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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 Boulder JCC will host Holocaust Scholar Professor Dorota Glowacka on Monday, April 17 in advance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Professor Glowacka will speak on “A Vanished World: Cultural Genocide and the Destruction of Central and Eastern European Jewish Heritage During the Holocaust.”

Co-organized by CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, the program is co-sponsored by CU Boulder's History Department. 

US Special Envoy Ellen Germain will be in conversation with Dean of the CU School of Education Kathy Schultz on Wednesday, March 1 at the Boulder JCC.

On Tuesday, February 7, Boulder JCC Executive Director Jonathan Lev shares the story of his participation in the 2022 JCC Krakow Ride for the Living. The Ride for the Living is a three-day experience in Poland that combines Holocaust education with a powerful 60-mile bike ride from the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau to the JCC in Krakow, Poland.

Boulder JCC Executive Director Jonathan Lev shares the story of his participation in the 2022 JCC Krakow Ride for the Living. The Ride for the Living is a three-day experience in Poland that combines Holocaust education with a powerful 60-mile bike ride from the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau to the JCC in Krakow, Poland.

This year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day speaker is Alan E. Steinweis. Professor Steinweis will examine whether moral outrage over the Holocaust was a motive behind two assassination attempts against Hitler.

CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History invite the public to a presentation by Zev Harel on October 6, who will give testimony about his struggles for survival at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee.

The Colorado Holocaust Educators are extremely excited to announce the PBS presentation "The US and the Holocaust" airing on September 18, 19, and 20 on Rocky Mountain PBS. All Colorado educators are invited to participate in a special film preview for educators on September 13, 2022, at 5 pm MT. 

The Boulder JCC is thrilled to support Executive Director Jonathan Lev as he and his wife Lyndsay participate in the 2022 Ride For The Living in Krakow, Poland. 

Join us in person on December 12 with author David Nasaw as he discusses his latest book, "The Last Million," which tells the little-known saga of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII.