Berlin '36
Sunday, January 30, 3:00 p.m. and Wednesday, February 2, 1:00 p.m. at the Mayerson JCC
A Docudrama inspired by the true story of Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann, BERLIN '36 replays a remarkable piece of forgotten Olympic history. Bergmann (award-winning actress Karoline Herfurth) was considered a top contender at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin. With the Americans threatening an Olympic boycott if Jewish athletes were barred from competing, Bergmann is invited to training camp. But uncomfortable with a Jewish athlete on the Aryan team, the Nazis conspire to replace her with an unknown über-athlete (Sebastian Urzendowsky). This film is presented through the Cincinnati Jewish and Israeli Film Festival. Mayerson JCC is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

An Article of Hope
Tuesday, February 1, 7:00 p.m. at the Mayerson JCC
A documentary about Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003. He had taken with him to space a tiny Torah scroll that had been smuggled out of Bergen-Belsen by a young boy. Combining historical and ethical inquiry, the film reaches across faiths and nationalities. The film includes clips from the CHHE "Torah Homecoming" in 2006. This film is presented through the Cincinnati Jewish and Israeli Film Festival. Mayerson JCC is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

The Nazi Doctor's Crimes Against Humanity: To Remember is to Honor the Victims featuring Dr. Ernest Prentice
Wednesday, February 23, 11:30 a.m. Cincinnati Children's Research Auditorium - Room Location: R-3381 and 3383
Dr. Prentice will uncover the history and importance of the Nuremberg code, which came in the aftermath of the Holocaust. He will describe selected experiments conducted by the Nazi doctors as well as discuss the Nuremberg Nazi doctor's trial, defense strategies, and ultimate outcome. Further, Dr. Prentice will explore the impact of the Nuremberg Code in the US from the end of World War II to contemporary litigation and discuss the ethics of using data derived from the Nazi experiments. Dr. Prentice is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy and Professor of Preventative and Societal Medicine. From 2003-2007, Dr. Prentice served as the Chair of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection (SACHRP). Dr. Prentice has received numerous awards for his work. This program is presented in partnership with Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Schulman Associates IRB, and the Maimonides Society of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

The Annual Hornstein Lecture: Never Again, Yet Again: A Personal Struggle with the Holocaust and Genocide featuring Dr. Stephen Smith, Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation
Sunday, April 10, 10:00 a.m. at Wise Temple
Stephen Smith will describe his own personal journey as a Christian that confronted antisemitism and the Holocaust and how that changed his life. As the Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation institute at the University of California, he will ask in what way the 52,000 Holocaust survivors testimonies in their archive will be a voice of conscience in our age - and for generations to come. He will question whether their voice will be sufficient to stem the tide of violence in our world and ask what role we can all play to reduce the toll of human suffering and wasted lives. This program is presented in partnership with Isaac M. Wise Temple. Wise Temple is located at 8329 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Monday, April 11, 7:00 p.m., at Mayerson JCC
A triumph of human spirit, I Never Saw Another Butterfly shares the hopes, the fears, and the beauty of the children of Terezin. More than 15,000 children passed through Terezin Concentration Camp during World War II; fewer than 100 survived. Their true story, told through the artwork and poetry they left behind, creates a compelling picture of defiance and of vibrant life! Tickets are available for $5 per person if reserved by April 10, and $8 at the door on the evening of the performance. To purchase tickets, please contact Courtney Cummings at 513-722-7226.
Mayerson Jewish Community Center is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

CPI New Voices Presents "From Auschwitz to Cincinnati"
Tuesday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. at Aronoff Center, Jarson-Kaplan Theater
Written by Kalman Kivkovich and directed by Ed Cohen, the play is based on the life of a phenomenal violinist and Holocaust survivor Henry Meyer. Get a glimpse into one of the deepest and darkest pits of human history - recent history. Seize the enormous desire to survive against all odds. Witness a success story of one very lucky man. The late Henry Meyer is Cincinnati's own star and was one of the founders of the world renowned LaSalle String Quartet that for decades had found its home at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Learn more.

Sing Me To Freedom: The treble choirs of the Cincinnati Boychoir, directed by Christopher Eanes
Saturday, April 30, 2011, 4:00 p.m. at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Experience the songs that have provided spiritual release and celebration for oppressed peoples; this concert will explore the richness of music that came from the tragedy of the Holocaust, and centuries of African-American slavery. Featuring works by local Cincinnati composer Bonia Shur. In cooperation with the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education. Stage direction by Bob Sauerbrey. Tickets: Adults $15, Students & Seniors $10. General admission.

Yom Hashoah
Sunday, May 1, 2:00 p.m. at Mayerson JCC
The annual commemoration of the Shoah includes a candle lighting, prayer, and a moving program that remembers the lives lost during the Holocaust and honors the lives saved. Keynote speaker Dr. Ann Weiss will share stories from her book The Last Album. Mayerson Jewish Community Center is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

Sing Me To Freedom: The treble choirs of the Cincinnati Boychoir, directed by Christopher Eanes
Sunday, May 1, 2011, 4:00 p.m. at the Mayerson JCC.
Experience the songs that have provided spiritual release and celebration for oppressed peoples; this concert will explore the richness of music that came from the tragedy of the Holocaust, and centuries of African-American slavery. Featuring works by local Cincinnati composer Bonia Shur. In cooperation with the Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education. Stage direction by Bob Sauerbrey. Tickets: Adults $15, Students & Seniors $10. General admission.
The Mayerson JCC is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236

2010

February 4, 2010, 7:00 p.m. "Four Seasons Lodge" at Mayerson JCC. Presented as part of the Cincinnati Jewish Film Festival, this award winning documentary follows a group of Holocaust survivors as they spend their summers together in the Catskills. United by their painful pasts, they have formed a unique lifelong community and system of support.

February 11, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Raymond Dowd at Cincinnati Museum Center. In 1998, New York's legendary District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally and Dead City from the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, sending shock waves around the world. Today, over a decade later, litigations are still pending over ownership of these artworks, and federal courts are increasingly faced with claims from owners of Nazi looted art. The U.S. State Department is currently holding meetings on creation of a U.S. commission to resolve Nazi art looting claims and restitute stolen artworks.

Meet Raymond Dowd, attorney for the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer who owned Dead City. Dead City is today proudly displayed in Austria's Leopold Museum. Through a lively visual presentation, learn the fascinating tale of Dead City's provenance, the battles to recover art stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims, the undisclosed role of the Swiss in laundering looted art for the Nazis, and the implications for U.S. museums holding artworks of European origin.

To learn more about stolen art during World War II as well as the struggle to recover the art, please explore the following webpage links and resources.

February 28, 2010, 2:00 p.m. The Wartime Escape of Stephanie Marks at the Cincinnati Public Library, Main Branch In conjunction with the Public Library's exhibit "The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France" local Holocaust survivor Stephanie Marks will share her story of fleeing Nazi persecution. Stephanie was born in Poland and just before the start of the war, her family relocated to Belgium. While visiting family in her native Poland, WWII broke out and her family made an escape and endured numerous trials in an effort to gain entrance into the United States. In 1941, through the U.S. embassy in Poland, her family was granted relocation to Cincinnati. The Main Library is located at 800 Vine St, Cincinnati, 45202.

March 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m. "Inheritance" film showing and discussion at CHHE CHHE presents "Inheritance," a documentary telling the story of the remarkable meeting of two very different women: Honika Hertwig, the daughter of Nazi commandant Amon Goeth, and Helen Jonas, a Jewish woman enslaved by Goeth in her youth. The film explores the effects of the Holocaust on both women 70 years later. A discussion about the film will follow. CHHE is located at 8401 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, 45236

April 11, 2010, 10:00 a.m. Wise Temple’s Hornstein Lecture with Joe Berger at Wise Temple. New York Times Journalist, Joe Berger, author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust, will reflect on his youth in New York City as the child of Holocaust survivors. Learn more. Wise Temple is located at 8329 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, 45236

April 11, 2010, 1:30 p.m. Yom Hashoah at Mayerson JCC. The annual commemoration of the Shoah includes candle lighting, prayer, and moving program that remembers the lives lost during the Holocaust and honors the lives saved. Mayerson JCC is located at 8485 Ridge Road, Cincinnati, 45236

April 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Survivor Soulmates at Xavier University, Bellarmine Chapel. Holocaust survivor David Gewirtzman and Rwandan survivor Eugenie Mukeshimana will speak about their unique experiences. While differences abound, they share how connected they feel to one another. Together they explore the continuation of genocide in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Bellarmine Chapel is located at 3801 Ledgewood Drive, Cincinnati, 45207.

May 2, 2010, 3:00 p.m., "We Are Here!" Children’s Concert at the Freedom Center. Composed by Phil Koplow, Professor Emeritus of music at Northern Kentucky University, the pieces in this concert are set to lyrics written by children in different ghettos and camps during the Holocaust. Performed by the Northern Kentucky University Youth Choir, the event promises to be educational and moving. The Freedom Center is located at 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati, 45202

May 16, 2010, 2:00 p.m. "The Great Human Race 5 & 10K Run/Walk" at Lunken Playfield. The Great Human Race is a collective expression of our community's commitment to combating hate, prejudice, and indifference. The race will support the efforts of CHHE, allowing the organization to continue using education as a means of undermining the forces of intolernace and hate in our communities. Learn about sponsorship opportunities. Please register. Lastly, view our flyer for more information!

Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Tuesday, November 9
Mix It Up at school or work! Check back for more details.

Rescuers Then and Now: The Legacy of Rescue During the Holocaust, Stanlee Stahl
Tuesday, December 7, 7:30 p.m., at Rockwern Academy
Stanlee Stahl, the executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation of the Righteous (JFR), a renowned expert on Holocaust rescue, will detail the work of the men and women who risked their lives, as well as the lives of their families, to rescue, save and hide Jews during the Holocaust. Her organization provides an average of about $100 per month to rescuers, mostly in Eastern Europe. Last year it helped about 1,100 gentiles - mostly Christians and some Muslims - in 23 countries. At its height, the group was sending aid to 1,800 rescuers in 33 countries. Rockwern Academy is located at 8401 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, 45236

2009
January 14, 7:30 pm at Newport on the Levee Sneak 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".