Tag Archives: holocaust education

German Identity After the Holocaust: Memorials and Monuments in Today’s Germany will be presented from 6-7:30 pm Tuesday, June 20, at the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures. Peter Erickson, Associate Professor of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Colorado State University, will explore Holocaust memorials in relation to German identity.

The annual March of the Living took place today (Tuesday) from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz-Birkenau, marking Israel’s national Holocaust Memorial Day. The March of the Living – taking place for the 35th year – was led by 40 Holocaust Survivors, alongside more than 13,000 participants from 25 countries around the world.

Sharaka, a non-governmental initiative that grows the impact of the Abraham Accords by transforming the vision of people-to-people peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors into a reality, brought 22 Arab participants to this year’s International March of the Living in Poland as part of a first-of-its-kind year-long program that promotes tolerance through Holocaust education.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On April 19, 1943 Nazi forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with the stated objective of rounding up and deporting all Jews there to death camps but were attacked by organized Zionist fighters.

BERMUDA AND THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS by Rafael Medoff The name “Bermuda” conjures up a variety of images. Tourists think of it as a tropical vacation site. Scientists ponder the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. But for those concerned with the history of the Holocaust, Bermuda is remembered …

The Chai Life Group is Boulder's new group for single older adults (70+). Our next program, Irena Sendler: The Angel of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a one-woman show that will be performed at Congregation Har HaShem on Thursday, April 13.

The Chai Life Group is Boulder's new group for single older adults (70+). Our next program, Irena Sendler: The Angel of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a one-woman show that will be performed at Congregation Har HaShem on Thursday, April 13.

Come join us at Bonai Shalom on March 3rd when Special Envoy Ellen Germain talks about diplomatic efforts in these areas past and present and how knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust informs current U.S. foreign policy.

Tickets are still available for these provocative films touching on the defining event of the modern Jewish experience.

Like many grandchildren of survivors, Suzette Sheft, 16, grew up hearing the horrific stories of her grandmother’s life during the Holocaust—the Nazis kicking down her door, the anguished separation from her mother in Vienna, the years of fear and dislocation, staying one step ahead of capture and deportation to a concentration camp.

Jewish influencer Montana Tucker, a TikTok sensation with 8.7 million followers, just launched a Holocaust Remembrance series called “How To: Never Forget.” Through the 10-part series on Tucker’s TikTok and Instagram, she retraces her grandparents’ steps through Poland during the Holocaust. Within 24 hours of launching the series, over one million viewers saw the premiere episode on both Instagram and Tiktok.

Finally we got the whole story: Americans hate Jews and others.  The nation's mood has not changed, the past is the present, the present is the past. This according to Ken Burns.

Ken Burns' advance interviews for his new Holocaust film provided much material for public discussion. Now that PBS has broadcast the six-hour series, how does the film measure up?

Scientists have long been puzzled by the frequent disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle. In his new Holocaust documentary, filmmaker Ken Burns has managed to make the entire Bermuda Conference on Refugees vanish. 

The program will begin with a 22-minute viewing of the film followed by a moderated panel discussion and Q&A.

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.

Kathryn Bernheimer shares her thoughts about growing up the child of survivors

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.

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.”

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.