Past Events

2009
January 14, 7:30 pm at Newport on the LeveeSneak Preview of "Defiance"

February 2009 - Modern Day Resistance: Darfur
February 14 - 21 Darfur Awareness programs in partnership with Xavier University
February 21 - Educator Workshop

March 2009 - Daring to Resist: Women in Resistance Movements

April 19, 2009 - Yom HaShoah (Day of Remembrance)
Annual community-wide commemoration, candle lighting and prayer are part of this moving and significant event to remember the victims of the Shoah. Open to people of all faiths.

April 26, 10 am @ Wise Temple - Hornstein Memorial Lecture Series - Emily Jacobson
One of USHMM's lead archivists will tell the story of a secret diary hidden by Lusia Hornstein for over 50 years. For unknown reasons, and despite the fact that Lusia Hornstein frequently spoke and wrote about her experiences during the Holocaust, she kept the existence of this diary a secret. The twenty small, fragments wrapped in a piece of a Polish newspaper and placed in an envelope, on which Lusia wrote a notation outlining the diary's history were given to USHMM. This notation contains the only available information about the diary's author: her name is Debora; she lived in a house in Warsaw, Poland, outside the ghetto; she hid the diary in this house; she was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising of 1944. In early 1945, Lusia retrieved Debora's diary from behind a radiator in the bombed-out remains of the house where Debora had lived. The diary was put back together by Emily Jacobson who will share its history.

Tuesday, June 23, 7:30 pm @ the Cincinnati Museum Center - Who Will Write Our History? - Dr. Samuel Kassow
In a review of Dr. Samuel D. Kassow's Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, scholar David Roskies wrote: "Two major historians meet in this book: one named Ringelblum, the other named Kassow." In 1940, historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization code named Oyneg Shabat in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to document Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. The work of Ringelblum's group survives as a record of resistance to the Nazi regime. Kassow is the Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and will present this definitive biography, which illuminates Ringelblum's remarkable achievements and his charismatic personality while challenging us to think critically about the writers of history. Co-sponsored by the Cincinnati Museum Center and the Ohio Historical Society, Buckeye Education Fund.

June 22-26 - Holocaust Studies for Educators Course in partnership with Xavier University

Wednesday, August 26, 7:00 pm @ the Mayerson Jewish Community Center - "Imagine This" - London Musical with Local Connections Screens in Cincinnati
The Mayerson JCC and the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education present the filmed premiere of London's recent West End musical, “Imagine This”. This screening of a performance filmed live in December 2008 at the New London Theatre in London's West End is open to the entire Cincinnati community. The show is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, where a Jewish theatre company performs its version of the Masada story, drawing parallels between their own situation and those of the Jewish rebels of 70 A.D. "Imagine This" was nominated for four of Britain's coveted What's On State Theatregoer's awards, and the show has been critically acclaimed. Following the screening, there will be a Question & Answer session with the show's lead producer, Beth Trachtenberg, and the show's lyricist, Cincinnati native David Goldsmith. Because seating is limited, advance reservations are required. Admission is $10 per person to benefit both presenting organizations. Paid reservations are requested by Friday, August 21. For more information or to charge by phone, please call the Mayerson JCC on The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Campus at 513.722.7226 or mail a check to The Mayerson JCC, 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236.

September 10, 2009, 11:00 am @ Hyatt Regency Cincinnati - "A Light Unto the Future"
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education present a luncheon honoring Stanley M. Chesley for his decades of work on behalf of Holocaust survivors worldwide.Read more about this successful event.

Meet the Author: Francine Prose - October 12, 2009
CHHE will host Francine Prose as she leads us in an illuminating discussion on her recently published book Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife . Ms. Prose will discuss frequently considered questions about the the novel and the short life of its author. This event is sponsored by Joseph-Beth Booksellers. For more information, please call the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education at 513.487.3055.


Kristallnacht Commemoration & Reopening - November 8, 2009
Please join us for the reopening of the expanded permanent exhibit, Mapping Our Tears. In addition to showcasing the new space, the event will also commemorate Kristallnacht, "the night of the broken glass".