Online Programming
Illinois Holocaust Museum: “Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust”
In fleeing persecution, nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees found an unexpected safe haven in the Chinese port city of Shanghai between 1937 and 1945.
USHMM: “Comics Take On Hitler and the Nazis”
ZAP! POW! BAM! These words jump off the page as Captain America and Superman attack the comic book version of Adolf Hitler, who in reality was anything but an imaginary evil.
Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies – Virtual Summer Symposium
Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies presents their virtual Summer Symposium from July 18 – 23, 2021.
USHMM: “Piecing Together One Family’s Holocaust History”
Join the USHMM to explore this inspiring story, and how preserving Holocaust evidence and researching our own family trees can deepen understanding of history.
MJHNYC: “Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death”
Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to Nazism.
Illinois Holocaust Museum: “Refuge in Latin America During the Holocaust”
Thousands of Jewish refugees spent months crossing the ocean, fleeing the Nazi regime, hoping to find safety when they reached Latin American countries on the other side of the world.
Holocaust Museum LA: “A Homegrown Threat”
In 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security reported that deadly attacks by racially motivated violent extremists are on the rise.
“Collecting the Dream” by David Matlow available for Free Download from July 1 – July 4, 2021
To commemorate Herzl on the anniversary of his death, Collecting the Dream is available for free download on Amazon’s Kindle from July 1 to 4, 2021.
USHMM: “Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution”
This Pride Month, learn about Frieda Belinfante, one of Europe’s first female conductors and a Jewish lesbian, and painter Willem Arondeus, the gay leader of this group of artists turned resisters.
Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center: “In My Own Words with Barbara Winton”
There are around 6,000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton.
Museum of Tolerance: “Eva and Eve”
Presented by the Museum of Tolerance: Meet author Julie Metz and hear her mother’s extraordinary story. Then, join the conversation moderated by Museum Director, Liebe Geft.
CWB: “The House on Wannsee Street”
“The House on Wannsee Street: Memoirs of a German Jewish Family” Film and Post Film Discussion with the filmmaker Poli Martinez Kaplun and her mother in conversation with Avi Ben Hur.
USHMM: “Diplomats Who Risked It All to Save Lives”
Join the USHMM to commemorate World Refugee Day and honor diplomats who dared to take great risks to offer refuge and save lives.
USHMM: “What Digital Technology Reveals About Jews and Germans in Occupied Kraków”
“Hidden Histories: What Digital Technology Reveals about Jews and Germans in Occupied Kraków” presented by the USHMM.
HCH: “The History of Anti-Asian Hatred and the WWII Japanese-American Incarceration with Tom Ikeda”
The Holocaust Center for Humanity presents: “The History of Anti-Asian Hatred and the WWII Japanese-American Incarceration with Tom Ikeda”.
Illinois Holocaust Museum: “We Were Strangers”
“We Were Strangers” is the true story of Magda Preiss, a breathtaking masterpiece of Holocaust literature, composed in her own words upon arriving in America in the 1940s.
Holocaust Center for Humanity: “Becoming Bielski”
The Bielski Partisans bravely achieved the largest armed rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust and have grown to tens of thousands of descendants around the world.
CWB: “Complicit” Film and Post Film Discussion
Watch the film “Complicit” and engage in a post-film discussion with the filmmaker Robert Krakow in conversation with SS St. Louis Passengers, Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener.
SMF: “Ben Ferencz, Prosecutor at Nuremberg”
Attorney, author and activist Benjamin Ferencz, age 102, was the Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case, which the Associated Press called “the biggest murder trial in history.”
Film Screening: “UPHEAVAL”
Watch the incredible life story of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin play out in this captivating documentary.
Wagner College: “Heroines of the Holocaust”
Leading international scholars of the Holocaust and Genocide will highlight women rescuers and resisters in daily life, in ghettos, forests, labor and death camps, including Jewish and non-Jewish women professionals and partisans.
Syracuse University: “Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism”
Presented by Syracuse University, Dr. Robert Williams will discuss “Understanding and Responding to Antisemitism”.
Illinois Holocaust Museum: “Plunder”
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure shares the incredible story of how Menachem Kaiser, the grandson of Holocaust Survivors, fought to reclaim his family’s property in Sosnowiec, Poland.
MJHNYC: Unpacking “The Archive Thief”
Join Dr. Lisa Leff and Dr. Jonathan Brent, Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, for a discussion about Szajkowski’s story, the documents he stole, and what it all means for those interested in preserving the past today.
USHMM: “Honoring Bravery”
Polish-born Leo Melamed was only eight years old when he landed in Kobe, Japan.
Liberation75: “75 Years of Powerful Holocaust Cinema”
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is pleased to share the following opportunity from Liberation75. Program: "75 Years of Powerful...
NAU: “Legacy of Blood: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Europe”
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is pleased to share the following lecture series "Pogroms and Riots: Anti-Black and Anti-Jewish...
SMF: Spy Princess – The Story of Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan was the daughter of a Sufti Indian father and an American mother, and she grew up in Paris and London.
Holocaust Teacher Institute at UM: “As One – Mother and Daughter”
Dita Kohl, publisher of ERETZ Magazine will conduct a candid conversation with artist Rachel Nemesh about mothers and daughters, second-generation, intimacy and rejection, proximity and distance, – and love.
Strassler Center at Clark University: “The Problems of Genocide”
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is pleased to share the following program from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide...