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SUMMARY:Never Again is Now: Learning from LGBTQ+ History to Fight for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exploration of LGBTQ+ history to establish context for understanding challenges in the present. We’ll identify the top 10 key lessons for understanding the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people and its relevance for today. Attendees will also be equipped with action items that will help them confront homophobia and transphobia in their own communities. \nDr. Jake Newsome is an award-winning scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history and the Founder and President of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project\, which honors the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and fights queer and transphobia through education and advocacy. He is the author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust\, tracing the pink triangle’s transformation from a Nazi concentration camp badge into a global symbol of pride. \nREGISTER\nPartner Organizations: \n\nAlabama Holocaust Education Center\nOregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education\nTucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center\nWassmuth Center for Human Rights
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/never-again-is-now-learning-from-lgbtq-history-to-fight-for-the-future/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Soccer under the Swastika: Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:It has been famously said that soccer is war by another means. In the heart of the 20th Century\, war engulfed Europe at precisely the moment the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses. Soccer is the truly world’s game and that it continued to be played in deadly conditions during World War Two never ceases to amaze. Soccer during the Nazi era was an irresistible force and responses by prisoners in the Nazi German camps and ghettoes were as varied as the camps themselves. As one of the forms of cultural life that appeared during the Holocaust\, sport was also a pursuit laden with the most ambiguity. Though not particularly widespread across the expansive universe of camps within the Nazi sphere\, sport and competition offered human contact\, solidarity\, and\, most importantly\, a means of survival. With the return of the World Cup to the United States this summer\, come and see why soccer meant life! \nDr. Kevin Simpson is a professor at John Brown University and holds a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. He previously taught for 12 years at Concordia University in Portland and has been a Fulbright Scholar to the Slovak Republic\, teaching sport psychology and Holocaust psychology at Comenius University in Bratislava. A three-time research fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and a faculty fellow at Yad Vashem\, Dr. Simpson has taught and conducted research across Europe and led study-abroad programs in London and Vienna. He is the author of Soccer under the Swastika\, an award-winning book examining the role of football during the Holocaust that has inspired museum exhibitions in the U.S. and Slovakia and contributed to his receipt of the 2021 Julius Hirsch Prize for combating antisemitism in football. He teaches a wide range of psychology courses and writes on genocide studies\, creativity\, propaganda\, and sport psychology.
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/soccer-under-the-swastika-survival-and-resistance-during-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T120000
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SUMMARY:Criminalizing Enablers and Bystanders: Legal Accountability and Professional Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:Abuse and systemic misconduct rarely occur in isolation. Instead\, they develop within legal\, institutional\, and cultural ecosystems shaped by decisions\, omissions\, and norms established by those in positions of authority. While perpetrators commit the underlying acts\, bystanders and enablers—through inaction or misuse of authority—often create the conditions that allow unlawful and unethical conduct to persist. \nDuring this session\, we will examine the legal frameworks governing bystander and enabler liability\, including criminal accountability\, prosecutorial discretion\, and the evolving standards applied to individuals and institutions. Drawing on real-world examples and experience\, Professor Guiora will speak to the threat that unchecked bystander conduct has upon civil society\, and explore when omissions and failures to act may give rise to criminal responsibility\, how courts assess causation and duty\, and the broader implications for compliance\, governance\, and risk management. In addition\, we will consider the challenges posed by instances where bystanders try to respond but are met with further authoritarian responses. \nThroughout this presentation\, we will consider the ethical and professional obligations of lawyers advising individuals and organizations\, serving in leadership roles\, or acting as gatekeepers of a civil society. The program challenges attorneys to assess how law can—and should—be used to disrupt cycles of abuse\, protect victims\, and impose accountability before harm escalates. \nAmos N. Guiora has an A.B. from Kenyon College\, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law\, and a Ph.D. from Leiden University. In 2026\, Guiora was named a University of Utah Presidential Societal Impact Scholar. \nWashington state attorneys can earn 1 continuing legal education credit (other – improving the legal system) from the Washington State Bar Association.
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/criminalizing-enablers-and-bystanders-legal-accountability-and-professional-responsibility/
LOCATION:Henry and Sandra Friedman Holocaust Center for Humanity\, 2045 2nd Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98121
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:AI and Holocaust Memory
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing how the Holocaust is remembered—but what does this really mean? In this thought-provoking session\, we will explore how emerging AI tools are being applied in Holocaust commemoration\, what they may be able to contribute\, and where their limitations or risks lie. \nProfessor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden is Full Professor of Digital Heritage\, Memory and Culture\, and Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on understanding digital specificities and their use for Holocaust and wider genocide memory practices across the world. She is the author of Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory (2019)\, editor of The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age (2022)\, and Digital Holocaust Memory\, Education and Research (2021)\, and editor-in-chief of Digital Memory Dialogues\, an open access publishing space designed to produce dialogue between disciplines\, sectors and industries focused on producing digital Holocaust memory (www.digitalmemorydialogues.com). She is currently Co-Chair of the UK’s Media Education Association and President Elect of the British and Irish Association of Holocaust Studies. Find out more about her work at www.digitalmemorylab.com.
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/ai-and-holocaust-memory/
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:A Legacy of Courage: My Father’s Life in Hiding During the Holocaust with Lorri Staal
DESCRIPTION:Lorri Staal shares the story of her father\, Abraham (“Aby”) Staal\, who spent two years in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Protected by members of the Dutch resistance\, he survived thanks to the courage of ten families who risked their lives to shelter him. Decades later\, Lorri reconnected with the descendants of his rescuers and traveled to the Netherlands to honor their bravery. \nLorri Staal is the Executive Director of Music of Remembrance and a member of the Holocaust Center for Humanity’s Speakers Bureau.
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/a-legacy-of-courage-my-fathers-life-in-hiding-during-the-holocaust-with-lorri-staal/
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:Ghosts on the Wall
DESCRIPTION:Once respected and admired in the small city of Großröhrsdorf\, Germany\, the Schonwald family was gradually turned into “the Other\,” becoming sacrificial victims in the vain attempt by Germany to recapture lost glory and prosperity. The transformation happened in three steps as they were progressively reduced through the mechanisms of defamation\, demotion\, and\, ultimately\, dehumanization. Kenneth D. Wald\, the son of Holocaust survivors and grandson of Holocaust victims\, spent most of his career as a political scientist at the University of Florida. A visiting scholar at Harvard\, the University of Michigan and University of Toronto\, he also lectured at universities in Israel\, England\, Canada\, Scotland\, Sweden\, and China. \nThe story of his paternal family’s encounter with the Holocaust\, The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson’s Memoir of the Holocaust\, was released by Amsterdam Publishers in November\, 2024 and was a finalist for best memoir in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in 2025.
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/ghosts-on-the-wall/
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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SUMMARY:Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II
DESCRIPTION:MIDNIGHT FLYBOYS: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II\, to be released on November 11\, 2025\, tells the untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II. Best-selling author Bruce Henderson will share the stories and research and some of the behind-the-scenes of writing the book.  \nBruce Henderson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty nonfiction books\, including Sons and Soldiers\, Bridge to the Sun\, and Rescue at Los Baños. An award-winning journalist and author\, Henderson has taught at USC School of Journalism and Stanford University. He lives in Menlo Park\, California. Visit his website: BruceHendersonBooks.com. Purchase the book at: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book…
URL:https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/event/midnight-flyboys-the-american-bomber-crews-and-allied-secret-agents-who-aided-the-french-resistance-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn
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