Announcements

FROM: Student Affairs Diversity Committee RE: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Sent:
1/19/2021 9:19:31 AM
To: Students, Faculty, Staff

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

 

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day takes is an international Memorial Day that takes place annually on January 27. The day remembers the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during World War II where genocide resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews and 11 million others. 

 

Virtual Events

National WWII Museum Virtual Webinar, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 @ 6:00pm

Registration: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/events/128057-international-holocaust-remembrance-day-survival-against-all-odds

 

Deborah Levison- Author & Daughter of Survivors, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 @ 6:00pm

Registration: https://templejudah.org/temple_messages/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-2021/

 

The Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme Events

Events and Registration: https://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/2021/calendar2021.shtml

 

Eisenhower’s Foresight: Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 @ 9:30am

https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/vefbstayconeisen0121

 

Voices of the Generations: An Evening with Julie Kohner, Wednesday, January 27, 2021 @ 7:00pm

Registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-the-generations-an-evening-with-julie-kohner-tickets-133376939015

 

 

Museums and Centers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/

 

Jewish Museum in Maryland

https://jewishmuseummd.org/

 

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

http://auschwitz.org/en/

 

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

https://hcofpgh.org/

 

 

Podcasts

On the Holocaust Podcasts

https://www.yadvashem.org/podcast.html

 

 

Books

The Crate: A Story of War, Murder, and Justice by Deborah Vadas Levison

Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper

The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg

Night by Elie Wiesel

Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/reading-lists/holocaust-books-for-children

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/reading-lists/holocaust-books-for-young-adults

 

Documentaries

Hitler’s Holocaust

Memory of the Camps

Shtetl

Never Forget to Lie

The Last Survivors

 

Various PBS Resources

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/interactive/holocaust/

 

 

Resources and information sent on behalf of the Student Affairs Diversity Committee.