Menu Close

Support our efforts to Put an End to Hate

25000.00
10468

(last updated: 6/27/22, 4:03 PM ET)

Less than a week left

Generous leaders of our Advisory Board are offering a dollar-to-dollar match of up to $25,000 on donations received by June 30, 2022. Please contribute now, as your gift will go twice as far this month!

DONATE TO CAMPAIGN
Giving to the Center
Giving to the Center

Learn more about donating money and/or materials to support our mission.

Read more
Events
Events

Throughout the year, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh holds numerous events. While physically closed, we continue to host events online. Here's what we have coming up.

Read more
CHUTZ-POW!
CHUTZ-POW!

CHUTZ-POW! is our ongoing acclaimed comic-book series that places stories of courage, resilience, and sacrifice at the forefront of Holocaust awareness.

Read more
Jews of the Somme
Jews of the Somme

A Pittsburgh-based, international initiative by Dr. David Rosenberg.

Read more
previous arrow
next arrow

Upcoming Events

Past Programs and Uploads

Holocaust Center Pittsburgh

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh connects the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism with injustices of today.

Holocaust Center Pittsburgh
Event took place on June 12, 2022 at Chatham University Event Description: Father John Neiman first read Anne Frank's diary in 1963 when he was 10 years old. In 1974, as a college student, he wrote to Otto Frank, Anne's father, to let him know how the diary had changed his life. This letter initiated a correspondence that resulted in Frank becoming one of his dearest friends. He also formed a close 30-year friendship with Miep Gies, one of the upstanders who helped to hide the Frank family during the Holocaust. During this public talk, Father Neiman will share the story of his relationships with Mr. Frank and Ms. Gies, as well as his larger studies about the topic of the Holocaust. Q&A will follow. This event will coincide with what would’ve been Anne’s 93rd birthday.
Father John Neiman
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLmhWTlZTczhXSlJJ
View all of the winning art and artist statements here: https://hcofpgh.org/waldman-2022/ On Monday, May 2, the Holocaust Center honored local and international student winners of the Waldman International Arts and Writing Competition, showing their work to the public for the first time. We also honored Daniel Shaner for winning the Center's 2021-2022 Holocaust Educator of the Year award.
2022 Waldman Award Ceremony
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLmltTEVtcDhrR1ZR
This free online kickoff event for The White Rose featured a discussion between director Art DeConciliis, artist Marcel Walker, and writer Wayne Wise, all of whom have told the story of the White Rose through artistic media. These creatives discussed the process of depicting The White Rose, why it continues to inspire audiences, and the importance of sharing the story with future generations. The conversation was hosted by Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather, Director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Wayne Brinda, Artistic Director of Prime Stage Theatre, and featured questions submitted by partners at South Africa's Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre and Poland's Polin Museum.
The Legacy of the White Rose
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLmJmU3JjVFd5OEQ0
A video with just the LIGHT interviews portion of our 2022 Yom HaShoah program. These are not the full interviews; full interviews will be available later this summer. Time Stamps 00:00 - Dorseyville Middle School Interviewing Eugene Khorey 06:27 - Riverside High School Interviewing Guy Prestia 16:21 - Woodland Hills Senior High School Interviewing Dan Ottenheimer 25:23 - Shaler Area High School Interviewing Dr. Jessie Ramey
2022 Yom HaShoah LIGHT Interviews
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLllyZ0tFTHNRZGZv
We encourage you to explore the accompanying digital program book, which has supplementary details and information: https://indd.adobe.com/view/b0c4fe5c-9716-4f17-bb39-22cb482e7c40 Please note that this program contains eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and may be sensitive for viewers. Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the cornerstone program of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. It is the day set aside to remember the approximately six-million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Center’s annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration is a solemn community gathering that features a candle lighting ceremony, thematic readings, and a memorial for local survivors who have passed away. This year's online program once again features students from LIGHT schools conducting interviews, this year with two WWII veterans and two children of liberators. Holocaust survivors will light commemorative candles. The 2022 Yom HaShoah program is underwritten by Agnes Rocher z"l and Family, in memory of her husband George.
Yom HaShoah 2022: The Liberators and the Liberated
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLnRrczdhVEN2WW5r
Co-sponsored by Gumberg Library at Duquesne University and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. Recorded live on January 26, 2022. Program for International Holocaust Remembrance Day including an interfaith commemoration with Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life and Rev. Bill Christy, University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry. Remarks by Duquesne University President Ken Gormley, Dr. Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, Director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and Shai Maaravi, Leader of the Duquesne Hillel Jewish Students Organization. The keynote presentation was by Dr. David Rosenberg on the topic "The Making of 'Who is a Jew?': A Tale of Two Cities and the Challenges of Bringing a Troubling Holocaust History Home." Music by Prof. Paul Miller, Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University.
2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration and Program
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLnlHb0RweTM3Znl3
This year’s Kristallnacht commemoration centers around a special piece in the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s collection, known as Jakob’s Torah. This Torah, which was rescued from the flames of Kristallnacht in Germany, travelled the world: accompanying its rescuer, Jakob Weinblum, as he and his family spent 8 years as refugees in Shanghai; then spending 30 years in New York City in home storage, considered too damaged to be used as a ritual scroll; and then, finally, finding a permanent home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where its extraordinary story could be shared with the world. During our live commemoration program, we hosted a community screening of the local short documentary An Unlikely Refuge and our director interviewed Marilyn Weinblum, Jakob's daughter-in-law, and Iris Samson, who produced Refuge and co-produced Harbor. Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s annual Kristallnacht program is generously supported by Edgar Snyder. About Kristallnacht: On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the state-sanctioned vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. Kristallnacht marks the first instance in which the Nazi regime incarcerated Jews on a massive scale on the basis of their ethnicity, and is considered an essential turning point in the Nazi persecution of Jews.
Jakob's Torah - 2021 Kristallnacht Commemoration - HCPGH
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLkE4bTE1WTFvdi1V
This event will take place live on Zoom. Registration is required prior to the event to receive access to the Zoom link. In the mid-nineties, Mr. Schmidt became an official witness and interviewer for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project, in which the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors still alive gave testament to their personal histories that occurred before, during, and after World War II. Listen as he tells the genesis of his involvement, how he was chosen for the position, and the remarkable videotaped conversations he conducted with these unforgettable martyrs of one of world history's darkest periods. Mr. Schmidt is the winner of three Emmy and Four Ace Awards and as well as the Silver Medal from the International Television Festival of New York. He was formerly a reporter for LOOK Magazine and a Senior Producer for the National Football League for 33 years.
The Untold Story of How the Stories Were Told
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLkJWSkRrdHR6Nlpv
Yom HaShoah Interview #11: Survivor Irene Skolnick Conducted by Mr. Vensel's class at Dorseyville Middle School. ABOUT: In February and March 2021, students from LIGHT schools conducted interviews with local survivors and their families. Together, they also lit candles in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Excerpts from these interviews were shown at our 2021 Yom HaShoah program. By popular demand, we are pleased to share with you the full interviews conducted for the program. Our Yom HaShoah program was made possible thanks to generous support from: Agnes Rocher Highmark PNC Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh A special thank you to the teachers and students of the LIGHT Education Initiative, whose work made these interviews possible.
Yom HaShoah 2021 Interviews: Irene Skolnick
YouTube Video VVViY3lFSVRENm9za1E4QXFBelU1dnpnLkJTVjZSajc5Wndn
Load More... Subscribe