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
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
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh
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.