Quarterly Upstander Happy Hour featuring Whitney Strong

Name: Quarterly Upstander Happy Hour featuring Whitney Strong
Start: 2025-08-28T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-28T19:30:00-04:00

Join us for our next Quarterly Upstander Happy Hour as we spotlight Whitney Austin, a 2024 Upstander Award Winner and gun violence survivor turned fierce advocate for change. This engaging and informal evening will take place at Café Alma, where community members, advocates, and upstanders gather to connect, learn, and be inspired.

Evening Flow

6:00–6:30 PM – Arrive early, grab a drink and appetizers on us, and mingle with fellow upstanders.
6:30–7:00 PM – Join a compelling conversation led by Jackie Congedo with Whitney Austin and 2025 Upstander Award winner Mitch Morris, highlighting:

- Whitney’s personal journey and mission
- The work of the Whitney/Strong organization: driving non-partisan, legislative awareness and action
- Upcoming opportunities like the Fall Stop the Bleed training initiative — a collective effort to make our community safer

7:00–7:30 PM – Stick around to chat and explore more at the Whitney/Strong table to get involved and learn how you can make a difference.

This is the first in a new series of Upstander Happy Hours, hosted quarterly to celebrate our award winners and finalists. Mark your calendars: the next event will take place at Union Terminal, offering exclusive access to the “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” exhibition in November.

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Little Acts, Big Impact: Mini Upstander Play Sessions with the Children’s Theatre

2025-08-09 10:00:00

Join us for “Little Acts, Big Impact: Mini Upstander Play Sessions” in partnership with the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati every second Saturday at 10 a.m. at Union Terminal! This special event series features fun, games, and songs led by talented artists from the Children’s Theatre. Each session will focus on highlighting a specific character strength, fostering a positive and engaging environment for children.

While the little ones immerse themselves in creative and educational activities, parents will have the opportunity to explore our museum. As an added bonus, families who attend the session will be offered free admission into Cincinnati Museum Center Children’s Museum for the day.

Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to inspire mini upstanders and create lasting memories with your family. This event series is presented in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati.

Location: Winds of Change Theatre at the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s museum on the mezzanine level

Time: Every second Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

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Liberation Ball

2025-09-07 18:00:00

Step back in time to the 1940s, and revel in a celebration of freedom at the Liberation Ball.

Take over Cincinnati’s historic Union Terminal with us as we commemorate the 80th Anniversary of World War II’s ending. Join us for an immersive and festive night filled with live music, themed food, swing dancing, and interactive experiences spread throughout one of Cincinnati’s finest musums. During World War II, Union Terminal signified the beginning of a new life for many local Holocaust survivors – and it served as a vital transportation center for the soldiers who fought for freedom throughout the war.

The Liberation Ball will vividly recreate an annual event organized by Cincinnati’s Jewish Survivors of Nazism, the predecessor organization of the Holocaust & Humanity Center. That original ball was hosted as a celebration of life – a sentiment still worthy of toasting to today.

Your support of this event directly helps us reach more than 250,000 people annually through museum visitation and educational programming.

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The Power of Remembering: A Conversation on Holocaust Education

2025-09-21 16:00:00

Berndt Kruse was a classroom teacher in Furstenau, Germany, when one day, a student told him they found a tombstone in the middle of the woods. This discovery set Berndt on a life path he never would have predicted. After extensive research over many years, Berndt pieced together the dark story of the destruction of the Jewish community of Furstenau. Now, set on a path of education, raising awareness and most importantly, honoring and remembering those who were murdered, Berndt brings this story to light.

Walter Frank was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, February 10, 1937. Walter’s parents, Karl and Thecla, decided to flee Germany from fear of what the Nazis might–and eventually did–do. Though Walter’s parents urged the whole family to flee, they could not convince anyone else to leave except for one sister. Walter’s grandparents lived in Furstenau. Of the family who remained in Germany, all were murdered.

This program will bring together Berndt Kruse and Walter Frank in a conversation about the importance of Holocaust education and the power remembering.

Join us for the annual Stephen and Lusia Hornstein Lecture on the Holocaust and the Human Spirit at historic Union Terminal. This year’s featured speaker is Dr. Hedy Wald, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust urges the integration of Holocaust history into health professions education to foster morally resilient, history-informed practitioners. Confronting the ethical violations committed by health professionals under Nazism is essential to cultivating moral leadership, countering antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and upholding human dignity.

In this lecture, Dr. Hedy Wald—medical educator and daughter of a Holocaust survivor—explores this dark chapter through both personal and professional lenses. She shares her experience co-leading a study trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau with Germany’s Witten-Herdecke Faculty of Health for medical and psychology students, highlighting its impact and the growing adoption of similar initiatives in the United States.

This session underscores the contemporary relevance of this history for all health professionals, offering compelling historical examples of moral courage and resistance. It invites reflection on core values and aims to strengthen ethical awareness for humanistic healthcare and global citizenship.

Dr. Hedy Wald is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program, Commissioner; Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust, and Adjunct Professor, Oakland University School of Nursing.

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