Join NOWCastSA and the San Antonio Public Library on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, for a webcast of the closing reception of the Holocaust Learn and Remember series, which focused this year on the stories of Women in the Holocaust. Beginning at 6 p.m., Caroline Weinberg will speak about her grandmother’s story of surviving five years in Nazi slave labor camps. The experiences of Weinberg's grandmother, Sala Garncarz Kirschner, are portrayed in the exhibit "Letters to Sala," displayed in the Central Library gallery.

The clerk asked if she had a typewriter. She did. It was the third time Ilona Haendel dodged the Nazis and snuck out of a Budapest ghetto to ask the clerk for a few Swiss protection papers for her friends and family. The clerk saved her another trip by putting the official stamp and seal on more than 100 papers of Swiss protection for her to complete on her own typewriter for other Jewish people living in the ghetto. With those papers, Haendel’s family and friends were able to live in buildings under Swiss protection.

Replay the video from NOWCast webcast for an extraordinary event in the Learn and Remember series: Recovered Voices, was on Monday, Jan. 28 2019 in the San Antonio Central Library Auditorium. Thanks to support from the San Antonio Public Library, anyone can watch live or replay it later, for free, right on this page, also the live webcast was reTweeted by Holocaust Music and the OREL Foundation From the event program:

Join NOWCastSA and the San Antonio Public Library on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. as Dr. Edward Westermann examines artistic depictions by survivors of the Holocaust and discusses the insights that the works of art offer as a method for understanding genocide. Westermann's keynote address concludes the 6th annual Holocaust: Learn & Remember month-long commemoration of the Holocaust.

Replay video as Hannah Pankowsky, Holocaust survivor and author, shares the story of her family’s escape from Poland in 1940. She related her story during The Holocaust Learn and Remember: Refuge in the Americas at the Central Library Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. The Holocaust: Learn and Remember is a yearly commemoration and remembrance of the Holocaust.

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Replay the video from Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger's discussion of his book, "A German Life: Against All Odds, Change is Possible." Dr. Wollschlaeger described his struggle growing up in Germany in the shadow of his father, a highly-decorated WWII German tank commander and Nazi officer. Dr. Wollschlaeger eventually converted to Judaism, emigrated to Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces as a medical officer.

REPLAY VIDEO: In partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and the San Antonio Public Library Foundation and the San Antonio Public Library presented the second Holocaust: Learn and Remember

A lecture by Rose Williams, a Holocaust survivor and San Antonio resident, concluded the San Antonio Public Library's month-long photo exhibit, Holocaust: Learn and Remember. The lecture took place on Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah, on April 7, 2013. You can replay video of the event below.

As Iran threatens to erase Israel from the map through possible nuclear annihilation and anti-Semitic attitudes persist throughout the world, should society be concerned? Edward Westermann, distinguished scholar in residence at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, believes so. He will address these issues and more during a lecture, “Confronting Hatred: Implications of the Holocaust for Contemporary Society” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at Congregation Agudas Achim, 16550 Huebner Road. Admission is free and open to the public.