Join us on Zoom in welcoming the New Year with fellow survivors at Cafe Europa. Meals will be delivered between 1pm and 3pm. Meals are free for Holocaust survivors and $25 for non survivors. Café Europa Menu Chicken Soup with Matzo Balls Rice Pilaf with Roasted Bell Pepper Strips and Green Bean Almondine Honey Bread Pudding CHOICE OF: Honey-Soy Glazed Roasted Chicken Breast or Teriyaki Glazed Salmon RSVP for Zoom and Meal order at: sbronkesh@gmail.com  

by Judy Batalion Discussion led by Jay Levinsohn   Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers, bribed them with wine, whiskey, and home cooking, used their Aryan looks to seduce them, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed...

Location: Coor Hall 4403, ASU Tempe Campus. Speakers include PHA President Sheryl Bronkesh, Professors Volker Benkert and Jason Bruner. Holocaust education, and genocide education more broadly, is an area in which humanities scholars and scholarship can make important contributions to civic education. While many U.S. states include the Holocaust and other genocides in their history and social studies standards, there are relatively few resources for high school teachers to teach these atrocities in a way that is sensitive to the historical particularities of each genocide and provides their students with a meaningful comparative framework. In this event, we will briefly introduce a framework that we developed from an eight-year interdisciplinary collaboration on genocide, including a short curricular framework for the...