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SUMMARY:We Share the Same Sky — Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Rachael Cerrotti\nConversation Moderated by Kim Klett\nThursday\, January 8th at 7:00pm\nWe Share the Same Sky tells the intertwined stories of Holocaust survivor Hana Dubová and her granddaughter\, Rachael Cerrotti.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/we-share-the-same-sky-book-discussion/
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SUMMARY:8th Night of Chanukah Phoenix Holocaust Association
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 21st\n5:30pm MST \n8th NIGHT\nPhoenix Holocaust Association\n \n\n\nFeatured Speaker: Holocaust Survivor Dr. Michael Markson \n\nFor More Information: Chanukah in Carefree – Carefree\, AZ\nLivestream Available\n\n(Traditional sufganiyot and hot coffee will be served.)
URL:https://phxha.com/events/7030/
LOCATION:Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion\, 101 Easy Street\, Carefree\, AZ\, 85377\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20251012T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Mark Hass will discuss his acclaimed historical novel\, The Days Before Tomorrow. \nSunday\, October 12\, 2025 at 1:00 PM \nRegister: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XeklzV2VRfKhxDLXtCHEYw \nWinner of the 19th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for New Fiction\, The Days Before Tomorrow is a gripping coming-of-age novel set in Eastern Europe between the World Wars. When violence shatters their world\, siblings Wolchi and Leja embark on a perilous journey that exposes the depths of history and humanity.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/author-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week 2025
DESCRIPTION:With special focus on the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide and the murder and displacement of Native American communities\, Genocide Awareness Week 2025 will bring different cultures of remembrance\, memorialization and repair after genocide in conversation with each other. The importance of survivor testimony\, the need to bring perpetrators to justice\, the power and limits of representation in text and art\, as well as the difficulty to represent the complexity of genocide through memorialization are shared features of confronting genocide. Equally important is the need to counter genocide denial and distortion. Starting from common themes such as these\, GAW fosters dialogues among survivors\, academics\, activists\, artists\, and government officials through presentations\, performances\, discussions\, and exhibits.\nhttps://jewishstudies.asu.edu/GAW25
URL:https://phxha.com/events/rosenbluth-family-charitable-foundation-genocide-awareness-week-2025/
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:AJHS Book Discussion We Were the Lucky Ones
DESCRIPTION:We Were the Lucky Ones\nBy Georgia Hunter\nDiscussion led by Sheryl Bronkesh\, Phoenix Holocaust Association\nThursday\, January 9\, 2025 at 2PM\nDiscussion via ZOOM\nInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II\, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. \nIt is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives\, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance\, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom\, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world\, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. \nAs one sibling is forced into exile\, another attempts to flee the continent\, while others struggle to escape certain death\, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again\, the Kurcs must rely on hope\, ingenuity\, and inner strength to persevere. \nAn extraordinary\, propulsive novel\, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment\, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/ajhs-book-discussion-we-were-the-lucky-ones/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241229T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241229T190000
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SUMMARY:Chanukah in Carefree Nightly Menorah Lighting
DESCRIPTION:For More Information: https://chanukahincarefree.com/
URL:https://phxha.com/events/chanukah-in-carefree-nightly-menorah-lighting/
LOCATION:Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion\, 101 Easy Street\, Carefree\, AZ\, 85377\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241211T203000
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SUMMARY:Courage and Memory:  Bridging Holocaust Education with Commemoration of October 7th
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/5bv5w7rs
URL:https://phxha.com/events/courage-and-memory-bridging-holocaust-education-with-commemoration-of-october-7th/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241114T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20241114T200000
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SUMMARY:Visiting the Past:  An online discussion with 3Gs Jennifer Sosnow and  Adena Bernstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER: 3gaz@phxha.com
URL:https://phxha.com/events/visiting-the-past-an-online-discussion-with-3gs-jennifer-sosnow-and-adena-bernstein/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240505T170000
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SUMMARY:2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration
DESCRIPTION:Yom HaShoah Commemorative Events:\nSunday\, May 5\, 2024\n3:00pm “Memories Among the Generations”\n4:00pm Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration\nLocation: Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus.\n12701 N. Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. \nIn 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. \nClick HERE to RSVP for the 2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: https://phoenixhsa.formstack.com/forms/2024_yom_hashoah_rsvp
URL:https://phxha.com/events/2024-yom-hashoah-commemoration/
LOCATION:Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus.\, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, 85254
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240420
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SUMMARY:12th Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week 2024
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlan 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. \nFor more information and program Schedule: https://shprs.asu.edu/gaw2024 \nRegistration: https://specialevents.asu.edu/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=785374& \nHeld 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 threats of genocide throughout the world\, while also looking to the past for guidance and to honor those affected by genocide. \nPrograms of particular interest include: \nFrom Kishinev to Sderot: Considering ‘Spectacular Violence’ and Mass Murder against Jewish Communities: Speaker Edward Westermann. Monday April 15 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center \n(12701 N. Scottsdale Rd.\, Scottsdale\, AZ 85254) Edward B. Westermann received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill and is a Regents Professor of History and a Piper Professor of 2023 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He has published extensively on the Holocaust and military history\, including Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest\, Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East and Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses\, 1914-1945. He is a former Fulbright Fellow at the Free University of Berlin\, a three-time fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service\, a Fellow of Keene State College’s Genocide Studies and Prevention Program and a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow at the USHMM. His latest book\, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany appeared with Cornell University Press in 2021 and received the 2023 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. From January 2019 until September 2021\, he served as a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. \nSurvivor Testimony: Second-generation Holocaust survivor and PHA board member Monique Mendel. Wednesday\, Wednesday\, April 17 from 9 am to 10:15 am at Lattie F. Coor Hall\, 4403: Monique Mendel is a second-generation Holocaust survivor born in Brussels\, Belgium in 1947. Her mother and father\, Meta Neufeld and Gunther Mendel jumped off separately from Convoy XX train\, destination Auschwitz on April 17\, 1943 and were hidden in an attic for eighteen months by a Belgian sympathizer. \n 
URL:https://phxha.com/events/12th-rosenbluth-family-charitable-foundation-genocide-awareness-week-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240310T110000
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SUMMARY:Descendants’ Forum with Jay Levinsohn
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 10\, 2024 @ 11AM on Zoom \nIn commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the rescue of 1564 Torah Scrolls from the Czech Republic to London PHA is pleased to have Jay Levinson speak at our next Descendants’ Forum. \nJay Levinsohn\, who taught a class called Character Development Through Holocaust Studies for B’nai Mitzvah students for ten years at Temple Solel participated in the program. In his teaching mode\, Jay is known as Dr. Jay. His goal was/is to have the Event serve as a starting point for the Community to spread the understanding of the miracle of having these Torahs in our Phoenix communities and to be able to spread the message from generation to generation. \nJoin us for a zoom discussion where Dr. Jay will elucidate the rescue story and its role in educating and inspiring multiple generations about the miraculous survival of the Torahs. Learn how this narrative is utilized to impart knowledge about the wartime experiences to today’s children. \nPlease watch the link before the ZOOM meeting.It will provide a great introduction to the history of “The Holocaust Torahs / The Czech Torah Scrolls.” \nlink: https://vimeo.com/11488749 \nRSVP: elainegoldenthal@yahoo.com or 480.330.1547. \nZOOM link will be provided only to those who RSVP
URL:https://phxha.com/events/descendants-forum-with-jay-levinsohn/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240215T203000
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SUMMARY:Israel Close to Home
DESCRIPTION:Feb 15\, 2024 07:30 PM\n\n\nDiscover the inspiring journeys of three remarkable women within our Jewish community\, freshly returned from their enriching experiences in Israel. Immerse yourself in their captivating tales\, accompanied by vibrant photos\, as they recount meaningful encounters and unforgettable moments from their remarkable journey. Join us in celebrating the diverse narratives and connections forged in the heart of Israel.\n\n\nRegister: https://hillel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf-CsrjIuHNSFt949PPEXk5rTmzXKLj5i#/registration
URL:https://phxha.com/events/israel-close-to-home/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Documentary Film Screening Undying Love
DESCRIPTION:Online Streaming: February 14\, 2024 \nFilm Link: Undying Love \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Valentine’s Day\, February 14\, we will be screening Undying Love. \nUndying Love tells the poignant\, enduring and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe\, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies\, poetic dramatizations\, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era\, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out of the ashes”.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/documentary-film-screening-undying-love/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20240128T100000
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SUMMARY:Addressing Antisemitism: Contemporary Challenges
DESCRIPTION:January 28\, 2024\, 10AM (MST) \nIn person and live on YouTube \nThis event by the Center for Jewish Studies seeks to explain the recent upsurge of Jew hatred in the contemporary world. The symposium brings together prominent scholars to discuss the challenge of defining antisemitism\, explaining its explosion in Europe and the United States\, understanding its dissemination through digital media\, and determining how scholars and activists should best combat it in an era of intensifying global turmoil. \nhttps://programs.cjh.org/tickets/addressing-antisemitism-2024-01-28
URL:https://phxha.com/events/addressing-antisemitism-contemporary-challenges/
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231211T173000
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SUMMARY:Chanukah in Carefree with Phoenix Holocaust Association
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, December 11th\n5:30pm MST \n5th NIGHT\nPhoenix Holocaust Association \nFeatured Speaker:\nHolocaust Survivor and Author Dirk Van Leenen \nOn this 5 th night of Chanukah\, December 11\, The Phoenix Holocaust Association will lead the lighting of the Menorah with Holocaust Survivor and author\, Dirk Van Lennen. Mr. Van Leenen \nwill share his family’s harrowing story of survival and courage in the face of evil of the Holocaust\, an especially important story to share based on today’s headlines. \n\nFor More Information Visit: https://chanukahincarefree.com/
URL:https://phxha.com/events/chanukah-in-carefree-with-phoenix-holocaust-association/
LOCATION:Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion\, 101 Easy Street\, Carefree\, AZ\, 85377\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231211T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231217T103000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Film Series of the Reckonings
DESCRIPTION:Online Streaming: December 11-16 \nThe film discussion will be held on \nSunday\, December 17 at 10:30 am in person only \nThe Valley of the Sun JCC \n12701 N Scottsdale Road \nScottsdale\, AZ 85254 \nRSVP: elainegoldenthal@gmail.com \nThey met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help\, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people Reckonings explores this untold true story set in the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nDirected by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman\, Reckonings recounts the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders. Under the constant threat of violence\, they forged ahead\, knowing it would never be enough but hoping it could at least be an acknowledgement and a step towards healing.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/documentary-film-series-of-the-reckonings/
LOCATION:Valley of the Sun JCC\, 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd\, Scottsdale\, az\, 85254
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20231208T100000
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SUMMARY:Witnessing the Horrors of Hamas
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 8\, 2023 – 10AM (MST)\nA VIRTUAL SEMINAR \nFeatured Guest: Steven J. Hilton\n  \nSteven J. Hilton is the co-founder\, executive chairman\, & former CEO of Meritage Homes Corporation. Steve is also the son of Holocaust survivor & US Korean War Veteran\, Samuel Hilton\, who survived multiple Nazi death camps\, including Majdanek\, Bergen-Belsen\, Buchenwald\, & was liberated at Theresienstadt. \nOn Oct. 7\, Hamas killed more Jews since the Holocaust in a senseless & egregious act of terrorism on Israel. Just two days later\, Arizona resident\, Steven J. Hilton traveled to Israel in the aftermath of the brutal massacre\, rape\, and kidnapping of thousands of Israeli civilians by the terror organization Hamas. Please join us\, on Dec. 8\, as Mr. Hilton will discuss what he experienced and witnessed\, less than a month ago in Israel during his visit\, as well as the many ways he and others like him provided aid and comfort to the victims of these atrocities\, perpetrated by Hamas. \nRegister: https://www.azjhs.org/surviving-humanity-series
URL:https://phxha.com/events/witnessing-the-horrors-of-hamas/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230922T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230922T120000
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SUMMARY:Living in Many Worlds
DESCRIPTION:From our partner\, Arizona Jewish Historical Society\n\nFriday\, September 22\, 2023 at 10AM (MST)\n\nSPEAKER: 2G and PHA Vice President Eva Flaster\n  \nEva Flaster is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Her father\, Chune \nFlaster\, was born in December of 1912 in Nowy Sacz\, a city in the \nCarpathian Mountains of Poland. He loved the mountains and enjoyed \nthe outdoors\, skiing\, and hiking. He lived at home with his mother and his \ntwo siblings until he enlisted in the Polish Army. When the Germans \nattacked\, the Polish Army only lasted three weeks. The Poles disbanded\, \nand he moved eastwards and was captured by the Russians who \ninvaded Poland from the East. They sent him to a gulag in the frigid\, \nfrigid north of Russia. The Russians released him in 1941and he fought \nthe Nazis for a second time. \nMeanwhile\, Eva’s mom\, Genia Nordon\, was born in Sosnowiec \n(Southwestern) Poland in 1924. She lived with her parents and three \nsiblings. She was four days shy of her fifteenth birthday when the war \nbegan. The Nazis removed them from their home and forced them into a \nless desirable apartment. Life was exceedingly difficult\, and food was \nscarce. Jews were no longer allowed to go to school. The family was \nmoved one more time in1942. This time to a sealed ghetto. \nFrom 1939 to 1942\, Genia often hid her star with a purse and tried to \nbarter for food for the family. In 1942\, the Nazis captured her\, and she \nbecame a slave laborer in a chemical plant. In January of 1945\, the \nNazis knew they were losing the war. They removed prisoners from the \ncamps and took them on the “death march” to erase all evidence of the \nconcentration camps. During the “death march\,” Genia tried to escape by \njumping from a moving train. The Nazis recaptured her\, and she went \nthrough a series of prisons\, and eventually\, she wound up in the small \nfortress at Terezin. \nTwo years after the war\, thanks to a family friend also living in the \nAmerican sector of Germany\, Chune and Genia met each other. They \ndated\, got engaged and married in 1948. Eva was born the following \nyear in the same Displaced Persons’ camp in Landsberg Am Lech. \nPlease join us on Sept. 22\, when Eva will share more about her parents’ \nstory and growing up as the child of survivors. \nRegistration: Arizona Jewish Historical Society — AZJHS Our Parent’s Stories
URL:https://phxha.com/events/living-in-many-worlds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230517T170000
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SUMMARY:He Survived 10 Camps and Married an Underground Operative
DESCRIPTION:Online Discussion with Anna Salton Eisen \nWednesday May 17\, 2023 5pm AZ\, 8pm EST\, and 5pm PST \nRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/mr46m3jm \nAnna Salton Eisen will share the stories of her two Holocaust survivor parents\, George and Ruth Salton. In her dynamic\, multimedia presentation\, Anna travels with her family back to Poland to uncover their secrets – George\, as a survivor of ten concentration camps in Poland\, Germany\, and France; and Ruth\, a witness to the German invasion of Warsaw in September 1939 and later an underground operative for the Bricha movement. Through her father’s original Holocaust artwork (housed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem) and her archival research as an Ambassador to the Arolsen Archives\, Anna searches for and discovers the children of her father’s fellow concentration camp prisoners and several of his American liberators and shares these emotional reunions.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/he-survived-10-camps-and-married-an-underground-operative/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230416T170000
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SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah Commemoration 2023
DESCRIPTION:  \nPhoenix Holocaust Association Invites the Community to\nHolocaust Remembrance\nYom HaShoah Commemoration\nNissan 25\, 5783 \nSunday\, April 16 at 3 pm\nCongregation Beth Israel\n10460 N 56th St\, Scottsdale\, AZ 85253\nRegistration: https://phoenixhsa.formstack.com/forms/2023_yom_hashoah_rsvp \nWe will honor the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust and recognize those who survived. Visitors will select one of two concurrent sessions which will be followed by a commemoration program including a procession of survivors\, candle lighting in memory of the 6 million\, presenting the Shofar Zakhor Awards to recognize those who educate the community about the Holocaust\, and musical pieces organized by Cantor Seth Ettinger. \nConcurrent sessions preceding program:\nMaking an Emotional Connection to the Holocaust: Reflections of local survivors\nor\nClose Quarters: Victims and Perpetrators Sharing the Kitchen in Postwar Germany\nMargarete Myers Feinstein\, PhD\, Loyola Marymount University \n*Click Link to Download Flyer \nCommunity wide Yom HaShoah flyer white
URL:https://phxha.com/events/yom-hashoah-commemoration/
LOCATION:Congregation Beth Israel\, 10460 N 56th St\, Scottsdale\, AZ\, 85253
CATEGORIES:In Person Events,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:David de Jong talks about his book\, Nazi Billionaires:  The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an online discussion with author David de Jong on Monday April 3\, 2023 5 pm MST (8 pm EST\, 7 pm CST) \nA groundbreaking investigation of how Germany’s wealthiest men helped the Nazis grab power and how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II. In this landmark work of investigative journalism\, David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany’s wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich. De Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses\, procured slave laborers\, and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler’s army as Europe burned around them. The brutal legacy of the dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz\, cofounded Allianz\, and still control Porsche\, Volkswagen\, and BMW has remained hidden in plain sight. \nRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/m32fe35e 
URL:https://phxha.com/events/david-de-jong-talks-about-his-book-nazi-billionaires-the-dark-history-of-germanys-wealthiest-dynasties/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:A Twist of Fate
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, March 24\, 2022 – 10AM-12PM (MST)\nSPEAKER: Karen Zubkoff Perna\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Perna\, a descendant of Holocaust survivors\, is fortunate enough to have known her great-grandparents and grandparents\, who fled Germany with her mother and aunt to escape the darkest days of human history\, arriving in the US in March 1940. Karen has had a lifelong desire to share her family’s history to enrich others not only about the Holocaust\, but also about genocides still happening in our world today. Karen found the Phoenix Holocaust Association (PHA) and realized the organization aligns with her beliefs. She feels honored to serve on the PHA Board\, as Coordinator of the PHA Speakers Bureau (arranging Holocaust speakers for schools and other organizations)\, and as a 2G (second generation of a Holocaust survivor) speaker.\nRegister: https://www.azjhs.org/our-parents-stories
URL:https://phxha.com/events/a-twist-of-fate/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Online Discussion Miriam Friedmann
DESCRIPTION:Witness—The Art Legacy of Holocaust Survivor \nDavid Friedman\nWednesday\, March 8\n5:00pmMST \nRegistration: https://tinyurl.com/28ss88ve \nPlease join PHA for an online discussion with Miriam Friedman \nMiriam Friedman Morris will talk about her father\, David Friedman’s life through art and her\njourney to find his Nazi-looted art and preserve her father’s legacy. Austrian born David\nFriedman(n) 1893-1980 was a Holocaust survivor whose drawings of persecution gave him\npurpose to fight antisemitism and racial hatred. An accomplished painter\, he was renowned\nfor his portraits drawn from life and leading Berlin press artist of the 1920’s. Friedman’s life’s\nwork was Nazi-looted and his promising career was destroyed. He survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz to paint again
URL:https://phxha.com/events/upcoming-event-discussion-with-miriam-friedmann/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230224T120000
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SUMMARY:Holding onto the Hate Let the Haters Win
DESCRIPTION:  \nFriday\, February 24\, 2023\, 10AM-12PM (MST)\nFeatured Guest: Holocaust Survivor\, Andrew Schot \nAndrew Schot was 9 years old in 1940 when the Germans invaded the Netherlands. He was almost two years younger than Anne Frank and about 5 years younger than her sister Margot. \nJewish students were banned from educational institutions\, forced into smaller Jews only schools\, this is where Andrew met Anne and through Anne\, her sister Margot. While Andrew did not grow up in a Jewish home and was not considered a Jew according to Jewish Law (Andrew’s father was Jewish\, his mother was not)\, Andrew was labeled a full blooded Jew by the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. He was forced to wear a yellow star and recalls a sign in a store window: “No Jews allowed when humans are on the premises”. \nHis father\, after receiving a relocation notice\, went into hiding\, returning to his home on weekends. He was caught and Andrew later found out he was taken to Bergen-Belsen. Andrew and his sister who was six years older\, went into hiding\, explaining to their mother that it would be better for all if they left. After surviving on the run for two years\, careful to never stay in one place for more than a day\, they were caught\, loaded into trucks then cattle cars\, separated from one another\, Andrew’s sister’s train went to Dachau\, Andrew’s was destined for Bergen-Belsen. \nAfter liberation Andrew made his way to the United States\, where was drafted into the U.S. Army\, later transferring to the Air Force where he served for 26 years. Andrew didn’t tell anyone — including his wife and kids — about his own family’s World War II tragedy until the mid 90s. Since then Andrew has spoken to countless students\, adults\, military\, and every graduating class of the Tucson Police Department. Andrew shares the importance of speaking up against prejudice and greed\, not forgetting but also not permitting hate to have a role in his life. \nREGISTER: https://www.azjhs.org/holocaust-survivor-conversations
URL:https://phxha.com/events/holding-onto-the-hate-let-the-haters-win/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20230215T170000
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DTSTAMP:20260415T080602
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SUMMARY:Online Book Discussion with Author Dan Grunfeld: By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust\, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy the Grace of the Game:\nThe Holocaust\, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream \nFeb 15th @ 5:00 pm MST\nRegister: https://tinyurl.com/mr3ebppa \nDan Grunfeld is 3rd Generation Holocaust Descendant\, a former professional basketball player\, an accomplished writer\, and a proud graduate of Stanford University. Join us when he discusses his family’s multi-generational epic detailing history’s only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA. From the grips of the Nazis to the top of the Olympic podium\, from the cheap seats to center stage at Madison Square Garden\, from yellow stars to silver spoons\, this complex tale traverses the spectrum of the human experience to detail how perseverance\, love\, and legacy can survive through generations\, carried on the shoulders of a simple and beautiful game.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/upcoming-event-by-the-grace-of-the-game-the-holocaust-a-basketball-legacy-and-an-unprecedented-american-dream/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Discussion with Author\, Martin Goldsmith: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany.
DESCRIPTION:The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany\n\nDiscussion with Author\, Martin Goldsmith\n  \nDecember 15\, 2022 at 2PM (MST)\nDiscussion via ZOOM\n  \nSet amid the growing tyranny of Germany’s Third Reich\, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Günther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert\, two courageous Jewish musicians who struggled to perform under unimaginable circumstances―and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destroying them. \nBeautifully and simply told by their son\, National Public Radio commentator Martin Goldsmith\, The Inextinguishable Symphony takes us from the cafés of Frankfurt\, where Rosemarie and Günther fell in love\, to the concert halls that offered solace and hope for the beleaguered Jews\, to the United States\, where the two made a new life for themselves that would nevertheless remain shadowed by the fate of their families.  Here is Günther and Rosemarie’s story\, a deeply moving tale of love and the remarkable resilience of the human spirit in the face of terror and persecution. \nAlong with the fate of Günther and Rosemarie’s families\, this rare memoir also illuminates the Kulturbund and the lives of other fascinating figures associated with it\, including Kubu director Kurt Singer―a man so committed to the organization that he objected to his artists’ plans for flight\, fearing that his productions would suffer. The Kubu\, which included some of the most prominent artists of the day and young performers who would gain international fame after the war\, became the sole source of culture and entertainment for Germany’s Jews. A poignant testament to the enduring vitality of music and love even in the harshest times\, The Inextinguishable Symphony gives us a compelling look at an important piece of Holocaust history that has heretofore gone largely untold. \nRegistration: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany — Arizona Jewish Historical Society (azjhs.org)
URL:https://phxha.com/events/upcoming-event-the-inextinguishable-symphony-a-true-story-of-music-and-love-in-nazi-germany/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Online Book Discussion with Author Gina Roitman: My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me
DESCRIPTION:IMAGINE learning that 52 Jewish newborns “died” right after their birth in one DP camp in Germany – between 1946-1947!!! Who killed them and why?\nJOIN US: The Phoenix Holocaust Association invites you to an interview with Gina Roitman\, award winning writer\, poet\, essayist\, and a Second Generation\, born in the Passau DP Camp\, Germany\, to Polish survivor parents. We will focus on her two books and also describe the post-war horrors reflected in her documentary film “My Mother\, the Nazi Midwife and Me.”\nAlso about her books: Tell Me a Story\, Tell me the Truth; Don’t Ask.\n\nWednesday\, November 16\, 2022 at 5:30 PM Arizona time; 7:30 PM EST; 4:30 PM Pacific (check your time zones).\nTo register: https://tinyurl.com/2p87b2dv\n  \nwww.nazimidwife.com
URL:https://phxha.com/events/upcoming-event-my-mother-the-nazi-midwife-and-me/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Online Discussion with Jeremy Schonfeld
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Iron & Coal” is a powerful and deeply personal rock-opera by critically acclaimed composer and performer\, Jeremy Schonfeld. Taking inspiration from his father Gustav’s memoir\, “Absence of Closure\,” Schonfeld traces his father’s attempts to create a life out of the ashes\, having spent a year in concentration camps at the age of ten. Schonfeld weaves together memories of his own childhood\, growing up under the long shadows of Auschwitz\, all while coming to terms with the death of his father and the birth of his own son. The ghosts of a distant\, vanished world\, both of horror and the iron will to survive\, mix with the present in this soaring\, emotional\, and spiritual tribute. \nRegister: https://tinyurl.com/ns86ctwn \n  \nIron & Coal is available for viewing prior to the presentation at https://vimeo.com/295417921/129cd8ac94.
URL:https://phxha.com/events/upcoming-event-discussion-with-jeremy-schonfeld/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sevek & the Holocaust The Boy Who Refused to Die
DESCRIPTION:  \nFriday\, August 12\, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (MST)\nSPEAKER: Holocaust survivor\, Sidney “Sevek” Finkel\nSidney “Sevek” Finkel is the author of Sevek and the Holocaust\, The Boy Who Refused to Die. This Holocaust seminar will focus on an eight-year-old Sevek\, capturing the emotions of a boy who loses his home\, his family and ultimately his humanity by the time he reaches the age of fourteen. This seminar is used to help with recently passed legislation that offers teachers an opportunity to apply this session in their curriculum in the State of Arizona\, Join is on August 12 as Finkel will share his story\, relaying a message of tolerance\, hope and love. \nSidney Finkel received the Philip K Weiss Award for Storytelling for Peace and Human Rights in 2013. \nLearn more about Sidney Finkel’s work with schools and education at his website http://holocaustspeaker.com/ \nRSVP: afusco@azjhs.org 
URL:https://phxha.com/events/sevek-the-holocaust-the-boy-who-refused-to-die/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20220708T100000
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SUMMARY:You Are My Liberator
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 8\, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (MST)\nSPEAKER: US Liberator of World War II\, Vernon Schmidt\nRegister: afusco@azjhs.org  
URL:https://phxha.com/events/you-are-my-liberator/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Event
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