CJFS HOP field trip to AHEC

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

Join Collat Jewish Family Services Honor Our Parents for a field trip to the Alabama Holocaust Education Center. What is Honor Our Parents? Also known as HOP, Honor Our Parents is outreach programming with a special focus on persons of retirement age.  HOP strives to include all individuals but especially persons who may live in retirement facilities, may be homebound, or reside alone. Volunteers needed to help with transportation.

Free

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

Samford University's Wright Center 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham
Events and Meetings

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
Education

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
Events and Meetings

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

Taking Action Together: “The Mirror of Goodness” with Stanlee Stahl

virtual
Education

Join us for our latest installment of Taking Action Together as we hear from Stanlee Stahl, the Executive Vice President of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous and a renowned Holocaust educator. In her presentation, “The Mirror of Goodness,” Stanlee will address the rescue of Jews by non-Jews during the Holocaust. She will provide some general history on the Holocaust and will then address rescue within the historiography of the Holocaust. Who were the rescuers, what did they do, and why did they risk their lives and often the lives of their families to save Jews, many who were total strangers? After the presentation, you will have the chance to ask Stanlee questions during our Q&A.

Free

What History Teaches: The Rule of Law and the Erosion of Democracy

virtual
Education

Historians have long debated whether the collapse of the Weimar Republic was inevitable or the result of actions taken by Germany’s political elites. This session will focus on the circumstances that surrounded the birth of Weimar democracy at the end of World War I. It will also examine how Germany’s experiment in democracy was affected by the course of German economic development in the 1920s and 1930s. Lastly, it will explore the opportunities this afforded the Republic’s enemies, with particular emphasis on the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in what proved to be a successful crusade against Weimar democracy.

Free