Phoenix Holocaust Association

Circle of Support - 3GAZ Community Event
2024-05-11 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Phoenix)
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

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)

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)

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

Pesach VIII
2024-04-30
Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Pesach VII
2024-04-29

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

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

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

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

Pesach II
2024-04-24

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 I
2024-04-23

Erev Pesach
2024-04-22

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

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

Descendants’ Forum with Jay Levinsohn
2024-03-10 11:00
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

3GAZ Babka Bake
2024-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 | 12701 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, 12701 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, Arizona, 85254
Join us for a 3GAZ Babka Bake from 7:00-8:30pm on Thursday, March 7 at the Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus.
We invite 3Gs and their guests who are 5th grade and older. Cost is $36/person and includes all supplies and ingredients to make a Take and Bake Chocolate Babka.
Register: 3G Babka Bake – Formstack

Sam Hilton Educators Conference on Antisemitism and Teaching of the Holocaust
2024-02-26 17:00 - 20:00 | Arizona Jewish Historical Society, 122 E. Culver, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Free educator development program on antisemitism and teaching of the Holocaust. This year we will offer sessions for teachers who attended last year’s program and for teachers who are new to teaching about the Holocaust. We hope you will register. Please share this invitation with a teacher new to the district or a colleague for whom the program might be a good fit. Deadline for registration is February 15.
The program will be held at the Arizona Jewish Historical Society. In addition to the educational sessions, you will have the opportunity to view their incredible Holocaust exhibit including the interactive hologram of a local survivor.
The entire program is free.
Books will be available for teachers and their students at no cost.
A PD certificate of attendance will be given to each attendee.
Please contact Kim Klett (kimklett5@gmail.com) if you have any questions.
We look forward to seeing you on February 26th.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/fjznb73h

Café Europa
2024-02-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Beth El Congregation, 1118 W GLENDALE AVE, PHOENIX, Glendale, AZ, 85021
Sunday February 18, 2024 @ 1 PM
Beth El Congregation
1118 W Glendale Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85021
FREE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DRIVERS

GUEST MEALS – $20
(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR)

MAIL CHECKS TO PHA,
12701 NORTH SCOTTSDALE ROAD #122
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85254
To pay online: phxha.com/connect/

RSVP SUSAN GETZ: SUZE0000@GMAIL.COM

9 Holocaust-related Films at the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival
2024-02-18 - 2024-03-03
UPCOMING HOLOCAUST FILMS screening in theaters at the 28th Annual Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival February 18 – March 3, 2024
Information& tickets available at www.gpjff.org
Board member Ettie Zilber has been invited to speak at the “Talk Back” at the end of the documentary “J’Accuse” on February 28th.

Israel Close to Home
2024-02-15 19:30 - 20:30
Feb 15, 2024 07:30 PM

Discover the inspiring journeys of three remarkable women within our Jewish community, freshly returned from their enriching experiences in Israel. Immerse yourself in their captivating tales, accompanied by vibrant photos, as they recount meaningful encounters and unforgettable moments from their remarkable journey. Join us in celebrating the diverse narratives and connections forged in the heart of Israel.

Register: https://hillel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf-CsrjIuHNSFt949PPEXk5rTmzXKLj5i#/registration

Documentary Film Screening Undying Love
2024-02-14
Online Streaming: February 14, 2024
Film Link: Undying Love

On Valentine’s Day, February 14, we will be screening Undying Love.
Undying Love tells the poignant, enduring and miraculous love stories of the survivors of World War II. Against the brutalized landscape of post-war Europe, this film focuses on how survivors struggled to reconstruct personal identities and forge intimate relationships. Using searing testimonies, poetic dramatizations, archives and images of romantic love from the pre- and post-Holocaust era, Undying Love is a textured retelling of several extraordinary love stories which emerged “out of the ashes”.

Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death In The Bedzin Ghetto Holocaust Traveling Exhibit at Chandler Center for the Arts.
2024-02-05 - 2024-02-08 | Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N Arizona Ave, Chandler, Arizona, 85225, United States
February 5-8 are free and open to the public:
Located 250 N Arizona Ave | Chandler, AZ.
Feb 5 : Is Educators Night and is only open to Chandler Unified school teachers.
Feb 7, 5-7pm: Discussion with 2G Ettie Zilber author of a Holocaust Memoir, tours with student docents, free classroom materials for educators.
Feb 6-8, 3-8 PM: Self-guided tours with Student Docents.

In Honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Martin-Springer Institute, Temple Solel and Phoenix Holocaust Association present: : Schindler's List Apartheid Legacy: From Poland to South Africa
2024-02-01 19:00 | Temple Solel, 6805 E McDonald Dr, Paradise Valley, Arizona, 85253
Featuring speaker Tali Nates, Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center in South Africa. Event is in-person and free and open to the public at 6805 E McDonald Dr, Paradise Valley. February 1, at 7PM (MST).
Register: https://templesolelaz.shulcloud.com/event/tali-nates—schindlers-list-apartheids-legacy-from-poland-to-south-africa.html
For More information: office@templesolel.org

3G Stories Live with Jennifer Sosnow & Adena Bernstein at the Celebration of Jewish Life and Learning at Limmud AZ
2024-01-28 15:00 - 15:50 | Pardes Jewish Day School, 12753 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ, 85254
Join the founders of 3GAZ between 3:00 – 3:50 PM at Limmund AZ and hear their first-hand testimony as they share their grandparent’s stories of how they survived the Holocaust. Understand the inherited trauma and how it affects the 3G population, and learn about Holocaust education in Arizona.
Register: https://www.limmudaz.org/limmud-az-event/

Addressing Antisemitism: Contemporary Challenges
2024-01-28 10:00
January 28, 2024, 10AM (MST)
In person and live on YouTube
This event by the Center for Jewish Studies seeks to explain the recent upsurge of Jew hatred in the contemporary world. The symposium brings together prominent scholars to discuss the challenge of defining antisemitism, explaining its explosion in Europe and the United States, understanding its dissemination through digital media, and determining how scholars and activists should best combat it in an era of intensifying global turmoil.
https://programs.cjh.org/tickets/addressing-antisemitism-2024-01-28

Café Europa
2024-01-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Congregation Beth Israel, 10460 N 56th St, Scottsdale, AZ, 85253
PHA Annual Meeting & Board Installation
January 21, 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

Chanukah: 8 Candles
2023-12-14
Hanukkah; the Jewish festival of rededication
