BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Classrooms Without Borders - ECPv6.11.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Classrooms Without Borders X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Classrooms Without Borders REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T164000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T180000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190147 CREATED:20221012T175408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T175949Z UID:10000824-1667407200-1667412000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:"The United States and World Fascism: Human Rights from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:The following workshop is open to CMU faculty\, students and community members.\nTHIS IS AN IN PERSON EVENT!\nCarnegie Mellon University\nHamerschlag Hall\, Hamerschlag Dr\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15213\nROOM #B131\n\n\nThe United States and World Fascism: Human Rights from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop\, offered by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)\, introduces a carefully curated set of compelling primary sources allowing teachers to develop a history-based curriculum about human rights and world fascism\, starting with the experience of antifascist US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)\, through World War II and the Cold War to the present day. ALBA’s workshops encourage teachers and students to focus on ten essential questions: Why should we care about events that happen far away\, or that happened a long time ago? How do we decide who is on the right side of an armed conflict? When do we stand up for what we believe in? What are our obligations in the face of injustice? How do we resolve competing loyalties? When is it right\, or necessary\, for a powerful country like the US to intervene in a conflict going on elsewhere? How do images and texts shape our view of the world—and how can we use them to shape others’ views? How can we understand people and events of the past in their context? When—and how—is it appropriate to judge people and events in the past? When do historical analogies apply? And what does fascism look like today? \n\nSebastiaan Faber is chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives\, an educational nonprofit in New York. A professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College\, he regularly contributes to US and Spanish media. His most recent book is Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition (Vanderbilt).\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\nsebastiaanfaber.com\n@sebasfaber\n\n\nNew book: Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española. Pasado & Presente\, 2022. (Bookshop.org) | Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition. Vanderbilt UP\, 2021. (Bookshop.org | Amazon.com | Vanderbilt UP | Kindle | Epub)\nREGISTRATION CLOSES October 23\, 2022 URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-united-states-and-world-fascism-human-rights-from-the-spanish-civil-war-to-nuremberg-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Carnegie Mellon University\, 5000 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/flyer-draft-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190147 CREATED:20220928T185116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T103752Z UID:10000819-1667318400-1667323800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Talk Back Session America and the Holocaust With Michael Berenbaum DESCRIPTION:Talk Back Session America and the Holocaust With Michael Berenbaum\n\n\nFor three nights running PBS has broadcast the six hour documentary on American and the Holocaust by Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. \nThe series raises complex and controversial issues not only about the past but about America today and in the future. \nIt provokes many questions. Classrooms Without Borders invites to you to a conversation with Michael Berenbaum who has written extensively on this issue. \nThis event will allow you to ask your questions and rise to the challenge on engaging with the documentary. \nJoin us for an interesting and most timely conversation. \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. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talk-back-session-america-and-the-holocaust-with-michael-berenbaum/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/6fe1bb41121ba005ac365117e5746995-Ypvybq.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T183000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190147 CREATED:20220929T133616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T133616Z UID:10000822-1666544400-1666549800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Inextinguishable Symphony A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany as told by author Martin Goldsmith in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff DESCRIPTION:The Holocaust Teacher Institute Is Proud to Announce \nThe Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Foundation Holocaust/Jewish Themed Sunday Salon Series \nThe Inextinguishable Symphony\nA True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany as told by author Martin Goldsmith in Conversation with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff\nNational Public Radio commentator Martin Goldsmith\, takes us from the cafés of Frankfurt\, where Rosemarie and Günther\, musicians and parents of author Martin Goldsmith fell in love\, to the concert halls that offered solace and hope for the beleaguered Jews\, to the United States\, where the two made a new life for themselves as musicians in famous concert halls that would nevertheless remain shadowed by the fate of their families. \n \nMartin Goldsmith \n\nMartin Goldsmith is the author of The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany\, which tells the riveting story of the Kulturbund\, an all-Jewish performing arts ensemble maintained by the Nazis between 1933 and 1941\, an ensemble that included Mr. Goldsmith’s parents. The Inextinguishable Symphony is the basis of the acclaimed 2019 film Winter Journey\, co-written by Mr. Goldsmith\, directed by Anders Ostergaard\, and starring Bruno Ganz in his very last film. Mr. Goldsmith is also the author of Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance\, the story of his grandfather and uncle\, who were two of the more than 900 passengers on the ill-fated Jewish refugee ship St. Louis in 1939\, and his own six-week journey in their footsteps in 2011. Mr. Goldsmith also wrote and performed six Composer Portraits (in-depth stories of the lives and music of Mozart\, Beethoven\, Brahms\, Tchaikovsky\, Dvorak\, and Copland) on stage at the John F. Kennedy Center with conductor Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra. Martin Goldsmith has been a classical music radio programmer and presenter for more than fifty years. He semi-retired three years ago from Sirius XM Satellite Radio in Washington\, DC\, where he now hosts music programs on weekend afternoons. He was the company’s initial Director of classical music programming\, beginning in 2000. For ten years\, from 1989 to 1999\, he served as the host of “Performance Today\,” National Public Radio’s daily classical music program. During Mr. Goldsmith’s tenure as host\, PT won the coveted Peabody Award for broadcasting. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-inextinguishable-symphony-a-true-story-of-music-and-love-in-nazi-germany-as-told-by-author-martin-goldsmith-in-conversation-with-dr-miriam-klein-kassenoff/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190147 CREATED:20221003T115355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T115409Z UID:10000823-1666533600-1666539000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Beyond the Umschlagplatz: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House \nTalking Memory Series presents: \nGrossaktion Warsaw:  80 Years Later \nJoin us for the fourth and final program on Sunday\, October 23rd \nBeyond the Umschlagplatz: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto \nGuest Moderator: \nProf. Liat Steir-Livny \nIn conversation with: \nDr. Maria Ferenc \nSlawomir Grunberg \nEric Bednarski \nIn the fourth and final program in the series Grossaktion Warsaw:  80 Years Later\, we will examine the ways in which the Warsaw ghetto is remembered and commemorated.  Prof. Liat Steir-Livny\, an expert on Holocaust commemoration\, will moderate a discussion with a panel of speakers who are the agents of memory today.  Dr. Maria Ferenc researches the real-time information\, such as rumours and false news\, disseminated in the Warsaw ghetto and its surroundings and how they affect what Jews in the ghetto know about the Holocaust as it was happening.  Slawomir Grunberg and Eric Bednarski have directed prize winning documentary films based on authentic documents\, real-time film and testimonies of survivors in order to create a tangible commemoration of Jewish Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto. Together\, they will discuss how they are using authentic material in order to remember a community that is almost non-existent 80 years later. \nAs part of this event\, there will be a limited screening of two films that deal with the Warsaw ghetto and were directed by Grunberg (Karski & the Lords of Humanity) and Bednarski (Warsaw:  A City Divided). \nAll registrants will receive a link to see the films in a separate e-mail on Thursday\, October 20th that will be open for screening until October 23rd. \n \nYou can watch the trailers here: \nKarski & the Lords of Humanity: \n \n\n \nWarsaw:  A City Divided: \n \n\n \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv\, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv\, and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/beyond-the-umschlagplatz-remembering-the-warsaw-ghetto/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/web-23.10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220525T182108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T181331Z UID:10000795-1666274400-1666279800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Museums of the Future DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur October Event in this Series: Museums of the Future\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nDr. Michael Berenbaum \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. \nAlice Herscovitch The Montreal Holocaust Museum \n \nAlice Herscovitch is currently a Consultant on Donor and Government Relations at the Montreal Holocaust Museum. She retired as the Museum’s Executive Director in 2019\, after 11 years in which the organisation grew considerably in terms of audience\, programming and funding. Among achievements by the MHM team during her leadership\, the Museum tripled its collection\, more than doubled its visitorship\, developed over 20 pedagogical tools\, created local\, national and international partnerships\, led a national teacher training program\, digitised and catalogued its oral history collection\, and led an initiative which successfully digitised and catalogued almost all Canadian collections of recorded survivor testimony. Faced with increasing interest and growth in its publics\, Ms. Herscovitch currently works with the Museum to assure a major expansion and its relocation to the downtown core. Having garnered significant private and government support\, the new Montreal Holocaust Museum will open in a vibrant downtown neighbourhood in Fall 2025. \nMs. Herscovitch is the former Director of Social Development at the Conférence régionale des élus\, a para-public organization devoted to the social\, economic and cultural development of the Montreal region. She was previously the Executive Director of Project Genesis\, a community advocacy organisation working on issues of social rights of marginalized populations\, from 1987 to 2003. She taught for many years at the McGill School of Social Work in social policy and was a member of the Executive Committee of Centraide of Greater Montreal\, as well as the NDG Community Council and a Board member of the Fondation du Grand Montréal. She has worked for over 30 years with people and organizations to promote progressive change on issues of social justice and to sustain non-profit organisations. \n\nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: Session #1 ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 at 1pm ET/19h00 SAST “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’. featuring Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates. \nSeptember 29\, 2022 Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom featuring James Bulgin\, Michael Newman\, & Stephen Smith\n\nThank you to our partners: \nThe full inclusion of people of all abilities is a core value of Classrooms Without Borders. For questions or to make requests for special accommodations contact compliance@classroomswithoutborders.org URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world-8/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Email-Promo-33.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220929T122817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T122817Z UID:10000821-1665500400-1665504000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:HIDDEN CHILDREN IN CATHOLIC FRANCE: BETWEEN TRAUMA AND NORMALCY DESCRIPTION:During the Holocaust\, Jewish children of all ages were at times hidden among other students within Catholic institutions as seen in films such as Au Revoir Les Enfants. Their lives were completely uprooted as they were placed in a religious environment completely different from what they knew.\n\nEliot Nidam Orvieto\, Yad Vashem researcher\, will discuss the challenges and coping strategies of these children and their rescuers living under the threat of discovery. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/hidden-children-in-catholic-france-between-trauma-and-normalcy/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220810T013706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221007T164751Z UID:10000808-1665068400-1665073800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Reckonings with Roberta Grossman: Writer\, Director and Producer\, Karen Heilig: Producer & July Hodara\, Co-Producer Moderated by Professor Michael Bazyler DESCRIPTION:In the aftermath of the Holocaust\, the unprecedented destruction and plight of\nsurvivors prompts the unthinkable\n\n\nSynopsis \nThey met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? \nReckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman\, Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence\, they forged ahead\, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing. \n\n\n \n\n \nRoberta Grossman \nWriter\, Director and Producer \nAn award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice\, Roberta Grossman has written\, directed and produced more than 40 hours of film and television. What sets her films apart are high production values\, beautiful cinematic craftsmanship and inspiring protagonists. Grossman’s films tell stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice. According to Grossman\, “making a documentary is like pushing Sisyphus’ rock up a steep mountain. The only way to summit is to have a sense of personal responsibility to tell a story that would otherwise remain untold.” \n\n\n\nKaren Heilig \nProducer \nKaren Heilig serves as the Assistant Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference and General Counsel. Since 1999 she has participated in negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German Government\, the Austrian Government and negotiations on unpaid Holocaust era insurance policies. She broke ground as the first female representative for the Claims Conference in negotiations. Understanding 70 years of compensation agreements from a personal\, legal and historical perspective\, inside the negotiating room and interacting with those who negotiated the Luxembourg Agreements – Karen was uniquely positioned to help bring this important film to life. \n\n\n\nJuly Hodara \nCo-Producer \nA native of France\, film producer and storyteller July Hodara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California\, Berkeley before joining Katahdin Productions in 2011. The first film she produced and directed was Hidden (2006)\, an American adaptation of French documentary Les Enfants Cachés (1998) about Jewish children who survived WWII in hiding. July’s first project at Katahdin Productions was Hava Nagila (The Movie) (2012) with director Roberta Grossman. She stayed on to associate produce Above and Beyond (2014) with producer Nancy Spielberg\, On The Map (2016) with director Dani Menkin\, and Netflix Original 2018 Sundance selection Seeing Allred (2018). She co-produced 2019 Berlinale selection Who Will Write Our History (2018). \nAfter her work on those five award-winning documentary features\, she pursued her Master’s in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts\, graduating in 2020. July founded New Moons Productions in 2019\, a media company through which she develops various projects\, with a particular interest for women’s stories. She came on as co-producer for Katahdin features Vishniac (2023) with director Laura Bialis\, and Reckonings (2022) with the Claims Conference and the German Ministry of Finance as production partners. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Michael Bazyler \nProfessor Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is the author of seven books and more than two dozen law review articles\, book chapters and essays on subjects covering law and the Holocaust\, restitution following genocide and other mass atrocities\, public international law\, international human rights law\, and international trade law and comparative law. His book\, Holocaust\, Genocide and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World (Oxford University Press) is a winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award. \n \n\n\nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-reckonings/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/f97acb0b53aecc59e802a2a367bb76ac-fPYzIz.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221003T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220929T122425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T122446Z UID:10000820-1664809200-1664812800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:FIGHTING BACK: COMMEMORATING THE JEWISH UPRISINGS AT SOBIBOR AND AUSCHWITZ DESCRIPTION:The month of October marks the anniversaries of the uprisings that Jewish prisoners carried out at two Nazi death camps. In commemoration of these stunning acts of bravery\, we will discuss these events\, and resistance more broadly. \nYad Vashem educator Lori Gerson will explore stories of profound courage that reveal the essence of the human spirit. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/fighting-back-commemorating-the-jewish-uprisings-at-sobibor-and-auschwitz/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220302T235435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T200916Z UID:10000536-1664460000-1664465400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Holocaust Museums and Memorials Around the World: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Classrooms Without Borders\, in coordination with Tali Nates\, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre\, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage\, Liberation75\,  and the USC Shoah Foundation is pleased to embark on this new innovative Museums and Memorial series where we will highlight different angles of complex memory; grappling with the the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory. \n\nAlongside CWB Scholars we will travel with Museum historians\, experts\, and contemporary witnesses to 10 different regions. We will explore the history behind the exhibits\, discuss the nature of memory and memorials\, and discover how the world remembers the Shoah and honors the lives we lost. We will also explore how that memory is interconnected to genocides\, both past and present. Our experts will challenge us to grapple with issues of cultural identity\, responsibility to community\, and decision-making\, as well as ways in which individuals and nations responded\, or failed to respond\, to the crisis through close examination of the Museum’s artifacts and memorials. \nOur September Event in this Series: Remembering the Holocaust in the United Kingdom\nTali Nates \n \nTali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education\, genocide prevention\, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many 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) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence\, Representations\, Recollections\, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010\, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa\, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa\, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020\, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences\, Monash University (IIEMSA)\, South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors\, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered. \nJames Bulgin \n \nJames Bulgin is Head of Content for the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums. He started work on the project in 2016. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. His BA was in English and his MA — for which he was awarded a distinction – is in Holocaust Studies. He is currently completing a PhD under the Crosslands scholarship at Royal Holloway College\, University of London\, on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film. \nMichael Newman \n \nMichael Newman is Chief Executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)\, which represents and supports Holocaust refugees and survivors in Great Britain.\nA previous Chair of the Communications Working Group\, he is a member of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).\nAs well as being an advisor on Holocaust-era restitution issues\, guiding Holocaust survivors and refugees\, and their families\, with applications for compensation and the recovery of Holocaust era assets\, he worked with the UK government to create the position of UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and now advises incumbent Lord Eric Pickles.\nOutside of work\, Michael is President of the Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA)\, which supports Jewish students to attend higher and further education and is a founding member of the Claims Conference of which Michael is a Director.\nHe is the co-editor of Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance\, an edited collection of new essays by leading international human rights experts.\nPreviously\, Michael was a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) and was a researcher at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, the Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group and the Inter Parliamentary Council Against Anti-Semitism.\nHe was awarded on OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in Her Majesty The Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021. \nStephen Smith  \n \nStephen D. Smith is Executive Chairman and co-founder of StoryFile\, the world’s first AI Conversational Video platform that brings video to life. \nStephen is an international speaker and oral historian who specializes in immersive media. \nIn addition to his role at StoryFile\, Stephen serves as Executive Director Emeritus of USC Shoah Foundation\, the archive founded by Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust and global genocides. He is a theologian by training and in that capacity is USC Visiting Professor of Religion\, where he researches genocide related testimony. \nStephen has authored several books and has two titles forthcoming in 2022: The Trajectory of Memory and Holocaust XR. \nStephen is a member of the order of the British Empire. \nPrevious Sessions in this Series: \n\nSeptember 23\, 2021 Holocaust Museums and Memorials: ‘Generation to Generation: The Evolution of Memorialization’ With Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Tali Nates in conversation with Stephen Smith and James Young\nOctober 25th\, 2021 ‘Remembering the killing sites 80 years later’ Tali Nates alongside\, Omer Bartov\, Faina Kukliansky\, Robert Jan van Pelt.\nNovember 18th\, 2021 “Memory\, Memorials and Museums of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A view from the African Continent”.Tali Nates alonside Myra Osrin\, Mary Kluk\, Owen Griffiths\, and Freddy Mutanguha \nJanuary 20\, 2022 “Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Tali Nates; Featuring: Edyta Gawron (Schindler’s Museum)\, Jakub Nowakowski (Galicia Jewish Museum)\, Tomasz Kuncewicz (Director Of The Auschwitz Jewish Center)\, and Dariusz Popiela (memorials in the smaller town of Western Galicia)\nFebruary 24\, 2022 “Museums in Context – Creating a new Museum and Memorial”: Michael Berenbaum (many new museums)\, Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\, Marco Gonzalez (Guatemala)\, Rabbi Andrew Baker (Belzec). \nMarch 24\, 2022 “The Landscape of Memory in Germany”: with Dr. Florian Kemmelmeier\, Memorials in Berlin (Topography of Terror\, and an overview of the landscape of memorials). Dr. Matthias Hass\, Deputy Director House of Wannsee Conference\, Dr.  Matthias Heyl\, Director of Education\, Ravensbruck & Tali Nates (Johannesburg) \nMay 26\, 2022 ‘Remembering the Holocaust in Austria’ Hannah M. Lessing\, Dr Albert Lichtblau & Tali Nates (Johannesburg)\n\nUpcoming Events:\n\nJoin us in October for our final session.\n\nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-museums-and-memorials-around-the-world/ LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Email-Promo-58.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220728T200821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T215334Z UID:10000805-1663858800-1663864200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Czech Embassy Series: Featuring Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman DESCRIPTION:Czech Embassy Series: \nThrough this series\, the Embassy of the Czech Republic brings a broad selection of Czech artists\, intellectuals and professionals connected to Jewish life\, history\, art and culture to engage\, educate and inspire audiences in the United States and beyond. The series will incorporate book talks\, film screenings\, lectures\, musical performances\, exhibitions\, and more. This series began on June 1\, 2021 and runs once a month. \nThe Embassy of the Czech Republic\, in collaboration with Classrooms without Borders\, invites you to the online discussion with Novelist\, Poet and Translator Marek Toman. \n \nNovelist\, poet and translator Marek Toman is passionately dedicated to Jewish culture—the culture of his father\, whom he lost early in life. Born in 1967\, Toman studied philosophy at Charles University\, then he worked as an art editor on Czech Radio. Since 1997 he has been employed at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2000 and 2010\, Toman worked as a diplomat in Estonia and Hungary. \nIn his novels\, he mainly devotes himself to historical topics. He is happy to surprise readers with forgotten episodes of Czech and European history which he researches thoroughly. In his works for children\, he loves to present classics of world literature\, showing children the magic power of reading. As for example in his prizewinning Cross-Eyed Jim’s Coffeehouse. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/czech-embassy-series-featuring-novelist-poet-and-translator-marek-toman/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Email-Promo-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220828T150550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220828T150947Z UID:10000816-1663599600-1663603200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Establishment of the Ghettos DESCRIPTION:Why did the Germans create ghettos throughout Eastern Europe? \nWhat functions did they fulfill for the Germans? \nFor two and a half years\, Jews from all over Poland were herded into ghettos and forced to live in terrible conditions of overcrowding\, hunger\, and disease. \nYiftach Meiri\, Yad Vashem educator\, will lead this presentation. \n \nThis program is facilitated by Echoes and Reflections URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-establishment-of-the-ghettos/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220824T113530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T160335Z UID:10000813-1663509600-1663515000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Hippocratic Oath at the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto DESCRIPTION:The program will be moderated by Tali Nates\, Founding Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center.\n\nFor this program\, there will be a limited pre-screening of the documentary film No One Told Me \, which was directed by Sean O’Sullivan. The movie is based on the story of Luc Albinski’s mother\, Wanda Albińska and his brave grandmother\, Dr Halina Rotstein\, who was murdered in Treblinka in 1942\, after deportation from the Warsaw ghetto\n\nGuest Speakers: \nDr. Maria Ciesielska MD PhD\, Medical Review Auschwitz Project \nDr. Maria Ciesielska will present her findings from the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves\, in many cases until the day they died\, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Warsaw Ghetto. \nLuc Albins­ki Grandson of Dr Halina Rotstein \nLuc Albins­ki is a second generation Holocaust survivor whose mother escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 and was hid¬den in an orphanage out-ide Warsaw for the remainder of the war. He will discuss his personal story and how his journey led to the making of the film “Nobody Told Me ” about his mother\, Wanda Albińska\, and his grandmother\, Dr. Rotstein. a dedicated doctor in the Warsaw Ghetto\, who decided to accompany her patients to the Treblinka death camp. \n\nFor this program\, all registrants will receive a link to see the film Nobody Told Us in a separate e-mail on Thursday\, September 15th that will be open for screening until September 18th.\n\n \n\n \n\n\nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv\, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-hippocratic-oath-at-the-umschlagplatz-the-jewish-doctors-of-the-warsaw-ghetto/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Web-18.9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220819T135158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220819T144955Z UID:10000812-1663268400-1663272000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Keeping Up With Kindness Interest Night and Returning Volunteers Hang DESCRIPTION:Join us on zoom to learn about Classrooms Without Borders’ Keeping Up With Kindness program and how you can get involved! This event is for high school students only.\n\nIn the meantime\, be sure to apply to volunteer with us this year here: https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/forms/keeping-up-with-kindness-volunteer-application/\n\n\nThe Keeping Up With Kindness program was created by Lauren Haffner in response to the tragic shooting on October 27\, 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue building. This initiative brings exemplary teen role models to K-5th grade classrooms to teach and engage children in mindful group discussions and lessons focusing on the importance of being kind to one another\, embracing diversity and standing up against bullying. \nThe program is built as a four part classroom series where teen volunteers\, bringing a passion for promoting acts of kindness\, facilitate an engaging\, interactive\, and collaborative conversation with young students in a safe\, communicative and friendly academic environment to teach and nurture a more just society that values\, above all\, kindness and respect for each other. \nAt this meeting\, we’ll learn a bit more about the program and have the opportunity to meet returning volunteers! URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/keeping-up-with-kindness-interest-night-and-returning-volunteers-hang/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Email-Promo-21.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220807T213530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T155301Z UID:10000807-1663254000-1663259400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti & Executive Producer Diane Boulanger; Moderated by Avi Ben Hur DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Students of Umberto Primo with Director Alessandra Maioletti Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\nA Sneak Peak!\nThe link to watch the film prior to the discussion will be sent out 3 days prior to the Film Discussion. \nWe urge you to watch the film prior to the event.\n\n\nBased on discovered documents that had been long forgotten\, this docudrama tells the stories of nine Greek-Italian Jewish primary school students who were among the hundreds of Jewish children studying at Thessaloniki’s Public Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, until the 1941-1942 school year … when Nazi soldiers entered the region and forever changed the course of their histories. \nSome survived. Tragically\, some did not. \nThis Event is part of a week long series of events: \n“Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak” \nClassrooms Without Borders is proud to partner with the Greek and Armenian Communities of Greater Pittsburgh on this week long series of events. \n\n\n – ABOUT THE FILM – \nThe beautifully filmed docudrama\, The Students of Umberto Primo\, brings to life the stories of nine young Jewish students studying at the Italian school\, Umberto Primo\, in Thessaloniki\, Greece\, during the time of Nazi occupation. The project is the result of a discovery by Antonio Crescenzi of students’ essays\, graduation diplomas\, and other documents of historical importance\, that had been long forgotten in the basement of the Italian Institute of Thessaloniki (formerly the location of Italian School of Umberto Primo). Sadly\, these students never received their graduation diplomas\, or their papers\, because of Nazi persecution. Thanks to Crescenzi’s discovery and subsequent work\, 157 diplomas were presented to survivors and/or their families in January 2017. \nCrescenzi and director\, Alessandra Maoiletti\, collaborated to lovingly and respectfully research and recreate the lives of these young boys and girls\, who were just “coming of age\,” depicting their dreams and aspirations for the future and the exuberance of their youth – a youth cut short for the sole reason that they were Jewish. Some survived the Holocaust. Sadly\, some did not. \nInitially\, The Students of Umberto Primo debuted as a theatre production\, also directed by Maioletti\, which had a highly acclaimed and successful run throughout Greece. The film seeks to not only bring more life to the story\, but to also reach a broader audience with a work of important cultural and historical significance. \nIt is important now\, perhaps more than ever\, to understand the evil that lurks in this world\, and to remind people of what can happen when totalitarianism\, isolationism\, nationalism and fanatic-ideological beliefs overcome the core values and compassion of the “regular citizen.” \nDirector Alessandra Maioletti \nBorn in Athens and raised in Rome\, Alessandra Maioletti has worked as a casting director and assistant director for French\, Italian\, Greek\, and American production companies\, and as a production director for documentaries. She has collaborated with many Greek directors\, including Nikos Koundouros\, Tasos Boulmetis\, Michael Marmarinos\, Menelaos Karamagiilis\, Stelios Pavlidis\, and Dimitris lndares. \nShe is the Director\, writer and producer for “The Students of Umberto Primo”. \n \nDiane Boulanger\, Executive Producer \n \nDiane currently lives and works in both Athens\, Greece and Boston\, MA. She graduated from Boston University’s College of Communications in 1990 with a degree in Broadcasting/Film\, and moved to Greece soon thereafter\, working as a magazine editor for the English-language monthly magazine\, The Athenian. \nHer career took a different trajectory when she moved back to the States in the late 90s\, and began a career in advertising/marketing\, working for (among other ad agencies)\, the legendary Leo Burnett. Currently\, she is the principal of Kickstarter Communications\, an agency that helps smaller enterprises “get off the ground” with branding\, website design\, and other tools to help them succeed. \nDuring a visit back to Greece\, Diane reconnected with Alessandra Maioletti and met Antonio Crescenzi\, who shared with her the storyboards and vision for the film production of The Students of Umberto Primo. She fell in love with the stories and the passion behind this remarkable film and was confident that she could engender support for it from the States; and that crowdfunding would be a good way to go about it. The campaign was a success and contributed to the additional support that was garnered by the hard work of Crescenzi and Maioletti. She also provided website design and social media support to augment the campaign\, as well as her own monetary investment. \nThis incredible film has reignited a passion for great storytelling and beautiful cinematography\, and she is grateful to be a part of the talented team of people who brought these long-forgotten stories to life. \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \n \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. \n\n\n \n\n \n\n\nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-the-students-of-umberto-primo/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/MV5BMDE0YTAxNjktYmY1Mi00NjliLTk2ZmUtOTJmMjRhNzM5NmVjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzg5OTk2OA@@._V1_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T203000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220803T183115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T011106Z UID:10000806-1663095600-1663101000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Pulling back the curtain – Etty Hillesum DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sept 13th at 7pm for\nPulling Back the Curtain – Etty Hillesum\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is proud to partner with the Greek and Armenian Communities of Greater Pittsburgh on our week long series of events: \n“Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak” \nTHIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM!\n  \n  \nCombining performance and discussion\, playwright and actor Susan Stein introduces us to Etty Hillesum and the original play\, Etty\, crafted using only Hillesum’s words\, which she tours to theaters\, universities\, school and prisons throughout the US and UK. She discusses her research\, and takes us through her discoveries\, including meeting Holocaust survivors and people in Etty’s life. She will also walk us through her own story of finding Etty. She invites the audience to join the conversation that Etty began in her diaries and letters. \nTo learn more about Etty Hillesum or Etty Project\, please visit www.ettyproject.org/. \n\n\n\nThe photo credit\, Ricardo Barros \nAbout Susan Stein \nSusan Stein is an actor\, playwright and teaching artist in New York City. Stein has spent the past 12 years touring her original one-woman play\, Etty\, to theatres\, universities\, schools and prisons throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Stein has been a visiting Artist/Scholar at Cambridge University\, Boston College\, Vanderbilt\, Colby\, St Norberts and Chapman University. She leads workshops in writing and acting throughout the US and UK. \nAs an actor\, some of Stein’s recent credits include Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound at Beck Center forthe Arts; Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline\, and the premiere of Meridith  Friedman’s The Luckiest People. Susan studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase. She was on the faculty of Princeton Day school for 13 years\, and currently is an Artist/Scholar at Classrooms Without Borders and teaches Performing History at Duquesne University which brings incarcerated men and police officers together to work towards police justice. \n\n\n\nLearn more: https://ettyproject.org/ URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/etty-writing-as-resistance/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Email-Promo-26.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220828T150149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220828T150854Z UID:10000815-1662994800-1662998400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Fate of Jewish Children Under Nazi Control DESCRIPTION:How did the Holocaust impact on society’s most vulnerable? \nDr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen of Yad Vashem\, will present some of the experiences of Jewish children under Nazi rule. \nBased on primary sources and post-war testimonies\, this presentation will explore some of the challenges children faced and ways in which they attempted to cope with their increasingly violent reality. \n \nThis program is facilitated by Echoes and Reflections URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-fate-of-jewish-children-under-nazi-control/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220911 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220919 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220525T192453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220815T213151Z UID:10000796-1662854400-1663545599@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Armenian\, Greek and Jewish Community Week Long Event DESCRIPTION: “Agape and Hope Resurrected in Hripsime’s Agony\, Athena’s Mourning\, and Rachel’s Heartbreak”\n  \n“Who\, after all\, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”\, roared Hitler in his speech to his chief commanders in 1939 just one week before the Nazi invasion of Poland and the planned extermination of Jews. \n2022 represents the 100th year from one of humanity’s darkest periods\, a time point that inspired and ignited what eventually resulted in one of humankind’s bleakest moments. 1922 was the peak of the period between 1915-1923\, when Christians and Jews were systematically targeted for their faith and culture. The western world’s general indifference to the genocide of Christians and Jews in Anatolia\, the Pontus\, and Asia Minor would soon be used by the Nazis as the basis of their plan to exterminate the Jewish people.  \nThe Greek\, Armenian\, and Jewish Communities of Western Pennsylvania\, on account of this sad moment in our histories\, and on occasion of this marker in time\, 100 years from 1922\, are coming together in the month of September 2022 in a broad educational outreach to all of Western Pennsylvania\, in art\, music\, literature\, and history\, to first commemorate those who perished brutally and inhumanely at the hands of perpetrators\, but second\, to use this milestone in our histories to show that in the face of despair and death\, creation and inspiration for a more tolerant world was fostered and nurtured.  \nOur three communities will dedicate the month of September to the music\, literature\, and artwork that was created by those who either perished in\, or survived the genocide of Christians and Jews in Anatolia\, the Pontus\, and Asia Minor between 1915-1923 and by those who perished in\, or survived the brutal concentration camps of the Holocaust during World War II. \nAdditionally\, the month of September will be dedicated to the music\, literature\, and artwork that was inspired by these sad moments in humankind’s history\, in the post-World War II Armenian\, Greek\, and Jewish cultures. \nAmong the planned activities are: More details and registration to come!  \n\nExhibits of artworks of\, and inspired by the period\, by Armenians\, Greeks\, and Jews – those who perished in the genocide or the Holocaust as well as by those who were inspired by their lives and sacrifice. These artworks will be on display in a number of art galleries in Pittsburgh for the entire month of September 2022\, and accessible by the public. Webpage With Links: HERE\nSoirees of literature and poetry that will bring together members of the Armenian\, Jewish\, and Greek community of Western Pennsylvania\, especially those of the younger generation (high school and college students) who will present excerpts from literary works as well as complete poems written by those who perished and/or survived those dark periods as well as excerpts of literary works and poems inspired by their lives and sacrifice. These soirees are planned for every evening of the week between the 11th – 18th of September Webpage With Links: HERE\nA series of lectures by scholars and historians as well as by living witnesses and/or their descendants\, who will describe those dark times together with inspired commentary by community members in outreach to people of Western Pennsylvania to sensitize them that history does repeat and it is critical that those lessons direct our region and country to prevent that darkness from ever falling over the world again. Additionally\, to present how these terrible moments in time and experience shaped the cultures of the Armenian\, Greek and Jewish peoples. These events will be mostly virtual during the week of the 11th – 18th of September. Webpage With Links: HERE\n\nA concert that will bring together Armenian\, Jewish\, and Greek musicians who will present music written by those who perished and/or survived those dark periods as well as music that was inspired by their lives and sacrifice. The concert is planned for the early evening of Sunday the 18th of September and\, depending on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic\, may be an in-person event\, or virtual. \nWebpage With Links: HERE URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/armenian-greek-and-jewish-community-week-long-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Email-Promo-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220901T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220909T230000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220901T214617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220903T215853Z UID:10000817-1662019200-1662764400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Three Minutes in Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Three Minutes – A Lengthening\n(Directed by Bianca Stigter)\, a new\, award-winning\, high-profile documentary about the Holocaust\, is opening at \nThe Manor Theater: Pittsburgh PA\nstarting Friday\, September 2nd and playing for at least a week. \n\n\nDon’t miss seeing this ground-breaking new documentary during its PITTSBURGH THEATRICAL RELEASE!\n\nCo-Produced by Steve McQueen (Director\, ‘12 Years a Slave‘). Narrated by Academy-Award nominated Actress\, Helena Bonham Carter.\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld Premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival followed by Telluride\, Toronto and 2022 Sundance Film Festival.\n\n\nPittsburgh Premiere at the 2022 Film Pittsburgh JFilm Festival.\n\n\nThe original home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 Poland is archived at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.\n\n\nWinner of the 2022 DocAviv Yad Vashem Award for an Outstanding Holocaust-related Documentary\, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\nAbout the film:\n\nThree minutes of home movie footage\, mostly in color\, shot by David Kurtz in 1938\, are the only known moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk\, Poland\, before the Holocaust. Those precious minutes are examined in intricate detail to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Tracing the story of those three minutes begins with the journey of Glenn Kurtz to discover more about his grandfather’s film\, ultimately leading to identifying people and places otherwise erased from history\, and helping to connect a Holocaust Survivor with his lost childhood.\n \nWinner of the 2022 Brussels International Film Festival European Young Jury Award and a Special Mention\, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Jury Award for Best Doc\, and Virgin Dublin International Film Festival Award for Best Doc.\n\nRead the reviews in the NY Times\, npr\, JTA News\, and The Washington Post.\n\nFollow the film on Facebook here.\n\nPlease note: The film does not have graphic content or violence on screen. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/three-minutes-in-pittsburgh/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Three-Pittsburgh-CWB.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220704T063140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240721T160122Z UID:10000802-1661439600-1661445000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Social Media and the Role of Rememberance in Modern Day Genocide DESCRIPTION:CWB is proud to partner with Fortify Rights in an event to commemorate Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day: With Dr. Alexis Herr- Moderator \nHuman rights violations happen every day without justice or accountability. People are being killed\, trafficked\, and silenced. Changing laws\, policies\, and practices can prevent violations and ensure rights. \nJoin our panel of experts as we explore the current refugee crisis and the role of Social Media in Remembrance of Modern Day Genocide. \nZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program \n\n\n\nDr. Alexis Herr- moderator \nDr. Alexis Herr has dedicated her life to combating genocide and atrocity. This passion has motivated her educational and professional pursuits and translates into a strong desire to prevent human rights violations. Ms. Herr received a doctorate in Holocaust History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University\, and currently lectures at the University of San Francisco and University of California\, Berkeley. \nShe is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2018)\, the European Historical Research Infrastructure Fellowship (2017)\, the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies\, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC (2016)\, and the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2014). \nShe is the author of The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi\, 1942 – 1952 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016)\, and the editor of Rwanda: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara\, CA: ABC-CLIO\, 2018) and Sudan: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara\, CA: ABC-CLIO\, 2020). \n\n\nMatthew Smith\n \n \nChief Executive Officer \nMatthew Smith is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Rights. Matthew previously worked with Human Rights Watch\, EarthRights International\, Kerry Kennedy of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights\, and as a community organizer and emergencies social worker in the United States. In 2019\, he received a Fellowship at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and he was a 2014 Echoing Green Global Fellow. Matthew’s work has exposed genocide\, war crimes\, crimes against humanity\, multi-billion-dollar corruption\, and other human rights violations. He has written for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, TIME\, the Guardian\, and other outlets. \nHe has an M.A. in Human Rights and Religion from Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science from Le Moyne College in the U.S. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/social-media-and-the-role-of-rememberance-in-modern-day-genocide/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Email-Promo-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220821T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220821T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220726T161542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220823T184817Z UID:10000804-1661090400-1661095800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: ‘Gross Aktion’: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series presents: \nGrossaktion Warsaw:  80 Years Later \nJoin us for the second program on Sunday\, August 21st \nThe Road to the Umschlagplatz: The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto \nGuest Speakers:     \n Dr. Katarzyna Person \nJewish Historical Institute \nThe Ghetto Police: Inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and their Perception of the Jewish Order Servic \nNoam Leibman\nMoreshet – The Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center \n“We\, the Jewish policemen\, do not see any guilt in our behavior“: The Great Deportation as Reflected in the Memoirs of Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Police Officer \n The second program in this series deals with the Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto. In her presentation\, Dr. Katarzyna Person will look at the Jewish Order Service\, commonly known as the Jewish Police\, and its duties in the Warsaw ghetto. She will show the evolving perception of the Jewish Police among ghetto inhabitants and the narrative regarding its actions in the early period of the ghetto existence\, during the Gross Aktion and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nNoam Leibman will focus on the self-narration of Jewish Service officer Stanisław Gombiński regarding the Great Deportation of the Warsaw ghetto. Despite the diverse number of studies about Jewish police and the well-known memories that have been written\, their personal voices are primarily used to explain various situations and interactions rather than to understand their perspectives. \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel \n\nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, the Rabin Chair Forum\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv\, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-presents-gross-aktion-remembering-the-warsaw-ghettos-great-deportation-80-year-later-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/flyer-21.8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220801T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220801T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220726T142113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220726T142113Z UID:10000803-1659366000-1659369600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:BY THE GRACE OF THE GAME: A HOLOCAUST SPORTS STORY DESCRIPTION:BY THE GRACE OF THE GAME: A HOLOCAUST SPORTS STORY \nJoin us to hear an amazing basketball story that takes us from Auschwitz to an Olympic gold medal to the NBA. This is the type of story that can teach students about resilience and the importance of never giving up\, while they simultaneously learn about Nazi terror and Holocaust history. We will host Dan Grunfeld\, the author of a new book\, By the Grace of the Game\, to hear this extraordinary three-generational story. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/by-the-grace-of-the-game-a-holocaust-sports-story/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220731T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220731T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220624T191540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220802T140356Z UID:10000801-1659276000-1659281400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: ‘Gross Aktion’: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \n‘Gross Aktion’:  Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto’s Great Deportation 80 Year Later \nJoin us for the first program on Sunday\, July 31st   \n “Before the Trains Left the Umschlagplatz”\nOpening Remarks: \nProf. Hanna Yablonka \nGuest Speaker: \nProf. Havi Dreifuss \n“It is very difficult to live in constant terror” – Warsaw Ghetto on the Verge of Deportation and Death \nThis lecture will focus on the months leading up to the Great Deportation (summer 1942) and the days of the German Aktion itself. In this context\, the grim reality of life in the Warsaw ghetto facing rumors of terror and mass murder will be presented. \nPinchas Gutter\, Holocaust survivor\, will give testimony on his childhood in the Warsaw ghetto. \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, Moreshet Holocaust & Research Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-presents-gross-aktion-remembering-the-warsaw-ghettos-great-deportation-80-year-later/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/web-flyer-31.7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220712T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220712T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220612T204546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220612T204546Z UID:10000799-1657638000-1657641600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:REVEALING THE STORIES BEHIND THE ARTIFACTS DESCRIPTION:The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum is home to more than 27\,000 items donated over the years by Holocaust survivors\, their families\, and various organizations. It includes a wide variety of artifacts connected to the events of the Holocaust. \nEach one tells its own story. Sara Shor\, Manager of the Artifacts Collection at Yad Vashem\, will share the stories behind some of these precious items. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/revealing-the-stories-behind-the-artifacts/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220710T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220710T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220528T150709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220703T072031Z UID:10000798-1657461600-1657467000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Treasure Hunt: Finding the Lost Art Legacy of David Friedmann DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \nCrafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – \nA Homage to David Friedmann \nJoin us on Sunday\, July 10th\, for the fourth and final program: \nTreasure Hunt:  Finding the Lost Art Legacy of David Friedmann \nGuest Speakers: \nMiriam Friedmann Morris in conversation with Liz Elsby \nDavid Friedmann’s (1893-1980) life’s work was Nazi-looted: oil paintings\, watercolors\, drawings\, etchings and lithographs. From childhood\, Morris was drawn into her father’s epic life story\, learning about his passion for art\, his Holocaust experiences\, and strong will to survive. Friedmann’s pursuit of justice inspired her quest to search for his lost art. With each new find\, she gained insights into his life\, an extraordinary view of his productive career amidst the rich\, cultural life before Hitler. Each and every artwork tells a story\, documents an event or captures the essence of a moment lost in time. Friedmann continues to live after his death via the passionate insistence of his art to emerge and be rescued from obscurity. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-presents-treasure-hunt-finding-the-lost-art-legacy-of-david-friedmann/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/unnamed-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T130000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220617T202039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220619T140433Z UID:10000800-1656504000-1656507600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:#LastSeen – Pictures of Nazi Deportations Lecture by Christoph Kreutzmüller\, Berlin (Germany) DESCRIPTION:#LastSeen –\nPictures of Nazi Deportations\nLecture by Christoph Kreutzmüller\, Berlin (Germany)\n\nJune 29\, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBetween 1938 and 1945\, the National Socialists deported hundreds of thousands of men\, women and children from the German Reich to ghettos and camps. The deportations took place everywhere\, in broad daylight and for all to see. And yet so far only a few photos are known. Knowing these pictures tell many stories – of the deportees\, the perpetrators\, and the spectators – this initiative invites your participation in helping us to discover and analyze previously unknown photographs that survive in museums\, archives\, private attics\, basements\, or dusty photo albums. \nIn this lecture\, Berlin-based Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller\, historian and coordinator developing the educational tool for #LastSeen\, speaks about the importance of this project\, and how you can become part of it. \n(Image above: Deportation photos can be hidden in photo boxes or family albums from the Nazi era (Photo: Christoph Kreutzmüller) ) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos of Deportations from Brandenburg an der Havel (Germany)\, Arolsen Archives \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 550 existing photographs of deportations from the German Reich are often the last known images of the victims of persecution before they were murdered. The pictures show the crimes in a local context. The deportations took place on public squares\, in front of buildings and on streets that are often still part of townscapes today. But there is still so much we don’t know\, because we have absolutely no photos of many deportations. \nPhotos of Nazi mass deportations have never before been brought together\, made available as a collection\, and analyzed collectively in any systematic way. Nor has there been a concerted effort to search for more photos. \nThis new project aims to gather\, analyze\, and digitally publish pictures of Nazi mass deportations of Jews\, Romani people and people with disabilities from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. The project is a cooperation of the Arolsen Archives\, the City Archives of Munich\, the Center for the Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin\, the House of the Wannsee Conference memorial site\, and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. \n#LastSeen also focuses explicitly on the deportation of Sinti and Roma people and the Krankenmorde to find potential leads to more information and increase public awareness and remembrance of these groups of victims. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAsperg\, May 22\, 1940: Several hundred Sinti and Roma people from all over southwest Germany were forced to assemble at the Hohenasperg near Stuttgart on May 16\, 1940. They were then deported from the Asperg train station to concentration and extermination camps. (Photo: German Federal Archives\, R 165 image 244-47\, no information available – photographer unknown) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller is a Berlin based curator\, historian and educator working for the House of the Wannsee-Conference memorial and education centre and Arolsen Archives. From 2015 to 2019\, he prepared the segment “Catastrophe” for the new permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin. His numerous publications include the award winning “Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity. 1930-1945” (New York/Oxford 2015) and (with Tal Bruttmann and Stefan Hördler)\, Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. A Photo Album from Auschwitz\, Darmstadt 2019. \n\nKreutzmüller describes the importance of #LastSeen\, “These photos show that the deportations were organized by the police\, city administrators and the railway company. It was possible to watch this process in action\, and people did – including photographers. The pictures show the deportees as well as many perpetrators and spectators. You see neighbors watching the deportees as they are sent into the unknown. Today we know the deportees were mostly being sent straight to their death. That’s what gives the pictures such an impact even now.” … “This raises questions we have to grapple with: What would I have done if I had seen this happening back then? And what do we do today when we see obvious injustices taking place? Do we step in? Do we act\, or do we remain passive spectators? Is there any such thing as a passive spectator – or are spectators always an audience?” URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/lastseen-pictures-of-nazi-deportations-lecture-by-christoph-kreutzmuller-berlin-germany/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220528T150026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220528T151049Z UID:10000797-1656252000-1656257400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Artist as Witness: The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: \nArtist as Witness:  The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto \nGuest Speaker: \nMiriam Friedmann Morris \nDavid Friedmann (1893-1980) depicted human fate as a refugee in Prague\, as a prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto\, in the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz I\, and as a survivor. During his three years in the Ghetto\, he absorbed the unending misery he witnessed. With death before his eyes\, through hunger and sickness\, he worked strenuously on a series of artwork documenting the infernal daily struggle of the prisoners’ desperate situation. He wrote and illustrated a diary to publish at war’s end. He felt that\, unless one had lived it\, no one would believe the brutal inhumanity against the Jews. His art and diary would be his testimony\, but they were destroyed. Torn out from his memory he produced a new art series to show to the world in the hope that such barbarism would never happen again. \n2 PM EST | 7 PM GMT | 8 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-ghetto-fighters-house-talking-memory-series-presents-artist-as-witness-the-holocaust-art-of-david-friedmann-in-the-lodz-ghetto/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/web-June-26-Miriam-Friedman-Morris-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220302T230311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T224737Z UID:10000533-1655820000-1655825400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Arab Israeli Conflict with Avi Ben Hur DESCRIPTION:The Arab-Israeli conflict plays a large (some would claim outsized) role in current events. This course aims to unpack the causes and core issues that relate to the Conflict. The goal is to make the subject accessible to educators and to give them the tools with which to grapple in the classroom with the subject at large and with breaking news. While this course is a primer on the subject\, the Q & A following each session is designed to enable the participants to engage with related issues on a higher resolution. Each section will be accompanied with suggestions for further exploration. The earlier lectures will approach the Conflict from two intersecting directions: \nThree concentric levels:\n\nThe International aspect (e.g. the Cold War)\nThe Regional aspect (the Middle East at large)\nThe leadership (of the countries at conflict)\n\nMultiple narratives:\n\nThe Jewish/Israeli narrative\nThe Arab/Palestinian narrative\n\nThe later sessions will put a greater focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the continuing friction or détente between Israel and other regional actors. \nA concerted effort will be made to present the historical processes in an even-handed and balanced way\, while keeping in mind that this is a loaded topic for many people. We have no illusions that everyone will emerge from each lesson in agreement with the presenter or with their fellow participants. The key to a successful program will be the mutual respect paid to each and every person (including the presenter)\, particularly in the part designed for discussion/dialogue (i.e. the Q & A). By approaching the subject this way we strive to “model” how we believe education should work. Open hearts\, open minds and tolerance are the core values that inform CWB’s work. \nSession X: Israel and Lebanon – 2006-2021\, Israel and Syria – 2000-2021\, Israel and Iran – 2000-2021 \nBy 2006 Hezbollah\, an Iranian backed Shiite organization had gained a complete stranglehold over Southern Lebanon and launched a series of attacks on Israel that snow-balled into the Second Lebanon War. In the past 15 years\, Hezbollah has built up a massive arsenal of missiles which are aimed at Israel\, posing a strategic threat to both countries (Israel and Lebanon). Between 2011-2021 Syria collapsed into a civil and later international war that has torn the country apart. While Israel has stayed clear of its neighbor’s conflict\, Syrian injured were treated in Israeli hospitals. Israel has also defended itself against terror organizations that have launched attacks from Syria on its soil. One of Syria’s patrons\, Iran has been trying to achieve a nuclear offensive capability and Israel has made great efforts both diplomatically and through the use of force to prevent this. \nSubjects to be covered: Strategic threats facing Israel from Lebanon\, Syria and Iran from 2000 to the present.\nPast Sessions:\nSeptember 12\, 2021 | Background to the conflict (Jewish Nationalism – the rise of the Zionist Movement\, Arab Nationalism – the rise of the Palestinian National Movement)\nOctober 10\, 2021 | The British Mandate Period – 1922-1948\nNovember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part I\nDecember 21\, 2021 | The War for Independence/Nakba part II\nJanuary 25\, 2022 | Israel Copes with Strategic Challenges – the Rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasser\nFebruary 22\, 2022 | The Six Days War\nMarch 29\, 2022 | The War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War\nApril 26\, 2022 | The P.L.O. & Fighting Terror\, Peace with Egypt\, the First Lebanon War\nMay 31\, 2022 |Israel and the Palestinians 1987-2021\n  \n \nAvi Ben-Hur\nScholar in Residence \nA Brooklyn native\, Avi Ben-Hur moved to Israel in 1983. From 2003-2008 Avi was Director of the Archaeological Seminars School for Israeli Tour Guides. In 2008 Avi participated in re-writing the curriculum of the National Guiding courses for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. As a “Scholar in Residence\, Avi has lectured\, taught and facilitated workshops in the US\, Warsaw\, Prague\, Berlin and Greece. From 1996-2000\, Avi taught in Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies. As a guide\, Avi has specialized working with organizations focusing on political issues (such as AIPAC & CIJA)\, inter-faith programs and Holocaust studies. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/arab-israeli-conflict-with-avi-ben-hur/ LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Email-Promo-54.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220620T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220620T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220524T160624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T144209Z UID:10000794-1655737200-1655740800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:COMMEMORATING THE DEPORTATION PROCESS DESCRIPTION:In implementing the “Final Solution\,” the Germans and their collaborators tore millions of Jews from their homes and deported them to their deaths\, obliterating centuries-old Jewish communities throughout Europe. July marks the 80th anniversary of the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto\, when up to 300\,000 Jews were rounded up and brutally deported to the Treblinka Death Camp. We will use this anniversary to discuss the deportation process using short films and primary sources including letters\, testimonies and artwork.\nLiz Elsby\, Yad Vashem educator\, will guide us through this session. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/commemorating-the-deportation-process/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220524T155637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220620T212004Z UID:10000793-1655218800-1655222400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:USING ANIMATIONS TO TEACH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST DESCRIPTION:How can animations be used to safely teach younger students about the Holocaust? How can they be used to explain difficult historical concepts?\n  \nIn this webinar\, Yad Vashem educator Yoni Berrous will guide us through the effective approaches as well as the limitations of using animations in the classroom. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-animations-to-teach-about-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T190148 CREATED:20220303T004012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T182543Z UID:10000544-1655046000-1655051400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:2022 Poland Personally Seminar Meetings DESCRIPTION:This program is only for educators\, students and individuals interested in travelling and learning with CWB in Poland. \nUntil then…visit the seminar webpage to learn more at classroomswithoutborders.org/seminar/poland-personally-a-study-seminar-to-poland. \n\nUpcoming Pre-Seminar Meetings/Workshops for accepted participants: \nSunday\, March 6 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, April 3 | 3-4:30pm  | Zoom\nSunday\, May 1 | 3-4:430pm | Zoom\nSunday\, June 12 | 3-4:30pm | Zoom URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/2022-poland-personally-seminar-meetings/ LOCATION:ZOOM | Registration required and closes 30 minutes prior to the start of the program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/9791e2f132f038d997ebab9f63391bab-frZHgK.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR