Online Programming
Discovery Education: The Children of Willesden Lane
Honor Holocaust Education Week by joining students across Florida for this special event. Students and educators will experience a 45-minute livestreamed event including a theatrical performance and concert based on the best-selling book The Children of Willesden Lane.
3GNY: “All the Horrors of War”
All the Horrors of War, tells the remarkable stories of Rachel Genuth, a poor Jewish teenager from the Hungarian provinces, and Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, a high-ranking military doctor in the British Second Army.
3GNY: “The Quest for the Hidden Torah”
In 2018, Yoni discovered testimony his grandfather, Zygmunt (Ziggy) Litowk, a Holocaust Survivor, had provided to the Shoah Foundation.
SWC Museum of Tolerance: Screening and Q&A: “Resistance”
Join Academy Award®-Nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg, and director/screenwriter Jonathan Jakubowicz in an intimate conversation about the new film, Resistance.
Wagner College: Commemoration of Kristallnacht
This talk will examine the ways in which fighting anti-Semitism and the quest for racial justice intersect.
Teacher Resources for Florida Holocaust Education Week Nov. 9 – 13, 2020 Commemorating Kristallnacht
The Florida Department of Education is commemorating November 9 – 13, 2020, as Holocaust Education Week for all Florida students, with November 9th and 10th marking the 82nd Anniversary of Kristallnacht.
USHMM: “The Art of Protest”
Polish-born artist Arthur Szyk was alarmed by the Nazi threat and used his pen and paper to call public attention to the persecution of Europe’s Jews.
USHMM: Online Lectures (Photography, Diaries & Eugenics)
In the lectures, scholars discuss primary sources that illuminate topics using photographs, propaganda, diaries, short films, and artwork drawn from the Museum’s vast collection and other sources.
MMJH: “How Was It Possible?”
If you’ve ever wondered how the events of World War II and the Holocaust began, this program will help answer those questions and demonstrate the need for all of us to be vigilant in the face of hatred today.
Sousa Mendes Foundation: “The Bystander’s Choice”
If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough?
MJHNYC: Resistance in Belarus: The Bielski Partisans and Today
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust took many forms: spiritual resistance in the face of persecution, shared resources in a time of great deprivation, and partisan efforts like those of the Bielski Brothers, who formed the largest partisan detachment in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMC: Speaking Truth to Power
Using stirring music, powerful images and suspenseful storytelling, Dr. Jud Newborn will recount how two former fanatical Hitler Youth leaders transformed into the greatest heroes of the German anti-Nazi resistance.
Road Scholar: The Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup
Join Dr. Eileen Angelini to learn about the detailed planning behind the round-up and how France has since dealt with the pain and shame of this traumatic event.
MMJH: “Eva: A-7063”
Watch the film “Eva: A-7063” and engage in a post-film discussion with Dr. Michael Berenbaum, who was featured in the film, and Ted Green, the film’s director.
Cohen Center: Is the Rule of Law Still Important?
Is the Rule of Law Still Important? Lessons from Nuremberg with Ben Ferencz.
The Vilna Shul: 999: The Unforgettable True Story of the First Women in Auschwitz
Join author and filmmaker Heather Dune Macadam for a preview of the upcoming documentary, based on the book, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.
Ghetto Fighters’ House: “My Underground Mother”
“My Underground Mother” is a story of female resistance, resilience, and an intergenerational reclaiming of silenced women’s Holocaust narrative.
Road Scholar: The Coming of the Second World War
In the 1930’s, the British government adopted a policy known as appeasement, acceding to Hitler’s territorial demands.
Film Series: Above and Beyond
In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence.
Sousa Mendes Foundation: “Destination Shanghai”
Dr. Feng Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna during the time of Kristallnacht. Thanks to him, thousands of Jewish refugees were able to escape to Shanghai, where they found a safe haven.
Collecting the Dream: David Matlow
David Matlow, who many of you may recall, presented “Theodor Herzl: Coming Home, Staying Home” has recently put his book “Collecting the Dream” up on Kindle from August 29-31 and will be available for free download.
LAMOTH: “Building Bridges”
Join some of California’s most respected community leaders for a discussion on how we can work together to overcome our common challenges.
Ghetto Fighters’ House: Chasing Portraits
“Chasing Portraits” is Elizabeth Rynecki’s memoir of her emotional quest to find the lost art of her talented Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943), whose body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end in the Holocaust.
USHMM: Nazi Olympics
Nazi Olympics: Black and Jewish Athletes Defy the “Master Race”
From Darkness to Light: From the Holocaust to Israel
Deputy Consul General of Israel in Miami, Kasa Bainesay-Harbor and three of our Survivors, Magda Bader, Norman Frajman and Judy Rodan discuss “From Darkness to Light: From the Holocaust to Israel”.
Liberation75 and 3GNY: Memory Forward
Memory Forward: How the 3rd Generation Tells the Stories of the Holocaust.
USHMM: How Humor Helped Heal the Pain of the Holocaust
Humor helped some people cope with the atrocious conditions in ghettos and concentration camps as they suffered under Nazi brutality.
Sousa Mendes Foundation: “Hidden Children and their Rescuers”
This program will explore the history and psychology of hidden children and their rescuers during the Holocaust. Speakers will include renowned Jewish advocate Abraham H. Foxman, psychologist Dr. Noémi Perelman Mattis and Holocaust educator Ruth Kapp Hartz.
USHMM: Three Powerful Films Available Online
As the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center continues to feature a variety of online programs, we are delighted to add these “three powerful films” from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for you to view.
Sousa Mendes Foundation: “Something Beautiful Happened”
Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and author Yvette Manessis Corporon scours the globe to track down the Jewish family that her Greek Orthodox grandmother saved from the Holocaust in 1944.