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Passages to Safety: Untold Stories of Jewish Refugees in Latin America

Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall 5798 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

While Latin America only permitted about 84,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, pockets of hope emerged. Tens of thousands of Spanish and Jewish refugees escaped Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of diplomats like Gilberto Bosques Saldívar of México. Jews were also offered crucial passage away from Nazi persecution by governments in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, […]

Whistleblowers Who Exposed the Holocaust

Zoom

Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for a VIRTUAL lunch & learn with Historian Dr. Rafael Medoff and whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid as they discuss the new nonfiction graphic novel Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust (written by Medoff; drawn by Dean Motter; foreword by Zaid). A Zoom link will be provided closer to the […]

Generations Speaker Presentation by Clare Drobot

Welker Room, James Laughlin Music Hall 5798 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join us as we welcome Clare Drobot for her first public talk with the Holocaust Center! Clare will share the story of her grandmother, a survivor from Poland, and how her experiences shaped her family.

Generations Speaker Presentation by Dr. Melissa Marks

Chatham University Welker Room, Laughlin Music Hall, 0 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA

We are excited to host Dr. Melissa Marks’s presentation for the first time!  Bio: Dr. Melissa Marks is the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her desire to understand the history and psychology of the Holocaust led her to become a social studies teacher, a career she loved for a decade. Currently, she is in her 21st year as a […]

Building Bridges: An Evening with the Bamileke Community

Eddy Theater - Chatham University Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for an evening of learning and conversation with leaders in the Bamileke and Holocaust Center Generations communities. We will learn about the Bamileke people's experiences of persecution, explore the intersections between the two communities, and talk about the relationships that have been building between descendants of survivors of the […]

2024 Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Teacher Training

Chatham University Welker Room, Laughlin Music Hall, 0 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh 2024 Summer Teacher’s Workshop, held in partnership with Echoes & Reflection, is free of charge, and Act 48 credit hours will be available. It will be held in-person on Chatham University’s Shadyside campus, with courses led by Lynne Ravas, veteran educator, Generations Speaker, and Echoes & Reflections facilitator. Both days […]

2024 Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Teacher Training

Chatham University Welker Room, Laughlin Music Hall, 0 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh 2024 Summer Teacher’s Workshop, held in partnership with Echoes & Reflection, is free of charge, and Act 48 credit hours will be available. It will be held in-person on Chatham University’s Shadyside campus, with courses led by Lynne Ravas, veteran educator, Generations Speaker, and Echoes & Reflections facilitator. Both days […]

Event Series RAD Days 2024

An Evening with Solange Lebovitz, a Holocaust Survivor

Eddy Theater - Chatham University Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Learn about Holocaust survivor Solange Lebovitz’s experiences as a Jewish child and teen living in occupied France, hiding from the Nazis and their collaborators. While she was living in hiding, her other family members were in concentration camps and her brothers were members of the French Resistance. Solange was born in 1930 in Paris, France. […]

Event Series RAD Days 2024

A Blessing, Not a Burden: The Story of Two Holocaust Survivors, Eva and Mickey Kor, told by their son Dr. Alex Kor with Graham Honaker

Rodef Shalom Congregation 4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is pleased to welcome Dr. Alex Kor, son of Eva and Mickey Kor (z”l) and his co-author, Graham Honaker. Eva Kor (z”l) was a Holocaust survivor who advocated for healing through forgiveness, the subject of two critically acclaimed documentaries Eva: A-7063 and Forgiving Dr. Mengele, and the founder of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum […]

Music in Theresienstadt: A Conversation with Anna Hájková

Rodef Shalom Congregation 4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

As we commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November pogrom, this event connects the outbreak of public anti-Jewish violence in Nazi Germany with the remarkable cultural production in the Theresienstadt ghetto. In the three and half years of its duration, the 140,000 inmates in Terezín played, composed, and listened to music, which provided comfort, […]

“I am a Jew: A Holocaust Family Memoir” Book Talk & Discussion

Virtual

While survivor Edith Dach, Susan Terman's mother, never wrote about her Holocaust experience, she and other family members told many stories to Susan. Susan then shared her family's stories with her brother-in-law, Pittsburgh-area poet Philip Terman. From there, the book I am a Jew: A Holocaust Family Memoir was born. Containing Susan’s sharing of her mother’s stories […]

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