The BHEC is happy to be able to share some of the wealth of online learning that is available from other Holocaust educational institutions during the current pandemic. This list will be updated on a weekly basis for as long as such programming remains available.
The BHEC does not know any other details about this programming. If you have any questions, please contact the hosting institution directly.
ONGOING PODCASTS
Death Marches: Evidence and Memory / Wiener Library
As the Allies advanced through Europe in early 1945, the Nazis embarked on one final escalation of the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, already weak and starving from their treatment in the camp system, were forcibly marched away from the possibility of liberation. For this episode, James welcomes the curators of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new exhibition, ‘Death Marches: Evidence and Memory’. Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone talk us through why the Death Marches happened, what the experience would have been like and how we know anything about them. Christine and Dan draw upon the evidence which they have collected for the exhibition to share some of the personal stories of these last weeks of the Holocaust.
On the Holocaust / Yad Vashem
“On the Holocaust” brings together historians and experts from Yad Vashem – the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, who present new perspectives on the Holocaust, exploring its untold stories and unknown heroes.
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12 Years That Shook the World Podcast / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Explores stories of real people, the choices they made, and specific moments in Holocaust history from 1933-1945. This podcast is released in seasons, twice-yearly.
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GENERAL LEARNING
Week of July 19
Thursday, July 22, 6:30 pm CST
Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust / Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Fleeing persecution, nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees found an unexpected safe haven in the Chinese port city of Shanghai. Despite the challenges, fear, and uncertainty, Jewish refugees established communities, maintained traditions, and attempted to recreate aspects of lives they had left behind. Join us for the opening program for our newest exhibition, Shanghai: Safe Haven During the Holocaust, and hear first-hand accounts of life in the Shanghai ghetto. Panelists will include Doris Fogel, who was four years old when her mother and friends obtained permits to Shanghai; Judy Fleischer Kolb, who was born in Shanghai after her parents, grandparents, and uncle emigrated from Germany; and Ralph Samuel, who was born in Shanghai after his parents fled Germany following Kristallnacht. Arielle Weininger, Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, will moderate the conversation.
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Sunday, July 25, 12:00 pm CST
From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial / Yad Vashem
The trial of Adolf Eichmann riveted the attention of the Israeli public and aroused great interest the world over. This was the first time that the Holocaust was presented in all its details to a competent judicial body. Journalists from numerous countries converged upon Jerusalem to cover the trial – which gave rise to discussions on legal, social, educational, psychological, religious, and political levels – and international public opinion followed its course with rapt interest. Liat Benhabib, Director of the Yad Vashem Visual Center, will discuss the audiovisual documentation from this epic trial, including what was recorded and how, and what was preserved for future generations.
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Week of July 26
Tuesday, July 27, 2:00 pm CST
Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend / Holocaust Center for Humanity
As a teenager, Siggi Wilzig used his wits to stay alive in Auschwitz, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from Mauthausen and went to work for the U.S. Army hunting Nazis, a service that earned him a visa to America. On arrival, he made three vows: to never go hungry again, to support the Jewish people, and to speak out against injustice. He began his career selling neckties from the trunk of his car, and in little more than a decade rose to become CEO of both a publicly traded oil company and a bank with assets in excess of $4 billion. Joining us will be author and biographer, Joshua M. Greene (author of Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor), and special guest Ivan Wilzig, son of Siggi Wilzig.
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Week of September 6
Thursday, September 9, 11:00 am CST
Book Talk: The Last Ghetto: A New History of the Thereseinstadt Ghetto by Anna Hájková / Yale Fortunoff Archives
Dr. Hájková (Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK) has worked with several collections of oral histories collected across seventy years, and in conversation with Dr. Alexandra Garbarini (Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Williams College), will offer reflections on how can we read these to write an empathetic, analytical history of the everyday in extremis. Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt, as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Today, Theresienstadt is best known for the Nazi propaganda of the International Red Cross visit, cultural life, and children. But these aspects explain little about what defined the lives of its 140,000 inmates. The Last Ghetto offers both a modern history of this Central European ghetto and the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Based on research from 99 archives, ten countries, and nine languages, the book brings into conversation early and late sources, documents produced by the Jewish-self administration, drawings, victims’ diaries, and recorded oral histories.
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