Films, Presentations and Informative Lectures Offered During Holocaust Education Week

The legacy of the Holocaust will be considered through cultural, academic and personal perspectives in a series of enlightening film presentations, lectures and community discussions during Holocaust Education Week, November 4-10, 2024.

Holocaust Education Week is a community-wide program of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, a Committee of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

All programming is free of charge and open to the public. Advance registration is required for all events, except for the Kristallnacht program.

Screening the Holocaust, a Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach partnership with the Miami Jewish Film Festival, presents significant and relevant cinematic programming throughout the year.

For more information about each event, please email info@holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org

Monday, November 4 | 7:00 p.m.

Screening the Holocaust: June Zero Film and Conversation With Director Jake Paltrow 

Moderated by Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff and Dr. Nicole Freeman, Holocaust Memorial Director of Education 

The 1961 preparations for the execution of Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Holocaust, are revisited in a gripping and surprising new vision from American filmmaker Jake Paltrow. Based on true accounts.  

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In partnership with the Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami, Miami Jewish Film Festival and the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.

Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach

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Wednesday, November 6 | 7 p.m.

Testimonio en Español de Judy Rodan, Sobreviviente del Holocausto /Spanish-Language Testimony with Holocaust Survivor Judy Rodan  

Join us for a Holocaust education program in Spanish. Judy Rodan was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, and at age 6, she and her family were deported to Auschwitz in May of 1944.

 

Acompáñenos para un programa de la educación del Holocausto en español. Judy Rodan nació en Berehovo, Checoslovaquia y, a los 6 años, ella y su familia fueron deportados a Auschwitz en mayo de 1944.

This program is presented in Spanish.

 

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In partnership with the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU

 

Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU

301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach

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Thursday, November 7 | 7:30 p.m.

Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries During the Holocaust With Alexandra Zapruder 

Alexandra Zapruder will discuss her award-winning book, Salvaged Pages, a collection of diaries written by young people, aged 12 to 22 years, during the Holocaust.

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In partnership with the Holocaust Teacher Institute at the University of Miami and Miami Beach JCC 

Miami Beach JCC
4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach

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Friday, November 8 | 10 a.m

Live-Guided Virtual Tour of Auschwitz 

Join Holocaust Educator Jack Rosenbaum for a 90-minute virtual tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau, followed by a Q&A session.

Limited to 100 participants. 

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In partnership with Six Million Voices

On Zoom

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Sunday, November 10 | 6 PM

Kristallnacht Communitywide Commemoration

Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
“The Spark That Ignited the Holocaust”

Hear the testimony of eyewitnesses to Holocaust, pay tribute to Holocaust victims and honor the resilience of Survivors.

For information, please email info@HolocaustMemorialMiamiBeach.org

If you are interested in having the Holocaust Memorial organize a bus for your constituency to attend this event, please contact us at jbernstein@gmjf.org or 305.538.1663.

3G Miami, Event Chairs

Temple Israel of Greater Miami
137 NE 19th Street, Miami