Events

Rachel Baum, Deputy Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will explore the importance of Holocaust diaries, which not only reveal important truths about lived experiences of the Shoah, but often show the efforts of their authors to maintain a sense of identity in the most traumatic of times.

Jewish Museum Milwaukee is open until 7:00 pm so you have extra time to explore our exhibits! Special exhibit 'The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto' is on display now!

Join us for a LOMED Book Club to discuss The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Łódź Ghetto, the diary of a young man describing the relentless horror of the Łódź Ghetto while repeated rallying himself and his family against fear and pessimism.

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.

Explore what makes a good story for a memoir project. Play with different forms, craft a draft, and have fun! The atmosphere will be supportive and gently guide participants through a process that sparks creativity and resuscitate the storyteller that lives inside all of us.

Jewish Museum Milwaukee is open until 7:00 pm so you have extra time to explore our exhibits! Special exhibit 'The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto' is on display now!

Join Sam Kassow, historian and author of Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto, for an in-depth look at the unique culture of the Łódź ghetto. Explore the questions: How can we judge ghetto leaders like Rumkowski? And what lessons can we learn from the experience of Łódź?

Join Simone Schweber, Chair of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in this interactive workshop where we’ll combine pair-and-share, small-group work, open large-group discussion and lecture to figure out how to talk to young kids about the Holocaust—yours or others.

Usually, Jewish Museum Milwaukee is open late on the Third Thursday of each month. But this month, Third Thursday is during the holiday of Passover. Due to the importance of this holiday, Jewish Museum Milwaukee is closed all day. Chag Sameach!

Join Mitchell Duneier, department chair of Sociology at Princeton University, as he traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to present-day African-American ghettos.