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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Sun, May 19Holocaust Museum LAMay 19, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PMHolocaust Museum LA, 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAIn honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, enjoy this classic documentary about a group of Hollywood writers who met for Lunch at Factor’s Famous Deli for 40 years, and hear from Amanda Markowitz, granddaughter of Factor’s founders and Holocaust survivors Herman and Lili Markowitz.
Sun, May 26Holocaust Museum LAMay 26, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMHolocaust Museum LA, 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAErika was born in Budapest, Hungary. In 1944, Erika's mother managed to secure false papers for her family, and they lived under Christian identities in Budapest for the rest of the war. Survivor talks are generously supported by Arnold L. Gilberg, MD, PhD and Family.
Sun, Jun 02Holocaust Museum LAJun 02, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMHolocaust Museum LA, 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAHenry was born in 1934 in Paris, France to Polish-Jewish parents. After Nazi Germany invaded the whole country, and Henry's family escaped through the Pyrenees. Survivor talks are generously supported by Arnold L. Gilberg, MD, PhD and Family.
Thu, Jun 06VirtualJun 06, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PMVirtualIn honor of Pride Month, join us for a virtual screening of The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman, a play about the first lesbian Holocaust survivor to bear testimony. A Q&A will take place afterwards with playwright and historian Dr. Anna Hajkova.
Sun, Jun 09Barnes and Noble The GroveJun 09, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PMBarnes and Noble The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAJoin Holocaust Museum LA for a book talk with Joe Samuels about his memoir: Beyond the Rivers of Babylon. Joe was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1930 and survived the Farhud massacre in 1941.
Sun, Jun 09OnlineJun 09, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PMOnlineErika was born one month after Nazi Germany invaded Hungary. She and her mother survived in Budapest with false identity papers. Survivor talks are generously supported by Arnold L. Gilberg, MD, PhD and Family.
Thu, Jun 13AMC The Grove 14Jun 13, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PMAMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAJoin us for a special screening of the first episode of Peacock's new limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Sun, Jun 23Barnes & Noble The GroveJun 23, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PMBarnes & Noble The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAJoin author Tara Ison for a conversation about her book, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village.
Sun, Jun 30Barnes & Noble The GroveJun 30, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PMBarnes & Noble The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036Join Sammy Savos and Susan Gal, illustrators of Holocaust graphic novels, for a conversation about the process and unique challenges of illustrating this solemn history, as well as the medium’s potential to connect with broader audiences. This program is part of the Barnes & Noble bookfair.
Mon, Jul 15OnlineJul 15, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PMOnlineHow should a Jew dress? To look uniquely Jewish – or to resemble everybody else? Join instructor Eric K. Silverman for a three-part course on the history of Jewish dress.
Wed, Jul 24OnlineJul 24, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PMOnlineMenachem Mendel Beilis' two-year trial gained worldwide attention, and served as the catalyst for many Jews to leave the Russian Empire. Hear his grandson, Jay Beilis, share the story from the perspective of his family history, as well as the greater context of blood libel.
Thu, Jul 25AMC The Grove 14Jul 25, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PMAMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAShot inside the infamous Theresienstadt concentration camp, Terezin tells the story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czechoslovak violinist, who fall in love with each other.
Thu, Aug 01OnlineAug 01, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PMOnlineWhile working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son, and decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Thu, Aug 08AMC The Grove 14Aug 08, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PMAMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAWe’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., this film provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity.
Thu, Aug 15AMC The Grove 14Aug 15, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PMAMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAAttempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival of the Holocaust.
Thu, Aug 22AMC The Grove 14Aug 22, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PMAMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USAJoin us for a special screening of a film that features the true story of two young Slovak Jews who escaped Auschwitz and compiled a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.
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