World caver and explorer, Chris Nicola, shares the incredible story of how five Jewish families survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in a cave for nearly a year and a half - the longest uninterrupted, underground survival experience on record.
Read More »Children of Holocaust Survivors Reflect on Their Traumatic Legacy in a New Collection of Essays
Kathryn Bernheimer shares her thoughts about growing up the child of survivors
Read More »Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph – A Conversation with Professor David Shneer
Professor David Shneer will discuss his newly published book, "Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph" (Oxford, 2020), and show how a Soviet photojournalist used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy.
Read More »Film at Boulder Jewish Film Festival Will Launch Holocaust Education Fund
To celebrate Irene’s life and legacy, the Boulder JCC is hosting a ceremony on the stage of the Dairy’s Gordon Gamm Theater prior to the Boulder Jewish Film Festival screening of “Those Who Remained.”
Read More »Join Local Teen, Macy Miller, and BJTI to Increase Awareness of Genocide Worldwide
Why does it take Hollywood or political proclamations for us to acknowledge the deaths of almost 2 million people at the hands of their governments? And what can we do to protect future victims of genocide across the globe?
Read More »Millions of Holocaust Records Available to All Online for First Time Ever
Ancestry today announces the release of two unique Holocaust record collections. These new records will be accessible globally to the public – members and non-members alike – on a permanent basis.
Read More »Medicine and Morality in Times of War: 2019 Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
The Center for Bioethics and Humanities and the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder present a public lecture titled “Medicine & Morality in Times of War” with Professor Len Rubenstein and Dr. Zaher Sahloul as part of the 2019 Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program.
Read More »Grappling With the Holocaust From a Jewish and Buddhist Perspective
Ellen Korman Mains comes to the Boulder JCC on Yom HaShoah, 5/1, to discuss her new memoir detailing her journey of understanding and healing.
Read More »Holocaust Education Fund Established at Boulder JCC
The Boulder JCC is honored to announce the establishment of the Ilona Irene Rosenschein Holocaust Education Fund (IIRHEF), an endowed fund housed at Rose Community Foundation on behalf of the Boulder JCC.
Read More »Holocaust Exhibit at BJCC Draws Over 2,000 Visitors
The Holocaust by Bullets exhibit focuses on the mass shootings of Jews throughout Eastern Europe by the Nazi mobile killing units from 1941 to 1944.
Read More »Largest Privately Held Holocaust Collection Donated to CU
The Mazal Holocaust Collection has been donated to the University of Colorado Boulder.
Read More »DU’s Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week Events
The University of Denver’s student group Never Again!, partnering with the Center for Judaic Studies (CJS), is taking part in the national Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week, April 7 – 12.
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