ECHOES & REFLECTIONS: ANALYZING PROPAGANDA AND TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY
2022-04-09 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix) | Scottsdale Community, 9000 E Chaparral Rd, Scottsdale, az, 85256
UPCOMING PROGRAM
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022 | 9 AM – 2PM
Scottsdale Community College| 9000 E Chaparral Rd |
Scottsdale, AZ 85256
For more information and to register, contact:
Lisa Marsio, lisa.marsio@scottsdalecc.edu
PROGRAM GOALS
Through this program, educators will:
Explore a sound pedagogy for the planning and
implementation of Holocaust education in the
classroom,
Receive a framework to guide students as they build
media literacy skills through a critical examination
of the role of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust,
Identify opportunities to connect the lessons of the
Holocaust with more current examples of hate-oriented propaganda; and
Build confidence and capacity to teach about media
literacy and propaganda

3GAZ Happy Hour In-Person
2022-04-10 16:00 | Luci’s at the Grove, 7400 N Via Paseo Del Sur, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85258
RSVP Renee Neier @ rneier@gmail.com

Hidden Children: The Resilience of Survivors
2022-04-13 11:00 - 12:30 | AZ
Wednesday, April 13 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The program will be held on Zoom.
Register below to receive the link, which will be sent the day before the program.
Go to this page for Registration
Generations After – EVJCC

Join Generations After to learn about children who were hidden during the Holocaust. The program includes a video about hidden children and Q&A with Holocaust survivor Marion Weinzweig, one of the youngest living witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust.
Marion was born in German-occupied Poland. To save her life, her family hid her with Christians. After being exposed, she fled and lived in convents masquerading as a Catholic. She shared her story in “Lonely Chameleon; Memoir of a Child Holocaust Survivor.”
Please call EVJCC if you have any difficulty register

Café Europa
2022-04-14 16:00 - 17:00 | AZ
Thursday April 14
Meals will be delivered between 1-3pm
Special Passover Menu
Join us on ZOOM @ 4:00pm to discuss Passover memories through the years
RSVP with Elaine @ elainegoldenthal@gmail.com

Erev Pesach
2022-04-15 | AZ
Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Pesach I
2022-04-16 | AZ

Pesach II
2022-04-17 | AZ

Pesach III (CH''M)
2022-04-18 | AZ

Pesach IV (CH''M)
2022-04-19 | AZ

Pesach V (CH''M)
2022-04-20 | AZ

Pesach VI (CH''M)
2022-04-21 | AZ

Pesach VII
2022-04-22 | AZ

Pesach VIII
2022-04-23 | AZ

A Beautiful Place
2022-05-06 19:00 - 2022-05-07 15:00 | AZ
A Beautiful Place is a new musical inspired by the true story of artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
A reading of the new musical celebrating the life of artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. There, Friedl secretly taught classes to hundreds of children, giving them the ability to escape the world around them using their imaginations and the remarkable power of art. Their legacy continues to inspire, reminding us how beauty and hope can exist within the darkness of despair.
Friday May 6, 2022 @ 7:00pm
Saturday May 7, 2022 @ 3:00pm
Get your tickets today at phoenixtheatre.com/beautiful

The Story Behind the Making of the Play The Last Boy.
2022-05-18 17:00 | AZ
Please join PHA In Our Upcoming
Online Discussion with Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher is a New York based, award-winning playwright. For 25 years Steve was a full-time choral director, travelling the world and transforming the lives of young people through the power of music. His choir was the first in history to travel to and perform in Antarctica. With the pandemic, he decided to retire from music education so that he could pursue his playwriting avocation full time. Mr. Fisher will talk about his most recent work, The Last Boy…a new play with music. It was inspired by the 100 boys in Terezin concentration camp who fought the Nazis
with poems, and the 1 boy who saved them. The Last Boy..a new play with music had its world premiere Off Broadway in July of 2021. In January, the drama won four Broadway World Awards for Best New Play, Best Production, Best Direction, and Best Performance. You can learn more about the play at https://thelastboy.info/

Whew...We Got Out of There
2022-05-20 10:00 | AZ
Whew…We Got Out of There. Friday May 20, 2022 @ 10:00AM MST.
SPEAKER: Holocaust Survivor, John Kessler. Join us on Friday May
20th, when John will share with us his story of survival and how he and
his family GOT OUT OF THERE…WHEW! To Register:
afusco@azjhs.org

CAFE´ EUROPA
2022-05-22 16:30 | AZ
Join us on ZOOM @ 4:30pm for a poetry reading by
Susan Getz. Susan’s mother was a Holocaust survivor,
and she will be reading from her manuscript
“Holocaust Memories and Other Poems”. We would also like to
encourage anyone attending to read one of their favorite poems.
Email Elaine: elainegoldenthal@gmail.com

Erev Shavuot
2022-06-04 | AZ
Festival of Weeks

Shavuot I
2022-06-05 | AZ

Shavuot II
2022-06-06 | AZ

The Birds Sang Eulogies
2022-06-10 10:00 - 12:00 | AZ
Friday, June 10 2022 – 10AM-12PM (MST)
SPEAKER: Mirla G. Raz, daughter of Holocaust Survivors
Mirla Geclewicz Raz is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father was living in Lodz when the Germans entered in September 1939. Draconian laws were put into place immediately. In March 1940, the Jews of Lodz were trapped inside the Lodz Ghetto. When the Lodz Ghetto was liquidated in August 1944, her father and his remaining family members were shipped to Auschwitz. Ms. Raz’s mother was living in the city of Lvov (now Lviv in Ukraine) when Hitler broke his pact with Stalin. Her mother and her family were forced into the Lvov Ghetto. She escaped into Germany where she worked as a maid in a German household. A quiet woman, she expressed her emotions of living through those horrific years in her poetry.
Ms. Raz will present her parents incredible stories of survival and what it was like growing up as a child of survivors. Ms. Raz will read a couple of her mother’s very emotive poems.
Register: The Birds Sang Eulogies — Arizona Jewish Historical Society (azjhs.org)

Rescued
2022-06-24 10:00 - 12:00 | AZ
RESCUED Friday, June 24, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm MST
SPEAKER: Holocaust Survivor, Suly Chenkin. Suly Chenkinwas born in Kovno, Lithuania. As a ten month old, Suly’s family, together with about 40,000 other Jews were interned in the Kovno Ghetto. Her life was spared at 3 1/2 when her parents sent her into hiding with a woman named Miriam Shulman. Please join us as Suly tells her incredible story of perseverance
and courage and how she eventually came to be reunited with her family.
Register: afusco@azjhs.org

You Are My Liberator
2022-07-08 10:00 - 12:00 | AZ
Friday, July 8, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (MST)
SPEAKER: US Liberator of World War II, Vernon Schmidt
Register: afusco@azjhs.org

Erev Tish'a B'Av
2022-08-06 | AZ
The Ninth of Av

Tish'a B'Av (observed)
2022-08-07 | AZ

Sevek & the Holocaust The Boy Who Refused to Die
2022-08-12 10:00 - 12:00 | AZ
Friday, August 12, 2022 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm (MST)
SPEAKER: Holocaust survivor, Sidney “Sevek” Finkel
Sidney “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.
Sidney Finkel received the Philip K Weiss Award for Storytelling for Peace and Human Rights in 2013.
Learn more about Sidney Finkel’s work with schools and education at his website http://holocaustspeaker.com/
RSVP: afusco@azjhs.org

Living among the Dead
2022-08-28 15:00 | Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, az, 85254
3GAZ is pleased to present an author talk and discussion with Adena Bernstein Astrowsky. Adena Bernstein Astrowsky is the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors. She is the VP of the Phoenix Holocaust Assocation and a founding member of 3GAZ. Adena’s novel “Living among the Dead” is the story of her grandmother, Mania Lichtenstein, and her journey and survival of the Holocaust.

Date: Sunday, August 28th @ 3:00 pm
Location: Valley of the Sun JCC
Address: 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85254

Registration: Meet the Author: Living Among the Dead (activecommunities.com)

To view or purchase Living among the Dead
http://mybook.to/ManiaL

CAFÉ EUROPA
2022-09-11 13:00 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W Glendale Ave,, Phoenix, AZ, 85021
CAFÉ EUROPA
WELCOME 5783 WITH DELICIOUS
LUNCH, MUSIC AND FRIENDS
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
BETH EL CONGREGATION
1118 W GLENDALE AVE, PHOENIX @ 1 PM
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
NO COST FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
GUEST MEALS – $20
(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR)
CHECKS CAN BE MAILED TO:
12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254
RSVP BEFORE SEPTEMBER 7, 2022.
PLEASE TELL THE PERSON FROM PHA OR JFCS THAT
CALLS YOU REGULARLY THAT YOU WANT TO ATTEND
OR
CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM
OR 480-246-9551
PLEASE LET PHA KNOW IF YOU NEED A RIDE.
ONLY ATTEND IF YOU ARE FEELING WELL AND
HAVEN’T BEEN EXPOSED TO ANYONE WHO TESTED
POSITIVE THE WEEK BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2022.
ALL FOOD SERVICE STAFF WILL WEAR MASKS.
TABLES WILL HOLD A REDUCED NUMBER OF SEATS

Erev Rosh Hashana
2022-09-25 | AZ
The Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashana 5783
2022-09-26 | AZ
