Events and Meetings

The AHEC invites you to join us for the final screening of our 13th annual Holocaust in Film Series: Rescue, Escape, and Liberation, sponsored by the Perlman Donor Advised Fund. On March 31 at Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema, we will screen the emotional and thought-provoking film “Everything is Illuminated." The film follows Jonathan, whose grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, as he struggles to uncover his family’s history and learn the lessons this history has to teach him.  As Jonathan’s journey unfolds, the story asks what escape or liberation truly means to those who survived the Holocaust yet remain haunted by memories of their trauma and immense losses. Following the screening, Michele Forman—a second-generation Survivor, award-winning documentarian, and UAB media studies professor—will lead a discussion about the film to deepen audience understanding of the struggles survivors and the descendants of survivors continue to face, as well as how we can work together to build a better and brighter future.  Tickets are $10 per person. Purchase your tickets today! 

Grafman Endowment Board Meeting

A program for members of BJF's Women's Philanthropy

Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn day of reflection observed each spring to honor the memory of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. The date follows the Hebrew calendar and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and symbolizing Jewish resistance in the face of annihilation. Each year, the Alabama Holocaust Education Center commemorates Yom HaShoah with a powerful public program that centers on personal testimony. The event always includes descendants of Alabama Holocaust Survivors who share deeply moving stories that preserve memory and inspire future generations. These first-person narratives offer a rare and intimate window into the lived experiences of courage, survival, and loss. Stories of liberation, resistance and rescue are also featured. Through music, historical reflection, and storytelling, AHEC’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration brings our community together to remember, to educate, and to affirm our shared responsibility to stand against antisemitism, hatred, and indifference in all its forms.

These are all anticipated to be Zoom meetings at 6pm.