Past Events

Past EventsDave2023-01-26T22:09:49-05:00

Jacob Pins (1917-2005): The Art of Laughter and Tears
Presentation by Ori Z. Soltes, Washington (DC)
February 11, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Filmmaker Stefan Roloff discusses THE RED ORCHESTRA
A documentary film about the Anti-Nazi Group in Berlin, 1933-1942
January 29, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Under Il Duce’s Shadow:
Italian Art and Artists During the Fascist Regime
Presentation by Nicola Lucchi, PhD, New York (NY)
January 14, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Looted! The Nazi Art Plunder of Jewish Families in France
Book talk by Peter Elliott (France)
December 10, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Flight or Fight? Artists in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Presentation by Rachel Stern, New York
Kupferberg Holocaust Center @ Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY
December 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Resistance and Art:
The “Red Orchestra” Anti-Nazi Group in Berlin
Presentation by Stefan Roloff, Berlin (Germany)
School of Visual Arts, 133/141 West 21st Street, Room 101C, New York, NY
December 1, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
From Vienna to Movies:
Costume Designer Ruth Morley at 100, a birthday commemoration.
Presentation by Melissa Hacker and Susan Gammie
November 19, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Confronting the Holocaust in Midcentury American Art
Presentation by Jennifer McComas, Bloomington (Indiana)
November 12, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Matisse at War. Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France
Book talk by Christopher C. Gorham
October 22, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ossip Klarwein (1893-1970): an Architect’s Journey from Berlin to Jerusalem
Presentation by Jacqueline Hénard, Berlin (Germany)
September 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Samson Schames (1898-1967): Family and Friends
Conversation with Natalie Green Giles, James McCaffrey and Charlie Scheidt.
Moderated by William Weitzer
September 17, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Theodore Fried (1902-1980): In Hiding and Beyond
Presentation by Sofia Thornblad, Tulsa (OK)
September 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Three Exiles of the German-born artist Samson Schames (1898-1967)
Conversation with Annika Friedman (Germany), Rachel Dickson, PhD (UK) and Ori Z Soltes, PhD (USA)
August 27, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ruth Morley and Lore Segal, Kindertransport Survivor Artists on Film
Film Screening and Conversation with Director Melissa Hacker
August 20, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
WHAT IF?
Presentation by Ori Z Soltes, PhD, Washington, DC
July 23, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
DEAR MISS PERKINS.
A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Book talk by Rebecca Brenner Graham, Ph.D.
July 9, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
THE ART SPY. The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Book talk by Michelle Young, New York and Paris
June 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Victor Brauner’s Departures and Returns
Presentation by Irina Cărăbaș, Bucharest (Romania)
followed by a conversation with Nicola Baird, PhD, London (UK)
June 11, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tamara de Lempicka: Modern Maverick
Presentation by Alison de Lima Greene, Houston (TX)
May 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990)
Presentation by Carey Mack Weber, Fairfield (CT),
followed by a conversation with Barbara Rosenberg Loss
May 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm