CANCELLED!! An Evening with Eva Schloss, Stepsister of Anne Frank
Samford University, Wright Center 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL, United States In 1938, Germany invaded Austria, causing many Jewish families to flee Austria to avoid persecution. Among the emigrants was 8-year old Eva Geiringer, who with her mother, brother, and father moved first to Belgium and then to Holland, where one of her neighbors was a German Jewish girl of the same age. The two girls...
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CANCELLED!! More Than Just Mengele: The German Medical Profession & the Third Reich
UAB Heritage Hall, Room 104 1401 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL, United StatesFREE Lecture for UAB Students featuring Dr. Steven P. Field, Physician & Ethicist Dr. Field is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, and member of the Affiliate Faculty in the Division of Medical Ethics, at NYU School of Medicine. He serves as Clinical Ethics Consultant at NYU Langone Health and VNS Hospice of New York. Dr....
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Community Education Series, Session 7: “Collaboration and Its Limits”
ZOOM OnlineAn adult education series based on the book How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader Chapter 7: “Collaboration and Its Limits” Facilitator: Rabbi Steven L. Jacobs, University of Alabama View Program Recording
Birmingham Community Yom HaShoah Commemoration
ZOOM OnlinePlease join us for our community Holocaust remembrance event, to honor those who survived the Holocaust and to remember those we lost. Watch Live ONLINE Temple Emanu-El Website or Temple Emanu-El Facebook Unto Every Person There is a Name We will memorialize the victims of the Holocaust through the public recitation of their...
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Community Education Series, Session 8: “Rescuing Jews – Means & Obstacles”
ZOOM OnlineAn adult education series based on the book How Was It Possible?: A Holocaust Reader Chapter 8: “Rescuing Jews-Means & Obstacles” Facilitator: Amy McDonald, Shades Valley High School View Program Recording
Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust – Esther Levy Shares the Story of Her Mother, Tobi Komornik Gerson
ZOOM OnlineFeatured Speaker: Esther Levy, Second Generation "My Mother's Story: Tobi Komornik Gerson" Esther will share the story of her mother, a Holocaust survivor from Szczerców, Poland. Esther's Book List Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother by Stanley A. Goldman The Arms of...
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Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust – “Jack Bass: Charmer, Comedian, Friend,” presented by Ann M. Mollengarden
ZOOM OnlineJack Bass, of blessed memory, lived in nearby Adamsville from 1994 until his death in 2010. During that time he was an avid speaker on behalf of the BHEC, traveling across the state with his dear wife, Phyllis, at his side. He was one of the nine original Holocaust survivors in Birmingham who participated in...
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Teacher Workshop: Holocaust & Human Behavior / Facing History and Ourselves
Live ONLINEEvent Flyer Date & Time July 13-16, 2020 11:00 am-3:00 pm CST In This Seminar You Will Learn current scholarship on the history of the Holocaust and new research focused on human behavior, group dynamics, and bias Increase their ability to facilitate respectful classroom discussions on difficult issues such as racism, antisemitism, and other forms of exclusion in...
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Archives at Home: The Dr. Werner Knurr Collection
ZOOM OnlineHolocaust survivor Dr. Werner Knurr joins AHEC archivist Rachel Lopez to tell the story of his family’s escape from Nazi Germany through the rare and unique collection of artifacts he has generously donated to AHEC. From a comfortable life in Aurich, Germany, to hardships endured under the Nuremberg Laws, and finally to building a new...
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L’Chaim 2020
Live ONLINE2020 Event Video View the video of L'Chaim 2020 Virtual L'Chaim 2020 Honoring Susan and David Silverstein Sunday, August 23rd, 2:00 pm LIVE Online Special Guest Speakers: Former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright Auburn University Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Bruce Pearl Honorary L'Chaim Co-Chairs: Cathy Friedman, Kate Cotton, and Jim Richardson View Program...
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Dr. Samuel D. Kassow, “Who Will Write Our History”
ZOOM OnlineDr. Samuel D. Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and author of Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press, 2007). Kassow tells the story of historian Emanuel Ringelblum and his secret organization, the Oyneg Shabes, which kept a historical record of Jewish life in wartime...
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The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna
ZOOM Onlinehttps://youtu.be/qFmHb_0ymoE The Great Synagogue of Vilna, the spiritual and physical home of the Lithuanian Jews, was one of the oldest and most significant religious and cultural sites of Eastern European Jewry. It was ransacked during WWII and then destroyed by the Soviets in 1956. An elementary school was built on top of the remains. Be...
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