Community Education Series, Session 3: “Impediments to Escape”
An adult education series based on the book “How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader". We will explore the first 8 Chapters of the book, covering some of the readings this year and the remaining readings next year. Please make note of the reading assignments. Light refreshments will be served. Chapter 3: “Impediments to Escape” Readings:...
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Holocaust Survivor Series: Dr. Robert May
Featured Speaker: Robert May Invitation
Community Education Series, Session 4: “The New Order in Europe”
An adult education series based on the book “How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader". We will explore the first 8 Chapters of the book, covering some of the readings this year and the remaining readings next year. Please make note of the reading assignments. Light refreshments will be served. Chapter 4: “The New Order in...
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Stitching History From The Holocaust – Opening Reception
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts 1221 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United StatesThe Holocaust in Film: “There Was Once”
O'Neal Library 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL, United StatesGyöngyi Magó is a Catholic high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary. While doing research in local history, she discovers the lost Jewish community that once thrived there. Engaging her students in her research, she teaches tolerance and fights prejudice, in a country where the extreme right tries to renew racial tensions. Produced in 2012 by...
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The Holocaust in Film: “Divided We Fall”
O'Neal Library 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL, United StatesThis dramatic comedy, set in a small Czech town during the last years of World War II, explores what abnormal times do to normal people. Josef and Marie are a childless couple who yearn for a baby. Unfortunately, he is sterile. What unfolds blurs the moral distinction between victim, collaborator, and perpetrator. Directed by Jan...
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The Holocaust in Film: “Forgotten Transports”
O'Neal Library 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL, United StatesA series of four documentaries about the little-known ordeals of Czech Jews during World War II. Lukas Pribyl, did more than track down survivors or burrow through film archives and deportation records. Over 10 years and visits to 30 countries, he hunted down photographs of SS camp commanders and snapshots taken by local residents and...
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The Holocaust in Film: “1945”
O'Neal Library 50 Oak Street, Mountain Brook, AL, United States"They’re back”… the visiting men in black hats aren’t villains out for revenge, but Orthodox Jews who have come to a Hungarian village at the end of the war. Their purpose is unclear. The veneer of civility, built over the village’s foundation of treachery, begins to unravel. Director Ferenc Török paints a complex picture of a...
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Teacher Cadre: The Holocaust in Historical Context
Facilitator Blake McKinney, PhD Candidate, University of Alabama Description We will explore the conditions that made the Holocaust possible. RSVP Teachers: please let the AHEC office know if you plan to attend. Teacher Resources Blake McKinney's Prezi Presentation: "How Did It Happen: The Context" Blake McKinney's Outline
Stitching History From The Holocaust: “The Holocaust in Czechoslovakia”
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts 1221 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United States"The Holocaust in Czechoslovakia" Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Wiesen, Chair, UAB Department of History This event is FREE and open to the public.
Community Education Series, Session 5: “Jews in the Nazi Grip”
An adult education series based on the book “How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader". We will explore the first 8 Chapters of the book, covering some of the readings this year and the remaining readings next year. Please make note of the reading assignments. Light refreshments will be served. Chapter 5: “Jews in the Nazi...
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Lunch & Learn: Nicholas Winton, The Kindertransport & Czechoslovakia
Featuring Judy Borisky-Metzger, AHEC Board Member Free and open to the public Facebook Live Recording
