Commemorate Yom Hashoah with These Meaningful Events |
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My Conversations with Elie Wiesel: Lessons Learned for our World Today |
Sunday, April 16 at 7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT
Congregation Shaaray Shalom, New York City
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Marvin Kalb, legendary journalist for CBS and NBC news and acclaimed author, had the honor of interviewing Elie Wiesel multiple times. He will reflect on the life of Elie Wiesel: writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. |
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Photographing Departures and Arrivals: Picturing Global Jewish Migrations in the Era of the Holocaust |
Monday, April 17 at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT
Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
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Many Jewish families who fled Nazi Germany took their photo albums with them. In them, we gain rare and unexpected insights into their daily lives. Join UK-based professor Maiken Umbach to discuss her new book, Jewish Photos and Holocaust Testimony: A Complex Relationship. |
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Yom HaShoah: The Survivors' Talmud |
Monday, April 17 at 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm PT
Keeping It Sacred
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Jackie Ben Efraim of American Jewish University will share the fascinating history of The Survivors' Talmud, an edition of the Talmud published for survivors living in displaced persons camps. |
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An Eyewitness Account, with Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Alex Groth |
Monday, April 17 at 5:00 pm ET / 2:00 pm PT
Olga Lengyel Institute and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Alex Groth was a nine-year-old boy living in the Warsaw Ghetto with his mother when the uprising began against the Nazi deportation to the death camps. Remarkably, they escaped the atrocities and were hidden in Poland during the remainder of the war. They left for the US, where Alex built a distinguished career as a political scientist and author of many books, including Holocaust Voices, a collection of interviews and observations conducted with Holocaust survivors. He will be interviewed by JTA's Andrew Silow-Caroll.
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Injustice Illuminated: The Holocaust Art of Arthur Szyk |
Monday, April 17 at 7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT
Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning
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In 1940, the Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk — best known for his illustrated Haggadah — left Europe for the United States, intending to ignite American support for the war against Hitler. Learn more about his story from world renowned Szyk scholar, Rabbi Irvin Ungar. |
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Jewish Amsterdam During the Holocaust: A Yom Hashoah Commemoration |
Tuesday, April 18 at 11:00 am ET / 4:00 pm PT
My Jewish Learning
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In this presentation, Amsterdam Jewish leader Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira will describe how the Holocaust devastated the Jewish community of Amsterdam and the Netherlands, which lost about 75% of its Jews. |
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Women and Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto |
Tuesday, April 18 at 12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT
Jewish Women's Archive
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was one of the most famous acts of Jewish rebellion during the Holocaust. What was daily life like for women in the Ghetto? What forms did their resistance take, and how did their resistance reinforce or challenge gender roles? How are historians and activists today broadening our understanding of this critical moment in history? Part 1 of 6.
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Fight or Die: 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
Tuesday, April 18 at 3:00 pm ET / 12:00 pm PT
Maven
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Join POLIN Museum of Polish Jewish History's Zachary Mazur for a discussion of the Holocaust in the context of Eastern European social and political upheaval. |
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Tuesday, April 18 at 4:00 pm ET / 1:00 pm PT
My Jewish Learning
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Each day, My Jewish Learning hosts a virtual minyan where rotating rabbis share a brief word of Torah and mourners have the opportunity to say Kaddish together. On Yom Hashoah, you are invited to join us to remember those who perished in the Holocaust. |
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Bruno Schulz & the Hijacking of History |
Thursday, April 27 at 6:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm PT
Jewish Telegraphic. Agency
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During World War II, Bruno Schulz's art caught the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer, who coerced Schulz, a Jew, into painting murals in his villa in exchange for survival. Shortly after, a Gestapo officer shot Schulz dead on the street. Decades later, the legacy of this work remains controversial. Join a discussion with Benjamin Balint, the author of a new Schulz biography. |
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