2011
July 2011
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Tue 19 Jul. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Tue 19 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 19, 2011 - July 21, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/19/2011 - 7/21/2011 Sam Offen, in his own words, was born on earth, lived in hell, and is now living in paradise. Sam was born in Krakow, Poland in 1921. During the Nazi regime he suffered slave labor, ghetto confinement, and concentration camp horror. More than fifty members of his immediate and extended family were killed. And yet, despite the pain he has faced, Sam's story is one of triumph and hope. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Wed 20 Jul. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Wed 20 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 19, 2011 - July 21, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/19/2011 - 7/21/2011 Sam Offen, in his own words, was born on earth, lived in hell, and is now living in paradise. Sam was born in Krakow, Poland in 1921. During the Nazi regime he suffered slave labor, ghetto confinement, and concentration camp horror. More than fifty members of his immediate and extended family were killed. And yet, despite the pain he has faced, Sam's story is one of triumph and hope. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Wed 20 Jul, 1-2 pm. First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. are asked to remain seated for the entire hour-long program to minimize disruptions for the speaker. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Thursday 21 July 2011
Thu 21 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Thu 21 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 19, 2011 - July 21, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/19/2011 - 7/21/2011 Sam Offen, in his own words, was born on earth, lived in hell, and is now living in paradise. Sam was born in Krakow, Poland in 1921. During the Nazi regime he suffered slave labor, ghetto confinement, and concentration camp horror. More than fifty members of his immediate and extended family were killed. And yet, despite the pain he has faced, Sam's story is one of triumph and hope. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Friday 22 July 2011
Fri 22 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Fri 22 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 22, 2011 - July 23, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/22/2011 - 7/23/2011 This book is a moving memoir of a Belgian Jewish girl and her family who were saved druing the Nazi occupation of France by the compassion and heroism of French peasants in the southern part of the country. France J. Pruitt not only survived but triumphed over trauma to become a human being who has dedicated her life to those she loves and to people in need throughout the world. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Saturday 23 July 2011
Sat 23 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Sat 23 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 22, 2011 - July 23, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/22/2011 - 7/23/2011 This book is a moving memoir of a Belgian Jewish girl and her family who were saved druing the Nazi occupation of France by the compassion and heroism of French peasants in the southern part of the country. France J. Pruitt not only survived but triumphed over trauma to become a human being who has dedicated her life to those she loves and to people in need throughout the world. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Sunday 24 July 2011
Sun 24 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Sun 24 Jul, 1-4 pm. July 24, 2011 - July 25, 2011 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/24/2011 - 7/25/2011 "Once my name was Sara" details her family's flight from Nazi Germany just days before her father's expected arrest by the Gestapo. She describes her early childhood in Berlin and later growing up in Shangai, the city that became her home. She and her family were interened in the Hongkew ghetto by Japanese authorities during World War II. Her memoir is a story of hope and survival. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Monday 25 July 2011
Mon 25 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Mon 25 Jul, 1-4 pm. July 24, 2011 - July 25, 2011 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/24/2011 - 7/25/2011 "Once my name was Sara" details her family's flight from Nazi Germany just days before her father's expected arrest by the Gestapo. She describes her early childhood in Berlin and later growing up in Shangai, the city that became her home. She and her family were interened in the Hongkew ghetto by Japanese authorities during World War II. Her memoir is a story of hope and survival. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Tue 26 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Tue 26 Jul, 1:30-2:30 pm. July 26, 2011 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM PLACE Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Museum First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. are asked to remain seated for the entire hour-long program to minimize disruptions for the speaker. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Wed 27 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Wed 27 Jul, 1-2 pm. July 27, 2011 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM PLACE Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Museum First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. are asked to remain seated for the entire hour-long program to minimize disruptions for the speaker. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Thursday 28 July 2011
Thu 28 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Friday 29 July 2011
Fri 29 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Saturday 30 July 2011
Sat 30 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Sat 30 Jul, 12-4 pm. July 30, 2011 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum Sonia recounts her terrible memories of living as a Jewish woman during the Nazi regime, struggling for her survival. She experienced hunger, degradation, loneliness, but the most inhuman act of Nazi brutality, was the murder of her family. Now alone she had to make a decision: give up or survive. For her the choice was simple, survive. She spent much of war in hiding. Eventually she was helped by Russian partisans whom she lived with in the forests of Eastern Europe. She survived and was able to immigrate to the United States where she started her new life of hope and happiness, though her experiences during the war have always made her life challenging, but with three children, six grandchildre. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]
Sunday 31 July 2011
Sun 31 Jul. Museum of Texas Tech University 3301 4th St Lubbock, TX 79415, USA From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [more][events]
Sun 31 Jul, 1-4 pm. July 31, 2011 - August 1, 2011 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM PLACE Museum Shop, Museum 7/31/2011 - 8/1/2011 Ernest Paul brings both his own story of survival during the Holocaust as well as his late wife's memoir. Both he and his wife defied the odds by surviving countless indignities and life threatening experiences. They meet after Sara was liberated by the Soviets and sent to a kibbutz in Bucharest, Romania. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]