1/2) (Marionette “Israelitin” (1/2))\, 1935. Papier-Mâché laminated\, colored; Textile\, wire\, 42 cm. Münchner Stadtmuseum\, Sammlung Puppentheater / Schaustellerei (Munich City Museum\, Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection) \nOn November 20\, 1941\, Luiko was deported “to the East” from Munich\, together with her mother and sister\, and 998 other Jewish people. The passenger train originally destined for Riga was diverted by the SS to Kovno (Kaunas). On November 25\, 1941\, all prisoners of Kaunas Fort IX were murdered. \nMascha Erbelding is the director of the of the Sammlung Puppentheater / Schaustellerei des Münchner Stadtmuseums (Puppet Theatre / Fairground Attractions Collection). She studied dramaturgy\, comparative literature and history at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding / Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich\, at the FU Berlin and at the Université Rennes II. Her diploma thesis on „Mit dem Tod spielt man nicht. Funktion und Gestalt des Todes im Figurentheater des 20. Jahrhunderts“ (One Does Not Play with Death. Function and Form of Death in Twentieth-Century Century Puppet Theatre) was published in 2006. She is the artistic and organisational director of the Munich International Puppet Theatre Festival “Wunder.” and the „KUCKUCK“ festival for children 0-5. Since 2007 she has been a member of the editorial board of the puppet theatre magazine double. She contributed to the „Compendium of German artistic puppet theater 1900-1945“ (edited by Manfred Wegner in 2019). \nWolfram P. Kastner is an independent artist\, researcher and and curator. He studied art\, psychology\, history and politics at the Munich university. He shows art in public spaces\, which interferes and sometimes disturbs: art that makes visible what is otherwise invisible. His art usually causes reflection and discussion\, contradiction\, but also bans\, death threats and court processes. In addition to interventions and actions in public on current and historical topics such as exclusion\, violence and war\, installations\, objects and satirical\, beautiful and sometimes angry pictures\, drawings\, objects\, photos\, etc. Exhibitions\, installations and actions since 1980 between Berlin and Vienna\, Budapest\, Hamburg\, Munich\, Salzburg\, Rotterdam. 2005 German Jewish History Award/Arthur Obermayer Foundation/Boston\, 2005 “Nothing to see?”against the so-called “Judensau” sculptures at German churches\, 2007 “Terrible Paths” project to commemorate the death march of Hungarian Jews in April 1945\, 2008 “Unheard Music”\, art project in memory of Jewish musicians and composers\, 2011 Prize of the International Auschwitz Committee\, 2022 Upright Walk Award\, Humanist Union Germany \nIn 2022\, Michaela Melián’s temporary installation “Maria Luiko\, Mourner\, 1938” played with opposites: On the one hand\, there is the veiled statue of Neptune\, which was erected by the National Socialists in 1937 as part of the redesign of the Old Botanical Garden in Munich. The sculptor\, Joseph Wackerle\, was later included in Adolf Hitler’s list of “God-gifted”. On the other hand\, Maria Luiko’s “Mourner”\, the woodcut of an anonymous mourning woman\, was created just one year later. “This anonymous mourning woman is now supposed to cover the powerful male Neptune body in the ruler’s pose\,” writes Melián. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York\, in cooperation with the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community in Munich. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of our monthly series Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.
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SUMMARY:Framing Identity: The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar/Burma
DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University is hosting a community program entitled\n“Framing Identity: The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar/Burma”\nFeaturing Dr. Alexis Herr and Shwe Maung.
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SUMMARY:Victimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:\nViolated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nVictimization of Jewish Women Survivors by Their Soviet Liberators\n  \nGuest Speaker: Dr. Daina S. Eglitis \nDr. Eglitis’s talk discusses the phenomenon of sexual violence at liberation\, specifically\, assaults committed by Soviet Army liberators against Jewish women survivors. Testimonies and memoirs reveal that survival of Nazi captivity was perceived by some Soviet troops as evidence of complicity\, which fostered a thirst for revenge\, and that soldiers sometimes sought to exact payment for freedom from women survivors. Evidence from these sources also points to continuing brutality against survivors seeking to return to homes in the USSR in Soviet filtration camps. \n \nThis program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET)\, Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.
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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  \nMarch Session  \nAchieving Legal Accountability for WWII Nazi Crimes: Experiences of the Israel National Police and US Department of Justice\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 International (GSI) 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. \nEli M. Rosenbaum will be talking about some of the experiences he has had prosecuting Nazis in the US.  He would explore some of the challenges the US Department of Justice has had to deal\, such as finding documents\, witnesses\, and more years and decades after the crimes were committed\, in another country and continent. \nEli M. Rosenbaum  \n  Photo credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum\n \nEli M. Rosenbaum is the longest serving investigator and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals and other human rights violators in world history.  He has served since 2010 as Director of Human Rights Enforcement Strategy and Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP).  In June 2022\, he was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve concurrently as Counselor for War Crimes Accountability\, tasked with coordinating efforts across the Justice Department and with other federal agencies and authorities abroad to hold accountable persons responsible for war crimes and other atrocities committed in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked invasion.  Those efforts are spearheaded by DOJ’s newly created War Crimes Accountability Team\, which he heads and which draws on the extensive expertise of HRSP staff\, supplemented by contributions of professionals in other Justice Department components.  A veteran 37-year Justice Department prosecutor\, Rosenbaum served initially as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI)\, eventually serving as OSI’s Director from 1995 to 2010\, when OSI was merged into the newly created HRSP.  OSI was responsible for identifying\, investigating\, and taking legal action against perpetrators of World War II-era Nazi crimes of persecution\, and its mission was later expanded to include persons complicit in human rights crimes committed in post-WWII conflicts.  He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania\, where he earned undergraduate and MBA degrees\, and Harvard Law School.  He has received numerous awards for his work\, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the “Heroes in Blue” award of the Anti-Defamation League. \nTamir’s focus will be on Israel Police Unit for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes – Holocaust Survivors’ Legal Retribution.  \nIn 1958\, the Central Office of Judicial Administration for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in Germany. Documenting the actions of Nazi criminals in preparation for their trial brought the bureau’s representatives to contact the Israeli Police in order to help them gather evidence from Holocaust survivors residing in the country. Consequently\, a police unit was needed to deal with the increasing number of inquiries from Germany. For that purpose\, the unit for the investigation of Nazi crimes was established in the Israeli Police. Two years later\, Adolf Eichmann was captured and brought to Israel. This event deeply affected the sentiments of Israeli society toward the Holocaust. One of the impacts was Holocaust survivors who contacted the unit requesting to provide their testimonies. \nMany of the appeals included names of Nazi criminals who could potentially be located and prosecuted. The special police unit comprised almost completely of Holocaust survivors. The survivors played an important role in collecting and documenting the historical records available to us today. Many of the unit members had lost their families in the Holocaust. It may be conjectured that they sought vengeance upon those who committed the crimes. Nonetheless\, if indeed they had such feelings\, they were translated into long hours of detailed legal work that would lead to proper legal procedures through which it would be possible to bring the perpetrators to justice. \nDr. Tamir Hod \n \nDr. Tamir Hod is a historian in the field of World War II and the Holocaust\, as well as the impact of Holocaust remembrance on Israeli society. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the Demjanjuk trial case in Israel\, under the guidance of Prof. Hanna Yablonka. Dr. Hod researched the role the Ukrainian collaborators played in the Treblinka extermination camp. These days\, Tamir is working on a book about the Nazi Crimes Investigations Unit in the Israeli Police. The unit\, which was founded in 1960\, was mainly composed of Holocaust survivors and contributed greatly to various trials in different places around the world against Nazi criminals and their collaborators. Dr. Tamir Hod teaches at Tel Hai Academic College and Western Galilee Academic College. \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 \nPast Events in this Series: \n\nFebruary 23\, 2023 Dr. Robert Krell Discussion on Psychiatry and the Holocaust\n\nFuture Events in this Series:  \n\nApril 27 2023 Education\nMay 18 2023 Film\nJune 15 2023 Police and Military\nSeptember 21 2023 Judaic Studies\nOctober 26 2023 Gender Studies\nNovember 16 2023 TBC
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SUMMARY:Barbara G. Arfa Annual Professional Development Conference on Holocaust Education “From Documentation to Social Media: Empowering Students to Analyze (Mis)Information"
DESCRIPTION:BARBARA GUTFREUND ARFA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe face many challenges in Holocaust education: raising awareness of its lessons\, honoring\, and memorializing the victims\, sustaining the relevancy of this event\, and addressing the challenges of those who maintain it never happened. As educators\, we are also responsible to teach our students critical thinking. They must develop information and media literacy and be equipped to identify and expose Holocaust denial and distortion of all kinds. Holocaust denial has become a significant issue. As a further challenge\, our students must learn to expose it without restricting freedom of speech. \nJoin us for this opportunity to hear remarks given by Dr. Michael Berenbaum on the urgency to give these challenges immediate attention and address these issues through education represented in museums\, memorials\, cinema\, and historical documentation. This program will empower educators to safeguard students who might be exposed to manipulation and indoctrination through social media platforms. This program includes a panel presentation\, Q and A\, and professional development workshops led by experts in the field. \nBOTH IN PERSON AND VIA ZOOM \nOur annual Barbara Gutfreund Arfa Professional Development Conference on Holocaust Education provides educators with innovative resources and techniques to teach students about the Holocaust and sustain the lessons of this event for present and future generations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEATURING:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMICHAEL BERENBAUM\, PHD\n\n\nKeynote Speaker \n\nMichael Berenbaum\, Ph.D: Michael Berenbaum is the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust and a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. He is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher. He consults internationally on the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films about the Holocaust. In the past\, he has served as a distinguished visiting professor at universities across the nation and beyond. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopaedia 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. He was also a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia of Genocide. \nDr. Berenbaum’s professional distinction and recognition in establishing\, sustaining\, and developing major Holocaust institutions spans the globe. He also served as historical consultant for numerous documentaries and films about the Holocaust and is the author and editor of twenty-two books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journal articles. He is also the recipient of numerous awards and is recognized as a pillar and pioneer in multiple areas of Holocaust research\, documentation\, education\, and memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFELICE COHEN\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFelice Cohen\, the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors\, is the author of the award-winning book “What Papa Told Me\,” a memoir about her grandfather’s life before\, during\, and after the war. The book has been endorsed by Elie Wiesel and Yad Vashem\, translated into Polish\, won three honorable mention book awards\, and has sold 35\,000 copies around the world. Aside from having spoken to thousands about her grandfather since 2010\, she is featured in two documentaries focusing on the grandchildren of survivors. Felice’s book has given her the opportunity to speak to nearly 7\,000 students to date and her speaking engagements include libraries\, bookstores\, and book clubs nationally. Felice also facilitates workshops and seminars to train other grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to develop their stories about their own grandparents to share in classrooms around NYC since 2012. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTEVEN FISHER\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\nSteven Fisher is the playwright of The Last Boy…A New Play with Music\, which made its debut Off-Broadway in July of 2021. It tells the story of the 100 boys in Terezin Concentration Camp who fought the Nazis with poetry\, and the one boy who saved them. It won 4 Broadway World Awards for Best New Play\, Best Production\, Best Director\, and Best Performance. In April of 2022\, the play was seen by a sold-out crowd on Broadway at a Yom HaShoah one-night-only benefit performance. A veteran educator\, Steve is honored to be in several schools across New York City as a Holocaust educator. For 25 years\, he was a choral director\, traveling the world and making music with young people. His ensemble was the first in history to perform on all seven continents – including Antarctica. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKAREN KRUGER\n\n\nWorkshop Presenter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Kruger is a seasoned educator with an MS degree in Education from Bank Street College of Education. She is the Producer and writer of Letters From Brno – a documentary that describes a powerful personal story of parental love and unspeakable tragedy. The film uses personal interviews along with archival footage\, photographs\, documents\, and letters from her grandparents during the years 1939-1941. Karen is the daughter of Holocaust survivor\, Erika Stefanie Turkl Neumann. Karen serves as her family’s historian. It has taken her more than 45 years to piece together this family history and the result has been the documentary film\, Letters From Brno. \nThe Conference’s impact is effective and dramatic: over the years\,  the Conference\, through its thousands of participants\, has touched more than 100\,000 students.  \nThe Conference\, which was organized by Marlene Warshawski Yahalom\, PhD\, Director of Education of the American Society for Yad Vashem\,  represents a continued collaborative effort among the American Society for Yad Vashem\, the Association of Teachers of Social Studies of the United Federation of Teachers\, the Educators’ Chapter of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee\, and Manhattanville College School of Education. \nFor the Conference and its other educational works\, the American Society for Yad Vashem received the 2015 President’s Award for its contributions to social studies education nationally. The award commends the American Society for Yad Vashem for implementing best educational practices in using documents\, inquiry\, critical thinking and action for studying the Holocaust. The Conference is one of many educational programs developed by the American Society for Yad Vashem. \nThe Conference is named in memory of Barbara Gutfreund Arfa\, z’l\, a longstanding supporter of the American Society for Yad Vashem and is sponsored by the Barbara Gutfreund Arfa Endowment Fund for Holocaust Education. This fund was created by Harvey Arfa and Caroline and Morris Massel as a tribute to Barbara Arfa’s commitment to Holocaust education.
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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. \nMarch 15th 2023\nRefuge Must Be Given\,\nEleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust\n  \nFeaturing: John Sears \n \nJohn Sears’s special interests include landscape history as well as the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nSears served as executive director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute from 1986 until 1999 and as associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers from 2000–2007. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. I appeared in 2007. Before joining the Roosevelt Institute\, he taught at Tufts\, Boston University\, and Vassar. \nSears divides his time between Northampton\, MA and Hawley\, a hilltown in Western Massachusetts where his paternal ancestors settled in the late 1700s. He grows trees and produces maple syrup on the land he owns. As a board member of the Sons & Daughters of Hawley\, the town’s historical society\, he helped create Hawley’s Old Town Common historic site. Sears served on the Hawley selectboard from 2013 until 2017. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Disability History Museum. \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nJohn F. Sears\, Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Jewish Plight and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette\, IN: Purdue University Press\, 2022) pp. 327. \nThroughout Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein six hour documentary America and the Holocaust one name kept being mentioned time and again\, Eleanor Roosevelt who in her column My Day\, public statements\, public activities and private exchanges was a fierce advocate of admitting Jewish refugees to the United States in the years when their admission was the difference between life and death. John Sears who has directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and 90s and edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers\, which were published in 2007 has written an important book detailing her work on behalf of Jewish refugees during her years as First Lady and then\, perhaps more importantly and more effectively in her public career after the death of her husband on April 12\, 1945\, when no longer constrained by the limitations of her role and her marriage she could speak her mind\, lend her name and energies to the post-war refugee crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt then became a fierce advocate for the creation of the Jewish State and was an integral part of the efforts 75 years ago this week to pass the November 19\, 1947 United Nations Resolution supporting the establishment of a separate Jewish and Arab State in Mandate Palestine. \nIt wasn’t supposed to happen quite that way. Judging from her childhood upbringing and the antisemitism that characterized elite\, monied WASP society\, Eleanor Roosevelt was a young antisemite. One can go through her early writings\, family history and see a hatred of Jews shared by her social class\, freely expressed\, seldom condemned\, widely assumed. Ironically\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s family was far more accepted of Jews who were business colleagues of his father as well as neighbors in Hyde Park. Yet by the time that FDR became Governor – Jews were an essential part of his coalition – and well before he became President Eleanor’s views had changed and as her social circle widened  and her experience broadened\, she enjoyed enduring and close friendships with Jews\, most especially Jewish women\,’ \nUnlike her husband who say things in political terms\, Eleanor Roosevelt saw things in deeply personal terms\, perhaps a reflection of their genders\, perhaps also a reflection of her innate shyness. FDR was outgoing and gregarious. He talked more than he listened. ER visited many places he could not go because of his physical limitations \, she not only saw more but listened more and reflected upon what she heard. \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\nApril\, May and June Guests 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’s Session: A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\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.
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SUMMARY:Violated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new four part series:\nViolated!:  Sexual Abuse During and After the Holocaust\nBetrayed: Child Sex Abuse and the Holocaust\nGuest speaker: \nDr. Beverley Chalmers \nAlthough rarely mentioned\, sexual assault of children during the Holocaust occurred far more often than we would like to acknowledge. Children were sexually abused in ghettos\, camps\, on transit trains\, while in hiding\, and even when sent to safety outside Europe. They were betrayed by the Nazis\, their rescuers\, their peers\, by those who discounted their experiences after the war\, and by Holocaust scholars who do not acknowledge these events and prefer to keep this a closely guarded secret. The challenges involved in studying child sex abuse during the Holocaust will be addressed. Issues relating to maintaining confidentiality\, and the value of testimony if it is not made available for study\, will be considered. Seeking methods that allow researchers to access and report on such sensitive testimonies remains an essential task if we are to acknowledge the full extent of women’s and children’s lives and honour their experiences. \n \nThis program is in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute\, Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center (MORESHET)\, Wagner College Holocaust Center\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Rabin Chair Forum Washington University\, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center \nATTENTION: TIME CHANGE IN ISRAEL\, EUROPE AND SOUTH AFRICA \n2 PM EST | 7 PM CET | 8 PM SAST | 8 PM Israel
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Speer Goes to Hollywood
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion: With Director Vanessa Lapa and Producer Tomer Eliav moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood \nAlbert Speer is an enigma. The highest-ranking Nazi in Nuremberg to be spared the death sentence\, Speer was one of Hitler’s closest confidants and his chief architect\, tasked with rebuilding Berlin as the capital of a global empire. Appointed Minister of Armaments and War production in 1942\, Speer was responsible for 12 million slave laborers. And yet\, even now\, he has the reputation of being the ‘good Nazi’ – a myth he carefully constructed himself. The film meets its protagonist in 1971\, while Speer was working on a screenplay for Paramount Pictures\, based on his memoir “Inside the Third Reich”.  \nBased on forty hours of previously unheard audio cassettes\, recorded by screenwriter Andrew Birkin\, it features Speer’s callous attempt to whitewash his past with a feature film. The audio narrative is supplemented by rare archival footage\, from before and during World War II\, during the Nuremberg Trials and later\, during Speer’s retirement as a semi-reclusive country gentleman. At times juxtaposed and at times interwoven\, those three timelines form the narrative of the film that provides ironic and chilling tension. Speer Goes to Hollywood is the film that Speer never made. Thanks to the cassettes\, he is the narrator of his own life story\, but in a way that he never imagined. The rare archival materials selected to illustrate his account offer us a chance to look beyond his words to ponder whether this eloquent but ultimately self-serving narcissist was recording history or recording his story? \n\n\nPress Note\nSpeer Goes to Hollywood offers an intriguing look at the inner workings of a man responsible for the deaths of millions\, yet who consistently strove to be portrayed as an innocent amongst the guilty. This new film by director Vanessa Lapa\, award-winning director of The Decent One (2014)\, is a cautionary tale of how media such as film can be manipulated easily to shape the way that history is remembered. \nAbout the Director Vanessa Lapa \nVanessa Lapa is an Israeli Academy-winning director and producer. She started as an accomplished journalist\, who produced and directed over 100 news reports for Israeli TV. In 2006 she founded Realworks Ltd.\, an independent production company\, specializing in documentary film. Her first TV documentary\, Olmert: Concealed Documentary (2009)\, about Israel’s former Prime Minister was hailed as a uniquely insightful achievement in cinéma verité. Eight years in the making\, the award- winning documentary The Decent One (2014) – a glimpse into the mind of SS chief Heinrich Himmler\, based on his personal diaries – was officially selected for Panorama at the Berlinale. \nVanessa returned to the Berlinale in 2020\, officially selected for “Berlinale Specials”\, with Speer Goes to Hollywood: a feature documentary aboutanother Nazi official – Reichsminister Albert Speer\, one of Hitler’s closest confidants – told in his own words. She was awarded “Best Director” from the Jerusalem Film Festival 2021. Moreover\, the film won “Best Documentary” at the Israeli Academy Awards (“Ophir Awards”) that same year. \n\n\n\nTomer Eliav\, Israeli Academy Award Winning producer. \nBorn and raised in Israel\, graduated as a sound engineer and worked as a sound designer and re-recording mixer at the Mixroom\, the only Dollby Mix stage in Israel for the last 25 years. \nTomer designed and mixed more than 100 features\, documentaries and short films\, lectured for cinema students\, and is a member of the Israeli Academy. Tomer is a co-owner at Realworks Studios\, a production company and post production studio in Tel Aviv. \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\n \n\n \nThank you to our partners:\n\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.
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SUMMARY:“Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin
DESCRIPTION:“Give us our husbands back”\nCivil Resistance Born out of Love in Nazi-Era Berlin\n  \nThe German Embassy\, the Rosenstrasse Foundation\, and the Goethe-Institut have dedicated an exhibit to the Rosenstrasse Protest\, the largest public demonstration against the deportation of Jews in the Third Reich. The exhibit highlights the courageous women at the center of the protest who fought for their husbands. \nAt the end of February 1943\, the Nazis arrested thousands of Jews in Berlin for deportation to concentration camps. Among those arrested were 1\,800 Jewish men who were married to “Aryan” women. These men were held in a building at Rosenstrasse 2-4 in Berlin-Mitte. Their wives and family members protested in front of the building on Rosenstrasse from late February into early March of 1943\, demanding the men’s release. The imprisoned men eventually returned home. To this day\, the women of Rosenstrasse are inspiring role models for civic engagement. \nBackground: During the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945\, 6 million Jews were murdered across Europe. In 1933\, there were over 500\,000 Jews living in Germany. More than 165\,000 of them were murdered in the years leading up to 1945. The vast majority of the Jewish people who survived in Germany were married to “Aryan” Germans in so-called “mixed marriages”\, including the husbands of the women who protested on Rosenstrasse. \nFrom March 8th -16th\, 2023\, an exhibit depicting these women’s civil courage and their family stories will be on display at the Goethe-Institut Washington. Accompanying the physical display\, a collection of articles will be available online. \nWe cordially invite you to celebrate the exhibit opening with us on March 8th\, International Women’s Day. (Doors open at 6:00 pm. The event will begin at 6:30 pm.) \nOpening Night Program \n\nOpening remarks from the Director of the Goethe-Institut Washington Klaus Krischok\nKeynote speech from the German Ambassador to the United States Dr. Emily Haber\nSpeech from Dr. Susan Neiman\, Rosenstrasse Foundation\nSpeech from Dr. Edna Friedberg\, USHMM\n\nPanel Discussion \n\nRuth Wiseman\, daughter of Rosenstrasse Protest survivors\nDr. Nathan Stoltzfus\, historian and author of the book Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany\nModeration: Dr. Michael Brenner\, LMU Munich & American University\n\nQ&A \nFollowing the panel\, historian Dr. Mordecai Paldiel will offer a guided tour through the exhibit. \nThis event is a cooperation between the German Embassy\, the Rosenstrasse Foundation\, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\, and the Goethe-Institut Washington.
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SUMMARY:WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST: THEIR DAY-TO-DAY STRUGGLES
DESCRIPTION:WOMEN IN THE HOLOCAUST: \nTHEIR DAY-TO-DAY STRUGGLES\n \n  \nAs the Holocaust escalated\, conditions worsened in the ghettos and camps. Women and mothers were preoccupied with daily survival\, providing food for their families\, and staving off illness. Using diaries\, memoirs\, and testimonies\, this session will look at the life-and-death dilemmas that women faced during the Holocaust\, and their attempts to resist dehumanization and death. Yad Vashem’s Project Director for Echoes & Reflections\, Sheryl Ochayon\, will present this webinar in honor of Women’s History Month. \n  \n  \n  \nSheryl Silver Ochayon \n \nSheryl Silver Ochayon holds a law degree from Harvard Law School\, a BA in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton\, and a Certificate in Genocide Studies from Stockton University. After a long legal career\, she followed her passion for Holocaust education. In 2005 she began working for the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem as a guide in the Holocaust history Museum\, writing and developing online courses for educators around the world\, and creating educational videos. \nCurrently\, Sheryl is Yad Vashem’s Program Director for Echoes & Reflections\, a program that empowers American middle and high school educators to confidently teach the Holocaust with dynamic classroom materials and professional development. Sheryl has represented Yad Vashem in different contexts both in the US and in Israel at seminars and international conferences\, and at the United Nations.
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SUMMARY:DISCOVERING THE "JEWISH JESUS"
DESCRIPTION:In this three-session course\, we will seek to uncover the figure of “Jesus the Jew” from the pages of the New Testament.\n\n\nPresumably\, this should not be difficult. After all\, the New Testament contains a great deal of information about the life and teachings of Jesus. \nHowever\, according to most academic scholars of the New Testament\, there is a chronological gap which spans some forty to seventy years between the death of Jesus and the writing of the Four Gospels\, the primary record of his life and teachings. This can be an obstacle in our quest to uncover\, as Amy-Jill Levine\, a prominent Jewish scholar of the New Testament puts it\, “the man from Nazareth as he was understood in his own context and as he understood himself.” \nWe will begin by recreating the Jewish milieu of Jesus’ world – in other words\, the period of late Second Temple Judaism. Against this backdrop\, we will draw on the Gospel material to examine the nature of Jesus’ relationship to Judaism. \nIn the second session\, we will explore the vexed question of the Gospel writers’ portrayal of Jesus’ relationship to the Jews of his day and consider whether\, as some would argue\, the New Testament is an anti-Jewish document. \nThe final session will take place a month or so before the advent of Passover and Easter. Accordingly\, we will closely examine whether there is any substance to the commonly held view that Jesus’ Last Supper was a Passover meal \n\nPaul Forgasz \n\n\nFor more than a decade\, Paul Forgasz was principal of the secondary (grades 7-12) campus of Mt Scopus College\, a large K-12 Jewish day school in Melbourne\, Australia. He also lectured in Bible and Jewish history at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and taught about Jewish education\, as well as school leadership\, in the university’s Faculty of Education. Since 2010\, Paul has also curated and led Jewish study tours to various European destinations under the auspices of the Jewish Museum of Australia. For most of his professional life\, Paul has also been actively involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue and he also works closely with teachers in the Catholic education sector. \n\n1st Session February 7th 2023\n2nd Session February 21 2023\n3rd Session March 7 2023\n\nThis is a 3 session course: You only need to register ONCE and will be sent the ZOOM link before each session. \nWe are offering PA Educators 5 Professional Development hours for attending the entirety of this course.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/discovering-the-jewish-jesus-3/
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