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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \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.
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMay 17th 2023 Session Featuring\nA conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum \nDuring the 1930s and 1940s there were a number of films depicting Hitler and the Nazi assault against the Jews – it was not yet called the Holocaust\, in fact it was a “crime without name.” As part of our five part series on America and the Holocaust\, we will consider the relationship between Hollywood and the Nazis as it shaped America’s understanding of the world across the Sea. \nMichael Berlin\, screenwriter and founder of the Jewish Film Festival of Orange County\, CA. \nMichael Berlin\, Ph.D.\, associate professor of Screenwriting\, Cal State Long Beach\, screenwriter and producer\, currently works for ABC and Wide World Disney. He has written and produced over 150 episodes of dramatic TV scripts ranging from award winning “Cagney and Lacy\,” “Miami Vice\,” “Quantum Leap\,” “The Commish\,” “Murder She Wrote\,” and “Sisters” to Steven Spielberg’s “Earth 2” and Gene Rodenbury’s “Earth: Final Conflict.” Feature film credits include “Breaking Point\,” “Gaudi\,” “Robo Warriors\,” and “Anguish\,” the winner of 10 European awards including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival\, Spain. A Ph.D. psychologist\, he is a former associate professor of Psychology and Film and dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Developmental Studies in Los Angeles. He has been the host of Orange County’s University Synagogue Jewish Film Festival for 10 years\, and is currently Adjunct Film Curator at the Bower’s Museum of Cultural Art. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n April 26th 2023 Session Featuring: Charles Gallagher S.J.\, on Nazis in Copley Square\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY:Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann
DESCRIPTION:Post Film Discussion Game Changers\n\n\nSynopsis \nHow did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust\, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers and threats of terror\, Israel national team and German Borussia Munchegladbach met in a match whose importance marked the beginning of the normalization between Israel and Germany. Through interviews with former German and Israeli footballers\, historians\, and diplomats\, along with rare archival materials\, the film examines the power of personal friendships to bring down the wall between nations\, and of football\, to pave the way between adversaries. \nNoam Sobovitz: Director \n \nNoam Sobovitz is a young-generation Israeli filmmaker and “Game Changers” is his debute feature doc. A graduate of Tel Aviv University film school\, Noam was the editorial producer of a docu-series about the ultra-orthodox media in Israel “The Right Not to Know” for KAN 11. His film “Homecoming” for HOT won the best short film at Astra Film Festival. \n \n\n \n \nThank you to our partners
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SUMMARY:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment
DESCRIPTION:Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment\n \nSince the end of WWII\, many explanations have been offered as to why the Nazis and their collaborators perpetrated the Holocaust.  These range from early childhood abuse\, the impact of Prussian militarism\, and a human propensity to follow orders. Today it is clear that there is no one explanation\, but many factors that led people to become perpetrators. Dr. Robert Rozett\, senior historian at Yad Vashem\, will address many of these factors and the role of public discourse in setting the stage for the Holocaust. This webinar connects to Lesson Plan Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website.
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SUMMARY:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study
DESCRIPTION:The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study\n \nWhat was life like for those trapped inside the Lodz ghetto? When the Germans sealed off the ghetto on May 1\, 1940\, 164\,000 Jews were imprisoned in Lodz\, the second largest of over 1\,000 ghettos in Europe. Using photography and testimony\, Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby will provide insight into the four long years the ghetto existed\, and its many unique characteristics. This webinar connects with Lesson Plan Unit 4 on the Echoes & Reflections website. \n \nLiz Elsby has worked at Yad Vashem since 2006 as a Holocaust Educator and museum tour guide. She guides educational groups in Poland\, Prague\, Terezin and Berlin\, as well as teaching about the Holocaust to teachers in the USA through Yad Vashem and Echoes and Reflections. Liz is also an artist\, illustrator and graphic designer and lives with her family in Jerusalem\, Israel.
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nApril 26th 2023 Session Featuring:\nCharles Gallagher S.J.\,  on Nazis in Copley Square\n  \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \n \nFather Gallagher is a Professor of History at Boston College who has written an  important book about Nazi activities – German and American Nazi  activities – in Boston. It is a major study of how German government officials and Nazi allies in America \, most especially the  German American Bund worked in tandem to try to undermine US support for Britain and for Jews and to strengthen American isolationism in the crucial pre-war years. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nMay 17th 2023 featuring’s Session: A conversation between Michael Berlin and Michael Berenbaum\nJune Guest COMING SOON!\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht: The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews” Featuring: Rick Richman\nMarch 15th 2023 Refuge Must Be Given\, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Featuring: John Sears\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/america-and-the-holocaust-a-series-of-colloquies-3/
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SUMMARY:America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Berenbaum joins CWB for a groundbreaking look into the controversy surrounding America and the Holocaust.\n\n\nClassrooms Without Borders is excited to offer the opportunity share our new series: America and The Holocaust: A Series of Colloquies. \nThe new PBS Documentary U.S. and the Holocaust has sparked debate over America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the 20th century. \nIn each of our 6 part series Dr. Michael Berenbaum will explore this complicated debate. \nEach session will feature an scholar whose work will shed new light on the topic and challenge us to reframe our understanding of the complex portrait of national inaction. \nMarch 15th 2023\nRefuge Must Be Given\,\nEleanor Roosevelt and the Holocaust\n  \nFeaturing: John Sears \n \nJohn Sears’s special interests include landscape history as well as the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nSears served as executive director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute from 1986 until 1999 and as associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers from 2000–2007. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. I appeared in 2007. Before joining the Roosevelt Institute\, he taught at Tufts\, Boston University\, and Vassar. \nSears divides his time between Northampton\, MA and Hawley\, a hilltown in Western Massachusetts where his paternal ancestors settled in the late 1700s. He grows trees and produces maple syrup on the land he owns. As a board member of the Sons & Daughters of Hawley\, the town’s historical society\, he helped create Hawley’s Old Town Common historic site. Sears served on the Hawley selectboard from 2013 until 2017. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Disability History Museum. \nBOOK SUMMARY: \nJohn F. Sears\, Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt\, the Jewish Plight and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette\, IN: Purdue University Press\, 2022) pp. 327. \nThroughout Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein six hour documentary America and the Holocaust one name kept being mentioned time and again\, Eleanor Roosevelt who in her column My Day\, public statements\, public activities and private exchanges was a fierce advocate of admitting Jewish refugees to the United States in the years when their admission was the difference between life and death. John Sears who has directed the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in the 1980s and 90s and edited Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers\, which were published in 2007 has written an important book detailing her work on behalf of Jewish refugees during her years as First Lady and then\, perhaps more importantly and more effectively in her public career after the death of her husband on April 12\, 1945\, when no longer constrained by the limitations of her role and her marriage she could speak her mind\, lend her name and energies to the post-war refugee crisis. Eleanor Roosevelt then became a fierce advocate for the creation of the Jewish State and was an integral part of the efforts 75 years ago this week to pass the November 19\, 1947 United Nations Resolution supporting the establishment of a separate Jewish and Arab State in Mandate Palestine. \nIt wasn’t supposed to happen quite that way. Judging from her childhood upbringing and the antisemitism that characterized elite\, monied WASP society\, Eleanor Roosevelt was a young antisemite. One can go through her early writings\, family history and see a hatred of Jews shared by her social class\, freely expressed\, seldom condemned\, widely assumed. Ironically\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s family was far more accepted of Jews who were business colleagues of his father as well as neighbors in Hyde Park. Yet by the time that FDR became Governor – Jews were an essential part of his coalition – and well before he became President Eleanor’s views had changed and as her social circle widened  and her experience broadened\, she enjoyed enduring and close friendships with Jews\, most especially Jewish women\,’ \nUnlike her husband who say things in political terms\, Eleanor Roosevelt saw things in deeply personal terms\, perhaps a reflection of their genders\, perhaps also a reflection of her innate shyness. FDR was outgoing and gregarious. He talked more than he listened. ER visited many places he could not go because of his physical limitations \, she not only saw more but listened more and reflected upon what she heard. \n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum \n\n\n\nDr. Michael Berenbaum is a writer\, lecturer\, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and historical films. He is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust at the American Jewish University\, where he is also a Professor of Jewish Studies. \nHe was the Executive Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica that reworked\, transformed\, improved\, broadened and deepened\, the now classic 1972 work and consists of 22 volumes\, sixteen million words with 25\,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge. For three years\, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He was the Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington\, D.C. From 1988–93 he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, overseeing its creation. He also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust\, where he authored its Report to the President. \nBerenbaum is the author and editor of twenty books\, scores of scholarly articles\, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His most recent books include: Not Your Father’s Antisemitism\, A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors and After the Passion Has Passed: American Religious Consequences\, a collection of essays on Jews\, Judaism and Christianity\, Religious Tolerance and Pluralism occasioned by the controversy that swirled around Mel Gibson’s film\, The Passion. He was the conceptual developer on the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center and played a similar function as conceptual developer and chief curator of the Belzec Memorial at the site of the Death Camp. He is currently at work on the Memorial Museum to Macedonian Jewry in Skopje\, the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum\, and the Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. \nFuture Sessions in this Series: \n\nApril\, May and June Guests COMING SOON\n\nPast Sessions: \n\nJanuary 18th 2023: A conversation with award winning filmmaker Pierre Savage on Varian Fry: The First American honored as a Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth by Yad Vashem for the rescue of a Cultural Elite in Vichy France 1940-1941.\nFebruary 15th 2023 featuring’s Session: A Discussion Surrounding “Ben Hecht:The Legendary Writer Who Mobilized Hollywood on Behalf of the European Jews”  Featuring: Rick Richman\n\nThank you to our Partners \n \n \nFounded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning\, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986\, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist\, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland\, just outside Orlando\, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world. Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity\, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center\, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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SUMMARY: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.
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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:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T143000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T153000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T163000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T203000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T163000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240721T160122Z
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220801T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220801T160000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T130000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220620T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220620T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
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SUMMARY:COMMEMORATING THE DEPORTATION PROCESS
DESCRIPTION:In implementing the “Final Solution\,” the Germans and their collaborators tore millions of Jews from their homes and deported them to their deaths\, obliterating centuries-old Jewish communities throughout Europe. July marks the 80th anniversary of the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto\, when up to 300\,000 Jews were rounded up and brutally deported to the Treblinka Death Camp. We will use this anniversary to discuss the deportation process using short films and primary sources including letters\, testimonies and artwork.\nLiz Elsby\, Yad Vashem educator\, will guide us through this session.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/commemorating-the-deportation-process/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220614T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220524T155637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220620T212004Z
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SUMMARY:USING ANIMATIONS TO TEACH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
DESCRIPTION:How can animations be used to safely teach younger students about the Holocaust? How can they be used to explain difficult historical concepts?\n  \nIn this webinar\, Yad Vashem educator Yoni Berrous will guide us through the effective approaches as well as the limitations of using animations in the classroom.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-animations-to-teach-about-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T153000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220519T200014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T144903Z
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SUMMARY:The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Artistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944
DESCRIPTION:The Ghetto Fighters’ House  Talking Memory Series presents:\nCrafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann\nJoin us on Sunday\, June 12th \, for the second program\nArtistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin\, 1942-1944\nGuest Speaker: Liz Elsby\nThe Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) near Prague\, is often remembered for the incredible cultural endeavors of its Jewish inmates: in appalling conditions and in the shadow of deportations to death\, the Jews there created art\, held concerts and plays\, and performed operas such as ‘ Brundibar” . \nIn reality\, almost 34\,000 people\, the majority them elderly German and Austrian Jews\, died of disease\, starvation\, and neglect withing the ghettos walls; thousands more were among the 88\,000 deported to the death camps from the ghetto. \nToday\, most of these elderly men and women remain unremembered ghosts\, whose lives\, and suffering would have been forgotten by history had not an incredible group of Theresienstadt artists felt compelled to secretly draw their plight. \nIn this talk\, we will examine the artwork these brave artists created in that hellish place and by doing so\, we will give a face to these faceless victims\, and remember their humanity. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, Beit Terezin\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/crafting-heritage-the-art-of-holocaust-remembrance-a-homage-to-david-friedmann-artistic-representations-of-the-plight-of-the-elderly-in-terezin-1942-1944/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220601T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220601T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220524T155424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T155424Z
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SUMMARY:USING PHOTOGRAPHY TO TEACH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
DESCRIPTION:Photographs are like visual testimonies\, but can we always use them to understand what happened during the Holocaust?\n\nYad Vashem educator\, Dr. Rocco Giansante\, will guide us on how to examine Holocaust photographs from the lens of the perpetrator vs. that of the victim\, and how to use them as effective primary sources in the classroom.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/using-photography-to-teach-about-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T150000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220421T160135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T160135Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory: Checkmate: Making\, Playing and Picturing Chess in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Crafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann\nJoin us on Sunday\, May 15th\, for the first program: \nCheckmate: Making\, Playing and Picturing Chess in the Holocaust \n \nGuest Speaker: Dr. Rachel Perry \nChess was played\, made and pictured during the Holocaust by individuals in extremis. As practice\, chess offered victims a means of distraction\, entertainment\, and community building. With great skill and ingenuity\, chess boards and pieces were fashioned out of folded paper\, carved out of wood and modeled out of bread. When escape routes were closed off and the endgame seemed near\, chess allowed artists to symbolize their feelings of agency and entrapment\, as both players and pawns. \nThis program is in partnership with Classrooms Without Borders\, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center\, and the Jewish Historical Institute.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-checkmate-making-playing-and-picturing-chess-in-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220421T155706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T155716Z
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SUMMARY:A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S BLUEPRINT FOR HAPPINESS: Teacher Training
DESCRIPTION:Eddie Jaku survived Auschwitz and other camps. At aged 99 he presented a Ted Talk that has been viewed by over one million people\, and at 100 he published a best-selling memoir. How did he make the choice to live a life with joy after experiencing unimaginable horror? Studying his Holocaust story provides us with the opportunity to learn about the choices that humans can make. \n  \n  \n  \nIn this inspiring session\, Yad Vashem educator\, Yael Eaglstein\, will take us on the journey of one survivor’s choices. \nYael Eaglstein \nYael\, born in Jerusalem\, Israel\, earned her B.A from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A in Urban Planning and Geography. In 2004\, she joined the International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS) as a member of the guiding department. In 2006\, Yael joined the Israeli teacher training department (in the ISHS) and worked with pre-service educators from all over the country. She trained hundreds of Israeli teachers on the unique pedagogical philosophy and age appropriate methodology of the ISHS. In 2012 Yael was promoted to coordinator for Graduate Training Seminars in the European Department of the International School for Holocaust Studies. In 2016\, Yael started working as the educational supervisor of the Gandel Holocaust Program for Australian Educators and since 2020 is Head of the Program.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/a-holocaust-survivors-blueprint-for-happiness-teacher-training/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220502T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220421T154552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220421T154552Z
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SUMMARY:The Auschwitz Album: Teacher Training with Echoes & Reflections and Yad Vashem
DESCRIPTION:The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It offers a powerful primary source teaching tool providing visual documentation of the deportation of masses of Jews to the extermination camp. This session\, led by Yad Vashem educator Liz Elsby\, will explore the story behind the Auschwitz Album\, examining what can be seen\, as well as what is left out\, of the photographs. \nLiz Elsby \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-auschwitz-album-teacher-training-with-echoes-reflections-and-yad-vashem/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T053000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220421T153736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T230158Z
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SUMMARY:From Australia to New York: Bringing Holocaust Survivors to Living Rooms Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah ): From Australia to New York: Bringing Holocaust Survivors to Living Rooms Around the World\nJoin the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and Zikaron BaSalon for a most personal conversation with members of the last generation of Holocaust survivors from different countries worldwide\, who will share their powerful testimonies and answer your questions live about their life experiences.\nEvent Details\nOn Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)\, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and Zikaron BaSalon\, a social initiative that bridges the gap in modern society with the events of the Holocaust by connecting Survivors with people “in their living rooms” (either physically or online) around the world\, will host the most personal\, global conversation with the last generation of Holocaust survivors by bringing them into the “living rooms” of viewers around the world.\nFrom their homes\, audiences will have the unique opportunity to learn and ask LIVE questions to the survivors about the reality of the Holocaust\, while also hearing from decision makers from the local countries where Holocaust survivors currently live on how to connect Holocaust survivor memory with the fight against antisemitism today.\nWe have precious time left with Holocaust survivors; we must speak with them and ask them about their lived realities while we still can.\n\nLIVE // Memory Living Room: New York\nApril 27\, 8-9 PM ET / April 28\, 2-3 AM CET / 3-4 AM IST \nHOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONY \nEllen Bottner (89)\, born in 1933 in Rexingen\, Germany\nDouglas Bottner\, Son of Ellen\nJacqueline Bottner\, Granddaughter of Ellen \n\nLIVE // Memory Living Room: Mexico \nApril 27\, 10-11 PM CDMX / 11 PM-12 AM ET / April 28\, 5-6 AM CET / 6-7 AM IST \nHOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONY \nLuis Opatowsky\, born in Belgium \n\nLIVE // Memory Living Room: Melbourne\nApril 28\, 2-3 PM AEST / 12-1 AM ET / 6-7 AM CET / 7-8 AM IST \nHOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONY \nAbraham Goldberg (98)\, born in 1924 in Łódź\, Poland\nCharlie Goldberg\, Son of Abraham \n\nLIVE // Memory Living Room: Tel Aviv\nApril 28\, 9-10 AM IST / 8-9 AM CET / 2-3 AM ET \nHOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONY \nHannah Gofrit (87)\, born in 1935 in Biała Rawska\, Poland\nBen Gofrit\, Son of Hannah \n\nLIVE // Memory Living Room: Kraków\nApril 28\, 10-11 AM CET / 11 AM-12 PM IST / 4-5 AM ET \nHOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TESTIMONY \nZofia Radzikowska (86)\, born in 1935 in Kraków\, Poland
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/from-australia-to-new-york-bringing-holocaust-survivors-to-living-rooms-around-the-world/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T153000
DTSTAMP:20260709T133403
CREATED:20220421T152316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220513T195433Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Memory: The Last Years of Yitzhak Katzenelson
DESCRIPTION:Guest Speaker: Professor Samuel Kassow\n  \nFew Jewish Poets were better able to convey the horror and the anguish of the Holocaust than Yitzhak Katzenelson. Mordecai Tennebaum wrote that in the Warsaw Ghetto he became “like our brother”\, someone who surpassed the great Hebrew poet Bialik”. \nThis talk will examine his Holocaust writings in the Warsaw Ghetto and later in the Vitel internment camp in France. \nThis program is in partnership with the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and the Jewish Historical Institute.
URL:https://cwb-pgh-org-staging.ehven.net/event/talking-memory-the-last-years-of-yitzhak-katzenelson/
LOCATION:Virtual
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