Online Programming

Join some of California’s most respected community leaders for a discussion on how we can work together to overcome our common challenges. 

“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. 

Nazi Olympics: Black and Jewish Athletes Defy the “Master Race”

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”.

Memory Forward: How the 3rd Generation Tells the Stories of the Holocaust.

Humor helped some people cope with the atrocious conditions in ghettos and concentration camps as they suffered under Nazi brutality.

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.

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.

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.

When Pennsylvanian teen Jane Bomberger and American exchange student Robert Harlan learned about Nazi persecution of Jews, they wanted to take action.

Prof. Jan Grabowski will give a talk on “Holocaust Distortion and the Battle for Memory and Commemoration: The Case of Poland”.

As the Nazis began to coordinate and crystallize their racist program in the early 1930s, they looked for legal precedence that could help shape their own work within the German legal system.

Art and the Holocaust will present a sampling of artwork and propaganda done during World War II in the U.S. and Nazi Germany, and work done by a Child Survivor of the Holocaust after the war.

Learn about life in the Warsaw Ghetto and the tragic events of the summer of 1942.

Dr. Michael Berenbaum is the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, Los Angeles, California, and a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University.

History Channel Film “Diplomats of the Damned” shows the bravery of foreign service diplomats: Carl Lutz, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Hiram Bingham and George Ferdinand Duckwitz.

Because of their specific knowledge and skills, doctors are valuable not only to their patients, but also to the larger systems in which they work.

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice tells the story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The HDEC wishes to honor one of Liberators and a Member of our Honorary Board, Carl Arfa.

Join the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center and 100 other museums and cultural institutions around the world for We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope on Sunday, June 14 at 2:00 PM ET. 

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc. Announces the 2020 Contest Winners.

A punk girl opens the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family and hears her father’s first hand account of being a child under Hitler’s oppression.

The HDEC encourages you view the following program by PBS, “VIRAL: ANTISEMITISM IN FOUR MUTATIONS.” 

Re-trace the steps of Holocaust Survivor Israel Arbeiter as he returns to Poland and Germany for the final time to look for items buried in 1939 in the basement of his old home in Plock, Poland as the German army advanced.

In 1936, 18 African American athletes, dubbed the “black auxiliary” by Hitler, participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, defying Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism, history forgot all except one. This is the story of the other 17.

The HDEC will be offering another webinar as one of our online Israel Then & Now programs on May 12 at 11:00 AM, presented by the Baltimore...

Theodor Herzl is the "Founding Father of Modern Zionism" and at the end of the 19th Century, in the wake of rising nationalism and in the face of...

As many of you know, in 2007, the Center acquired a Holocaust Railcar from Poland. It is a very significant artifact and played a very important...

As Seen Through These Eyes reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds.

75 years ago today, the U.S. Army liberated the Nazi Concentration Camp Dachau. Today is also Israel's 72nd Birthday, Yom Ha'atzmaut. Please click...