Love, Music, and Resiliency In The Shadow Of The Holocaust

  6 p.m. Jan. 22, 2023 Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Tickets $18, $36 and $54 Purchase at the center's box office or online at scottsdaleperformingarts.org   MusicaNova Orchestra and ASU's Center for Jewish Studies present one man's story of finding hope and love in an all-Jewish orchestra as Nazi oppression accelerated in 1930s Germany. The evening begins with the movie Winter Journey, based on classical radio host Martin Goldsmith's book, The Inextinguishable Symphony, followed by a Q&A with Mr. Goldsmith. The orchestra performs the final piece the Jewish orchestra rehearsed: an ironic slap at their oppressors, Nielsen's Fourth Symphony powerfully proclaims that "music is life, and like life, inextinguishable." Local choirs join the orchestra for the finale, Sibelius’...

In Honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Temple Solel 6805 E McDonald Dr, Paradise Valley, Arizona

*Please mark this important event in your calendars. January 29, 2023 7:00 p.m. Temple Solel 6805 E McDonald Dr, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 How Can we Understand Contemporary Antisemitism? Michael Berenbaum, a Holocaust scholar who played a leading role in the creation of the USHMM and the content of its permanent exhibition, will address this difficult topic. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. Event is free and open to public. Questions contact Tara Marcaussen @ tmarcussen@templesolel.org This event is sponsored by NAU’s Martin-Springer Institute, Temple Solel, and the Phoenix Holocaust Association.

Online Book Discussion with Author Dan Grunfeld: By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream

  By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream Feb 15th @ 5:00 pm MST Register: https://tinyurl.com/mr3ebppa Dan 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...

Café Europa

C O N G R E G A T I O N O R T Z I O N 1 6 4 1 5 N 9 0 T H S T, scottsdale, AZ, United States

  F E B R U A R Y 1 9 , 2 0 2 3 @ 1 : 0 0 P M C O N G R E G A T I O N O R T Z I O N 1 6 4 1 5 N 9 0 T H S T S C O T T S D A L E , A Z 8 5 2 6 0 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 To RSVP and pay online for Café Europa https://phoenixhsa.formstack.com/forms/cafe_europa_in_a_bag CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM...

Teacher Workshop and Tik Tok Competition

Arizona Jewish Historical Society 122 E. Culver, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Teacher training will be focused on using TikTok in the classroom and using Survivor oral histories to teach the Holocaust. Thursday, February 23, 2023 from 9AM to 11AM (MST) at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, 122 E. Culver, Phoenix, AZ 85004. There are financial incentives for teachers. To Learn more Visit: https://www.azjhs.org/azjhs-oskar-knoblauch-tiktok-contest

Holding onto the Hate Let the Haters Win

  Friday, February 24, 2023, 10AM-12PM (MST) Featured Guest: Holocaust Survivor, Andrew Schot Andrew 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. Jewish 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...

3GAZ Multi-Generational Purim Celebration

Horizon Park 15444 N. 100th Street, scottsdale, AZ, United States

  Sunday, March 5th 3-5 pm (In-person) Horizon Park Ramada #2 15444 N. 100th Street Scottsdale, AZ 85260 RSVP by March 1 at 3gaz@phxha.com

Erev Purim

Celebration of Jewish deliverance as told by Megilat Esther

Online Discussion Miriam Friedmann

Witness—The Art Legacy of Holocaust Survivor David Friedman Wednesday, March 8 5:00pmMST Registration: https://tinyurl.com/28ss88ve Please join PHA for an online discussion with Miriam Friedman Miriam Friedman Morris will talk about her father, David Friedman’s life through art and her journey to find his Nazi-looted art and preserve her father’s legacy. Austrian born David Friedman(n) 1893-1980 was a Holocaust survivor whose drawings of persecution gave him purpose to fight antisemitism and racial hatred. An accomplished painter, he was renowned for his portraits drawn from life and leading Berlin press artist of the 1920’s. Friedman’s life’s work was Nazi-looted and his promising career was destroyed. He survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz to paint again

Café Europa

Beth El Congregation 1118 W GLENDALE AVE, PHOENIX, Glendale, AZ

Please Join Us For A Purim Celebration and Enjoy the Company of Friends and Some Yummy Hamantaschen Sunday March 19, 2023 @ 1 PM Beth El Congregation 1118 W Glendale Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021 FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS GUEST MEALS - $20 (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR) MAIL CHECKS TO: PHA, 12701 NORTHSCOTTSDALE ROAD #122 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254 or you can pay online at https://phoenixhsa.formstack.com/forms/cafe_europa_in_a_bag CONTACT SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM

A Twist of Fate

  Friday, March 24, 2022 - 10AM-12PM (MST) SPEAKER: Karen Zubkoff Perna Karen 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...

Educators’ Conference

Arizona Jewish Historical Society 122 E. Culver, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 5:00 PM MST Free, including pizza and salad dinner and door prizes, including many classroom resources. Every teacher will receive a certificate for 3 seat hours. Where: Arizona Jewish Historical Society For teachers of grades 6-12 in any discipline who are either new teachers or new to teaching about the Holocaust. Special prizes for the first 25 registrants who attend. Registration: http://tinyurl.com/y9jtbyj5