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Join the San Antonio Public Library and the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio for the 11th Annual Holocaust Learn and Remember program series, running from January 3 - 29, 2023.
The 2023 theme of censorship focuses on how the Nazi regime controlled the information that Jews and other persecuted groups received during the Holocaust as additional methods of suppression. From propaganda to book burning to control of mail in and out of Germany, the Nazi regime used a variety of censorship tactics to restrict the public’s access to information.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Antisemitic Propaganda: Then and Now
Dr. Roger Barnes
Virtual - Register here
Monday, January 9
3-4 PM
Join Dr. Barnes as he provides an overview of the various forms of Nazi propaganda during Hitler's regime and what neo-Nazi propaganda in the U.S. is like today. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
We Will Not Be Silenced: Our Words, Our Stories
Reyna Stovall
Great Northwest Branch Library
Monday, January 9
6:30-7:30 PM
Join Ms. Stovall as she discusses the wartime correspondence sent from people in Nazi-occupied Europe and how their censored letters fit into the broader stories of their lives and experiences. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
Antisemitic Propaganda: Then and Now
Dr. Roger Barnes
Virtual - Register here
Tuesday, January 10
6-7 PM
Join Dr. Barnes as he provides an overview of the various forms of Nazi propaganda during Hitler's regime and what neo-Nazi propaganda in the U.S. is like today. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
Writing Home about the Holocaust: The Military Mail of German Soldiers in WWII
Dr. Edward Westermann
Central Library
Wednesday, January 11
12-1 PM
Join Dr. Westermann as he looks at examples of letters sent home from German soldiers during WWII and examines the types of information that they shared with their families and loved ones in Germany. Despite strict censorship rules, it is clear that German men and women in the occupied East oftentimes openly described acts of atrocity and the persecution of Jews. These letters also reveal that the Holocaust and the destruction of the European Jews was not a hidden secret for many Germans on the home front. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
Writing Home about the Holocaust: The Military Mail of German Soldiers in WWII REGISTRATION FULL
Dr. Edward Westermann
Virtual
Sunday, January 15
2-3 PM
Join Dr. Westermann as he looks at examples of letters sent home from German soldiers during WW II and examines the types of information that they shared with their families and loved ones in Germany. Despite strict censorship rules, it is clear that German men and women in the occupied East oftentimes openly described acts of atrocity and the persecution of Jews. These letters also reveal that the Holocaust and the destruction of the European Jews was not a hidden secret for many Germans on the home front. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
We Will Not Be Silenced: Our Words, Our Stories
Reyna Stovall
Virtual - Register here
Tuesday, January 17
6:30-7:30 PM
Join Ms. Stovall as she discusses the wartime correspondence sent from people in Nazi-occupied Europe and how their censored letters fit into the broader stories of their lives and experiences. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
May History Attest for Us: Why the Jewish Voice Was Censored by the Nazis (And How It Broke Through) with Dr. J. E. Wolfson
This program has been cancelled and replaced with:
Antisemitic Propaganda: Then and Now
Dr. Roger Barnes (presenting via Zoom)
Thousand Oaks Branch Library
Wednesday, January 18
11 AM - 12 PM
Join Dr. Barnes as he provides an overview of the various forms of Nazi propaganda during Hitler's regime and what neo-Nazi propaganda in the U.S. is like today. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
May History Attest for Us: Why the Jewish Voice Was Censored by the Nazis (And How It Broke Through) with Dr. J. E. Wolfson
This program has been cancelled and replaced with:
We Will Not Be Silenced: Our Words, Our Stories
Reyna Stovall (presenting via Zoom)
Las Palmas Branch Library
Thursday, January 19
11 AM - 12 PM
Join Ms. Stovall as she discusses the wartime correspondence sent from people in Nazi-occupied Europe and how their censored letters fit into the broader stories of their lives and experiences. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
We Will Not Be Silenced: Our Words, Our Stories
Reyna Stovall
Virtual - Register here
Sunday, January 22
1-2 PM
Join Ms. Stovall as she discusses the wartime correspondence sent from people in Nazi-occupied Europe and how their censored letters fit into the broader stories of their lives and experiences. A Q&A will follow the presentation.
CLOSING PROGRAM
An Evening with Anna Salton Eisen
Monday, January 23
6:30 - 8 PM
Mission Branch Library
3134 Roosevelt Ave., 78214
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Join us for the conclusion of this year’s Holocaust Learn and Remember series. Hear from Anna Salton Eisen, an author and second-generation Holocaust Survivor, as she recounts her accidental discovery, as a youth, of two watercolor paintings by her father that depict the horrors of the Holocaust. She then set out in secret to uncover the truth about his past. Only years later, after she confronted her father about the importance of sharing his story, did he relent and join her on what would become a healing journey.
This year’s Holocaust Learn and Remember exhibit, War of Ideas: Nazi Censorship and Book Burning, will also be available for viewing before and after Ms. Eisen’s presentation. Light kosher refreshments will be served and copies of Ms. Eisen’s book "Pillar of Salt" will be available for purchase.
Traveling Exhibit
War of Ideas: Nazi Censorship and Book Burning
Cody Branch Library Mondays & Tuesdays from 12 - 8PM |
Mission Branch Library Mondays & Tuesdays from 12 - 8PM |
On May 10, 1933, German university students across the nation, in support of Nazi ideology, burned over 25,000 books considered “un-German.” The book burnings represented the beginning of a period of censorship and cultural control by Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime that lasted from 1933-1945. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, supported the book burnings as part of his mission to bring arts and culture in line with Nazi ideology.
Visit Cody or Mission during this exhibit to learn more about how Nazi leaders used censorship and wide-spread propaganda to control access to information and suppress opposition to the Nazi regime.
Thank you to our partners for Holocaust Learn and Remember 2023
We invite you to visit their websites:
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio
Jewish Federation of San Antonio
San Antonio Public Library Foundation
Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission