2nd Annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week Resources
January 5, 2021
Holocaust Memorial Museum provides resources for South Texas schools
This January, the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio is preparing a week-long virtual event for Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. This event provides schools in South Texas with the means to fulfill the educational mandates set by Senate Bill 1828 for age-appropriate Holocaust education for grades K-12 in Texas public schools.
For the 2021 Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week, the museum is providing a series of virtual presentations which will be available to schools and teachers, both as “live” Zoom webinars and as prerecorded video, beginning on January 25 – 29, 2021.
Two presentations each day will be live–streamed and ten other pre-recorded presentations will be premiered throughout the week on the museum’s social media pages and website. Led primarily by the children and grandchildren of local survivors and liberators, these presentations will highlight their stories. The theme for week explores how “the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference,” inspired by the quote from Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.
SCHEDULE
Descriptions of presentations, videos and registration information available at: hmmsa.org/thrw-2021
Monday, January 25th
Prerecorded Presentations
The Liberation Gardelegen: What My Father Saw – Roy Kamin
Setting Differences Aside: Rescuers of the Muslim Faith – Nicole Munoz
Ask a Question, Expect an Answer – Esther Feinberg
Live on Zoom Webinar
8:30am: My Mother’s Amazing Survival – Winslow Swart
12:30pm: My Mother and Grandmother: What They Endured – Ginny Wind
Tuesday, January 26th
Prerecorded Presentations
My Father’s Suffering – Dr. Anatole Trakhtenbroit
Children of the Holocaust – Lisa Barry
Live on Zoom Webinar
9:00am: La Vida de mi Madre en Hungría (My Mother’s Life in Hungary) – Anita Goldberg (En Español)
1:00pm: The Untold Story of Regina Jonas: The First Ordained Female Rabbi – Rabbi Mara Nathan
Wednesday, January 27th
Prerecorded Presentations
Lessons Learned from Visiting the Camps – Tristan Bourgoin
Literary Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum – Julie Tzucker
Live on Zoom Webinar
9:30am: My Grandmother: Art and Resistance – Helen Pankowsky
1:30pm: Women in the Holocaust – Liz Reichman
Thursday, January 28th
Prerecorded Presentations
I Was a Child During the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) – Ursala Kaplan
Oscar Ehrenberg: Survivor – Laura Ehrenberg-Chesler
Live on Zoom Webinar
10:00am: My Parents’ Holocaust Experiences – Robi Jalnos
2:00pm: How My Mother Weathered the Storm – Varda Ratner
Friday, January 29th
Prerecorded Presentations
Betrayal & Defiance: The Story of Lucien Moreau – Olivier Bourgoin
Resistance: The Bielski Brothers and the Perseverance of a Family Camp – Nicole Munoz
Live on Zoom Webinar
10:30am: My Mother: How She Survived – Lala Gossen
2:30pm: My Father and What He Withstood – Sharon Greenwald
In addition to these virtual presentations, the museum is hosting teacher workshops in January to prepare Texas teachers to teach the curriculum in their own classrooms. The museum also has 22 educational trunks and 2 traveling exhibits available for local schools to utilize in their classrooms for in-person instruction.
Many additional resources, including recorded survivor testimonies, online exhibits, interactive webpages, a video tour, downloadable worksheets, book recommendations, and links to Holocaust-related lesson plans will also continue to be available at hmmsa.org.
The programming offered at HMMSA for Texas Holocaust Remembrance week has been generously sponsored through a grant from the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio is a program of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio. To learn more, visit hmmsa.org or contact info@hmmsa.org