LIBERATION75
VIRTUAL. WORLDWIDE. FREE Liberation75 is a not-for-profit event dedicated to commemorating the 75th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust. We mark this important anniversary by remembering the victims, honoring the survivors, showcasing the future of Holocaust education and remembrance, reflecting on antisemitism in the world, celebrating the role of the liberators and committing to protecting...
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Bearing Witness: Why Document Survivor Stories?
ZOOM OnlineMinna Goldberg, AHEC Intern, has spent the last year editing Holocaust survivor stories for the AHEC archives and website. Join us as she shares some of these amazing stories and the impact this experience has had on her. View Program Recording
Teacher Workshop: Word Smugglers-A Story of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
ZOOM OnlineThe Oyneg Shabes underground archive is the largest collection of Jewish documentation detailing Jewish life under Nazi occupation. Directed and organized by Polish Jewish historian, teacher, and social aid worker Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the work of the Oyneg Shabes continued, even when hundreds of thousands of Jews-including members of the archive-were deported from the Warsaw...
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In the News: The Holocaust Revealed in Birmingham Newspapers
ZOOM OnlineAHEC interns and UAB students, Chris Bertolini and Emma Herr, have enriched the AHEC with their year-long research into how Birmingham newspapers reported the unfolding events in Nazi Germany. Join us as we explore "What We Knew?" and "When?" View Recording
L’Chaim 2021
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The Holocaust and the Victims of Nazi Persecution
ZOOM OnlineThis program will focus on the basic tenets of Nazi antisemitic and racial ideology and explain how this warped view of the world impacted the victims of the Holocaust era: Roma (Gypsies), disabled persons, persons of African descent, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political opponents of the Nazi regime. Register...
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Teacher Cadre: The Importance of Teaching Holocaust Literature to Middle and High School Students
ZOOM OnlineDr. Sterling will explore why it is important to teach Holocaust literature (including drama and fiction) to middle and high school students, as well as methods of teaching the literature effectively. He will discuss personal connections, empathy, teaching strategies, ways of creating meaningful discussions, and various Holocaust literary works that students like and that function...
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SURVIVORS, a play by Deborah R. Layman
Red Mountain Theatre Arts Campus 1600 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, United StatesSURVIVORS was commissioned by Red Mountain Theatre as part of its Human Rights New Works Festival. It is based on the true stories of local Holocaust survivors. Historian Yehuda Bauer has said, “Events happen because they are possible. If they were possible once, they are possible again. In that sense, the Holocaust is not unique, but...
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Lesbians, Gay Men, and Trans Men and Women in Nazi Germany
ZOOM OnlineDr. Marhoefer is a historian of queer and trans politics. This program will focus not only on gay men's experiences during Nazi Germany but also the seldom acknowledged experiences of lesbians, trans men, and trans women. Register Now
Community Film Screening: Paragraph 175
Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema 1821 2nd Ave N, Birmingham, AL, United StatesNamed for the the German criminal code that banned sexual acts between men, the film Paragraph 175 uses survivor testimony to recount the persecution of homosexuals in the Third Reich. This award winning, 2000 documentary adds "to the growing body of invaluable cinematic literature documenting for posterity the hideous barbarity of Nazism" and serves as...
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Teacher Workshop: Teaching With Stories – Romania
ZOOM OnlineDESCRIPTION When Hungary joined the Axis alliance in 1940, they were given the Northern Transylvania region of Romania as a reward for siding with Germany. The Jews of Transylvanian were soon subjected to Hungary’s anti-Jewish regulations. Four years later, as they seemed to be losing the war, the Nazis occupied Hungary and focused their efforts...
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Teacher Workshop: Visual Echoes – Holocaust Photography in Teaching and Research
ZOOM OnlineDESCRIPTION This workshop will be an interactive discussion of Holocaust photography, highlighting the specific challenges and advantages that these sources pose to the teacher, researcher, and student. – Online registration required. (Maximum participants, 40) – Open to Alabama teachers in grades 6-12. – Two (2) hours of CEU credit available Teachers must attend both online...
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