U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:

Haunted by Auschwitz 80 Years Later

Monday, January 27, 2025, Noon ET

Free Virtual Event

Stream live at: https://www.youtube.com/live/MqbQZAXJBAs

Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Rob Reiner, Steve Guttenberg, Adam Arkin, Tony Dokoupil, Tovah Feldshuh, BeBe Neuwirth, Steven Skybell, Montana Tucker, Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin

Musical Performances By

Sabine Fischmann, Barry Manilow, and Shulem Lemmer

The ceremony will feature a livestream of the official menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Israel.

Please visit: claimscon.org/SurvivorsNight2024

If you are unable to watch the webcast at this time, a recorded version will be available to view on the Claims Conference website afterwards at:  claimscon.org/SurvivorsNight2024

To register for the Zoom presentation please visit: http://lappinfoundation.tfaforms.net/36

Join VT Holocaust Memorial in person Sunday, July 16th at 2pm, as we present "Holocaust History and Its Connections in Vermont" at the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum in Burlington.

VTHM vice president and daughter of Holocaust survivors, Miriam Rosenbloom, will share the background and efforts of our nonprofit organization. Tom Glaser, a son of Holocaust survivors and a VTHM speaker bureau member will be sharing a presentation of his family’s harrowing story of survival through the Holocaust. By imparting the lessons from the Holocaust VTHM hopes that current and future generations of Vermonters will develop respect for all.

At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be invited to take part in VTHM’s “Leaf Project” -- a memorial to the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust.

A Q&A will take place at the end.

VTHM Speakers Bureau member Tom Glaser will be the featured guest in Plattsburgh at Temple Beth Israel’s Yom HaShoah commemoration event.

Zoom link to come.

Join the Lappin Foundation and its community sponsors, including VTHM, via Zoom for a memorable International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration featuring testimony by Holocaust survivor Lusia Milch: Lessons of the Holocaust as a Cautionary Tale for Today. Welcome remarks by Miriam Asnes, Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department Special Envoy on Holocaust Issues.

REGISTER HERE

The program is free, and everyone is welcome.

For more information email sfeinstein@lappinfoundation.org.

VASS will be hosting an in-person conference for Vermont social studies educators on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 in Montpelier. VTHM will be there to highlight our programs and to share information on the 1st annual Vermont Holocaust Education Week taking place January 23-27, 2023.

VASS Conference Information

In commemoration of the Holocaust VTHM, in cooperation with the Fletcher Free Library’s “The Courage to Remember” exhibition, remembers the victims, survivors, children, and rescuers during this memorial event. Join with community to recite prayers, light memorial candles, and hear from Keynote speaker, Holocaust survivor and UVM Professor Emeritus Henia Lewin.

This program is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities.

Special Preview Screening Event - discussion following the film led by Professor Jonathan Huener, Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at University of Vermont.

This program is supported in part by the Vermont Humanities.

Produced by Steve McQueen and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, Bianca Stigter’s documentary Three Minutes – A Lengthening transforms rare color home-movie footage shot in 1938 Poland into a testament to victims of the Holocaust. Home movies may be the most haunting cinema of all, taking on the luster of loss and mortality with each passing year. The home movies Glenn Kurtz found in his parents’ home in Florida were rarer and more precious still. In Three Minutes – A Lengthening, Bianca Stigter transforms these shimmering images from over 80 years ago into a remarkable meditation on what it means for a lost community to be captured on film. The footage gives Stigter rich material to illustrate the detective work needed to recover the stories of a village destroyed by the Holocaust. As Stigter runs the original footage sometimes in slow motion, sometimes still, forwards and backwards to draw meaning from each frame, the distance originally created by looking at 83-year-old fashions and hairstyles collapses into the immediate present. To see children grinning or people craning their necks to get into the shot is to watch humanity as it always exists in the presence of a camera. At the end of 1939, the people visible in the film, and all the Jews in Nasielsk, were deported to ghettos, then sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Kurtz’s found footage, which had almost rotted just before it was discovered and restored, is the only visual record remaining.

View the film trailer

Read the NY Times feature story

Zoom Event

VTHM joins the Lappin Foundation as a co-sponsor of Our Will to Live – A Message from Terezin, with Terezin scholar Mark Ludwig on Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30 pm ET on Zoom.

Please register via this link: Our Will To Live - A Message from Terezin

VTHM Board member and speaker, Heidi Fishman, will discuss her book “Tutti’s Promise.”

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Registration is limited for this in-person professional development workshop. Visit our Events section for details and registration information.

Debora Steinerman, will share a personal family story of Holocaust survival as well as information about the Vermont Holocaust Memorial, how the organization came to be, what they do and are working on, and what VTHM’s mission means to Vermonters.

Via Zoom