Past Events

Sunday, November 5th 6 p.m.

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Sunday, November 5th to Thursday, November 9th

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When Families Disappeared: Camp Schvesters (Sisters)
With Dr. Michael Berenbaum

When Families Disappeared: Camp Schvesters (Sisters)<br>With Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Appropriate for adults.
Wednesday, March 8 | 7 PM ON ZOOM

When they lost family members during the Holocaust, many Jewish women and girls formed substitute "families" with other women. These sisterhoods were particularly important inside concentration camps, where the bonds formed between women often helped them survive constant danger. During this virtual event, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, world-renowned historian, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and Professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University, will share details about the phenomenon of camp schvesters.

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For more information, please contact Dr. Nicole Freeman at nfreeman@gmjf.org.

Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History with Dr. Zoe Waxman

Monday, March 20 on Zoom at 7 PM

Throughout the Holocaust, the political and social order of oppression, hierarchy, and suppression of Jewish women was apparent. It was an essential part of Nazi policy, which targeted women because of their reproductive ability. Nazis singled out women as bearers of the next generation. Join Dr. Zoe Waxman as she shares a feminist history of Jewish women’s lives during the Holocaust.

Women in Resistance with Julia Mintz

Monday, March 27 on Zoom at 7 PM

Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of Eastern Europe during World War II. Against extraordinary odds, they escaped Nazi slaughter and transformed from young innocents to courageous resistance fighters. Join critically acclaimed film director Julia Mintz as she explores the experiences of Jewish women in partisans’ movements and shares their stories of resistance, heroism, and resilience.

Thursday, January 26 | 7:00 PM ET on Zoom

Music and the Holocaust
With critically acclaimed author and musicologist Dr. James Grimes

Appropriate for adults.

What is the relationship of music to the Holocaust? What meaning did music come to hold for the victims of the Nazis? What place does music have in Holocaust commemoration, memory and education? Join critically acclaimed author and musicologist Dr. James Grimes, Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina, as he discusses the answers to the these questions and more.
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Friday, January 27 | 10:00 AM ET on Zoom

Surviving the Holocaust as a Teenage Boy
Firsthand testimony with Holocaust survivor Saul Blau.

Appropriate for students in grades 5-12.

Hear form Holocaust Survivor Saul Blau who, at age 13, was removed from his home in Tarpa, Hungary along with his family and sent to Auschwitz, where his parents and younger sister perished. After the war, Saul immigrated to Israel. He now resides in Gal Harbour and serves as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach.
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For more information, please contact Dr. Nicole Freeman at nfreeman@gmjf.org.