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Walking Tour of Jewish Beacon Hill & The Vilna Shul

Up Next: 5/12/2024, 11:00 am

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

Museum Tours

$30

Film Club Discussion: “The Zone of Interest”

5/7/2024, 7:00 pm

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Ewa Puszczynska, Christian Friedel, Sandra Huller, Film4, Access, Polish Film Institute, JW Films, Extreme Emotions, A24, Gutek Film

$2

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Yom HaShoah Remembrance Ceremony

5/6/2024, 7:00 pm

J. Henry Higgins Middle School, Peabody

(Photo: Valley2city/Wikimedia Commons)

Free

Listening to History

5/6/2024, 12:30 pm

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Waltham

Jasenovac Holocaust Memorial, Croatia, Concentration Camp

Free

“Beyond Babi Yar”: Yom HaShoah Film and Discussion

5/5/2024, 6:00 pm

Temple Beth Zion, Brookline

Daria Cherkaska, Beyond Babi Yar, John Pollick

Free

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MetroWest Yom HaShoah Remembrance

5/5/2024, 6:00 pm

Congregation Beth El, Sudbury

Kati Preston

Free

Yom HaShoah Remembrance Day Concert

5/5/2024, 4:00 pm

Temple Emanuel of Andover, Andover

(Photo: Ted Eytan/Flickr)

Free

Yom HaShoah Double Bill Performance

5/5/2024, 3:00 pm

The Boston Synagogue, Boston

Jessica Arielle Bloch-Moisand

Free

“The Counterfeit Countess”: Yom HaShoah Book Talk

5/5/2024, 3:00 pm

Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust, Illinois Institute of Technology, Paul V. Galvin Library

Free

“Journeys of Transformation” Book-Signing Event

5/5/2024, 2:00 pm

Kerem Shalom, Concord

Journeys of Transformation: Confronting the Legacies of Conflict, War, and Genocide

Free

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Yom HaShoah – 6 Million Steps

5/5/2024, 12:30 pm

New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston

(Photo: Yerevanci/Wikimedia Commons)

Free

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Cary Square Day of History & Jewish Chelsea Museum

5/5/2024, 10:00 am

Temple Emmanuel of Chelsea, Chelsea

Bellingham–Cary House, Chelsea (Courtesy photo)

Free

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5/6/2022 Top Pick

Antisemitism Uncovered: A Guide to Old Myths in a New Era

By Anti-Defamation League

Maxim D. Shrayer

5/3/2022 Top Pick

A Russian Jew’s Insights on the War in Ukraine

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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5/2/2022 Top Pick

Holocaust “Must Not Be Forgotten,” Says Cambridge Survivor

As antisemitism and Holocaust denial grow, Frieda Tenenbaum Grayzel warned of the continued threat posed by bigotry.

By John HilliardFor The Boston Globe

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4/27/2022 Top Pick

“Those Who Were There: Voices From the Holocaust” Podcast

The only podcast dedicated to sharing the history of the Holocaust through the first-hand testimonies of survivors and witnesses.

By Fortunoff Video Archive

A photo taken on May 27, 1944, in Oświęcim, Poland, showing Nazis selecting prisoners on the platform at the entrance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. -/YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

4/25/2022 Top Pick

It’s a Mistake to Ban Holocaust Denial

Canada is poised to criminalize a vile form of antisemitic expression. It shouldn’t.

By Jeff JacobyFor The Boston Globe

Todd Ruderman and Jody Kipnis, who are engaged to be married, stood in front of the building they recently bought to house a planned Holocaust museum.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF

4/25/2022 Top Pick

Plan for Boston Holocaust Museum Begins to Take Shape

For Todd Ruderman and Jody Kipnis, this brick building along the Freedom Trail will be an ideal location for the city’s first Holocaust museum.

By Brian MacQuarrieFor The Boston Globe

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4/21/2022 Top Pick

Holocaust Remembrance Gathering ‘Marks a Lesson for All Humanity’

The congregations of synagogues south of Boston will gather on Wednesday, April 27, at Temple Sinai in Sharon to remember the Holocaust.

By Johanna SeltzFor The Boston Globe

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4/19/2022 Top Pick

New Holocaust Museum To Be Built in Boston

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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4/8/2022 Top Pick

Rightful Roots: Reclaiming Our Austrian Citizenship

My American children are now Austrian citizens 83 years after their great-grandparents were forced to flee the Holocaust.

By Lisa Einstein

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