Events

Join us for the 10th annual film series, Holocaust in Film. Stay tuned after the screening for a discussion of the film led by local film director, producer, and historian, Michele Forman. Free popcorn is provided for all attendees. Tickets are $5  Purchase Tickets   About Film #1: Muranow About Film #2: The Wedding Day...
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Register Now   Teaching history responsibility requires a high level of sensitivity and awareness of the complexity of the subject matter.  Teaching the Holocaust is no exception. The Museum guidelines provide scaffolding for teaching about the Holocaust and reflect approaches appropriate for respectful teaching in general. Details about the workshop: Workshop is free Snacks will...
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Join us for an online livestream of Dr. Field's talk discussing the medical field under the Nazi regime.   Registration is REQUIRED. Register HERE   ABOUT DR. STEVEN FIELD Steven Field, MD, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, and member of the Affiliate Faculty in the Division of Medical Ethics, both at New York University...
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The Alabama Holocaust Education Center is partnering with UAB's Institute for Human Rights to bring historian and author, Dr. Jake Newsome for a book discussion on Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. A book purchasing and signing will be held both before and after this discussion. This is an in-person event...
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Join us for a community event to remember the Holocaust and explore its Selma connections. Learn about the AHEC's Daffodil Project. Candle Lighting | Keynote Address | Music | Reception | "Darkness into Life" Exhibit   Event Flyer  

We hope you can join us in observance of Yom HaShoah. Event Flyer                   Please register to attend In-Person or on Zoom Register Here

Major funding for this program is provided by the Birmingham Jewish Federation This is a free event. REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT Join us for Birmingham's annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. This year, we will honor the victims, survivors, and resisters of the Holocaust with the play, SURVIVORS. SURVIVORS was written by Deborah R. Layman...
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The Daffodil Campaign, also known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign, is a public history project that seeks to educate the community on the history of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Daffodil Campaign was initiated by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2013 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw...
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Join us along with our partners: the Birmingham Jewish Federation, Hadassah, Jewish Community Relations Council, Knesseth Israel Congregation, Levite Jewish Community Center, Temple Emanu-El, and Temple Beth-El, for a lecture and reading from Julia Dasbach. This is a free event, and refreshments will be provided. Register  

After sixty-seven years, life is about to come full circle for Henry Stern. Born in Westheim, Germany in 1932, Heinz (Henry) was only 5 years old when his Jewish family escaped to build a new life in America. They were welcomed with open arms to the small town of Opelika, Alabama, but the War left...
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Please join us for a conversation with Menachem Kaiser, moderated by Kerry Madden-Lunsford (UAB Department of English). The panel will discuss his book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure, which chronicles Kaiser's journey recovering family property lost during the Holocaust. The story begins when Kaiser takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s battle to...
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During the Second World War, Christian chaplains accompanied the German army wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. They were witnesses to atrocity and also helped normalize violence. Military chaplains played a key role in creating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany's victims and transformed perpetrators into...
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Purchase Tickets *Make sure to select the Tuesday, February 6 screening at 6:30 pm! The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vfg3KkV54 Event Details Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 Time: Doors open at 6 pm,...
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Purchase Tickets Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, One Life tells the story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London stock broker, who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in...
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