Opening remarks by Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of RotterdamSpeakers: Dienke Hondius | Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place—the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam—where […]
Opening remarks by Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of RotterdamSpeakers: Dienke Hondius | Kiene Brillenburg Wurth Prof. Dienke Hondius will present her “Mapping Hiding Places” project, focusing on hiding in the Netherlands, including the 27 hiding places of the family in Invisible Years. Prof. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth will focus on one hiding place—the Breeplein Church in Rotterdam—where […]
The Wannsee Conference: 90 Minutes of Bureaucratic EvilThe Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to the first in a four part series: Rethinking the "Final Solution" and the Wannsee Conference 80 Years Later. Guest Speakers: Dr. Tamir Hod Historian at the Ghetto Fighters' House and expert on World Ward II and the Holocaust Dr. Matthias Hass […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to the final session in a four part series:Rethinking the 'Final Solution' and the Wannsee Conference: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Transport of 999 Jewish Women to Auschwitz: The Beginning of the Systematic Annihilation of the Jews With Guest Speakers: Prof. Heather Dune Macadam "999: The Extraordinary Young […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a book discussion on:Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union by Eliyana R. Adler Survival on the Margins is the first book in English to focus on the experiences of the Polish Jews who fled into the USSR at the start of the […]
Crafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann Join us on Sunday, May 15th, for the first program: Checkmate: Making, Playing and Picturing Chess in the Holocaust Guest Speaker: Dr. Rachel Perry Chess was played, made and pictured during the Holocaust by individuals in extremis. As practice, chess offered victims a means […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Crafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann Join us on Sunday, June 12th , for the second program Artistic Representations of the Plight of the Elderly in Terezin, 1942-1944 Guest Speaker: Liz Elsby The Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) near […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Artist as Witness: The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto Guest Speaker: Miriam Friedmann Morris David Friedmann (1893-1980) depicted human fate as a refugee in Prague, as a prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto, in the Auschwitz subcamp Gleiwitz I, and as a survivor. During […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House Talking Memory Series presents: Crafting Heritage: The Art of Holocaust Remembrance – A Homage to David Friedmann Join us on Sunday, July 10th, for the fourth and final program: Treasure Hunt: Finding the Lost Art Legacy of David Friedmann Guest Speakers: Miriam Friedmann Morris in conversation with Liz Elsby David Friedmann's […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a new three part series marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute The Oneg Shabbat Archives and Beyond: Documenting and Preserving the History of European Jewry at the Jewish Historical Institute "Let the World Read and Know": The Oneg Shabbat Archives Opening Remarks: Monika Krawczyk, […]
The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a special Talking Memory program marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Opening Remarks Yigal Cohen, CEO Ghetto Fighters' House Julia Mackiewicz, Polish Institute in Tel Aviv Round Table: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Israel Guest Speakers: Tamar Herzberg – Yad Mordechai Noam Leibman – […]
