Echoes & Reflections (the Holocaust education organization) presents "A Mysterious Photo Album with a New Lens on Kristallnacht" on November 4, 2024. at 3:00 PM (ET).
This webinar for teachers explores how an old album, containing photos from the Kristallnacht Pogrom, was found and kept by a Jewish soldier who served in the US Army in Germany during WWII.
Registration is available here for the webinar led by Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director for Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Education. The album was donated to Yad Vashem in 2022.
Nearly a year before the outbreak of World War II, between 9-10 November 1938, German and Austrian mobs looted, torched and vandalized many Jewish-owned shops, businesses and homes. In just a few hours some 1400 synagogues were set ablaze and destroyed. Jewish citizens were viciously attacked and publicly humiliated. 30,000 Jewish men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The November Pogrom called Kristallnacht ("Crystal Night" or "Night of the Broken Glass" claimed the lives of 92 Jews.
Additional primary source newspaper articles on Kristallnacht are available through the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's project History Unfolded.
Echoes & Reflections and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will offer a powerful conversation between Holocaust survivor Renate Zelovic and her granddaughter, Ariel Behrman, ADL's Director of Education Programs and Products on the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).
For the first time, Renate will publicly share her memories of Kristallnacht, her experience in a Jewish orphanage and her evacuation from Germany to England on a Kindertransport. The Q&A format will allow educators and students the chance to hear Renate's story firsthand.
The webinar takes place on November 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM (ET) with registration available here.
On Sunday, January 28 at 1:00 PM ET, for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Museum of Jewish Heritage will host a community reading of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir Night. A group of noted individuals will participate including Elijah Wiesel, son of Eli Wiesel.
The program will be offered in person and via livestream with registration available here.
During these challenging times, the upcoming community reading of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the events of the Holocaust and to make relevant connections to our world today.
From the State Historical Society of Iowa- Primary Source Set focused on the Holocaust and America's Response to other Genocides.
Here is a fascinating 2022 Library of Congress Folklife Today blog post “The Truth Behind the Hanukkah Dreidel: Metafolklore, Play, and Spin” which is a must-read to enjoy now and which we’ll be sure to mention next year prior to the holiday!
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