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January 2020
Exhibition Reception for Witness to History: The Holocaust Remembered by Florida Survivors
Throughout World War II, government and community leaders, and ordinary people made ethical choices based on their circumstances, personal morality, or political forces. The Nazis carried out their plans to murder European Jews and others, while some individuals, groups, and governments chose, at great risk, to protect and rescue those who were targeted. Thousands of others chose to participate in the Nazis’ racist schemes while most people did nothing, although they were aware of what was happening. In this exhibition…
Find out more »February 2020
I Saw It in the Movies Series – Hitler – Beast of Berlin (Free Showing)
This 1939 film depicts an underground resistance movement in Germany founded by former German military and disaffected members of the Nazi party.These subversives, both male and female, Christian and Jew, represent actual anti-Hitler cells operating in Germany during the 1930’s. This was the first American film to simulate a German concentration camp and the associated brutality and human degradation. Click Here to Download Printable PDF
Find out more »March 2020
Defining Antisemitism with Mark Weitzman
Mark Weitzman is an expert on the history and modern manifestations of Antisemitism and Holocaust denials. Join us as Weitzman shares how he and his collogues worked for years to create a globally recognized definition of Antisemitism as a means to combat hate worldwide. Click Here to Download Printable PDF
Find out more »The HERC Book Discussion March 12, 2020 (The Liberators)
(From Goodreads) At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-beforepublished details from the author’s interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi death camps, The Liberators is an essential addition to the literature of World War II – and a stirring testament to Allied courage in the face of inconceivable atrocities. Taking us from the beginnings…
Find out more »I Saw It in the Movies Series – Denial (CANCELED)
CANCELED The HERC Film Series is combining with the TCC/ HERC Holocaust Education Week and showing the 2016 film DENIAL on March 30 at the Ghazvini Center. DENIAL is the story of the legal battle of Deborah Lipstadt, a renown American Holocaust historian, after she is sued for libel by the British Holocaust denier David Irving. In the English system the burden of proof is on the accused, so Lipstadt must prove that the Holocaust occurred. A compelling battle between…
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