Past Events

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

Ludwig and Else Meidner.
An Artist Couple Exiled in London
Lecture by Erik Riedel, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
August 3, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Death and Immortality:
The Gentle Power of Hans von Trotha’s “Pollak’s Arm”
Hans von Trotha and Ori Z Soltes in conversation
July 26, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Nazi Billionaires.
The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
Author David de Jong and Rachel Stern in conversation
July 20, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Judith and Gerson Leiber.
A Life of Beauty, Love and Inspiration
Lecture by Ann Fristoe Stewart
July 6, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
#LastSeen –
Pictures of Nazi Deportations
Lecture by Christoph Kreutzmüller, Berlin (Germany)
June 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Charlotte. Animated Film about
German-Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943)
Producer Julia Rosenberg
in conversation with Ori Z Soltes
June 22, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943):
A Life Before Auschwitz
Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen, London (UK)
June 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
ART FOR NO ONE:
Artists in Germany between 1933 and 1945
Lecture by Ilka Voermann, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
May 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Prison Diaries by Hans Uhlmann, 1933-1935:
Drawing as Life Line
Featuring Dorothea Schöne, Berlin (Germany)
May 4, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Identity, Art and Migration:
Artist Refugees from Nazi Germany and Today
School of Visual Arts, New York
April 14, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Ben-Zion (1897-1987):
Man of Many Faces
Featuring Tabita Shalem and Ori Z Soltes
April 6, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
and the Role of the Clown
in the Arts
March 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed
Featuring Dorothea Schöne, Berlin (Germany)
March 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Identity and Migration:
Artists and Composers who Fled Persecution
Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, New York
February 27, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Boris Lurie:
Searching for Truth in Holocaust Images
Featuring Eckhart Gillen, PhD, Berlin (Germany)
February 1, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
#EVERYNAMECOUNTS Challenge
Partnership with Arolsen Archives and Yad Vashem
January 26, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Pencil and the Sword.
How Lily Renée (1921–2022)
Put her Art to Work Against the Nazis
Featuring Sabine Apostolo and Michael Freund
Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria
January 5, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CONFERENCE
Artists Migrating to the United States, In and Beyond the Nazi Period
FEATURING Rebecca Erbelding, PhD,
Katya Grokhovsky, and Ori Z Soltes, PhD
December 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Fritz Ascher (1893-1970):
Coming back to Life
Featuring Karen Wilkin and Elizabeth Berkowitz, PhD
December 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CONFERENCE: Identity and the Arts
FEATURING Libby Copeland, Ori Z Soltes
Deborah Tannen and Oksana Yakushko
December 1, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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