Events

Special Exhibit: The Difference of a Single Day

Join Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Petr Gandalovic, to premiere the Museum’s newest exhibit. Photos and artifacts detail Santa Monica activist Katy Haber’s quest to resolve the mystery of her relatives’ fate and the amazing discovery she made across continents and years.

ADL Holocaust Education Institute Session

On February 16, 2012, 4:15 - 8:30 p.m., Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will host Session Four: Teaching the Holocaust through Art. Participants will be given a tour of the Museum’s brand new facilities which will highlight LAMH’s art exhibition of the Erich Lichtbau-Leskly Collection: A Picture of Theresienstadt (Terezin). Teachers will gain insight on using music and visual art to teach the Holocaust.

The Institute is presented in five interconnected sessions:

Session One at USC is $20 per person, which includes meals, materials, and parking. Sessions Two through Five are $15 per session or $50 for the four sessions.  Completion of Sessions Two through Five qualifies LAUSD educators and librarians for one unit Article Six multicultural credit.
Session One will include hands-on training with IWitness, a new website with more than 1,000 video testimonies and tools for educators and students to develop multimedia projects, along with panel of Holocaust Education scholars.  Participants will also receive a copy of Echoes and Reflections – A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust ($95 value).

Registration is now open for this workshop. Please click here to visit the ADL Holocaust Education Institute to register. For more information and questions, contact Matthew Friedman at mfriedman@adl.org

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Let’s Talk About It: New Conversations on the Holocaust

“Let’s Talk About It: New Conversations on the Holocaust.” This free series will further explore the Holocaust in contemporary contexts. The BYO brown-bag lunch-and-learns will be held at the Museum on the first Friday of the month from 12:00-1:00 PM.

March 2, Ruth Weisberg, Ruth Weisberg is an artist who works primarily in painting, drawing, and large-scale installations. She served as Dean of the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California from 1995-2010. Weisberg's work is in the collections of major museums, including the Getty Center, Norton Simon Museum,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago.

Executive Director's Book Club

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson tells the amazing story of the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin as he sees firsthand the birth of the Holocaust, and works to warn his government and the country. Participate in a discussion of this insightful and gripping history led by Executive Director (and former English teacher) Mark Rothman.

Let’s Talk About It: New Conversations on the Holocaust

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is launching a new monthly program “Let’s Talk About It: New Conversations on the Holocaust.” This free series will further explore the Holocaust in contemporary contexts. The BYO brown-bag lunch-and-learns will be held at the Museum on the first Friday of the month from 12:00-1:00 PM.

April 6, Dr. Todd Presner. Todd Presner is Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.  He is currently co-Director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on European intellectual history, the history of media, visual culture, digital humanities, and cultural geography.  His book Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains maps German-Jewish intellectual history onto the development of the railway system.

Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Join the Museum for an all day Yom HaShoah Commemoration.

There will be activities, speeches and cultural events in and around the Museum all day. Special family programing will also be available.

Free and open to the public.

Details to follow.