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The Alabama Holocaust Education Center Presents Mona Golabek: The Children of Willesden Lane

Samford University's Wright Center 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center is proud to present Mona Golabek: The Children of Willesden Lane, in partnership with Hold Onto Your Music and Echoes & Reflections. Mona Golabek is the daughter of a Holocaust Survivor, a concert pianist, author, and storyteller. Her book The Children of Willesden Lane recounts her mother Lisa Jura’s experiences as a young Jewish musician who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport. It celebrates resilience, music’s power, and the bonds that sustained children during the Holocaust. Hear Mona Golabek bring her mother’s powerful story to life in person! Through her captivating storytelling and live piano performance, Mona will delve deeper into her mother’s journey, inspiring everyone to form meaningful, personal connections to this remarkable history. This event is sponsored by The Caring Foundation of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, the Mobile Area Jewish Federation, the Joseph S. Bruno Charitable Foundation, Samford University, and Larry and Cinda Goldberg.

$18

Centropa

Alabama Holocaust Education Center 2100 Highland Avenue South, Birmingham, United States

Ronne & Donald Hess cordially invite you to a discussion with Edward Serotta, founding director of Centropa. Edward is a Savannah-born, Vienna-based writer, photographer, and filmmaker who has spent 40 years in Central and Eastern Europe. He has focused on Jewish themes while also covering wars and revolutions. He is the founder of Centropa, a Jewish historical institute. Their archive is unique: Centropa worked with 140 interviewers, editors, and historians, where they interviewed 1,230 elderly Jews still living in 20 European countries. They never used video in those interviews. They did not focus primarily on the Holocaust. Rather, Centropa digitized 25,150 family photographs and transcribed 45,000 pages of stories that begin in the 1920s and end in 2007. In 2023, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Centropa archive, which in late 2025 will open a special collections page on the USHMM website. Centropa’s educational teams work in 11 countries in Europe, as well as in North America and Israel and conduct 15 to 17 teachers’ seminars every year. Centropa Summer Academies have brought 1,150 teachers from 15 countries to Europe, where they meet with historians and tour cities such as Berlin, Prague, Sarajevo, Budapest, and Vienna. Edward Serotta has […]

Free

Yom HaShoah Commemoration with the Alabama Holocaust Education Center

Virginia Samford Theatre 1116 26th Street South, Birmingham

On Sunday, April 27, 2024, the Alabama Holocaust Education Center (AHEC) will host a poignant Yom HaShoah Commemoration. The gathering will honor the memory of the over six million lives lost during the Holocaust and will feature moving stories shared by survivors and their families, who will pay tribute to victims, survivors, and liberators. This event will take place at the historic Virginia Samford Theatre and is free and open to the public.

Free