Phoenix Holocaust Association

Pesach VIII
2025-04-20
Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Pesach VII
2025-04-19

Pesach VI (CH''M)
2025-04-18

Pesach V (CH''M)
2025-04-17

Pesach IV (CH''M)
2025-04-16

Pesach III (CH''M)
2025-04-15

Pesach II
2025-04-14

Pesach I
2025-04-13

Erev Pesach
2025-04-12

Making Monsters: Why Dehumanization Matters at GAW at ASU West Valley Campus
2025-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | ASU West Campus, 4701 W Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ, 85306
This event is free so there is no RSVP needed (the QR Code on the flyer is campus map), though there will be a charge for parking.
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 3 – 5 PM, SANDS 101
David Livingstone Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England and the award-winning author of “Less than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others,” “On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It,” and most recently “Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization.” Described in the NY Times Literary Supplement as “a philosopher seeking not just to interpret the world but to change it,” his work on dehumanization, race, and related matters is often featured in the national and international media.

Lived Experience of Genocide: A Conversation with Survivors at GAW ASU West Valley Campus
2025-04-01 15:00 - 17:00 | ASU West Campus, 4701 W Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ, 85306
This event is free so there is no RSVP needed (the QR Code on the flyer is campus map), though there will be a charge for parking .
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 3 – 5 PM, CLCC 246.
Learn the personal stories of five genocide survivors: Branislav Vujic (Bosnia), Margaret “Marge” Rich (Holocaust), Rosine Kamugisha (Rwanda), Rafi Zaw Win (Rohingya) , and moderator Sarah Adams. What was the experience living in a country where you were targeted for elimination? How does one live with the consequences of that experience? What are the warning signs of genocide that we should be aware of? What resources exist for learning about, and confronting, acts of genocide? What can you do to help victims of genocide? A Candlelight Vigil to remember victims of genocides will be will be held in Delph Courtyard beginning at 5:30pm.

Red Hand - Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons at GAW ASU West Valley Campus
2025-03-31 17:00 - 19:00 | ASU West Campus, 4701 W Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ, 85306
The event is free and no RSVP needed (the QR Code on the flyer is campus map), though there will be a charge for parking.
Monday, March 31, 20205, 5 – 7 PM, CLCC Lect 110
Join us to view this short but important film about missing and murdered Indigenous persons, written and directed by Octavia Endischee, an ASU graduate from the The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, who will lead in a panel discussion after the screening. Joining her will be Raymond Meza and Jessica Antonio, who will share their own experiences, each having lost a sister. Since this topic can be traumatic and may be triggering to some, Indigenous healers will be on site to provide support and smudging.

Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week 2025
2025-03-31 - 2025-04-04
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.
https://jewishstudies.asu.edu/GAW25

Book Talk by Charlotte Adelman and Mala Blomquist
2025-03-30 12:00 - 15:00 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W Glendale Ave,, Phoenix, AZ, 85021
REGISTER: https://www.bethelphoenix.com/event/charlotte
Holocaust survivor Charlotte Adelman and writer/editor Mala Blomquist discuss and read passages from their new book, Charlotte: A Holocaust Story of Strength, Courage, and Hope. Dessert reception to follow.
Charlotte Adelman was born on March 26, 1932, in Paris, France. She grew up in a traditional Jewish household with her mother, Rose, her father, Herszle, and her brother, Max. Her early years were marked by a picturesque childhood, filled with love and happiness.
Everything changed when Charlotte was just ten years old. The Nazi invasion of France and occupation of Paris brought terror and upheaval to her life.
For the next four years, Charlotte lived in constant danger, fleeing for her safety on six separate occasions. During this time, the Nazis were systematically rounding up Jews for deportation to concentration camps in Eastern Europe. Tragically, her mother, Rose, was among those deported and perished in Auschwitz, a notorious concentration camp in Poland.
By the end of the war, Charlotte had been separated from her family for nearly five years. She was reunited with her father shortly after the war ended and, following two years of tireless searching through Red Cross facilities, she was finally reunited with her brother, Max.
After the war, Charlotte returned to Paris and lived there until 1957 when she immigrated to Montréal, Canada. It was there that she met Alex, the love of her life. Together, they built a life filled with love and joy, sharing 50 years of marriage until Alex’s passing in 2011. They raised two wonderful children and became proud grandparents to two grandsons.
Today, Charlotte is an active member of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association, where she attends regular meetings and contributes to the community. In collaboration with Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation, Charlotte’s story was documented on video. Her testimony is preserved and available at each of the six major Holocaust museums worldwide.
Charlotte’s story stands as a powerful testament to resilience and remembrance. Among the 76,000 Parisians who perished in the Holocaust, her mother, Rose, is honored at the Holocaust Museum in Paris, built in 2005 to memorialize those who were lost.

Erev Purim
2025-03-13
Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther

March Café Europa
2025-03-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W Glendale Ave,, Phoenix, AZ, 85021
March 9, 2025 @ 1:00pm at Beth El Congregation 1118 W. Glendale Ave., Phoenix, AZ
To Pay online: PHXHA.COM/CONNECT/
Contact Elaine Goldenthal: elainegoldenthal@gmail.com

Film screening of "The Property" with 3GAZ
2025-03-02 15:00 - 19:00 | Shea Harkins, 7354 E Shea Blvd, scottsdale, AZ, 85260 Most popular places at this ad, United States
Join 3GAZ for a film screening of “The Property” during the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 3:00 pm. Join us for a no-host dinner after the film/talk at 5:30pm at Pita Jungle. If you’d like to join us for the dinner after the film/talk RSVP at: 3gaz@phxha.com.
Purchase tickets for the film: https://gpjff.org/events/property/

*This event features a post-screening talkback right after the movie with Dr. Anna Cichopek-Gajraj from ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. The film plus talkback is a total of 2 1/2 hours.

Little Boy, I Know Your Name A Second-Generation Memoir from Inherited Holocaust Trauma
2025-02-19 10:30
Presented by Mitchell Raff
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

There are two time slots this day to hear Mr. Raff speak

At the East Valley JCC from 10-11:30 a.m.
Mr. Raff will also speak at a residence in Scottsdale 5-6:30 p.m. on (The address will be sent after registration.)

Mitchell Raff is a second-generation Holocaust survivor who grew up in Los Angeles. “Little Boy, I Know Your Name: A Second-Generation Memoir from Inherited Holocaust Trauma” is his first, intensely personal book.

There is no charge to attend, registration is required. The program will be held at the East Valley JCC.
NOTE: This presentation contains sensitive information that may not be appropriate for guests under age 18. Topic is most appropriate for 2Gs and 3Gs or anyone who else grew up with survivors. Questions? Contact Karen Perna, ksperna@yahoo.com.
Registration: Generations After – EVJCC

February Café Europa
2025-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Congregation Beth Israel, 10460 N 56th St, Scottsdale, AZ, 85253
February 9, 2025 @1:00pm
Congregation Beth Israel
10460 North 56th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
To Pay online: PHXHA.COM/CONNECT/
Contact Susan Getz: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM
RSVP by Wednesday, Feb 5th.

We Were the Lucky Ones
2025-01-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Chaparral High School, 6935 east Gold Dust Ave, Scottsdale, az, 85253
Online registration has closed. Admission at the door on January 23rd will be $40/person, payable by cash or check only.

In partnership with the Center for Jewish Philanthropy, please join the Phoenix Holocaust Association for an evening with New York Times bestselling author Georgia Hunter and Critics’ Choice Television Awards Best Supporting Actress Winner Busy Philipps.
When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she discovered that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Years later, she embarked on a journey of intensive research, determined to unearth and record her family’s remarkable story. The result is the New York Times best seller, We Were the Lucky Ones, which has been published in over 20 languages and adapted for television by Hulu as an eight-part limited series. Hunter’s searing novel is the story of a Jewish family ripped away from each other at the start of the German and Russian occupation of Poland on the eve of World War II, and their extraordinary journey back to each other—a story based on Hunter’s grandfather’s real Holocaust survival story.

Ms. Hunter will be interviewed by Chaparral High School alumna actress Busy Philipps, who has starred in many critically acclaimed television series including Dawson’s Creek, Cougar Town and Girls5eva, and whose filmography includes Made of Honor, He’s Just Not That Into You and Mean Girls.

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ASU Jewish Studies
Arizona Jewish Historical Society
Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival
Valley Beit Midrash
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January Café Europa
2025-01-12 13:00 - 15:00
To Pay online: PHXHA.COM/CONNECT/
Contact Susan Getz: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM

AJHS Book Discussion We Were the Lucky Ones
2025-01-09 14:00
We Were the Lucky Ones
By Georgia Hunter
Discussion led by Sheryl Bronkesh, Phoenix Holocaust Association
Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 2PM
Discussion via ZOOM
Inspired 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.
It 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.
As 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.
An 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.

Chanukah: 8 Candles
2025-01-01
Hanukkah; the Jewish festival of rededication

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Chanukah in Carefree Nightly Menorah Lighting
2024-12-29 17:30 - 19:00 | Sanderson Lincoln Pavilion, 101 Easy Street, Carefree, AZ, 85377, United States
For More Information: https://chanukahincarefree.com/

Chanukah: 5 Candles
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Chanukah: 4 Candles
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