Holocaust Museum LA is CLOSED for construction through our grand reopening in June 2026. Don’t miss the many public program and education opportunities offered online and off-site. Virtual school field trips and classroom programs are available for the 2025 – 2026 school year.

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Sun, Sep 14
Online Holocaust Survivor Talk: Eva Nathanson
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Sep 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Online Webinar
Holocaust survivor testimony online followed by Q&A
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Tue, Sep 16
What History Teaches: Scapegoating & the Politics of Othering
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Sep 16, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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A look at how Nazis leveraged fear, nationalism, and antisemitism to scapegoat Jewish people and other minorities.
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Thu, Sep 18
Where They Settled: Holocaust Survivors in Mexico
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Sep 18, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Focusing on Mexico, this first session in our series explores different communities that Holocaust survivors built after liberation.
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Sun, Sep 28
Online Holocaust Survivor Talk: Rita Lurie and Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
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Sep 28, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Online Webinar
Holocaust survivor testimony online followed by Q&A
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Sun, Oct 12
Liars' Paradise
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Oct 12, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Barnes and Noble, The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Erika Fabian shares her new book, an autobiographical novel that tells the remarkable survival story of herself, her mother Piry, and her sister Judith, during the WWII Nazi occupation and subsequent Communist dictatorship.
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Thu, Oct 16
What History Teaches: Women’s Loss of Rights During the Third Reich
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Oct 16, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
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A look at the loss of women’s rights, particularly for Jewish, Black, and political opponents in 1930s Germany.
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Sun, Oct 19
The Life and Work of Composer Szymon Laks
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Oct 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Museum of Tolerance, 9786 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA
Join USC Polish Music Center, Museum of Tolerance, and Holocaust Musuem LA for an afternoon lecture from Philosopher André Laks; son of composer, writer and survivor Szymon Laks, followed by a performance of Lak's String Quartet No. 3 by USC Thornton students.
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Mon, Oct 20
Online Class: Justice and the Holocaust
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Oct 20, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
Online Webinar
Three-session online class led by Professor Michael Bazyler of Chapman University. Mondays October 20th, 27th, and November 3rd at 4:00PM.
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Thu, Oct 23
Where They Settled: Holocaust Survivors in South Africa
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Oct 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
Online Webinar
Exploring different communities that Holocaust survivors built after liberation, this program focuses on the city of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Sun, Oct 26
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
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Oct 26, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Barnes and Noble The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Author Tracy Slater presents her new nonfiction book that details the experiences of Elaine Buchman Yoneda, her Jewish/Japanese American family and their incarceration in a US WWII concentration camp.
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Wed, Oct 29
What History Teaches: Universities, Education, and the Role of Intellectuals
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Oct 29, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
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Learn how German universities were “nazified” in the 1930's and what that meant for the Nazi regime, the war in Europe, and the Holocaust.
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Sun, Nov 09
The Ball Dreams of the Sky
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Nov 09, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Barnes and Noble the Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Author, filmmaker and 2G Henry Schipper presents his new book, The Ball Dreams of the Sky; an autobiographical book of baseball poems that translates to his memories and lessons in life.
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Thu, Nov 13
What History Teaches: Between Terror and Resilience – Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
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Nov 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online Webinar
Learn how German Jews created spaces of dignity, connection, and hope in the face of terror, prosecution, and prejudice in the 1930s.
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Sun, Nov 16
The Work of Remembering
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Nov 16, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
The Ebell, 743 S Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90005, USA
How do communities recover and reclaim language, tradition, and culture after tragedy? Join Indigenous and Jewish cultural workers for a powerful exploration of how communities impacted by genocide preserve cultural memory and rebuild traditions.
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Wed, Dec 03
Where They Settled: Sweden
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Dec 03, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Online Webinar
A continuation of our series, this lecture explores the community that Holocaust survivors built in Sweden from the war years through the present.
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Thu, Dec 04
Collecting and Preserving Traumatic Histories: Archivists in Conversation
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Dec 04, 2025, 4:00 PM
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Archivists from diverse institutions examine their practices for caring for and managing objects that represent collective and personal tragedies.
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Sun, Dec 14
By The Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream
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Dec 14, 2025, 11:00 AM
Barnes and Noble, The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Author and 3G Dan Grunfeld presents his multi-generational family epic detailing history's only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA.
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