A Greek Girl in Auschwitz

Wed., January 31, 2pm
Passmore Center
Pre-registration required: 919-245-2015
103 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278

In honor of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (1/27/45), join Bonnie Hauser as she recounts the harrowing story of her mother, Rebecca Yomtov Hauser. Rebecca, along with the entire Jewish community of Loannina, Greece was rounded up and deported to Auschwitz in March of 1944. After almost a year at Auschwitz, Rebecca was transferred to Bergen-Belsen until it was was liberated in April of 1945. Rebecca was the only survivor in her immediate family.

This is free event open to the pulic.

Hybrid Available (call & ask for link)

Sponsored by The Orange County Department on Aging ​​​​

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine Distinguished Lecture Series​

presents Mark Wygoda 
via Zoom 
November 7th at 6:30 p.m 
Open to all at no charge 
Educators can earn 1.5 CEUs 

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (HHRCM) Distinguished Lecture Series presents Mark Wygoda, Professor Emeritus from McNeese State University in Louisiana and a current member of the Holocaust Speakers Bureau of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina. Mark has 30 years of experience giving presentations about his father, Hermann Wygoda, a German-born Polish Jew who initially was a Warsaw ghetto food smuggler and later a partisan brigade commander during the Holocaust. His father's story is one of defiance and resistance. Posing as a Catholic Pole of German ancestry, Hermann lived and worked in open society while secretly helping other Jews by smuggling food into the Warsaw ghetto. He later aggressively fought back against his enemies after he became a commander of partisan fighters in German-occupied northern Italy. Following the war, he was awarded an American Bronze Star medal for valor in combat by US General Mark Clark, and then immigrated to the US to start a new life. After his death Mark edited and published his father’s memoir, entitled In the Shadow of the Swastika. Please join 'by Zoom on November 7th at 6:30 p.m. to learn about this fascinating story. Please contact HHRCM (erica@hhrcmaine.org) if you wish to earn 1.5 CEUs for attending the session. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/distinguished-lecture-series-tickets-1044348112317

Ghetto Fighters’ House Holocaust Museum Virtual Tour

January 28, 2024  11:00am Eastern

To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us on Sunday, January 28, 2024

at 11:00 am to participate in a virtual tour of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Holocaust Museum in Israel.

The Ghetto Fighters’ House was established in 1949 by Holocaust survivors, among them survivors of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and is among the first museums of its kind. The museum focuses on Jewish resistance, moral choices, and the triumph of the human spirit.
https://www.gfh.org.il/eng

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Confronting Antisemitism Today​

​Sunday, September 8, 4PM 
Beth El Synagogue

1004 Watts St., Durham, NC 27701

The latest insights into the Oldest Ethnic Hatred
A community Briefing and Conversation featuring the Antidefamation League's (ADL)  Vlad Khaykin and Meredith Weisel

This event is free and open to the public.

Learn more and register: https://betheldurham.shulcloud.com/event/adl-presentation-vlad-khyakin-on-antisemitism-.html 

Teens are also invited to an informal Pizza Meet & Greet with the speakers at 3PM, then can stay for the event.
You can register your teens here: https://betheldurham.shulcloud.com/form/adlteen

Mr. Khaykin is one of the world's foremost experts on antisemitism and is the ADL's Director of Public Research and Knowledge. Ms. Weisel is ADL's Regional Director in DC who is focusing on how ADL is partnering with local communities to turn the tide against hate.

This event is being co-sponsored by fourteen local interfaith organizations, demonstrating that Antisemitism is not just a challenge for the Jewish community, but it's a challenge for every community committed to confronting hate in all of its forms. This is not a political event.

Reckonings​

​Sunday, September 29, 2PM 
Levin Jewish Community Center, 1937 W. Cornwallis, Durham, NC 
This event is in-person only.

Join us for a screening of this documentary recounting the tense negotiations between Jewish and German leaders over reparations for Holocaust victims Six years after the Holocaust, they met secretly under the threat of violence to negotiate the unthinkable - payment to the survivors of the
largest mass genocide in history. 

We will be joined remotely by two esteemed guests:
Michael Berenbaum, an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust, 
and  
Karen Heilig, the film's producer and the General Counsel and Assistant Executive Vice President of the The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Advance registration required. No charge for admission. Light refreshments available.
https://calendar.jewishforgood.org/jewishforgood/detail/1814/1727632800000​

Sponsored by The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina and Jewish for Good at the Levin JCC​

Film Screening to Commemorate Yom HaShoah and Yom Ha’atzmaut​

​The Long Way Home
Monday,  May 6th 6:00pm - 8:00pm
1937 W Cornwallis Rd, Durham, NC 27705, USA 
 

THE LONG WAY HOME

The Long Way Home is a 1997 American documentary film which depicts the plight of Jewish refugees after World War II contributing to the creation of the State of Israel. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1997.

The film's emphasis is on the pitiful conditions for Jewish refugees in Europe after the war, as antisemitism was still rife and poverty was common. It also shows how emigration to the British Mandate of Palestine became a goal for many, but that British immigration rules often resulted in them being detained in camps in Cyprus. The eventual formation of the State of Israel is then shown, with emphasis on the debates in the White House between Palestinian Jews, President Harry S. Truman, and the United Nations.

The Long Way Home is narrated by Morgan Freeman and features the voices of Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko, Helen Slater, and Michael York.

Movie trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv9sWCfIYBM

Register Here - https://jccfed.wufoo.com/forms/xpb57fa02w13ye/

This program is a collaboration between The Israel Center at Jewish For Good and The Center of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of North Carolina & The Holocaust Speakers Bureau.

We would like to thank and honor Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for producing this film and allowing us to organize a free film screening for our community.​​​​

Community Yom Hashoah Commemoration​

​Sunday, May 5th 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W Cornwallis Rd, Durham, NC 27705  

This year's community Yom Hashoah event will be held at Judea Reform Congregation.

We will be exhibiting Holocaust related art in the gallery. Doors will open at 3 PM so people can view the artwork. The commemoration begins at 4 PM.
 
Weaving together survivors’ stories, this year’s commemoration will feature SONAM (Singers of New and Ancient Music) who will be singing selections from Verdi’s Requiem and other poetry and music from Terezín.


We will be exhibiting Holocaust related art in the gallery. Doors will open at 3 PM so people can view the artwork. The commemoration begins at 4 PM.​​​​