Events

This year’s conference theme of nationalism, state violence and genocide revolves around the role of the state in facilitating and shaping the perpetration of genocidal violence. Plan to attend 2024 Genocide Awareness Week in person or virtually. All in person events on are hosted at the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies in Lattie F. Coor Hall on Arizona State University Tempe Campus unless noted otherwise. For more information and program Schedule: https://shprs.asu.edu/gaw2024 Registration: https://specialevents.asu.edu/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=785374& Held April 15-19,2024 Genocide Awareness Week is a series of lectures, exhibits and storytelling by distinguished survivors, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, humanitarians and members of law enforcement. This week-long event seeks to address how we, as a global society, confront violent actions and current and ongoing...

If you are interested in celebrating the second Seder on Tuesday, April 23 at Trattoria Veneto on Scottsdale Road with other PHA members, please let Susan Getz know by Sunday, April 7 if you plan to attend. The restaurant provides a full three-course Passover-style menu for $58.00 plus alcoholic beverages. Phyllis Palm, a former member who now lives in NYC, will be back in Arizona for Passover and is looking forward to reconnecting with PHA members. Susan's email: suze0000@gmail.com Susan's cell: 480.246.9551

Yom HaShoah Commemorative Events: Sunday, May 5, 2024 3:00pm “Memories Among the Generations” 4:00pm Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration Location: Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus. 12701 N. Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. In partnership with the Center for Jewish Philanthropy, please join the Phoenix Holocaust Association (PHA) at its annual community-wide Yom HaShoah observance. Memorialize your loved ones, honor survivors, and express your feelings about the loss of over 6 million lives in the Holocaust in the 2024 Yom HaShoah Book of Remembrance. Click HERE to RSVP for the 2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: https://phoenixhsa.formstack.com/forms/2024_yom_hashoah_rsvp

On Yom HaShoah, we pause to commemorate the individual victims of the Holocaust. After a hiatus of several years, we are pleased to reintroduce the Annual Reading of Remembrance. We extend an invitation to the Greater Phoenix Jewish community to join us in a 10-hour event dedicated to reciting the names of Holocaust victims.​ This occasion is consistently profound and emotionally impactful, providing a meaningful opportunity for reflection and remembrance. Monday, May 6, 2024 Unto Every Person There is a Name: A Reading of Names 8:00am-6:00pm Location: Outside of the front entrance to the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus.  PHA and the Center for Jewish Philanthropy will be co-hosting Unto Every Person There is a Name: A Reading of Names....

LIVE, In-Person Screening May 7, 2024 at 7PM (MST Arizona) At AZJHS - 122 E Culver Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 Sponsor: The Phoenix Holocaust Association This essential documentary tells the stories of the Jewish partisans who took up arms against Hitler’s war machine. Despite extraordinary odds, over 25,000 Jews fought the Nazis and their collaborators from deep within the forests of Eastern Europe. These determined men and women, many barely in their teens, engaged in acts of sabotage, blowing up trains, burning electric stations, and attacking armed enemy headquarters. The last surviving partisans tells their stories to director Julia Mintz who shines a spotlight on their bravery through interviews, archival footage, and historic war records. Four Winters is a stunning, heartfelt narrative...