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PROGRAM EVENT FLYER   Proclamation: Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth Keynote: Inge Auerbacher, Holocaust Survivor and Author Inge was born in Germany and spent three years between 7-10 years of age in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where out of 15,000 children, about 1 percent survived. She remembers when the now famous children’s opera "Brundibar"...
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* Masks required * Registration requested however you plan to join us (in-person OR view livestream online)   Watch Full Livestream Recording George Nathan Zoom Recording             Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) occurs each year on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (sometime in April or May) to...
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As the 2022 Siegler Fellow, Samford philosophy major, Gracie Van Orden chose to research and create a presentation on Nazi propaganda. In her presentation, Gracie seeks to understand the intellectual climate surrounding the Holocaust by researching the roots of Nazi ideology and grappling with its tragic consequences. Sources for her research include unique artifacts from...
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Please join the Alabama Holocaust Education Center and the Sidewalk Film Festival for a special screening of Bianca Stigter's moving documentary about the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland. Inspired by Glenn Kurtz's award-winning book, Three Minutes in Poland, the film investigates three minutes of 8mm camera footage that Glenn's grandfather, David Kurtz took in 1938,...
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A World Premiere Production of The Historic Savannah Theatre Created and written by James R. Harris. Musical arrangements and orchestration by Mark Hayes.             The Story of Alabama Holocaust Survivor, Henry Stern. As Julius Hagedorn, a Jewish merchant in Opelika, Alabama, began to see the storms of World War II...
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Doors open at 5:45. The event is free, but registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.   Join us for a preview of the new Ken Burns documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, airing September 18-20, 7:00-9:00 CST on Alabama Public Television, WBIQ-TV. This event will feature a 40-minute excerpt of the upcoming film....
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L’Chaim (“to life”) is an annual fundraising event for the Alabama Holocaust Education Center that makes educational programming possible in the coming year.  It is the perfect opportunity to honor individuals dedicated to sharing our message of “Now More than Ever: NEVER AGAIN.” Purchase Tickets | Make a Donation   HONOREES Our honorees had integral...
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  In summer 1941, in the midst of the first wave of genocide that accompanied the German invasion of the Soviet Union, British codebreakers intercepted secret communications about the unfolding Holocaust. Classified until 1996, these important historical records are now available to researchers. Please join us for Mr. Gadilhe's (Emeritus, John Carroll Catholic High School)...
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OPEN RECEPTION 5:30-6:30 PM UAB National Alumni Society House Event Flyer   Hans Oppenheimer and Other “Impudent Jews.” Forgotten Stories of Individual Resistance in Nazi Germany.  Lizi Rosenfeld sits on a park bench with a sign "Only for Aryans." Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities...
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Produced by Theater MSU, Anne and Emmett is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Anne Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Emmett Till is the 14-year-old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 sparked...
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Two (2) FREE performances for 10th grade classes:  9:30 am | 12:30 pm Play is approximately 90 minutes. Lunch will be provided for all attendees. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED   Janet Langhart Cohen's play, Anne and Emmett,  is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is...
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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 #2: The Wedding Day About Film #3: Above...
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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 #3: Above the Drowning...
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This program was made possible by a grant from the Birmingham Jewish Foundation    Join us in commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a lecture by award-winning journalist and author, Andrew Nagorski. A reception with hors d'oeuvres will begin at 5:30 pm.     Registration is REQUIRED Register Here     ABOUT THE PROGRAM Much...
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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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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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