Atlanta Holocaust Community Calendar updated September 19, 2014

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Date and Time

ONGOING

ONGOING

2014-15

Sponsoring Organization

Anti-Defamation League of Atlanta

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Program

Echoes and Reflections: Holocaust Education for the 21st Century

Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945: 6,000 photo exhibit. Daily showings of "The Short Life of Anne Frank" 28 minute film directed and produced by Gerrit Netten •Witness to the Holocaust: WWII Veteran William Alexander Scott III at Buchenwald photographic and essay exhibit •Virtual tour of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam •Replica of Anne Frank's room •"Witness to the Holocaust" sculpture series by artist Devorah Sperber Holocaust Learning Trunk Show: Educators interested in using a trunk in his or her classroom can request a trunk on-line. Trunks remain at a school for a maximum of three weeks unless other arrangements have been made. By utilizing the materials in a trunk, educators are able to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to all students in Georgia.

Location / FEE This is a comprehensive, multimedia curriculum designed for middle and high school Social Studies and Language Arts teachers. Using visual history testimony integrated into ten multi-part lessons, this educational resource offers curriculum connections to contemporary issues of diversity, prejudice and bigotry, and modern-day genocide. It includes maps, photos, timeline, glossary and primary resources.

Free: at the Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 Exhibit. 5920 Roswell Rd. Suite A-209 Sandy Springs, GA 30328

Trunks are available for check-out to all middle school educators in the State of Georgia either through a local RESA (Regional Educational Service Agency) or district media Specialist.


Date and Time

ONGOING

Sponsoring Organization

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

ONGOING Museum of History & Holocaust Education

Thursday, Sept 18, 2014 5:30 pm On display thru October 2, 2014

Sunday, September, 21 1:00 pm

Simon Wiesenthal Center & The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center & The Foundation for California

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Program School Tours of Holocaust Gallery For grades 5 and up. A 2.5 hour tour includes 1h and 15 min with a Holocaust survivor and a 1h and 15 min docent-led tour of our Holocaust Gallery. First tour begins at 10:00am; no more than 150 people during one tour time. The Museum has exhibitions and school tours including: "Parallel Journeys: World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes of teens," and five other on-site exhibits.

“The Courage To Remember” is a 42 panel educational travelling exhibit about the Holocaust. It has been viewed in dozens of countries across six continents. With nearly 200 original photographs, many never seen before by the general public, “The Courage To Remember” offers a powerful, compelling insight into the Holocaust. Sunday Matinee: “The 20th Century with Mike Wallace: Nazis in America” The monthly film series continues. CBS correspondent and anchor Mike Wallace studies decades of Naziism in America and what the subculture imported from Nazi Germany. Total Running Time: 50 minutes.

Location / FEE

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center 449 Auburn Avenue, NE Atlanta, GA 30312

Free: Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 Exhibit. 5920 Roswell Rd. Suite A-209 Sandy Springs, GA 30328


Date and Time

Monday, September 29, 2014

Wednesday October 8, 2014 9:00 am until Noon

Monday, October 13. 2014 1:00 pm

Sponsoring Organization

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Museum of History & Holocaust Education Yom Hashoah Eternal-Life Hemshech, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:00 – 3:00 pm ------------------3:00 – 4:00 pm

Program Home School Day: “Anne Frank and unforgettable stories of the Holocaust” Home school students and teachers are invited to Anne Frank in the World for a special home school program hosted by Executive Director Sally N. Levine. It will include age-appropriate activities such as a short film, artifact analysis, and a guided tour of the exhibit. Homeschool Day: Victims of the Holocaust

Planning Committee Meeting for The 50th Annual Community Yom HaShoah Anniversary

Location / FEE

Free: Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945 Exhibit. 5920 Roswell Rd. Suite A-209 Sandy Springs, GA 30328 Registration for the morning session and afternoon session is already full and a waiting list is open online. Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Elementary Educators Workshop: Introducing the Holocaust

Museum of History & Holocaust Education

Sunday, Oct 26, 2014 at 2 pm

Am Yisrael Chai

Monday, October 27, 2014 11 am to 1 pm

Jewish Family and Career Services

------------------------------------Exhibit Opening and Reception “Never Forget: An Introduction to the Holocaust” Daffodil Planting event in Dahlonega Help us plant 1.5 million daffodils in memory of the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust. Café Europa A monthly meeting of Holocaust Survivors

Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144

Dahlonega

Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta


Date and Time

Sponsoring Organization

Sunday November 2, 2014 2:00 pm

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

Sunday, November 2, 2014 3:00 pm

Sunday, November 9, 2014 1 – 3 pm

Sunday, November 9, 2014 7:00 -7:30 pm

Am Yisrael Chai

AJC Access AJC Atlanta The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education Georgia Coalition to Prevent Genocide, Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, Eternal Life Hemshech, JCRC Atlanta, Temple Sinai Ahavath Achim Synagogue Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta

Program “Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust” Herbert Kohn (Germany) Eyewitness to Kristallnacht, social activist for affordable housing, recipient of the 11 Alive Community Service Award. Blairsville, Georgia, Daffodil Planting Help us plant 1.5 million daffodils in memory of the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.

“Repairing Broken Glass: Confronting the Holocaust and Genocide Kristallnacht Commemoration” Multi-media exhibit and memorial Commissioned Art Unveiling/Dedication - The Strength of the Human Spirit: Holocaust and Genocide survivors Common Experience/One Soul!

Commemorate the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass. The program is open to the community and will take place at the MJCCA’s Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden. The program will include the lighting of the six torches, a musical selection and memorial prayers.

Location / FEE

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Meeks Park, Blairsville, GA

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

The Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden at the MJCCA 5342 Tilly Mill Road Dunwoody, GA 30338


Date and Time Tuesday November 11th 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Sunday, Nov 23, 2014

Sponsoring Organization Jewish Family and Career Services

Am Yisrael Chai

Program Common Threads: a discussion group for children of Holocaust Survivors Downtown Atlanta Daffodil Planting Help us plant 1.5 million daffodils in memory of the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust. “Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust” Morton Waitzman (USA) American GI, liberator of concentration camps, survived Omaha Beach and the Battle of the Bulge, awarded the bronze star for valor.

Location / FEE The offices of JF&CS, 4549 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta.

Downtown Atlanta

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Sunday Dec. 14, 2014 2:00 pm

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 11am to 1pm

Jewish Family and Career Services

Sunday January 4, 2015 2:00 pm

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:00-8:30 pm Thursday, January 29, 2015 Tour 5:30/Movie 6

Am Yisrael Chai

Am Yisrael Chai Holocaust Remembrance Event

Auditorium at Greenfield Hebrew Academy, 5200 Northland Drive, Sandy Springs, GA 30342

Museum of History & Holocaust Education

Pizza, Movie and a Tour: No Place on Earth

Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 3014

Café Europa A meeting of Holocaust Survivors “Bearing Witness: Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust” Henry Friedman (Hungary) Survived beatings, starvation, forced labor and a firing squad.

Congregation Beth Jacob, 1855 Lavista Road, Atlanta

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309


Date and Time Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:30 – 8:30 pm & Friday January 30, 2015 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Sponsoring Organization Museum of History & Holocaust Education In partnership with: The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, & The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sunday March 8, 2015 2:00 pm

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

March 23, 2015 10 am student concert and exhibits; 7 pm exhibits, 8 pm concert, free admission

Sunday, March 29, 2015 9:00 - 11:00 am

Kennesaw State University School of Music (SOM), Laurence Sherr, Composer-inResidence KSU Museum of History and Holocaust Education (MHHE), Catherine Lewis, Director The Temple, Cantor Deborah Hartman Georgia Commission on the Holocaust (GCH), Sally Levine, Executive Director

Am Yisrael Chai, “Kids for Kids”& “Raising South Sudan”

Program

Location / FEE

CHEC - Conference for Holocaust Education Centers Professional Development Workshop: Teaching about the Holocaust

Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144

Bearing Witness Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust Goldie Bertone & Betty Sunshine Second-generation sisters tell the story of their mother, a survivor from Poland who escaped Dachau. Music of Resistance and Survival: A Holocaust Remembrance Concert; Instrumental music by composers forbidden or suppressed during the Holocaust; partisan, ghetto, and concentration camp songs; Laurence Sherr’s new cello and piano sonata based on these songs MHHE exhibit: “Parallel Journeys: WWII and the Holocaust through the Eyes of Teens” and GCH exhibit: “Georgia: A Home for Refugees” The Daffodil Dash The Daffodil Dash is a 1mile & 5K Run/Walk in memory of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

The Temple 1589 Peachtree St NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Starts at Georgia Perimeter College and ends at the MJCCA in Dunwoody. - 5K Run/walk at 9:00 am; 1 mile Run/Walk at 9:15 am. Registration: $20 until March 11 and $25 from March 12 until race day;


Date and Time Sunday, April 12, 2015, 4:00 pm Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:00 am – Noon April 17, 2015 Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:00 am to 12:30 pm Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Sponsoring Organization

Program

Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta

Yom HaShoah Observance - 2015

Museum of History & Holocaust Education

Homeschool Day: Anne Frank and Beyond

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust Eternal-Life Hemshech, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.

Days of Remembrance

Congregation Dor Tamid

Sunday May 3, 2015 2:00 pm

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

June 7 - 10, 2015

Museum of History & Holocaust Education

June 15 – 19, 2015

The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education

50th Annual Community Yom HaShoah

Holocaust Observance

Bearing Witness Unforgettable Stories from the Holocaust Penina Bowman (Romania) Auschwitz survivor who married an American GI. Her hand-sewn wedding dress is on display in our Holocaust gallery. Summer Workshop: World War II and the Holocaust 2015 Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust Complete scholarships are available to qualified teachers on a first-come, firstserved basis. A $25 scholarship application fee is required. For more information call 678-222-3742

Location / FEE The Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden at the MJCCA 5342 Tilly Mill Road Dunwoody, GA 30338 Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144 State Commemoration at the State Capitol

Greenwood Cemetery, 1173 Cascade Road, Atlanta, GA, Congregation Dor Tamid 11165 Parsons Road, Johns Creek GA 30097 (770) 623-8860 The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309

Museum of History & Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University 3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144 The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309



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