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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T130000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20260424T183651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T184756Z UID:10001169-1779022800-1779022800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe DESCRIPTION:In this special Talking Memory book launch for Out of the Sky\, author Matti Friedman will delve into the extraordinary story of the Jewish parachutists of 1944—young men and women who\, having escaped Europe\, made the fateful decision to return under a British mission into Nazi-occupied territory. Focusing on figures such as Hannah Senesh\, Friedman will explore the gap between the mission’s tragic reality and its powerful afterlife in Israeli memory. Drawing on years of archival research\, he will reflect on how these stories were shaped\, what defines heroism in the face of failure\, and the enduring role of narrative in constructing collective memory. \nFollowing Friedman’s discussion of his book\, Dr. Rochelle Saidel will focus on Haviva Reick (1914–1944)\, one of the three women among the Jewish parachutists sent from Mandatory Palestine to Europe during World War II. Operating in Slovakia during the Slovak National Uprising\, Reick worked to aid Allied airmen and rescue Jews. Captured and murdered by Nazi collaborators\, her story highlights the courage\, moral commitment\, and tragic fate of those who risked everything to save others. \nThe program will conclude with Shlomit Dagan\, Director of the Hannah Senesh House\, who will highlight the story of Hannah Senesh and reflect on the ongoing work of remembrance and education at the Hannah Senesh House. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/out-of-the-sky-heroism-and-rebirth-in-nazi-europe/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/17.5-web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T140000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20260330T134928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260330T165700Z UID:10001168-1776002400-1776002400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacy: Voices Across Generations DESCRIPTION:“Holocaust Survivors and Their Legacy: Voices Across Generations” is a powerful Talking Memory program that brings together creative voices exploring how the Holocaust continues to resonate across generations. \nCentered on the transmission of memory\, trauma\, and resilience\, the program invites audiences to consider not only the experiences of survivors\, but also how their stories have shaped the identities\, responsibilities\, and creative expressions of their children and grandchildren. \nThe program will feature Stacey Goldring\, founder of Searching For Identity\, who is the writer and producer of the documentary Traces: Voices of the Second Generation\, which gives voice to the children of Holocaust survivors as they reflect on inherited memory\, loss\, and resilience\, illuminating how the past continues to shape the present. \nThrough personal testimony and storytelling\, Goldring’s work highlights the enduring impact of the Holocaust and the role of the second generation in preserving and transmitting these histories. The documentary will be available for free viewing\, with a link provided as part of the program below\, allowing audiences to engage more deeply with these personal narratives. \nIn addition\, the creators of the project and exhibition “And Yet\, And Despite Everything”\, Debbie Morag\, an Israeli photographer who was born in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp\, and Dr. Mala Meir\, also the daughter of Holocaust survivors\, will present their work\, which engages with questions of continuity\, identity\, and the fragile yet persistent threads connecting multiple generations. \nTogether\, these conversations offer a nuanced and moving exploration of legacy—how memory is carried\, reinterpreted\, and kept alive—ensuring that the voices of the past continue to shape the moral and cultural landscape of the present and future. \nRegister for the free screening of Traces: Voices of the Second Generation:\nhttps://www.tracesfilm.com/watchnowaccess URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/holocaust-survivors-and-their-legacy-voices-across-generations/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/12.4-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T140000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20251229T144630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T144656Z UID:10001160-1769349600-1769349600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Talking Memory: With All Their Might: Landsberg after Liberation: Survival\, Culture\, and the Rebuilding of Life DESCRIPTION:Through testimony\, music\, archival memory\, and personal reflection\, this program traces how survivors transformed displacement into community and loss into renewed life—affirming memory as an act of resistance and responsibility. \nYigal Cohen\, CEO of the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will open the event followed by Judith Stelmach\, Project Manager at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Israel. \nWe are honored to have Doris Baumgartl\, Mayor of Landsberg am Lech\, who will give the opening remarks\, as we reflect on the aftermath of liberation and the struggle to rebuild Jewish life in the shadow of destruction. \nKarla Schönebeck will explore the internal and external challenges Holocaust survivors faced as they sought to create new\, free\, and self-determined lives in Eretz Israel. Through the remarkable story of a Jewish orchestra formed in postwar Germany—on the very soil of the perpetrators—she will examine strategies of survival\, cultural persistence\, and intellectual resistance. Her talk also addresses the experience of displaced Eastern European Jewish culture\, often misunderstood by both American liberators and German Jews outside the DP camps. \nRonit Lusky will share moving moments from the Ghetto Fighters’ House delegation to Landsberg am Lech for the “Liberation Concert”\, a tribute to the first concert performed by eight Holocaust survivor musicians on May 27\, 1945—an act of remembrance\, resilience\, and renewal. \nDr. Hannah Rosenbaum-Erlichman\, daughter of Holocaust survivors Fela Zyndorf and Szlamek Rosenbaum\, who were married in the Landsberg DP camp on March 27\, 1947\, will share her personal connection. Through her parents’ story\, she will reflect on survival\, continuity\, and the pride of the second generation. \nNoam Rachmilevitch will present the story of the Landsberg am Lech DP camp. In 1945\, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees arrived in DP camps in Germany\, many alone and without surviving family. Some organized themselves into kibbutz-style collectives rooted in youth movements. One such group in Landsberg am Lech\, the largest DP camp in Bavaria\, was formed by former members of the Dror (Freiheit) youth movement from Poland. They called themselves “Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot” and prepared for immigration to Eretz Israel. After training at Kibbutz Ginosar and in Waldheim\, the group immigrated and\, in April 1949\, helped establish Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot. His presentation will follow their journey. \nThis event is at 2pm on Zoom. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-with-all-their-might-landsberg-after-liberation-survival-culture-and-the-rebuilding-of-life/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/flyer-25.1-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260111T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260111T140000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20251229T143731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T143731Z UID:10001159-1768140000-1768140000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Talking Memory: The Landsberg Community: A Microhistory of German Jewry under National Socialism DESCRIPTION:This program focuses on the German Jewish community in Landsberg before and during the Holocaust. The event will open with remarks by Yigal Cohen\, CEO of the Ghetto Fighters’ House. \nProf. Guy Miron will examine the world of German Jewry from the eve of the Nazi rise to power through the outbreak of World War II\, exploring how the persecutions of the Third Reich reshaped personal lives\, communal structures\, and Jewish identity. His lecture highlights how communities living under oppression nonetheless exercised agency in shaping their everyday experiences. \nSonia Schätz will present the new permanent exhibition Wege nach Landsberg (Paths to Landsberg) at the Landsberg am Lech Town Museum\, which addresses the Nazi period and its postwar legacies. Focusing on the daily lives of six Jewish families\, her talk explores the changing realities of Jewish life from 1933 onward\, the responses of the non-Jewish environment\, and the curatorial choices involved in conveying this history and its relevance today. \nThis event in on Zoom at 2pm EST. \n  \n \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-the-landsberg-community-a-microhistory-of-german-jewry-under-national-socialism/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Flyer-11.1.26-EVENT.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T140000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20251103T145603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T145603Z UID:10001154-1763301600-1763301600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Programming from Our Partners: Talking Memory: Fanny's Journey DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House is pleased to host an online event celebrating the opening of “Fanny’s Journey\,” an exhibition that brings to life the experiences of Fanny Ben Ami through her powerful drawings. Fanny’s Journey tells the extraordinary story of Fanny\, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl who was born in Germany and grew up in France. After the Nazis rose to power and life for Jews became dangerous\, her family fled Germany for France. There\, Fanny found herself on her own\, responsible for leading a group of Jewish children on their way to freedom. The exhibition presents paintings created by Fanny later in life\, accompanied by short excerpts from her testimony. \nThe program will include opening remarks by Prof. Aryeh Barnea\, who will share his knowledge about the OSE – Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants – (Children's Aid Society) that operated an underground network that rescued thousands of Jewish children\, including Fanny\, by placing them in children’s homes\, hiding them in foster families\, or smuggling them across borders. The curator of the exhibition\, Lilach Efraim\, will give a behind the scenes look at the new exhibit. A presentation of OSE documents located in the Ghetto Fighters’ House archive will be given by archivist Greta Barak. \n  URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/programming-from-our-partners-talking-memory-fannys-journey/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Flyer-16.11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20240515T141211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T150549Z UID:10000986-1717336800-1717342200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Talking Memory series: Jewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944 DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series\nRomanian Jewry during the Holocaust:  Filling in the Gaps\nJewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944\nOpening Remarks: \nDr. Martin Ladislau Salamon \nDirector of the Romanian Cultural Institute\, Tel Aviv \nGuest Speakers: \nDr. Dallas Michelbacher \nJewish Forced Labor in Romania\, 1940-1944 \nGreta Barak \nNames and Archives: 14 Jews Sent to Forced Labor\, 1943 \n The third program in the series will focus on Jewish forced labor in Romania during the Holocaust.  Between 1941 and 1944\, more than 100\,000 Romanian Jews were conscripted into forced labor under the auspices of the Romanian military’s labor service system. \nDr. Dallas Michelbacher’s presentation will look at how these laborers worked in a wide variety of contexts\, including forced labor camps\, mobile forced labor battalions\, and forced labor units raised within Romanian cities. They performed numerous types of labor in the interest of the Romanian state\, including road and railroad construction\, clearing snow from streets and railroad tracks\, work in war-related industry\, and tasks of direct military significance like building and repairing fortifications. The forced labor system was part of a larger program of persecution directed against Romanian Jews as part of the “Romanianization” policy pursued by Ion Antonescu’s regime\, the goal of which was the complete removal of Jews from the Romanian social and economic life. \nGreta Barak\, an archivist at the Ghetto Fighters’ House\, will present a war-time document stored in the GFH Archive: a note of the 89th Infantry Division of the Romanian Army concerning a group of 14 Jews sent to forced labour in October 1943. \nThe series is in participation with A.M.I.R. Organization\, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv\, the Wilhelm Filderman Centre for the Study of Jewish History in Romania\, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania\, Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-series-jewish-forced-labor-in-romania-1940-1944/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/6-38-2-6-2024-web-01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20240103T173619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T201831Z UID:10000941-1706194800-1706200200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion: Resistance: They Fought Back Featuring: Paula S. Apsell - Executive Producer\, Co-Director in Conversation with Dr. Michael Berenbaum DESCRIPTION:As we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, CWB is honored to present the NEW documentary ‘Resistance: They Fought Back.’ \nJoin us for this event as we unveil tales of resilience and courage\, remembering and reflecting on the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity. \nThe Film link will be delivered to registrants 3 days before our engaging post-film discussion \n“People have this myth stuck in their heads that Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter. But this is where the real story begins… Jews did not go as sheep to the slaughter… They fought back.” Professor Richard Freund \nWe’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead\, it’s widely believed “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.” Filmed in Poland\, Lithuania\, Latvia\, Israel\, and the U.S.\, Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small\, rebellions in death camps\, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe\, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis. \nWe were taught that Jews went like sheep to the slaughter. \nWe were taught a Nazi lie. \nFeaturing: Paula S. Apsell – Executive Producer\, Co-Director \n\nFor 33 years\, Paula Apsell was the senior executive producer of the PBS NOVA science series. Prior to that\, she produced and directed a dozen NOVA episodes\, and was a Fellow in the Public Understanding of Science at MIT. During her long tenure at NOVA\, Paula was responsible for supervising more than 600 documentaries on a wide variety of subjects in the sciences\, and one\, The Bible’s Buried Secrets\, an exploration of the archeology of the Hebrew Bible\, with partial funding provided by the Righteous Persons Foundation. She also co-directed and executive produced one of the most watched NOVA episodes\, Holocaust Escape Tunnel. During her tenure\, NOVA won every major broadcasting award\, including the Emmy\, the Peabody\, the duPont-Columbia University Gold and Silver Batons\, and an Academy Award nomination for Special Effects. In 2018 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. \nFacilitated by Dr. Michael Berenbaum \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\nUnlock the anticipation – Film link delivered to registrants 3 days before our engaging post-film discussion \nThank you to our partners: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-resistancethey-fought-back/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/RESISTANCE-Poster-panorama-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20231201T234816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T234853Z UID:10000925-1702821600-1702827000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis: Under Beslenei’s Sky: A Tale of Courage DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new series:\n“Bridge Over Troubled Water”: Solidarity and Civic Responsibility in Times of Crisis\nJoin us for the second program\n Under Beslenei’s Sky: A Tale of Courage\nOpening Remarks: \nYigal Cohen – CEO of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum \nGuest Speakers: \nDavid Shawgen – Research Director of the Circassian Museum in Kfar-Kama \nZoher Thawcho – Initiator of the Film “A Tale from Beslenei” and Founder of the Circassian Museum in Kfar-Kama \nLana Harshuk – Circassian-Israeli Educator at the Anne Frank High School in the Galilee \nPre-screening: \n“A Tale from Beslenei” Program Description:  \nFor our second program\, we are honored to have a distinguished panel of guest speakers that will collectively reveal the remarkable\, unknown heroic story of Beslenei\, a small village at the heart of the Caucasus. During the Holocaust\, the Circassian-Muslim people of Beslenei adopted orphaned children\, some of whom were Jewish\, who had fled the siege of Leningrad\, putting their entire community at risk. \nYigal Cohen\, museum CEO and former principal of the Anne Frank high school in the Galilee\, has developed a profound interest in Circassian history\, particularly the 1864 Circassian Genocide\, sparked by meaningful encounters with members of the Circassian community at school. Upon discovering the unique story of the village\, he recognized its educational value and dedicated himself to sharing it with students and beyond. \nDavid Shawgen\, academic advisor and researcher at the Circassian Museum in Kfar Kama\, will provide a comprehensive overview of Circassian history and culture and focus on the significant events that unfolded in Beslenei during April 1942. \nZoher Thawcho\, a Circassian-Israeli who was similarly drawn to this story\, will share clips of his film “A Tale from Beslenei” and discuss the production process of the film\, as well as his personal perspective on the story that came to life during the film’s creation. \nLana Harshuk\, a Circassian-Israeli educator at the Anne Frank high school\, will weave together her identity and the history of her people\, revealing their impact on her educational philosophy. Guided by the belief that understanding diverse cultures can combat hatred\, Lana will explain how hatred is often a result of ignorance\, and how she uses this story to encourage empathy and foster respect for others. \nThere will be a pre-screening of the documentary film for all registrants. \nThis program is in partnership with the Circassian Historical Museum in Israel\, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre\, Classrooms Without Borders\, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/bridge-over-troubled-water-solidarity-and-civic-responsibility-in-times-of-crisis-under-besleneis-sky-a-tale-of-courage/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Web-17.12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T171500 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T184039Z UID:10000887-1698162300-1698167700@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \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. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence-2023-10-24/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T171500 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T172820Z UID:10000884-1696952700-1696958100@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \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. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence-2023-10-10/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T154500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T171500 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230804T125710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T172721Z UID:10000886-1696347900-1696353300@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:CHRISTIANS & JEWS – FROM CONFLICT TO COEXISTENCE DESCRIPTION:Today\, the nexus between Judaism and Christianity marks a high point in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. \nBut this was not always the case. Since the C2nd CE\, mainstream Christianity was resolutely anti-Jewish.\nThe myth of Jews as Christ-killers fuelled anti-Judaism and antisemitism through the Christian centuries and it was not until after the Holocaust that the Church embarked on a path towards reconciliation with the Jewish people.\nIn this short course we will trace the trajectory of Jewish-Christian relations from a position of conflict to one of coexistence. \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. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/christians-jews-from-conflict-to-coexistence/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Berenbaum-Museum-Panel-web-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T210000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230815T190221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230815T190221Z UID:10000893-1694419200-1695762000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Examining & Responding to Antisemitism in American Culture and Society\, September 2023 DESCRIPTION:Participate in this asynchronous online course for a guided\, facilitator-led exploration of Echoes & Reflections resources that support the teaching strategies to help your students understand contemporary antisemitism. We applaud your commitment to teaching this topic and are eager to support you to ensure your students are able to engage in thoughtful\, engaging\, and historically accurate learning. \nCourse Details: \n\nCourse opens on September 11th at 7AM EST; approximately 4 hours to complete in total – at no cost\nProceed at your own pace each week\, be supported by an instructor\, and enjoy interaction with other educators\nComplete all activities for a 4-hour certificate\nGraduate credit available through the University of the Pacific. Please visit their site for more information.\n\nAfter completing this course\, you will be able to: \n\nDefine contemporary manifestations of antisemitism\, both different and the same as traditional forms of antisemitism present before and during the Holocaust.\nDiscover and utilize classroom lessons and resources to help students explore the persistence\, particularity\, and impact of antisemitism worldwide including how antisemitism animates white nationalism.\nExplore ways to support students’ commitment and ability to respond to and prevent antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.\nUnderstand that all hatred is intertwined\, reflect on the skills needed for students to respond effectively to antisemitism and other forms of bias. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/examining-responding-to-antisemitism-in-american-culture-and-society-september-2023/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T102446Z UID:10000848-1687363200-1687368600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nOur 6th and Final session in this Series\nFeaturing a Conversation with Michael Berenbaum and Elliot Resnick on “Representative Sol Bloom: The Moral Conflicts of an American-Jewish Congressman During the Holocaust”\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nElliot Resnick\, PhD \n \nElliot Resnick\, PhD\, is the former chief editor of The Jewish Press and the author of several books\, including the soon-to-be-published America First: The Story of the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust. \nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square \nMay 17th 2023 A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum on the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea.\n\n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230519T154710Z UID:10000847-1684339200-1684344600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMay 17th 2023 Session Featuring\nA conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum \nDuring the 1930s and 1940s there were a number of films depicting Hitler and the Nazi assault against the Jews – it was not yet called the Holocaust\, in fact it was a “crime without name.” As part of our five part series on America and the Holocaust\, we will consider the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea. \nMichael Berlin\, screenwriter and founder of the Jewish Film Festival of Orange County\, CA. \nMichael Berlin\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of Screenwriting\, Cal State Long Beach\, screenwriter and producer\, currently works for ABC and Wide World Disney. He has written and produced over 150 episodes of dramatic TV scripts ranging from award winning “Cagney and Lacy\,” “Miami Vice\,” “Quantum Leap\,” “The Commish\,” “Murder She Wrote\,” and “Sisters” to Steven Spielberg’s “Earth 2” and Gene Rodenbury’s “Earth: Final Conflict.” Feature film credits include “Breaking Point\,” “Gaudi\,” “Robo Warriors\,” and “Anguish\,” the winner of 10 European awards including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival\, Spain. A Ph.D. psychologist\, he is a former associate professor of Psychology and Film and dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Developmental Studies in Los Angeles. He has been the host of Orange County’s University Synagogue Jewish Film Festival for 10 years\, and is currently Adjunct Film Curator at the Bower’s Museum of Cultural Art. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n April 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-5-2/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230511T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230426T173122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T163153Z UID:10000883-1683817200-1683822600@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-game-changers-with-director-noam-sobovitz/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/poste-rgb-eng-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230423T121553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T121553Z UID:10000885-1683730800-1683734400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment DESCRIPTION:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment\n \nSince the end of WWII\, many explanations have been offered as to why the Nazis and their collaborators perpetrated the Holocaust.  These range from early childhood abuse\, the impact of Prussian militarism\, and a human propensity to follow orders. Today it is clear that there is no one explanation\, but many factors that led people to become perpetrators. Dr. Robert Rozett\, senior historian at Yad Vashem\, will address many of these factors and the role of public discourse in setting the stage for the Holocaust. This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/perpetrators-of-the-holocaust-a-reassessment/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230501T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230423T121144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T121654Z UID:10000882-1682953200-1682956800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study DESCRIPTION:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study\n \nWhat was life like for those trapped inside the Lodz ghetto? When the Germans sealed off the ghetto on May 1\, 1940\, 164\,000 Jews were imprisoned in Lodz\, the second largest of over 1\,000 ghettos in Europe. Using photography and testimony\, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will provide insight into the four long years the ghetto existed\, and its many unique characteristics. This webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 4 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \nLiz Elsby has worked at Yad Vashem since 2006 as a Holocaust Educator and museum tour guide. She guides educational groups in Poland\, Prague\, Terezin and Berlin\, as well as teaching about the Holocaust to teachers in the USA through Yad Vashem and Echoes and Reflections. Liz is also an artist\, illustrator and graphic designer and lives with her family in Jerusalem\, Israel. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/the-lodz-ghetto-an-in-depth-study/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programming-from-our-Partners.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T155925Z UID:10000846-1682524800-1682530200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring:\nCharles Gallagher S.J.\,  on Nazis in Copley Square\n  \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n \nFather Gallagher is a Professor of History at Boston College who has written an  important book about Nazi activities – German and American Nazi  activities – in Boston. It is a major study of how German government officials and Nazi allies in America \, most especially the  German American Bund worked in tandem to try to undermine US support for Britain and for Jews and to strengthen American isolationism in the crucial pre-war years. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMay 17th 2023 featuring’s Session: A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-3/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T160003Z UID:10000845-1678896000-1678901400@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \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. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-4/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T173000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125133 CREATED:20230129T012425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T160651Z UID:10000844-1676476800-1676482200@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session\nA Discussion Surrounding \n“Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n  \nBen Hecht was a journalist\, author\, essayist\, screenwriter\, polemicist\, Zionist — and a prophet. Learn how this one-man multimedia operation sent the English language into battle on behalf of the European Jews\, at their moment of greatest peril — and forced the Roosevelt Administration to respond. \nFeaturing: Rick Richman \nRick Richman is a resident scholar at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He has written for Commentary\, Mosaic\, The New York Sun\, The Jewish Journal\, The Jewish Press\, The New York Post\, PJ Media\, and other publications\, and is the author of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler (Encounter Books\, 2018). \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nAnd None Shall Make Them Afraid recounts the story of how Zionism\, supported by Americanism\, created a modern miracle—told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history. \nThe book presents eight historic figures—four from Europe (Theodor Herzl\, Chaim Weizmann\, Vladimir Jabotinsky\, Abba Eban) and four from America (Louis D. Brandeis\, Golda Meir\, Ben Hecht\, Ron Dermer)—who reflect the intellectual and social revolutions that Zionism and Americanism brought to the world. \nIn some cases\, the stories have been forgotten; in other cases\, misrepresented; in still others\, not yet given their full due. But they are central to the miraculous recovery of the Jewish people in the twentieth century. Taken together\, they recount both a people’s return to its place among the nations and the impact on history that a single individual can make. \nMore than a century ago\, after studying the early Zionist texts\, Louis Brandeis concluded that Jews were the “trustees” of their history\, charged to “carry forward what others\, in the past\, have borne so well.” The stories in this book—recording the extraordinary efforts of extraordinary individuals that created the modern state of Israel and then sustained it—reinforce Brandeis’s observation for our own time. \nThe story of Zionism\, and its interaction with Americanism\, is a continuing one. The book is thus not only about the past\, but the present and future as well. \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\nMarch 15th 2023 John Sears: Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust. \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.\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/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/0a31904c77b769bccb7c0611a06f41fb-2E98Gt.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 CREATED:20221102T103207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T160018Z UID:10000832-1670511600-1670517000@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion The Partisan with the Leica Camera with Yael Perlov\, Simon Lavee & Moderated by Avi Ben Hur DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion The Partisan with the Leica Camera with Yael Perlov\, Ruth Walk\, Simon Lavee & Moderated by Avi Ben Hur\n\n\nA frightened look of a woman\, from a rare self-portrait of a couple\, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son\, Simon\, discovers that his father\, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki\, and his mother\, the housewife Hannah Bern\, were the commanders of a Polish assassination squad that operated during the Holocaust. The chilling facts are backed by unique photos taken in the forest by Mundek\, the partisan\, on his Leica camera. \n\n\nYael Perlov \nAs an editor and filmmaker\, Perlov has achieved some very visible success – including a 2001 Ophir Award from the Israeli Film Academy for editing the feature film “Late Marriage.” In 2016\, the documentary “Ben-Gurion\, Epilogue\,” which she edited and produced\, won an Ophir for best documentary. \nCurrently a visiting lecturer at Duke University\, she was in the Boston area earlier this week for a visit sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to New England. At multiple locations\, she participated in screenings of her films as well as the work of her late father\, David Perlov\, who was known as “the father of Israeli documentary cinema.” \n\n\n\nRuth Walk: Producer \n\nGraduated from the Sam Spiegel Film School Hadassah College\, Jerusalem Her films\, have earned international acclaim\, airing on various international broadcast stations and winning many awards. \nHer works include Golda – A portrait of Golda Meir The Balcony – The story of the Israeli actor Israel Becker\, Holocaust survivor\, painter and filmmaker ; A New Beginning following prisoners in their fight against the drug plague. \nSimon Lavee \n\n\nAged 75 born in Germany Father of four\, grandfather of nine. Residing in Israel since 1948. First Degrees in Law (Bar Ilan University)\, General History (Soviet studies) Middle East History (Tel Aviv University)\, Geography (Tel Aviv University) and Second-degree studies – Business Administration Unisa (not completed). Simon Lavee speaks Hebrew\, English\, German. Polish\, Arabic. Simon Lavee served 28 years in IDF has combat experience as well as intelligence community in Israel and abroad. Retired high ranking IDF intelligence officer \nToday he runs his law office. Former positions \n\n*Director General of Ramat-Gan.\n*Member of the Intelligence community of Israel.\n*Head of the Intelligence of the Military Counter Intelligence.\n*Head of MOD/IDF worldwide Special Assistance operations.\n*Head of MOD/IDF Foreign Relations.\n*Counselor at the Embassy of Israel to South Africa.\n\n \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. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n  \nThank you to our partner: URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/post-film-discussion-the-partisan-with-the-leica-camera-with-yael-perlov-simon-lavee-moderated-by-avi-ben-hur/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/MV5BNmE3YjdiYjItZDdlZS00MmNmLWE0NWItNmQzZGM3YWVmN2FlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjMyMzI4MzY@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T143000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 CREATED:20221020T165639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221020T170405Z UID:10000825-1667912400-1667917800@cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net SUMMARY:Kristallnacht: A Teachable Moment DESCRIPTION:Kristallnacht: A Teachable Moment\nEchoes and Reflection’s webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history\, explore and access classroom-ready content\, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristallnacht is often viewed as a turning point. On the night of November 9\, 1938\, the persecution of the Jews became dramatically visible and undeniable.\nMarking the anniversary of Kristallnacht presents a unique teachable moment:\n\nWhat happens when people are deprived of basic rights and others stand by without taking action?\nHow does escalation occur?\nWhy is it so important to fight hatred?\n\nYour classroom is invited to join Sheryl Ochayon of Yad Vashem\, who will explore these issues in this webinar.\n\nSheryl Ochayon is Project Director of Echoes and Reflections for Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The program helps teachers and students understand\, process and navigate the complexities of the Holocaust using dynamic materials. As an expert in women and the Holocaust and a dynamic educator\, Ochayon speaks at seminars and international conferences. She has presented most recently at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach. She earned her law degree from Harvard University and practiced law in New York before making aliyah. URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/kristallnacht-a-teachable-moment/ 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:20221023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T153000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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:20220922T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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:20260709T125134 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:20220913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T203000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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:20260709T125134 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;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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:20220801T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220801T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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:20220629T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T130000 DTSTAMP:20260709T125134 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 END:VCALENDAR