Phoenix Holocaust Association

Descendants’ Forum with Jay Levinsohn
2024-03-10 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Sunday March 10, 2024 @ 11AM on Zoom
In 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.
Jay 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.
Join 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.
Please watch the link before the ZOOM meeting.It will provide a great introduction to the history of “The Holocaust Torahs / The Czech Torah Scrolls.”
link: https://vimeo.com/11488749
RSVP: elainegoldenthal@yahoo.com or 480.330.1547.
ZOOM link will be provided only to those who RSVP

March Café Europa
2024-03-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Congregation Beth Israel, 10460 N 56th St, Scottsdale, AZ, 85253
March 17, 2024@1:00pm
Congregation Beth Israel 10460 N 56th St, Scottsdale, AZ
FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS
GUEST MEALS – $20
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONLINE,
BY MAIL OR AT THE DOOR
MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA,
12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254

TO PAY ONLINE: phxha.com/connect/
CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM
OR 480-246-9551

Erev Purim
2024-03-23
Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther

12th Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week 2024
2024-04-15 - 2024-04-19
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 threats of genocide throughout the world, while also looking to the past for guidance and to honor those affected by genocide.
Programs of particular interest include:
From 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
(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.
Survivor 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.

Erev Pesach
2024-04-22
Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Pesach I
2024-04-23

Second Night Seder Opportunity
2024-04-23 18:00 | Trattoria Veneto, 6137 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85250
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

Pesach II
2024-04-24

Pesach III (CH''M)
2024-04-25

Pesach IV (CH''M)
2024-04-26

Pesach V (CH''M)
2024-04-27

Pesach VI (CH''M)
2024-04-28

Pesach VII
2024-04-29

Pesach VIII
2024-04-30

2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration
2024-05-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus., 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ, 85254
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

Yom HaShoah Name Reading
2024-05-06 08:00 - 18:00 | Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus, 12701 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85254
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. PHA has reserved 5-minute increments for members to read between 1-2pm and 3-4pm. We encourage you to bring the names of your family members with you to read aloud. Click link below to sign up for your time slot.
Phoenix Holocaust Association: Ina Levine Jewish Center Reading of the Names of the Victims of the Shoah (signupgenius.com)

Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII
2024-05-07 19:00 | Arizona Jewish Historical Society, 122 E. Culver, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
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 of heroism and resilience.
Registration: Arizona Jewish Historical Society — Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII (azjhs.org)

Circle of Support - 3GAZ Community Event
2024-05-11 18:30 - 21:30
Circle of Sharing
Saturday, May 11, 2024
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Private location in Scottsdale,
address provided upon registration.
Join 3GAZ in our first Circle of Support Community Event – A time to gather and share stories you learned from your grandparents about their life and legacy. We will have light refreshments and snacks available!
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOCcMfqDB424XwIgTkWFZRsjTpFas1qH9g23zzWlKXOMkXtA/viewform

Café Europa
2024-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W GLENDALE AVE, PHOENIX, Glendale, AZ, 85021
May 1 9, 2024 @ 1:00pm
Beth El Congregation
1118 W Glendale Ave. Phoenix, AZ
FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS

GUEST MEALS – $20

PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONLINE,

BY MAIL OR AT THE DOOR

MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA,

12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122

SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254

TO PAY ONLINE: phxha.com/connect/

CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM

Fiddler on the Roof
2024-06-02 19:00 | Phoenix Theater Compnay, 1825 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, 85004
Phoenix Holocaust Association is proud to have been chosen as The Phoenix Theatre Company Community Partner for the month of June 2024. As such, all PHA members and friends have the opportunity to purchase tickets to the 7:00pm Sunday, June 2nd performance of Fiddler on the Roof at a “Pay What You Can” rate.

Please use this link for the Community Night Pre-sale which expires on May 2nd:
https://tickets.phoenixtheatre.com/15052/15156?premove=Y&promo=PHXHA

Promo code: PHXHA

Our PHA Holocaust survivors and their drivers will be seeing a daytime performance later in June in lieu of a Cafe Europa luncheon that month. All other PHA members and friends are encouraged to join us at Community Night on June 2nd.

Fiddler on the Roof
2024-06-09 19:00 | Phoenix Theater Compnay, 1825 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, 85004
PHA’s community partnership with Phoenix Theatre has been such a success that they are offering two more opportunities to see their production of Fiddler on the Roof at a “pay what you can” rate! PROMO Code: PWYC
6/9 at 7:00pm
https://phoenixtheatre.com/

Erev Shavuot
2024-06-11
Festival of Weeks

Shavuot I
2024-06-12

Shavuot II
2024-06-13

Fiddler on the Roof
2024-06-16 19:00 | Phoenix Theater Compnay, 1825 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, 85004
PHA’s community partnership with Phoenix Theatre has been such a success that they are offering two more opportunities to see their production of Fiddler on the Roof at a “pay what you can” rate! PROMO Code: PWYC
6/16 at 7:00pm
https://phoenixtheatre.com/

Generations of Remembrance: Voices of Survival
2024-06-26 15:00 | Mirabella at ASU, 65 E University Dr., Tempe, AZ, 85281
Please join us for a panel discussion on, Generations of Remembrance: Voices of Survival, in conjunction with two exhibits, “Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in the Bedzin Ghetto” and an exhibit about local Holocaust survivor Rise Stillman.

Wednesday | June 26 | 3 PM
If you would like to attend, please RSVP via phone to Robin LaCorte.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL
2024-07-28 13:00 - 14:30 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W GLENDALE AVE, PHOENIX, Glendale, AZ, 85021
PLEASE JOIN US ON JULY 28TH FOR SOME SUMMER FUN AT OUR PHA ICE CREAM SOCIAL.
1:00PM-2:30PM
BETH EL CONGREGATION 1118 W GLENDALE AVE,
PHOENIX, AZ 85021
Survivors, 2Gs, 3Gs, family and friends are all welcome. Ice cream and all the fixings will be provided. FREE for survivors. $10 dollars per person for non-survivors and $5 for kids 12 and under.
(Payable in advance or at the door) Mail check to:
12701 N Scottsdale Road, #122, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
RSVP: Susan Getz: suze0000@gmail.com

Join PHA at the 2024 Jewish Community Day with the Diamondbacks
2024-08-11 13:10 - 16:00 | Chase Field, 401 E Jefferson St, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix is hosting Jewish Community Day with the Diamondbacks as they take on the Philadelphia Phillies at Chase Field!
Tickets start at $28 (discounted tickets for kids 15 and younger!) and each ticket includes a FREE Jewish Community Day Diamondbacks in Hebrew hat giveaway (limited quantity available). Plus, join us during the game in our secured Jewish Community area where we will have activities for all ages, giveaways, a photo booth area and much more!

Erev Tish'a B'Av
2024-08-12
The Ninth of Av

Tish'a B'Av
2024-08-13
