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Remembering the Pink Triangle: Identity-Based Violence Against the LGBTQ+ Community Today
Jun
29
2:00 PM14:00

Remembering the Pink Triangle: Identity-Based Violence Against the LGBTQ+ Community Today

In honor of PRIDE month, Holocaust Museum LA and HIAS will discuss Nazi persecution of members of the LGBTQ+ community, the complexity of liberation for gay men at the end of the Holocaust, and the ways in which we can challenge identity-based persecution that exists today.

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"Post" Apartheid South Africa: The Edifice Remains
Jun
16
1:00 PM13:00

"Post" Apartheid South Africa: The Edifice Remains

The Soweto Youth Uprising of June 16, 1976, in which the country’s youth took to the streets to protest against this, fueled by the tenets of black consciousness, would mark a turning point in the resistance to apartheid, leading to its fall in 1994. Join TWR Youth Action Fellow Wandile Nzuza, as he asks whether the hopes and dreams of the June 16 moment have been realised in post-1994 South Africa.

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Recognizing Human Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Jun
2
7:00 PM19:00

Recognizing Human Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border

For the past year, Cain Trevino has worked closely with TWR and other immigrant rights groups to bring awareness to the human rights violations occurring on the U.S.-Mexico border. Join the Holocaust Museum Houston for this special presentation!

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From Two Vantage Points: The Story of a Complex Liberation, Bernice Lerner
May
25
1:00 PM13:00

From Two Vantage Points: The Story of a Complex Liberation, Bernice Lerner

Join the DHGC and JHGC for a webinar with Bernice Lerner. Following Glyn Hughes, a high-ranking British medical officer (born in South Africa), and Rachel Genuth, a teenager from the Hungarian provinces, we will learn astounding facts about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, the hell at which their paths converged.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Durban Holocaust and Genocide Centre and the Johannesburg Genocide and Holocaust Center

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Talking Memory - In Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide: A Conversation with Loung Ung
May
23
2:00 PM14:00

Talking Memory - In Commemoration of the Cambodian Genocide: A Conversation with Loung Ung

Join Loung Ung to learn more about her life surviving the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime in Cambodia. Learn about her bestselling book First They Killed My Father, and the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum

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An Evening With Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Author of "How to Be an Antiracist"
May
19
10:00 PM22:00

An Evening With Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Author of "How to Be an Antiracist"

In recognizing the significance of antiracist programming, the Holocaust Museum Houston has invited Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars, to speak about his 2019 book, How to Be an Antiracist.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston

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How We Got Here: From the "Good War" to the Storming of the Capitol - A Discussion with Steven J. Ross and Mel Levine
May
18
7:00 PM19:00

How We Got Here: From the "Good War" to the Storming of the Capitol - A Discussion with Steven J. Ross and Mel Levine

Professor Steven J. Ross, author of 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, will talk about the rise of White Supremacists bent on ridding the nation of Jewish and Black people after World War II and the three New York-based groups that spied on them from 1945 until the late 1970s.

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Fleeing Germany: My Family’s Story
May
11
3:00 PM15:00

Fleeing Germany: My Family’s Story

Steve, a Legacy Speaker with the Holocaust Center, is proud to tell this story of his grandparents, his mother, and other family members who survived the Holocaust. He has done extensive research on their lives in Germany and presents primary sources that reveal just how lucky they were to escape and immigrate to the United States.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Holocaust Center for Humanity

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#FellowFriday Instagram Takeover with Allison Weiner, Chandler Lawton, Areen Syed, and Naswiru Shema
Apr
30
3:30 PM15:30

#FellowFriday Instagram Takeover with Allison Weiner, Chandler Lawton, Areen Syed, and Naswiru Shema

Join Together We Remember for our weekly #FellowFriday Instagram takeover! This week we have a panel of four fellows: Allison Weiner, Chandler Lawton, Areen Syed, and Naswiru Shema. They will discuss our #BigAsk of the week: How can we turn defense into offense in the fight against division and hate?

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The Disappeared in Guatemala
Apr
29
8:00 PM20:00

The Disappeared in Guatemala

Victoria Sanford is Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College. She is a member of the Anthropology Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center and an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, City University of New York.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

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TWR Virtual Global Vigil
Apr
29
to Apr 30

TWR Virtual Global Vigil

On April 29th, join us for an unprecedented 24-hour global vigil online to conclude Genocide Awareness Month and unite the fight against hate worldwide. With hate on the rise and a global pandemic keeping us apart, it’s essential that we come together virtually across lines of difference.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by Together We Remember

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Family Storytime with Mona Golabek: A Special Launch of Hold on to Your Music
Apr
27
7:00 PM19:00

Family Storytime with Mona Golabek: A Special Launch of Hold on to Your Music

Join concert pianist, author, friend of the Museum, and Lisa Jura’s daughter, Mona Golabek, for a reading of her new children’s book, Hold On toYour Music, and a special musical performance. The event will include an animated viewing of spectacular illustrations by renowned Italian artist, Sonia Possentini.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Holocaust Museum LA

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Prisoners at Home: China and the Uyghur Genocide
Apr
27
7:00 PM19:00

Prisoners at Home: China and the Uyghur Genocide

This panel will discuss the history of persecution Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities have faced at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as how the current atrocities amount to genocide.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Indianapolis JCRC in conjunction with the Crane Center for Mass Atrocity Prevention

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My Family and the Rwandan Genocide
Apr
27
3:00 PM15:00

My Family and the Rwandan Genocide

Even though they had fled Rwanda years prior to its civil war, the far-reaching events of the war and genocide still had deep impacts on Paul Karemera and his family. Paul tells the story of his family in Rwanda and Uganda, the history of Rwandan conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi people, and the events of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Holocaust Center for Humanity

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GAM Session: Tyler Ellman, Steven Breiter, Om Jae, & David Estrin
Apr
27
12:00 PM12:00

GAM Session: Tyler Ellman, Steven Breiter, Om Jae, & David Estrin

On Tuesday, April 27, join us live for a GAM Session with Tyler Ellman, Steven Breiter, Om Jae, and David Estrin. They will be discussing their play, “Tap Dancing Through Auschwitz”, and this week’s #BigAsk - How might we turn defense into offense in the fight against division and hate?

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Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred – Hatred Today
Apr
26
12:00 PM12:00

Creating Possibility | Disallowing Hatred – Hatred Today

Living, as we do, in a time of unmitigated hatred, hate crimes, acts of antisemitism and extremism, we must take steps of awareness and action. With programming, to include social media posts and a six-part workshop series (offered virtually), Holocaust Museum Houston takes on a new kind of leadership and outreach.

LEARN MORE | REGISTER NOW | Hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston

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Terre Haute South High School's STAND Vigil
Apr
25
2:00 PM14:00

Terre Haute South High School's STAND Vigil

Join the students of Terre Haute South High School’s STAND Club for an hour of remembrance, commemoration, and growth. Keynote speaker, Leesa Kelly of Memorialize the Movement, will speak with STAND members about racial justice, creative activism, and effective ways to combat identity-based violence.

LEARN MORE | JOIN NOW | Hosted by Together We Remember and STAND

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#FellowFriday Instagram Takeover with Alex, Dorene, Benitha, and Chandler
Apr
23
3:30 PM15:30

#FellowFriday Instagram Takeover with Alex, Dorene, Benitha, and Chandler

Join Together We Remember for our weekly #FellowFriday Instagram Takeover! This week we have a panel of four fellows: Alex Fan, Dorene Hantzis, Joelle Benitha Habiyambre, and Chandler Lawton. They will discuss our #BigAsk of the week: “Can we make “never again” a reality? If not, why? If so, how?”

LEARN MORE | WATCH NOW | Hosted by Together We Remember

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