Phoenix Holocaust Association

Chanukah: 5 Candles
2022-12-22 | Arizona
Hanukkah; the Jewish festival of rededication

Chanukah: 4 Candles
2022-12-21 | Arizona

Chanukah: 3 Candles
2022-12-20 | Arizona

Chanukah: 2 Candles
2022-12-19 | Arizona

Café Europa
2022-12-18 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W Glendale Ave,, Phoenix, AZ, 85021
HANUKKAH CELEBRATION
Sunday Dec 18, 2022 @ 1 PM
Beth El Congregation
1118 W Glendale Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021
Musical Entertainment by
Pianist Deena Cukier
FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS GUEST MEALS – $20
(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR) MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA, 12701 NORTH
SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254
CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM OR 480-246-9551

Chanukah: 1 Candle
2022-12-18 | Arizona

Discussion with Author, Martin Goldsmith: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany.
2022-12-15 14:00 | Arizona
The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

Discussion with Author, Martin Goldsmith

December 15, 2022 at 2PM (MST)
Discussion via ZOOM

Set 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.
Beautifully 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.
Along 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.
Registration: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany — Arizona Jewish Historical Society (azjhs.org)

Online Book Discussion with Author Gina Roitman: My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me
2022-11-16 17:30 | Arizona
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?
JOIN 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.”
Also about her books: Tell Me a Story, Tell me the Truth; Don’t Ask.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 5:30 PM Arizona time; 7:30 PM EST; 4:30 PM Pacific (check your time zones).
To register: https://tinyurl.com/2p87b2dv

www.nazimidwife.com

C A F É E U R O P A
2022-11-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Chompies, 3212 E Cactus Rd, Phoenix, Arizona, 85032
Nov 13, 2022 @ 1 PM
Chompies
3212 E Cactus Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85032
Entertainment by accomplished
violinist Moshe Bukshpan

FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS
GUEST MEALS – $20
(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR)
MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA,
12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254
CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM
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 FOR COVID.

Project Inspire Arizona: The 8th annual Challah Bake:
2022-11-10 18:00 | Arizona
Project Inspire Arizona: The 8th annual Challah Bake: Thursday, Nov. 10th at 6pm. Where: 6140 E. Thunderbird Rd. Cost $18. Make challah in a bag with a million women and girls in 1000s of cities around the globe on this same night for the worldwide Shabbat Project! Then “Shake it up”with Frumba/Zumba star Rebbetzin Tzipora Gelman from Chicago! Special school and organization presentations, Singing and learning, Plus learn how to make shabbat dips with a food network chef champion.
Register: at https://shabbatprojectarizona.formstack.com/forms/2022
or 602-469-1606

You are invited to the opening of a new original exhibit and Kristallnacht Remembrance Ceremony
2022-11-09 18:00 | Arizona
Wednesday, November 9, 2022.

Reception at 6:00PM – Program Begins at 6:30PM.

Please join us for an extraordinary experience a new exhibition, Stories of Survival: An Immersive Journey Through the Holocaust, which includes an interactive hologram of local survivor Oskar Knoblauch. Be among the first to see and interact with this new technology. Includes hors d’oeuvres reception. Dietary laws observed. Seating is limited. RSVP today!
Register: https://www.azjhs.org/kristallnacht-remembrance-ceremony

Keynote Speaker for the Murray and Sabina Zemel z"l Educators Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
2022-10-25 15:00 | Mirabella at ASU, 65 E University Dr., Tempe, AZ, 85281
Ellen Germain, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, U.S. Department of State
Ellen Germain assumed her duties as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues on August 23, 2021. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Ms. Germain served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018-2021. Her previous positions include director of the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (2015-2017), head of the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow, Poland (2012-2015), and postings as deputy political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad (2007-2008) and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York (2008-2012) where she was responsible for issues relating to the Middle East, East Asia, and nonproliferation.
Tuesday, October 25 at 3 pm
Mirabella at ASU
65 E University Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85281
As part of a day-long conference for educators, the keynote address is open to the public. No charge.

THE MURRAY AND SABINA ZEMEL z"l EDUCATORS CONFERENCE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE
2022-10-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, Tempe
Tuesday, October 25
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
ASU Tempe Campus
Keynote Speaker: Ellen Germain
The Murray and Sabina Zemel z”l Educators Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide aims to aid Arizona teachers in building programs, developing curricula and sharing best practices in
educating on the Holocaust and other genocides.
The conference is free and open to the public. The first 50 teachers enrolling will also receive funding to cover substitute teachers for the day of the conference.

3GAZ STORIES LIVE
2022-10-24 19:00 | Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, az, 85254
Monday, October 24th at
7:00 pm AZ/Pacific
Featuring Third Generation Holocaust Descendants:
Adena Bernstein Astrowsky, Jennifer Sosnow & Jennifer Blohm
3GAZ leaders will share the narratives of their grandparents and loved ones who survived the Holocaust. Adena will speak about her beloved bubbie, Mania Lichtenstein, A Story of Love and Strength in the Ghetto; Jennifer Sosnow will speak about her grandfather, an Auschwitz survivor, A Message that Peace is the Most Important Thing; and Jennifer Blohm will speak about
her cousin, Gitle Roshtein, An Account of Courage and Resilience in the Ukraine and Beyond.

Registration:
https://apm.activecommunities.com/valleyofthesunjcc/Activity_Search/2309
Registration is free but is required for all in-person or online attendees

Simchat Torah
2022-10-18 | Arizona
Day of Celebrating the Torah

Shmini Atzeret
2022-10-17 | Arizona
Eighth Day of Assembly

CAFÉ EUROPA
2022-10-16 13:00 | 6529 E Shea Blvd, 6529 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, az, 85254
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
CONGREGATION BETH TEFILLAH
6529 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale @ 1 PM
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT BY GUITARIST GAL DRIMMER
FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS
GUEST MEALS – $20 (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR) MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA,
12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254

SURVIVORS: PLEASE TELL THE PERSON THAT REGULARLY CALLS YOU THAT YOU WANT TO ATTEND OR CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM OR 480-246-9551

Sukkot VII (Hoshana Raba)
2022-10-16 | Arizona
Feast of Booths

Sukkot VI (CH''M)
2022-10-15 | Arizona

Sukkot V (CH''M)
2022-10-14 | Arizona

Sukkot IV (CH''M)
2022-10-13 | Arizona

Online Discussion with Jeremy Schonfeld
2022-10-12 17:00 | Arizona
“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.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/ns86ctwn

Iron & Coal is available for viewing prior to the presentation at https://vimeo.com/295417921/129cd8ac94.

Sukkot III (CH''M)
2022-10-12 | Arizona

Sukkot II
2022-10-11 | Arizona

Sukkot I
2022-10-10 | Arizona

Erev Sukkot
2022-10-09 | Arizona

Yom Kippur
2022-10-05 | Arizona
Day of Atonement

Erev Yom Kippur
2022-10-04 | Arizona

Rosh Hashana II
2022-09-27 | Arizona
The Jewish New Year

Rosh Hashana 5783
2022-09-26 | Arizona
