Events
2008 Events

January 2008
January 15
The Unknown Soldier
Film screening at the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
January 24
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Screening of film La Finestra de Fronte (Facing Windows)
At the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco

February 2008

February 2
Knud Dyby Honored by Temple Beth Jacob
at Temple Beth Jacob
February 10
Saved by an Angel : Talk by Leon Leyson
at Congregation Chevra Thilim
February 28
The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadików
A lecture by Professor Debórah Dwork

March 2008

March 4
Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival
Gloomy Sunday
March 5
Contra Costa International Jewish Film Festival
La Maison de Nina

April 2008

April 6
Address Unknown
Kibbutz Theatre production at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos
April 29 - May 4
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust commemorations
April 30
A Song for Argyris
SF Jewish Film Festival at Yerba Buena Center

May 2008

May 5
Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
A Talk with Slides by Omer Bartov
May 22
Die Welle (The Wave)
Film at Jewish Community Center San Francisco

June 2008

June 22
Working Together To Reduce Racism
 10th Anniversary Tribute to James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas

July-August 2008

July 23
Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Discussion and book-signing with authors John F. Rothmann and David G. Dalin
July 24 - August 11
HCNC co-presents five films at the
2008 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
August 3
Women Who Fought Back!
A workshop for educators

September 2008

September 8
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen: From Holocaust to Genocide
In conversation with Robert Rubin, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
At Jewish Community Center San Francisco
September 25
HCNC Fall Lecture and Film Series
The Holocaust as a Determining Factor in German-Jewish Relations Today
A lecture by Consul General of Germany Rolf Schütte

October 2008
October 27
The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home
Reading and Talk by Erin Einhorn
At BJE Community Library
October 28
Film Class: Jews in Italy
The Tree of Life
At BJE Community Library
October 30
HCNC Fall Lecture and Film Series
Secret Courage – The Walter Suskind Story
Film screening

November 2008

November 2
San Francisco Jewish BookFest
At Jewish Community Center San Francisco
November 5
Memoria
At Jewish Community Center San Francisco
November 10
Kristallnacht: An Evening of Remembrance
Discussion and film screening
November 18
Film Class: Jews in Italy
Facing Windows (La Finestra di Fronte)
At BJE Community Library
November 18
Fighting Back: Rescue and Resistance During the Holocaust
A Workshop for Educators
November 20
HCNC Fall Lecture and Film Series
What My Father Saw
Reading and Talk by Melanie Saxer Johnston

December 2008

December 10
Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village
Reading and Talk by Mimi Schwartz
At BJE Community Library
December 11
HCNC Fall Lecture and Film Series
Watermarks
Film screening
December 16
Film Class: Jews in Italy
Primo
At BJE Community Library

Exhibits

September 10, 2007 - January 13, 2008
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust
at the Judah L. Magnes Museum
121 Steuart Street, Suite 10 San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415.777.9060 Email: info@hcnc.org