Posts Tagged ‘Holocaust Center’
Holocaust Center Advisory Board Meeting
Board meeting #4 of 2020-2021 fiscal year (final meeting).
Read More“Miracle in Rwanda” Virtual Play
TBD; play by Prime Stage Theatre Co.
Read More“Miracle in Rwanda” Virtual Play
TBD; play by Prime Stage Theatre Co.
Read MoreYom HaShoah Commemoration
Annual community-wide Yom HaShoah program, by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.
Read MoreHolocaust Center Advisory Board Meeting
Board meeting #3 of 2020-2021 fiscal year.
Read MoreHolocaust Center Conversations Series: Kevin Mosley
The ongoing “Conversations” series features community members having a dialogue with Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh director Dr. Lauren Apter Bairnsfather. About Kevin Mosley: Kevin Mosley is a writer/ public speaker/consultant on Race, Black History, Policing, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in America. His 20 years of experience as a member of the Pennsylvania State Police…
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HC Advisory Board Meeting #2 of 2020-2021 fiscal year.
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Holocaust Center Generations Speaker Series: Susan Hawkins & Peter Robinson (Part II)
This pre-recorded Holocaust Center doc will air in two parts. Part 1 airs Tuesday, December 1, 3pm and Part 2 airs Thursday, December 3, 3pm. Susan Robinson Hawkins and Peter Robinson are the children of two Holocaust survivors from Hungary and the Ukraine. Together, sister and brother tell the story of their parents’ loss and…
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Holocaust Center Generations Speaker Series: Susan Hawkins & Peter Robinson
This pre-recorded Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh program will air in two parts. Part 1 airs Tuesday, December 1, 3pm and Part 2 airs Thursday, December 3, 3pm. Susan Robinson Hawkins and Peter Robinson are the children of two Holocaust survivors from Hungary and the Ukraine. Together, sister and brother tell the story of their parents’…
Read MoreHolocaust Center Generations Speaker Series: Alison Brown Karabin
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is proud to present the latest installment in the Generations Speaker Series: Alison Brown Karabin. Alison will share the story of her grandmother, Elizabeth Brown (z”l), a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who endured Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Volary death march. About Alison: Alison Karabin was born Alison Serena Brown to Peter and Stephanie…
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An Irrepressible Woman: A Discussion of the Holocaust in France – Kristallnacht Commemoration 2020
In commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is partnering with Film Pittsburgh to offer this program. Join us as we come together for a program about the French film “An Irrepressible Woman”, and the larger themes of the Holocaust in France. Speakers will include: Kathryn Spitz Cohan, who will…
Read MoreSoul Witness: Survivor Testimony as Inspiration During Troubling Times
In the early 1990s, renowned Holocaust testimony expert Lawrence Langer conducted over 80 hours of interviews with Boston area Holocaust survivors for what was meant to serve as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The testimony tapes were placed in a metal closet, where they sat inexplicably for more than 20 years. In 2016, experienced…
Read MoreHolocaust Center of Pittsburgh 40th Anniversary Brunch
Brunch to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. More details to follow!
Read MoreHolocaust Center Program w/ Ted Comet
Conversation with Ted Comet, discussing trauma and his survivor wife’s tapestry work.
Read MoreHolocaust Center Conversations Series: Julie Mallis
Our ongoing “Conversations” series features community members having a dialogue with Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh director Dr. Lauren Apter Bairnsfather. About Julie Mallis: Julie Mallis is the City Director of social justice based service organization, Repair The World Pittsburgh. They have been organizing youth programs and creative endeavors for the past 12 years in Pittsburgh. Mallis…
Read MorePreserving Holocaust History through Artifacts, Archives and Research: Live Digital Program and Special Opportunity
Please join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for a live digital program, exclusive to the Pittsburgh community, featuring the Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Documentation and its work to collect, preserve, and make accessible to the public this vast collection of record of the Holocaust and support the…
Read MoreHolocaust Survivor Speaker: Dr. Steven Fenves
Dr. Steven Fenves was 9 years old in 1941 when the Nazis invaded his home country of Yugoslavia. For the next 3 years, his family home was overtaken by Hungarian soldiers; at 12 years old, he was forced into a ghetto, and then survived Auschwitz, a death march, and Buchenwald before he was liberated. He…
Read MoreAmerica and the Holocaust: A Conversation with Dr. Barbara Burstin
Adolf Hitler vs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 1936 Olympics. American antisemitism during World War II. These are just a few of the topics that loom large in the conversation of America during the Holocaust. What role did Pittsburghers play in this larger story? In this conversation, preeminent scholar and professor Dr. Barbara Burstin talks with…
Read MoreHolocaust Center Marks 40 Years Since Founding
How prescient our founders were, when they appointed the first Holocaust Center director in September 1980, forty years ago this month.
Read MoreCommunity Gathering: Marking 40 Years of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Past, Present, and Future
In the early 1990s, renowned Holocaust testimony expert Lawrence Langer conducted over 80 hours of interviews with Holocaust survivors residing in Brookline, Masachusetts. For over 20 years, they sat in a metal closet, waiting to be edited and produced into something usable for education purposes. Finally, in 2016, experienced producer R. Harvey Bravman was tasked…
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