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SUMMARY:"Traces" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and Q&A with Searching for Identity founder\, Stacey Goldring. \nWhat was it like to grow up with parents who survived the Holocaust? Who is responsible for ensuring the Holocaust and its generational impact are remembered? Traces answers these questions\, giving voice to the resilient “Second Generation”– children of survivors –as they share their parents’ survival stories and reveal the inherited effects of Holocaust survivorship. In Traces\, Voices of the Second Generation\, we hear directly from children of Holocaust survivors who share families’ story of survival and what it was like to grow up with parents who survived history’s darkest of evils. Presented in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Florida’s Gulf Coast as part of their Real to Reel Film Screening Series\, sponsored by Sue Heyman and Mike White. \n RSVP TODAY\n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/traces-film-screening/
LOCATION:USF St Pete Harbor Hall\, 1000 3rd St S.\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Standing Up to Antisemitism in the Workplace - Presented by The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Lawyers of Conscience - On-Demand Session
DESCRIPTION:The Lawyers of Conscience of The Florida Holocaust Museum Present\nStanding Up to Antisemitism in the Workplace\n  \n REGISTER\n\nSponsors \nRachael Worthington\, Esquire\, Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience\nJosh Magidson\, Esquire\, Vice Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience\nAndrew Sasso\, Esquire\, Vice Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience \n  \n\nRegister today through our website or call:\nMiranda Brenner\, (727) 820-0100 x276\nTo find out more about Sponsoring Lawyers of Conscience and this event\, CLICK HERE\nFor Sponsorship opportunities\, please call Miranda Brenner (727) 820-0100 x27 \n\nSponsorship Levels: $5\,000\, $2\,500\, $1\,000\, $500\, $250\n\n\n \nModerator: Dawn Siler-Nixon\nDawn is a member of the Board of Directors of The Florida Holocaust Museum. As an attorney she spent two decades partnering with her clients to help guide and direct their employment decisions to avoid the time and expense of litigation\, and creating and executing a strategy to defend them through trial should the need arise. Dawn uses depth of knowledge and expertise to ensure that clients exceed their Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) goals\, while avoiding legal landmines. \nShe is committed to knowing her client’s businesses. Dawn’s familiarity with her client’s businesses and industries and knowledge of current legal trends is beneficial to her clients in preparing for and thwarting any potential adverse actions. It is for these reasons that employers turn to her to defend them in administrative proceedings and state and federal court actions involving sex\, age\, national origin\, race and other discrimination claims. Dawn has extensive experience handling ADAAA and Family and Medical Leave Act claims and has successfully litigated multiple plaintiff Age Discrimination claims in state and federal court. \nDawn provides regular training and counsel to employers on a variety of issues to ensure compliance with new laws and emerging trends. She provides helpful tools\, including checklists for employers to use to detect and prevent potential claims and acts as a partner to employers in evaluating day-to-day employment decisions from disciplinary actions to termination. As a Certified Diversity Executive\, Dawn routinely provides DEI advice\, training and workshops designed to allow employees to recognize and combat their biases and create safe spaces where employees can bring their full selves to work and engage in courageous conversations across differences. \nDawn is the Firm’s Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion Partner with responsibility for the oversight and implementation of the Firm’s Diversity Strategic Plan. As the Firm’s DEI Partner\, Dawn is a member of the Management Group and the Firm’s seven (7) person Executive Committee\, the Firm’s highest governing body that sets policy and compensation. Dawn is recognized as a Certified Diversity Executive through the National Institute for Diversity Certification. \n\n \nPanelist: Johanna Zelman\nJohanna Zelman is the office managing partner for FordHarrison’s Hartford\, Connecticut office. \nJohanna’s background in municipal employment and school law and healthcare results in highly competent\, in-depth and knowledgeable advice and representation for her clients. While she has represented a wide variety of employers from various industries\, Johanna has a specific strength in matters arising in the municipal employment setting and in public schools and universities. Johanna represents municipalities and school boards in a wide array of matters\, from consulting to litigation. \nJohanna is a frequent and dedicated author and presenter on vital topics addressing the individual in the workplace\, such as LGBTQ+ rights\, mental health\, religious freedom\, and countering antisemitism. \nJohanna’s prior work at Harvard University’s affiliate hospitals\, where she had direct contact with patients being treated for various mental health disorders\, offers not only a unique perspective in legal issues related to special education\, but proves extremely helpful when handling issues involving the ADA\, the FMLA\, and other behavioral or mental health issues arising in the employment setting. Johanna is highly effective in defending fact-intensive and highly complicated counseling and litigation matters related to employment\, general civil rights and special education. \nJohanna has litigated matters and successfully defended public and private sector employers and governments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit\, the USDC for the District Connecticut\, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Connecticut Supreme\, Appellate and Superior Courts. She has also represented employers and school districts before various state and federal administrative agencies\, including the EEOC\, DOL\, CHRO\, CSDE\, Connecticut FOI Commission\, and Connecticut WCC. \n\n \nPanelist: Rachel Ziolkowski Ullrich\nBoard Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization\, Rachel is one of the most experienced litigators in the firm and has represented clients in litigations\, trials\, arbitrations\, appeals and a variety of administrative hearings (EEOC\, Texas Workforce Commission\, Department of Labor\, OSHA and other state and federal agencies) nationwide. Rachel is not afraid to take a case to trial\, and has the track record to prove it. \nWhen she isn’t handling litigations\, Rachel provides counseling services to clients on a variety of issues\, including diversity and inclusion\, employee discipline and terminations\, labor relations\, wage and hour\, medical leave and workplace accommodation issues. She also assists employers in creating policies and handbooks that are compliant nationwide. As a litigator who has seen the dramatic increase in jury verdicts in employment cases throughout the country in recent years\, Rachel believes that in person management training is a company’s best defense against such verdicts and regularly provides top notch\, interactive training to the firm’s clients. \nRachel is a routine writer and presenter on a variety of employment law issues and has a knack for knowing what the “next big issue” will be in employment law\, allowing her clients to stay ahead of emerging issues. For example\, Rachel has been speaking across the country about how the rise in anti-Semitism in this country has impacted the workplace. \nRachel’s clients come in all shapes and sizes and she represent a wide range of industries\, but as a graduate of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management\, she has a real appreciation for the restaurant and hospitality industries and is passionate about reducing food insecurity\, particularly in young children. Rachel is a frequent volunteer at her local elementary school’s peace pantry which provides food support to over 50 families every week during the school year. \n\n \nPanelist: Michael A. Igel\nMichael A. Igel is Board Chair of The Florida Holocaust Museum and Chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education’s Task Force on Holocaust Education. \nThe grandson of Holocaust survivors (Stanley and Lusia Igel\, Henry Ferber)\, Michael frequently speaks about his entire family’s experience and has seen firsthand how Holocaust education improves the world. Igel has served on The Florida Holocaust Museum Board since 2014 and has held the role of Chair since 2018. \nMike is a Co-Chair of the Johnson Pope Health Care Team\, and concentrates his practice on the representation of physician groups\, pharmacies\, hospices\, hospitals and health systems\, home health agencies and other health care companies in a variety of regulatory\, compliance and health care business matters. As the Chair of Johnson Pope’s Health Care Audit Defense Team\, Mike has extensive experience in representing health care providers in defense of claims for overpayment by Medicare\, Medicaid\, and insurance companies.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/loc_ondemand/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Standing Up to Antisemitism in the Workplace - Presented by The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Lawyers of Conscience - Afternoon Session
DESCRIPTION:The Lawyers of Conscience of The Florida Holocaust Museum Present\nStanding Up to Antisemitism in the Workplace\nPlease join us for this CLE Seminar at The Florida Holocaust Museum \nWhen: Thursday\, November 30\, 2023\n1:00 Registration\,\n1:30 – 4:00 PM Seminar \nWhere: The Florida Holocaust Museum\n55 Fifth Street South\nSt. Petersburg\, Florida 33701 \n*Also available virtually on-demand \nAdmission: Attorneys\, HR and Business Professionals: $125\nLaw Students: $65 \nAccreditation: Approved by The Florida Bar for 2.5 General Credits\, 2.5 Bias Elimination Credits\, 2.5 Labor and Employment Law Certification Credits\, and 2.5 SHRM and HRCI Credits \nPanelists: Dawn Siler-Nixon\, Moderator\, Attorney at Law\, Partner\, Ford Harrison\, Tampa\, Florida \nJohanna G. Zelman\, Attorney at Law\, Partner\, Ford Harrison\, Hartford\, Connecticut \nRachel Z. Ullrich\, Attorney at Law\, Partner\, Ford Harrison\, Dallas\, Texas \nMichael Igel\, Attorney at Law\, Johnson Pope\, Bokor Ruppel and Burns LLP Counselors at Law\, St. Petersburg\, Florida\, and Board Chair\, The Florida Holocaust Museum \nSummary: In the present alarming atmosphere of increasing antisemitism both nationally and globally\, this Seminar will focus on antisemitism in the workplace and provide data showing how it permeates corporate decisions regarding the hiring and promotion of employees. Our panel of attorneys who specialize in labor\, health and employment law will discuss the definition of antisemitism and highlight laws concerning discrimination in the workplace. The panel will focus on state and national strategies to counter bias and prejudice\, duties of employers and employees to combat antisemitism \, and the role of The Florida Holocaust Museum in standing up to antisemitism. \n REGISTER TODAY FOR IN-PERSON SESSION\n\n REGISTER TODAY FOR THE VIRTUAL ON-DEMAND SESSION\n\nSponsors \nRachael Worthington\, Esquire\, Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience\nJosh Magidson\, Esquire\, Vice Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience\nAndrew Sasso\, Esquire\, Vice Chair\, Lawyers of Conscience \n  \n\nRegister today by CLICKING HERE or call:\nMiranda Brenner\, (727) 820-0100 x276\nTo find out more about Sponsoring Lawyers of Conscience and this event\, CLICK HERE\nFor Sponsorship opportunities\, please call Miranda Brenner (727) 820-0100 x27 \n\nSponsorship Levels: $5\,000\, $2\,500\, $1\,000\, $500\, $250\n\n \nModerator: Dawn Siler-Nixon\nDawn is a member of the Board of Directors of The Florida Holocaust Museum. As an attorney she spent two decades partnering with her clients to help guide and direct their employment decisions to avoid the time and expense of litigation\, and creating and executing a strategy to defend them through trial should the need arise. Dawn uses depth of knowledge and expertise to ensure that clients exceed their Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) goals\, while avoiding legal landmines. \nShe is committed to knowing her client’s businesses. Dawn’s familiarity with her client’s businesses and industries and knowledge of current legal trends is beneficial to her clients in preparing for and thwarting any potential adverse actions. It is for these reasons that employers turn to her to defend them in administrative proceedings and state and federal court actions involving sex\, age\, national origin\, race and other discrimination claims. Dawn has extensive experience handling ADAAA and Family and Medical Leave Act claims and has successfully litigated multiple plaintiff Age Discrimination claims in state and federal court. \nDawn provides regular training and counsel to employers on a variety of issues to ensure compliance with new laws and emerging trends. She provides helpful tools\, including checklists for employers to use to detect and prevent potential claims and acts as a partner to employers in evaluating day-to-day employment decisions from disciplinary actions to termination. As a Certified Diversity Executive\, Dawn routinely provides DEI advice\, training and workshops designed to allow employees to recognize and combat their biases and create safe spaces where employees can bring their full selves to work and engage in courageous conversations across differences. \nDawn is the Firm’s Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion Partner with responsibility for the oversight and implementation of the Firm’s Diversity Strategic Plan. As the Firm’s DEI Partner\, Dawn is a member of the Management Group and the Firm’s seven (7) person Executive Committee\, the Firm’s highest governing body that sets policy and compensation. Dawn is recognized as a Certified Diversity Executive through the National Institute for Diversity Certification. \n\n \nPanelist: Johanna Zelman\nJohanna Zelman is the office managing partner for FordHarrison’s Hartford\, Connecticut office. \nJohanna’s background in municipal employment and school law and healthcare results in highly competent\, in-depth and knowledgeable advice and representation for her clients. While she has represented a wide variety of employers from various industries\, Johanna has a specific strength in matters arising in the municipal employment setting and in public schools and universities. Johanna represents municipalities and school boards in a wide array of matters\, from consulting to litigation. \nJohanna is a frequent and dedicated author and presenter on vital topics addressing the individual in the workplace\, such as LGBTQ+ rights\, mental health\, religious freedom\, and countering antisemitism. \nJohanna’s prior work at Harvard University’s affiliate hospitals\, where she had direct contact with patients being treated for various mental health disorders\, offers not only a unique perspective in legal issues related to special education\, but proves extremely helpful when handling issues involving the ADA\, the FMLA\, and other behavioral or mental health issues arising in the employment setting. Johanna is highly effective in defending fact-intensive and highly complicated counseling and litigation matters related to employment\, general civil rights and special education. \nJohanna has litigated matters and successfully defended public and private sector employers and governments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit\, the USDC for the District Connecticut\, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Connecticut Supreme\, Appellate and Superior Courts. She has also represented employers and school districts before various state and federal administrative agencies\, including the EEOC\, DOL\, CHRO\, CSDE\, Connecticut FOI Commission\, and Connecticut WCC. \n\n \nPanelist: Rachel Ziolkowski Ullrich\nBoard Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization\, Rachel is one of the most experienced litigators in the firm and has represented clients in litigations\, trials\, arbitrations\, appeals and a variety of administrative hearings (EEOC\, Texas Workforce Commission\, Department of Labor\, OSHA and other state and federal agencies) nationwide. Rachel is not afraid to take a case to trial\, and has the track record to prove it. \nWhen she isn’t handling litigations\, Rachel provides counseling services to clients on a variety of issues\, including diversity and inclusion\, employee discipline and terminations\, labor relations\, wage and hour\, medical leave and workplace accommodation issues. She also assists employers in creating policies and handbooks that are compliant nationwide. As a litigator who has seen the dramatic increase in jury verdicts in employment cases throughout the country in recent years\, Rachel believes that in person management training is a company’s best defense against such verdicts and regularly provides top notch\, interactive training to the firm’s clients. \nRachel is a routine writer and presenter on a variety of employment law issues and has a knack for knowing what the “next big issue” will be in employment law\, allowing her clients to stay ahead of emerging issues. For example\, Rachel has been speaking across the country about how the rise in antisemitism in this country has impacted the workplace. \nRachel’s clients come in all shapes and sizes and she represent a wide range of industries\, but as a graduate of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management\, she has a real appreciation for the restaurant and hospitality industries and is passionate about reducing food insecurity\, particularly in young children. Rachel is a frequent volunteer at her local elementary school’s peace pantry which provides food support to over 50 families every week during the school year. \n\n \nPanelist: Michael A. Igel\nMichael A. Igel is Board Chair of The Florida Holocaust Museum and Chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education’s Task Force on Holocaust Education. \nThe grandson of Holocaust survivors (Stanley and Lusia Igel\, Henry Ferber)\, Michael frequently speaks about his entire family’s experience and has seen firsthand how Holocaust education improves the world. Igel has served on The Florida Holocaust Museum Board since 2014 and has held the role of Chair since 2018. \nMike is a Co-Chair of the Johnson Pope Health Care Team\, and concentrates his practice on the representation of physician groups\, pharmacies\, hospices\, hospitals and health systems\, home health agencies and other health care companies in a variety of regulatory\, compliance and health care business matters. As the Chair of Johnson Pope’s Health Care Audit Defense Team\, Mike has extensive experience in representing health care providers in defense of claims for overpayment by Medicare\, Medicaid\, and insurance companies.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/standing-up-to-antisemitism/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Rescuing Recipes Project: Bringing Holocaust Family Meals and Memories Back to the Table
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \n  \nThe Rescuing Recipes Project: Bringing Holocaust Family Meals and Memories Back to the Table \nRachel Loew Lipman and Elana Karp’s Holocaust family histories are defined by tragedy\, perseverance\, and hope. On November 11th at Savant on Second in St. Petersburg (634 2nd Ave S\, St. Petersburg\, FL 33701)\, those stories will come to life around the dinner table. Starting at 7:00 PM\, The Florida Holocaust Museum’s inaugural “Rescuing Recipes Project: Bringing Holocaust Family Recipes and Memories to The Table” dinner is a unique\, fine-dining experience celebrating food\, wine\, family\, and memory. \nElana\, an award-winning chef\, entrepreneur\, cookbook author\, and founder of Plated is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her grandmother lived in Poland\, but fled East as the Holocaust began. She and other refugees settled in the fertile farmland of Uzbekistan\, where they lived for the rest of WWII before immigrating to the United States. Her grandfather was a farmer in the same Polish region\, escaped from a ghetto\, hid in the forest\, and fought with the Polish Resistance before ultimately immigrating to America. \nRachel is the youngest winemaker in Maryland. Her family have been vintners and mead makers since the mid-1800s when they lived in the same region as Elana’s family. During the Holocaust\, the Nazis murdered her entire family except for Rachel’s grandfather\, Wolfgang Löw\, who survived two concentration camps before immigrating to America. There he started a new life and in 1982 established Loew Vineyards in Frederick County\, Maryland. Rachel carries on her family’s legacy as Head Winemaker and General Manager of Loew Vineyards. \nThough they took very different roads to reach their respective destinations\, both women found they could explore their families’ harrowing journeys through food and drink. In a pre-meal discussion moderated by FHM Chair (and fellow grandchild of Survivors) Mike Igel\, Elana\, and Rachel will discuss that process\, along with why carrying family recipes forward is so meaningful. \nEvent attendees will not only hear but taste history. Curated exclusively for this event by Elana using her family’s recipes\, the multi-course menu will reach back through the decades\, with each dish paired with Loew Vineyards wine or mead. The dessert will also feature baked goods prepared from the recipes of FHM founder and Holocaust Survivor Walter Loebenberg\, who was an apprentice baker prior to the Holocaust. \nPlease join us in exploring the intersection of heritage and gastronomy at this exclusive event. \n Register Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/the-rescuing-recipes-project-bringing-holocaust-family-meals-and-memories-back-to-the-table/
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SUMMARY:Kristallnacht Commemoration - 2023
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nKristallnacht Commemoration with special guest speaker\, Stacy Bernard Davis\, Deputy Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues \nThe Florida Holocaust Museum’s Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration features a commemorative service and candle lighting followed by our keynote speaker Stacy Bernard Davis\, Deputy Special Envoy Holocaust Issues. \nAdditionally\, this year’s commemoration will include free Museum admission from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nKristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets from broken windows on November 9-10 in 1938. Throughout the night\, thousands of Jewish-owned businesses\, homes\, and synagogues were ransacked and destroyed in a coordinated series of attacks throughout Germany. This was the first widespread use of massive force against Jews by the Nazi regime and figures as an essential turning point in Nazi Germany \nThis commemoration is free and open to the public. \n Click Here to RSVP Today!\nAbout the Speaker \nStacy Bernard Davis is the Deputy Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State.  Previously\, she was Deputy Director of the Office of International Religious Freedom and prior to that\, Unit Chief for Europe and Eurasia in J/IRF.  She also was the Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.  She joined the religious freedom office in 2011 and worked with the Ambassadors at Large for International Religious Freedom and the Special Envoys to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism to advance U.S. foreign policy to promote religious freedom and combat antisemitism and religious discrimination in Europe.  She spent the first 20 years of her career in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs\, working on defense trade\, nuclear nonproliferation\, supporting the UN Special Commission on Iraq\, and developing antipersonnel landmine policy and supporting weapons remediation.  She graduated from Cornell University and holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. \nAbout The Florida Holocaust Museum \nOne of the largest Holocaust Museums in the country\, and one of three nationally accredited Holocaust Museums\, The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of men\, women\, and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The FHM is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. For additional information\, please visit www.TheFHM.org \n  \n Click Here to RSVP Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/kristallnacht/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T203000
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SUMMARY:The Rappaport Family Antisemitism Lecture series featuring a film screening of "The Conspiracy"
DESCRIPTION:The Rappaport Family Antisemitism Lecture series featuring a film screening of The Conspiracy\, followed by a conversation with Director\, Maxim Pozdorovkin and The FHM’s Director of Education and Research Ursula Szczepinska \n Click Here to RSVP Today!\n\nAn animated documentary about the biggest lie ever told: Jews are plotting to take over the world. In times of extreme anxiety and disorientation\, people are often drawn to conspiracy theories. Disinformation and delusion capture the minds of many. Today\, fueled by social media algorithms\, conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream. But beneath the surface\, the pronouncements of QAnon are a retread of an age-old myth. Behind the torch-bearing chants of “Jews will not replace us” we find the original conspiracy theory: the lie that Jews are somehow dangerous. The Conspiracy is a feature documentary about the millions around the world who came to believe this lie\, the fanatics who cultivated it across the centuries\, and three Jewish families cast as villains. \nThe Conspiracy eschews traditional documentary interview techniques for a bold\, layered visual style that combines archive and animation in new ways. Starring Liev Schreiber\, Lake Bell\, Jason Alexander\, Ben Shenkman.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/the-rappaport-family-antisemitism-lecture-series-featuring-a-film-screening-of-the-conspiracy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T200000
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SUMMARY:Babyn Yar and the Art of Felix Lembersky
DESCRIPTION:Babyn Yar paintings by Felix Lembersky remained locked away for years in Yelena Lembersky’s childhood home. The Soviets did not allow Holocaust-themed paintings in state-controlled public spaces. Her mother and grandmother refused to accept their censorship. Instead\, they organized informal shows in their small apartment in Leningrad\, where friends and strangers gathered to commemorate the massacre and see his forbidden art. After years of fighting the system\, the three women left Russia and brought Felix Lembersky’s oeuvre to the United States. His Execution: Babyn Yar canvases\, created between 1944 and 1952\, are now known as the earliest artistic representation of the massacre in Kyiv\, Ukraine. Silenced by Stalin\, communists\, and secret police\, Babyn Yar became synonymous with Holocaust-by-bullets and the symbol of Soviet Jewish fight for freedom. \nYelena Lembersky will speak about her grandfather’s paintings\, his journey from Poland and Ukraine to Russia\, and his life of resistance to the erasure of Jewish memory. She will also talk about her critically-acclaimed memoir\, Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour\, growing up as a child-refusenik\, while her mother and grandmother took on the mission and tremendous risks to save this timeless art. \n Click Here to RSVP Today!\n  \nThis event is brought to you in partnership with The University of South Florida Institute for Russian European and Eurasian Studies. \n \nThe Debbie and Brent Sembler Florida Holocaust Museum Lecture at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/babyn-yar-paintings-by-felix-lembersky/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231001T160000
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SUMMARY:Danish Rescue 80th Anniversary Commemoration and Dedication of Rescue Boat\, Thor
DESCRIPTION:Danish Rescue 80th Anniversary Commemoration and Dedication of Rescue Boat\, Thor\nAt The COLLECTIONS\, PRESERVATION\, AND RESEARCH CENTER IN LARGO\nOpen house: 2-4 pm with the commemoration program beginning at 2:30 pm\nSunday\, October 1\, 2023 \nVisit The FHM’s future Collections\, Preservation\, and Research Center in Largo and “meet” Thor – the Museum’s authentic Danish Rescue Boat!\nSee Thor\, and learn about the 1943 rescue of Denmark’s Jewish community and about The FHM’s vision for the center and the exhibition of the boat. \nAddress for the Collections\, Preservation and Research Center will be provided upon registration. \nFree and open to all\nRSVPs are required \n Click Here to RSVP Today!\n\n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/80th-anniversary-of-the-danish-rescue-commemoration-and-dedication-of-rescue-boat-thor/
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:We Share the Same Sky Artist’s Reception
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 30\, 2023\, 7:00 pm\nRSVPs are required.\nFree for FHM members\, $15 general admission\nAt The Florida Holocaust Museum \nPlease join us for an Artist’s Reception of We Share the Same Sky  \nWe Share The Same Sky is an exhibition that tells the story of Hana Dubová\, who survived the Holocaust because of the 1943 Danish rescue\, and her granddaughter\, Rachael Cerrotti\, who spent more than a decade retracing her grandmother’s wartime history. \nThis is a unique opportunity to meet guest curator and award-winning author and podcaster Rachael Cerrotti and preview the exhibition. \nWine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. RSVPs are required. \n Purchase Tickets or RSVP Today!\n  \nIf you are a member\, you will need to Register or Sign in on the ticket purchasing page to receive Free admission. Your membership will be verified automatically on the next page if the information provided when registering is the same as in our system. If it doesn’t do so automatically\, please contact our Membership department at membership@thefhm.org.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/we-share-the-same-sky-opening-reception/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T190000
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SUMMARY:Beneath the Surface\, in partnership with American Stage
DESCRIPTION:The Florida Holocaust Museum is partnering with American Stage Theater for Beyond the Surface\, a series of community conversations designed to deepen the understanding of themes in our current main stage productions. It’s a communal space where we share stories\, ideas\, and opinions in a safe nurturing environment. Please join us for a panel discussion about the new American Stage production of Indecent\, a profoundly moving and hopeful play inspired by the actual events which stand as a grounding work of Jewish culture. This event is free and open to the public. \nPlease RSVP here: \nhttps://www.americanstage.org/whats-on/bts-september-26
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/beneath-the-surface-in-partnership-with-american-stage/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230601T193000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233838Z
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SUMMARY:"Lawyers Without Rights" | Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Experts will discuss topics integral to the exhibit\, including the historical implications of a failed rule of law in the post-Weimar Republic\, and the current state of Holocaust education in Florida schools. \n\n\n“Lawyers Without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933” is about the rule of law and how one government – the Third Reich in Germany – systematically undermined fair and just law through humiliation\, degradation and legislation leading to expulsion of Jewish lawyers and jurists from the legal profession. As the rule of law comes under attack today throughout the world\, Lawyers Without Rights tragically portrays what can happen when the just rule of law disappears — replaced by an arbitrary rule by law that sweeps aside the rights and dignity of selected populations. The story of the fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin and all of Germany is more than a historical footnote; it is a wake-up call that a system of justice free of improper political considerations remains fragile and should never be taken for granted.\n\nThe program is free and open to the public\, seating is limited\, RSVP is required.\n\n REGISTER TODAY\n\n\n\nLawyers Without Rights Panelist Bios\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoshua Magidson:\n\nMr. Magidson’s primary area of practice is civil trial work\, with extensive work in commercial cases\, and probate\, estate and trust litigation. He has experience in handling federal civil rights cases involving first amendment issues and local municipal ordinances which he successfully litigated before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  Prior to becoming an attorney\, Mr. Magidson proudly served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve\, followed by a two-year stint as a professional umpire in the Minor Leagues\, and then becoming a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. He joined the firm as a law clerk in 1979\, and then became an associate and then a partner. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUrsula Szczepinska:\n\nUrsula Szczepinska is the Director of Education & Research at The Florida Holocaust Museum. Prior to joining The FHM 17 years ago\, she worked at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and at the State Museum at Majdanek on site of the former concentration and death camp in Lublin\, Poland. As the head of The FHM’s Education Department\, Ursula is responsible for teacher\, student\, and community education\, including docent-led tours for various audiences.  Ursula teaches classes for educators and students at middle\, high\, and university levels. She also conducts archival and historical research for Holocaust survivors\, as well as for exhibitions and other projects of The FHM. She has helped survivors discover the fate of their loved ones from whom they were separated during the Holocaust. She leads the Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project at The FHM in cooperation with Yad Vashem\, and received the 2011 “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Florida Association of Museums for submitting over 700 Pages of Testimony from local survivors. In partnership with the Anti-Defamation League and the USHMM\, she has been teaching the Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust program for police agencies across the state. \n\n\n\n\nPatrick Iyampillai:\n\nPatrick Iyampillai is an attorney and partner at Hale Law – Accident Attorneys. He has successfully recovered millions of dollars on behalf of injury victims across the state of Florida and has been recognized with a multitude of awards and recognitions over the course of his career. He is a current member of the Young Jewish Adults group in Sarasota\, and he is a former Young Adult Division Board Member of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. While a student at the Stetson University College of Law\, Patrick served as President of the Jewish Law Student Association\, and during his last school year\, recognizing its importance\, he coordinated the Lawyers Without Rights exhibit to be displayed at the Stetson Law Library. As a young professional\, he brings a fresh perspective and a strong belief in the power of understanding history to shape a better future. \n \n\n\n\nConsul General Andreas Siegel:\n\nAndreas Siegel is a career diplomat with a broad range of international experience in strategic\, political\, economic\, and cultural affairs. He holds both a (postgraduate) diploma from the College of Europe\, Bruges/Belgium\, and a Master’s degree in French\, English\, and American literature/linguistics from the University of Freiburg/Germany. \nAndreas has had a long-time connection and affinity with the United States: he was an AFS exchange student in Michigan during the Bi-Centennial year 1975/1976. In the early 1990’s he served as a Vice-Consul at the German Consulate General in Boston\, Mass. \nBefore coming to Florida in July 2019\, Andreas headed the German Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam. Before that he was Head of the Strategic Planning Division for External Cultural Policy in the Directorate General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. \nFrom 2010 to 2013 he was posted in Brussels/Belgium as First Counsellor at the Permanent Representation to NATO\, coordinating in particular arms control and counter-terrorism matters. Prior to this\, he worked for 6 years in Strasbourg/France\, first as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe (CoE) \, then – on leave from the Foreign Service – as Director of Strategic Planning\, reporting directly to the Secretary General of the CoE. From 2001 to 2004\, Andreas worked in the European Directorate General in Berlin\, dealing mainly with European cultural policy and cross-border cooperation. \nDuring the first 12 years of his career\, Andreas occupied two posts in (the then capital) Bonn and three abroad: after two years of diplomatic training\, he started off as a desk officer for Poland at the Foreign Office to move on to Boston/USA as Vice-Consul. He then spent three years in Lilongwe/Malawi (South-Eastern Africa) as Deputy Head of Mission and Chargé d’affaires. Back to Bonn\, he worked at the Federal Chancellery\, dealing with international strategic issues. Another assignment led him to Rabat and Casablanca/Morocco\, where he served as Head of the economic section of the Embassy and Consul General\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\nMike Igel: Michael A. Igel\, a third-generation Holocaust survivor\, is chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education’s Task Force on Holocaust Education and board chair of The Florida Holocaust Museum. Professionally\, he is a partner with the law firm of Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/lawyers-without-rights/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230505T200000
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SUMMARY:Rays UP 2023
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Holocaust Survivor\, Helen Kahan’s 100th birthday with The FHM on Friday\, May 5th during our annual Rays UP campaign! See Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees and help support the museum! A very special thank you to Tampa Bay Rays for this opportunity! \nTickets are limited & must be purchased by April 27! For more information\, contact our Museum shop (727) 820-0100 ext 226 or email Welcometeam@TheFHM.org
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/raysup/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T200000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233839Z
CREATED:20230323T152908Z
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SUMMARY:Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Times NIE\nGenocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries art exhibition and reception \nMay 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm \nPlease join the Tampa Times Newspaper in Education program and The Florida Holocaust Museum for a reception and art exhibition featuring student artwork representing the causes\, consequences\, victims and survivors of genocide. \n Featured guests: \n\nStudent Grand Prize Winner: Hala Albaba\, Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School\n\n Schedule: \n\nReception: 6:00 p.m.\nProgram: 6:30 p.m.\n\nLocation: \nThe Florida Holocaust Museum \n55 Fifth Street South \nSt. Petersburg\, Florida 33701 \n There is no charge to attend this event\, but reservations are required.  \n RSVP Today!\nThis event is part of a larger project that included a Newspaper in Education publication\, teacher guide and public webinar series. \n  \nFunding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/tampabaytimes/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T203000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233839Z
CREATED:20230313T202745Z
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SUMMARY:Eli's Story
DESCRIPTION:CCJS and Florida Holocaust Museum to host panel on “Eli’s Story.”\n Register Online\n\nThe Saint Leo University Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies and the Florida Holocaust Museum will host a panel of scholars who will discuss the story of Eli Rochelson and the question of Catholic reaction to the Holocaust and displaced persons after the Second World War. \n“Eli’s Story” is a moving account of the life of a Holocaust survivor\, Eli Rochelson\, born in Kovno\, Lithuania\, in 1907. Rochelson was a physician who was sent to a concentration camp during the war. After liberation in April 1945\, Rochelson joined the masses of concentration camp survivors who found themselves in one of many displaced persons camps. He befriended Lithuanian physicians\, and together they established two displaced persons camp hospitals — one in Landsberg am Lech\, Germany\, and one at a Benedictine monastery\, St. Ottilien. There\, they treated thousands of survivors. \nThe program will feature a panel of distinguished scholars: \nMeri-Jane Rochelson is the author of “Eli’s Story\,” and the daughter of the late Eli Rochelson. She is professor emerita of English at Florida International University and affiliated with its programs in Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. Rochelson also is the author of A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill\, and the editor of Zangwill’s 1908 play The Melting-Pot\, among other works. \nBurt Rochelson is the son of the late Eli Rochelson and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He serves as chief of maternal-fetal medicine for the Northwell Health System and is the director of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program. \nKevin P. Spicer\, CSC\, is the James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History at Stonehill College. He is also chair of the advisory board of Seton Hill University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education\, and he is chair of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations. \nThursday\, April 27\n7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. \nLOCATION\nThe Florida Holocaust Museum\n55 Fifth St.\, St. Petersburg\, FL\, 33701 \nREGISTRATION INFORMATION\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but space is limited. \n\n Register Online\n\nFor more information\, please contact Sasha Bergstrasser with the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at sasha.bergstrasser@saintleo.edu or (352) 588-7711
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/elis-story/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T193000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233839Z
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SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah Evening Commemoration Service
DESCRIPTION:Evening Yom HaShoah commemoration\, featuring Rabbi Danielle Upbin and Rabbi David Weizman\, with a presentation by Holocaust Survivor Roland Levi.  Tuesday\, April 18\, at 5:30 PM. \nRSVP Required \n RSVP TODAY!\n\nRoland Levi was born in Antwerp\, Belgium in 1939. He was living there with his father\, mother\, and older sister\, Nadya in 1940 when the German army conquered Belgium. In 1944 Roland’s mother and father were arrested and taken to the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen\, an assembly point for Jews. From there they were transferred to Auschwitz. Nadya and Roland remained hidden at the congregation of Notre Dame de Sion but were soon arrested by the Gestapo. They were taken to an orphanage in Wezembeek and set to be transported to Auschwitz. The orphanage director\, Marie Blum Albert\, was able to negotiate with guards at the train station and secured the release of numerous Jewish wards of the orphanage\, including Nadya and Roland. The children were returned to the orphanage. Roland and Nadya were liberated in September 1944 and reunited with their parents who also survived. Roland settled in the United States in the 1960s. He lives in the Tampa Bay Area and speaks to students and adults about his experiences during the Holocaust.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/yom-hashoah-commemoration-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T170000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233840Z
CREATED:20230220T183008Z
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SUMMARY:Yom HaShoah 2023 – Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe FHM will be commemorating Yom HaShoah by offering in-person readings\, free admission to the museum\, Holocaust Survivor Testimony\, and service. Individuals will read aloud\, in person the names of Holocaust victims in 5-minute intervals. \n2023 Yom HaShoah Schedule: \n9:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Reading of Holocaust Victims’ Names Register by visiting \n10:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Free admission to all visitors \n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Virtual Lecture\, The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Resistance and Survival in the Holocaust\, with Dr. Zachary Mazur\, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on our Facebook page www.Facebook.com/TheFHM. \n5:30 PM: In-person commemoration service featuring a candle lighting by Holocaust Survivors and their children\, and testimony from Survivor Roland Levi. \nThe Reading of Names Commemoration is another effort to remember the victims as individual people with life histories. \nReading the names of the Jewish men\, women\, and children killed during the Holocaust is a symbolic yet deeply personal way of remembering these individuals. Most victims of the Holocaust don’t have graves – reciting their names allows them to be memorialized while reminding us of their human dignity. Hearing their names offers us a chance to reflect on their lives and the events of the Holocaust while renewing our commitment to ensuring that such atrocities do not occur again. \n Reading of Names Registration
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/yomhashoah2023/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T193000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233916Z
CREATED:20230202T170615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T233916Z
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SUMMARY:Testimony Through Art
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Today!\nTestimony Through Art Panel Discussion and Exhibition Reception for Memories of My Life in a Polish Village by Toby Knobel Fluek\nMarch 15\, 2023\, at 6:30 p.m.\nFree to members/$9 general admission\nLight refreshments will be served\nRSVPs are required\nPlease join us for a multigenerational discussion about Holocaust memory and art as testimony. \nThis discussion will feature Professor Rakhmiel Peltz and Lillian and Steven Fluek Finkler and their children as they speak on their mother’s legacy and its effects on their family as well as her artistic legacy and what can be learned about the Holocaust from artwork as testimony. \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/testimony-through-art/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T193000
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CREATED:20230104T161017Z
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SUMMARY:Meant to Be - Presentation with Author\, Roslyn Franken
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Today!\n\n \nJoin us for a presentation with Roslyn Franken about her parents’ amazing story. \nIn Meant to Be\, Author Roslyn Franken reveals the unforgettable true story of her parents\, John and Sonja Franken- two unlikely survivors on World War II.\n​The GOLD award-winning book that is inspiring readers with the courage and triumph of two unlikely survivors of ​World War II who found everlasting love\, against all odds\, as told in their daughter’s words.\nSeating is limited\nRSVP is required\n\nAmazon Reviews:\n5.0 out of 5 stars – “A spiritual and inspirational story”\n5.0 out of 5 stars – “Stop the hatred you don’t want to repeat history.”\n5.0 out of 5 stars – “Really enjoyed reading this story”\n5.0 out of 5 stars – “Wonderful book. Amazing story” \nMeant to Be can be purchased in our bookstore or online. \n RSVP Today!\n  \n  \nAuthor Bio \n\n\nRoslyn Franken is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker dedicated to educating and inspiring people with her books and dynamic author presentations. She is best known for her latest book entitled\, Meant to Be\, about her parents’ amazing survival\, love and triumph over tragedy as Holocaust and atomic bomb survivors who eventually meet\, marry and make a beautiful life together against all odds. \nAs a professional speaker\, Roslyn has taken her book from the page to the stage with multimedia presentations she delivers to diverse groups across North America. Now she is taking her book\, Meant to Be\, from the stage to the screen with a feature film adaptation currently in development for production. She also coaches aspiring authors who are eager and ready to get their inspirational stories out of their head\, onto the page\, and out to the world\, once and for all. \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/meant-to-be/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T193000
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SUMMARY:Lawyers of Conscience - Evening
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n Register\nLawyers of Conscience (public lecture) – Evening\nFebruary 27\, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm\n$25 general admission\n$5 FHM members\n\n\nProfessor Jason Palmer will present “Moral Implications for Holocaust Reparations” and his work on the Claims Resolution Tribunal. Palmer\, who was a Team Leader and Claims Judge at the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich\, Switzerland\, will discuss the historical background to reparations for Holocaust claims against Swiss banks and the resolution of those claims.\nLocation: The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 3rd Floor\n\n\nSponsors: Rachael S. Worthington\, Attorney at Law\, Jeanette Blanco\, Attorney at Law\n\n\nFor sponsorship information\, please contact Erin Blankenship\, at eblankenship@TheFHM.org. Sponsors’ names and logos will appear on all promotional materials\, including program materials the day of the seminar.The mission of The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Lawyers of Conscience is to provide a nonpolitical forum in which to sponsor thought-provoking programs and discussions relating past atrocities and lessons of history to contemporary issues\, and to encourage participation of lawyers with the Museum in order to promote equality of rights and justice under the law.\n\n Register
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/lawyers-of-conscience/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T163000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233917Z
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SUMMARY:Lawyers of Conscience - Afternoon
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\nLawyers of Conscience (Legal Seminar) – Afternoon\nFebruary 27\, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pmRegistration at 1:00 pm\n$150\nLaw Students – FREE\n\n\nProfessor Jason Palmer will present “Moral Implications for Holocaust Reparations – In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation and the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland.” Prof. Palmer was a Claims Judge at the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich and will discuss the historical background to reparations for Holocaust claims against Swiss banks and the resolution of those claims.\n\nAttorneys Josh Magidson and Andrew Sasso will present “Representing the Client in a Reparations Case.”\n\nLocation: The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 3rd Floor\nCLE Approval: General 3 Credits\, Ethics 1 Credit (3 Credits each in Civil Trial Law\, International Law\, International Litigation\, and Arbitration)\nRegister today by visiting www.TheFHM.org/Events\n\nSponsors: Rachael S. Worthington\, Attorney at Law\, Jeanette Blanco\, Attorney at Law\n\nFor sponsorship information\, please contact Erin Blankenship\, eblankenship@TheFHM.org. Sponsor’s names and logos will appear on all promotional materials\, including program materials the day of the seminar.\n\nThe mission of The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Lawyers of Conscience is to provide a nonpolitical forum in which to sponsor thought-provoking programs and discussions relating past atrocities and lessons of history to contemporary issues\, and to encourage participation of lawyers with the Museum in order to promote equality of rights and justice under the law.\n\n Register
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/lawyers-of-conscience-afternoon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T203000
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SUMMARY:The Last Laugh
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Today!\n\nTHE LAST LAUGH film screening and conversation with producer/director\, Ferne Pearlstein.\nLocation: USF St Pete in Harbor Hall\n\nTHE LAST LAUGH dares to ask: “Are we allowed to joke about the Holocaust?” This outrageously funny and thought-provoking film puts the question to legends and critical thinkers including Mel Brooks\, Sarah Silverman\, Gilbert Gottfried\, and many others (including survivors)\, offering fresh insights into the Holocaust\, and what else-9/11\, AIDS\, racism-is or isn’t off-limits in a society that prizes freedom of speech. After screening at over 100 festivals (including Tribeca\, HotDocs\, Traverse City\, BFI London\, Rome\, IDFA)\, and Certified Fresh at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes\, THE LAST LAUGH was released theatrically in March 2017 and broadcast in April 2017 (Independent Lens/PBS) where it was runner-up for that season’s Audience Award.—Robert Edwards\n\n\nSeating is limited!\n\nFerne Pearlstein is an award-winning documentary film director\, an inductee in the Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame\, and a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures. Ferne has made films from Japan to Haiti to Uganda to Guyana to Burma\, and has had four features premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent is the critically acclaimed The Last Laugh starring Mel Brooks\, Carl Reiner\, Sarah Silverman\, and Gilbert Gottfried\, which screened at over 100 film festivals around the world.\n\n\n\nParking will be in the lot behind Harbor Hall and the one across the street – Lots 9 and 11A.\n Campus Map\n \n RSVP Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/the-last-laugh/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230127T133000
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CREATED:20230119T192303Z
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Remembrance Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 27th at noon for a very special virtual presentation by Holocaust Survivor\, Halina Herman during International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, on our Facebook page.  Admission to The FHM will be free all day to visitors. \n\n View on our Facebook page\n\n\n\nHalina Herman was born in Warsaw\, Poland at the start of World War II.  Her father was a doctor.  Just after the Germans occupied Poland and her family was forced into a ghetto\, her father was taken away and she never saw him again. \nHer mother immediately left and the two began traveling around from place to place in order to stay safe.  When she was three\, she remembers hiding in an attic with her mother.  Later her mother obtained false papers and got a job as a maid in Krakow.  She found a Christian family to take care of her\, but soon moved her to another family who took better care of her.  While in hiding with these family\, Halina was raised as a Catholic. \nAt the end of the war\, she was reunited with her mother in Krakow\, however\, she continued going to Catholic church and attended school at the convent until she was 10.  In 1949\, her mother finally told her she was Jewish and they emigrated to Paris.  Her mother remarried another survivor.
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/holocaust-remembrance-day/
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SUMMARY:The Survivor\, Film Screening and Q&A with Alan Haft
DESCRIPTION:“The Survivor” Film Screening & Q&A With Author Alan Scott Haft\nThursday\, January 19\, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM\nAt The USF St. Petersburg Campus Student Center\nThis event is free and open to the public\n RSVP Today!\n\n“The Survivor”\, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Ben Foster\, Billy Magnussen\, and Peter Sarsgaard\, is based on the book\, “Harry Haft\, Survivor of Auschwitz\, Challenger of Rocky Marciano”\, by Alan Scott Haft. Alan’s book\, which tells the story of his father\, Harry’s experience in Auschwitz and his life afterward\, was first published in 2006. The film adaptation\, released in 2021\, has been nominated for numerous awards. Alan Scott Haft was born in Brooklyn\, NY in 1950. A first-generation college student\, he graduated from Queens College in 1973 and received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1978. Alan currently lives in Albuquerque\, NM with his wife Gail. They have two adult children\, Hartley and Jamie. The story of Alan’s father was first published in hardcover by Syracuse University Press in 2006. Today\, Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz\, Challenger of Rocky Marciano is available in hardcover\, paperback\, and audiobook. It has been translated from English into German and Polish.\nBiography & Photo Courtesy of: www.harryhaftboxer.com \n \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/the-survivor-film-screening-and-qa-with-alan-haft/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230117T080000
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DESCRIPTION:Film screening and conversation with producer/director\, Ferne Pearlstein. \nTHE LAST LAUGH dares to ask: “Are we allowed to joke about the Holocaust?” This outrageously funny and thought-provoking film puts the question to legends and critical thinkers including Mel Brooks\, Sarah Silverman\, Gilbert Gottfried\, and many others (including survivors)\, offering fresh insights into the Holocaust and what else-9/11\, AIDS\, racism-is or isn’t off-limits in a society that prizes freedom of speech. After screening at over 100 festivals (including Tribeca\, HotDocs\, Traverse City\, BFI London\, Rome\, IDFA)\, and Certified Fresh at 98% on Rotten Tomatoes\, THE LAST LAUGH was released theatrically in March 2017 and broadcast in April 2017 (Independent Lens/PBS) where it was runner-up for that season’s Audience Award.—Robert Edwards \n RSVP Today!\n\nFerne Pearlstein is an award-winning documentary film director\, an inductee in the Brooklyn Jewish Hall of Fame\, and a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures. Ferne has made films from Japan to Haiti to Uganda to Guyana to Burma\, and has had four features premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent is the critically acclaimed The Last Laugh starring Mel Brooks\, Carl Reiner\, Sarah Silverman\, and Gilbert Gottfried\, which screened at over 100 film festivals around the world. \n \n RSVP Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/17179/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T183000
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SUMMARY:The Uyghur Genocide
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Today!\nThe Uyghur Genocide\nPardoll Family Lecture Program\nWednesday\, December 7 at 6:30 pm in-person at The FHM \nIn 2017\, the Chinese government began an ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity\, detaining millions of Uyghurs and other Trukic peoples in concentration camps. International criminal law and genocide prevention expert\, Erin Farrell Rosenberg\, will present on the Uyghur Genocide. \nSeating is limited\nRSVPs are required \nAbout the speaker: \nFarrell Rosenberg (Law ’11) is a licensed attorney in Indiana\, specializing in international criminal law (ICL)\, reparations\, and genocide prevention. She spent a decade working in ICL\, beginning at the International Criminal Tribunal where she assisted the Trial Chamber at the pre-trial stage on the Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladic case.  She then moved to the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, first in the Appeals Chamber where she worked on the ICC’s first judgment on reparations in the Lubanga case. She then continued her focus on reparations by leading the legal work at the ICC Trust Fund for Victims. In this role\, she designed the Court’s first reparations beneficiary eligibility screening systems\, conducted harm assessments and victim consultations for purposes of reparations design and implementation planning\, and oversaw the implementation of the first reparations to beneficiaries in the ICC’s history. She spent extensive time working directly with victims of atrocity crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, Central African Republic\, and Mali. \nUpon returning to the US\, she served as the Senior Advisor for the Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, where she was the lead author for the report series\, Practical Prevention: How the Genocide Convention’s Obligation to Prevent Applies to Burma and led the Center’s legal work on the situations in Myanmar (Burma) and Xinjiang\, China. \nCurrently\, Farrell Rosenberg works as a legal consultant\, advising a number of NGOs and victim groups on legal and policy issues related to atrocity crimes and conflict situations. In this role\, she has published reports\, legal analyses\, and policy papers\, as well as participated in public panels\, seminars\, and events\, related to the Rohingya\, the Uyghurs\, the International Court of Justice\, and other international justice mechanisms. She is also\, on a consultant basis\, the Senior Legal and Policy Advisor for the Red Lines Initiative\, recently initiated by the Mukwege Foundation together with 2018 Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege\, which seeks to create an international convention for the elimination of sexual violence as a method of warfare. \n– Bio courtesy of https://www.uc.edu/ \n RSVP Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/uyghur-genocide/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T183000
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SUMMARY:Acclaimed Comedian and Author David Baddiel To Present During The Richard Rappaport Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nSAVE THE DATE! The Richard Rappaport Family Antisemitism Lecture Series\nThursday\, October 27 at 6:30 pm RSVPs are required.\nDavid Baddiel is an accomplished comedian\, author\, screenwriter and television presenter who began his career as writer and star of BBC2 shows The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Newman and Baddiel in Pieces. With fellow comic Frank Skinner\, David created and presented the hugely successful Fantasy Football League and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned\, and has since been a regular on panel shows including Would I Lie to You?\, 8 Out of 10 Cats and QI to name a few. \nIn 1992\, he performed to over 12\,000 people with Rob Newman in the UK’s first ever arena comedy show. He returned to stand-up in 2013 with Fame: Not the Musical and\, in 2016\, premiered Olivier-nominated show My Family: Not the Sitcom\, which ran for 15 weeks in the West End and toured internationally. In 2021\, he took his latest show Trolls: Not the Dolls to theatres across the country. \nAlso an award-winning author\, David has written seven children’s books which have now sold over one million copies\, alongside four critically-acclaimed novels. In 2021 he released his bestselling new book Jews Don’t Count which explores how antisemitism does not fit into traditional narratives and perceptions of racism. \n  \n RSVP Today!\n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/david-baddiel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T183000
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SUMMARY:“The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust” Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:“The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust” Panel Discussion with Authors Ava Adler\, Rita Benn\, Joy Wolfe Ensor\, and Ruth Finkel Wade Wednesday\, October 12 at 6:30 pm In-person at The FHM. \n\n RSVP Today!\n\n“The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust” provides a window into the experiences of 16 different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Despite the diversity of each family’s history and journey of discovery\, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience across the generations. \n\nThis book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain. \n\n RSVP Today!
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/the-ones-who-remember-second-generation-voices-of-the-holocaust-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T080000
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SUMMARY:The Uyghur Human Rights Project | Pardoll Family Lecture Program
DESCRIPTION:In 2017\, the Chinese government began an ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity\, detaining millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in concentration camps. International criminal law and genocide prevention expert\, Erin Farrell Rosenberg\, presents on her experience as advisor for The Uyghur Human Rights Project. \nEvening program is free to attend. \n \n 
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/uyghur-humanrights-project/
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SUMMARY:Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day
DESCRIPTION:The Florida Holocaust Museum is a proud participant in Smithsonian Museum Day! On Saturday\, September 17th\, access to all of these incredible St. Petersburg museums is completely free as part of the nationwide Free Museum Day program. #TheFHM #smithsonian #smithsonianmagazine
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/smithsonian-magazine-museum-day/
LOCATION:The Florida Holocaust Museum\, 55 5th Street S\, Saint Petersburg\, FL\, 33701\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000
DTSTAMP:20231129T233921Z
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SUMMARY:WEDU "The U.S. and the Holocaust: The Holocaust and Authoritarianism Today"
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss “The U.S. and the Holocaust” An hour-long discussion with filmmakers and special guests in partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)\, featuring clips from the new three-part series\, THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST\, by Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick\, and Sarah Botstein. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nSept. 15\, 7:00-8:00 pm ET Conversation Event: RSVP link to share: https://to.pbs.org/3bOw6xQ \nTheme: “The Holocaust and Authoritarianism Today” \nAn hour-long discussion with filmmakers and special guests in partnership with Freedom House\, featuring clips from the new three-part series\, THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST\, by Ken Burns\, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. Premiering September 18-20. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n#uniteagainsthate #holocaust #holocaustmuseum #instadaily #news #trending #TheFHM #fyp #Instagram #tampa #trendingnow #sarasota #instagram #stpete #press #copiedpost #WEDU #museum #tampabay #neverforget #holocaustsurvivors #stpetersburgfl
URL:https://www.thefhm.org/event/wedu-the-u-s-and-the-holocaust-the-holocaust-and-authoritarianism-today/
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