About the Event

2024 marks 79 years since the end of the Holocaust, or Nazi Germany’s systematic and state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews. Across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Greece to Norway and France to Russia, thousands of Jewish communities were extirpated. By May 1945, when the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, 2/3 of European Jewry and 1/3 of worldwide Jewry had been annihilated. Traditional Holocaust awareness has long focused on Ashkenazi Jewry, or Jews in Central and Eastern Europe. By numbers, they bore the brunt of the genocide. Yet, Sefardic Jewry was also profoundly devastated, most hauntingly Salonika, Greece, the hub of the Ladino-speaking civilization, and known as the Jerusalem of the Balkans. Most tragically, Sefardic victims were descendants of Iberian Jews who had undergone massacres, forced conversions, expulsion, and the Inquisition in previous centuries. In a time of antisemitism unprecedented since the Shoah, join JHA for a meaningful overview of a largely unknown chapter in the annals of the Holocaust, WWII, and 20th century Jewish and European history.

Program Introduction / Michael Steinberger - Founder & CEO of Jewish Heritage Alliance (JHA). Michael is an entrepreneur including 4 decades’ experience in the tourism industry. Michael brings his many years’ entrepreneurial and marketing experience to the creation and continued development of JHA.

Presenter / Key Speaker is Dr. Isaac Amon – JHA Director of Academic Research and an attorney and counselor at law. He was a Legal Fellow at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Legislative Director at the Missouri Department of Corrections, and an ISIS war crimes investigator. He is an Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri and this past summer, he was a scholar in-residence at Oxford University through the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). The proud grandson of Ashkenazi, Sefardi, and Mizrahi Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 20th century, he often speaks on the law, international criminal justice, and Jewish memory, including antisemitism, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust.

PROGRAM CO-SPONSORS:
Assisting in underwriting the cost of the event are:

• Comunidade Israelita do Porto
• University of Miami (Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies)

CO-HOSTING PARTNERS:
Assisting in promoting this program are:

• Greater Miami Jewish Federation
• Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE)
• ANU Museum of the Jewish People
• European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC)
• Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
• Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (SCJS)
• Kulanu

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