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“Terezin: Children of the Holocaust” Film Screening & Cast Discussion

1/20/2022, 7:00 pm

“Terezin: Children of the Holocaust”

Free

Charles Gallagher (Courtesy photo: Boston College)

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“Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front” Book Talk

1/20/2022, 6:00 pm

Free

The Future of Old Scholarship: A Poetics of My Experience Studying Jews and Arabs in the Levant

1/19/2022, 1:00 pm

Ammiel

Free

Arlington Author Salon: Life, Art and Family in History’s Shadow

1/13/2022, 7:30 pm

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Free

Jewish Genealogy: Discover Your Family History

Up Next: 11/3/2021, 7:00 pm

Genealogy family history theme with old family photos and documents.

$250

Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement

1/11/2022, 7:45 pm

Free

Jews and Crafting: Building Resilience and Community

1/6/2022, 2:00 pm

(Photo: zeevveez/Flickr)

Free

Vilnius, The Jerusalem of Lithuania

12/19/2021, 1:30 pm

Vilnius at dusk

$5

Hidden Children of the Holocaust (For Girls Ages 11-14)

Up Next: 10/7/2021, 6:30 pm

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$100

HBI Conversations Series With Carole Kessner, Ph.D.

12/15/2021, 12:30 pm

Carole Kessner, Ph.D.

Free

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(Photo: Anne Frank Foundation Amsterdam)

10/28/2018 Top Pick

New Initiative Focuses on Anne Frank’s Story

Chilean poet Marjorie Agosín’s rendition of the Anne Frank story will be presented as a dramatic reading to launch HBI’s new Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies project.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

(Photo: Jan Trousilek)

10/23/2018 Top Pick

Faces of the Holocaust on the Boston Common

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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10/17/2018 Top Pick

Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Look History in the Face

By The Boston Globe

(Photo: Maudib/iStock)

10/16/2018 Top Pick

Knowing When to Jump Ship

Perhaps it’s my neuroticism or just too much binge-watching “The Man in the High Castle,” but I can’t help wondering, “How bad will it get?”

By Nicki Ramshaw

Karma Kitaj and Duane Lucia (Photo: Susie Davidson)

10/8/2018 Top Pick

West End Museum Showcases New Novel Set in Its Day

“Beguiled,” a new novel by Brookline author Karma Kitaj, is a coming-of-age story with local roots.

By Susie Davidson

Holocaust survivor Steve Ross, left, founder of the New England Holocaust Memorial, walks with former Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during a a rededication ceremony for the repaired New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. One of the glass panes in the memorial was damaged by a vandal last month. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

10/2/2018 Top Pick

Holocaust Memorial Rises From Writer’s Hope

During last Monday’s book presentation at the South Boston Public Library, Steve’s son Michael Ross gave the audience a great insight into his father’s life.

By Boston Herald

REFERRAL: An early-19th-century reclining wheelchair. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9/6/2018 Top Pick

It’s Time for a National Museum of Disability

By The New York Times

Adolf Eichmann, so-called 'architect' of the Holocaust, in his prison cell during the time of his 1961 trial in Jerusalem (Public domain)

9/4/2018 Top Pick

In ‘Operation Finale,’ Eichmann’s Falsehoods are Validated

Opening this weekend, the film humanizes its notorious antagonist and allows his deceptions to go unchallenged.

By The Times of Israel

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