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  • 39TH ANNUAL MEETING & ART AND WRITING AWARDS CEREMONY

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    Join us as we share our accomplishments, install incomingPresident Francine Denerstein, and award students for their excellencein leadership & creativity. RSVP here

  • Before Majdanek: Jewish Life and Communities in Lublin (ZOOM)

    Join Holocaust historian Laura Auketayeva, Ph.D., Director of Education and Programs at the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center, for a virtual lecture on Zoom exploring the rich and complex world of Jewish Lublin before World War II. Through survivor memoirs, photographs, maps, and historical research, the program will explore Jewish daily life in Lublin, from […]

  • “Eleanor The Great” Movie and with a Special Guest

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    Join the Dwares JCC and the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center for Eleanor the Great, a witty and deeply moving film that explores Holocaust memory and the complicated ways we carry the past. Special Virtual Guest: Rita Zohar Immediately following the film, acclaimed actress and Holocaust survivor Rita Zohar will join us live via Zoom. […]

  • Author Talk: Daniela Gerson, “The Wanderers”

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    Where: Dwares JCC | Providence, RI Join the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center for an evening with award-winning journalist and author Daniela Gerson, in conversation with David Cicilline, former U.S. Congressman, former Mayor of Providence, and President and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation. Gerson will discuss her acclaimed new book, The Wanderers: A Story […]

  • Game Day

    LEDGEMONT COUNTRY CLUB 131 Brown Ave, SEEKONK, Massachusetts

    Register here to secure your spot

  • The Jewish Experience: Three Personal Family Narratives (Documentary Shorts)

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    Presented in partnership with the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Three personal family stories about Jewish heritage. My Ioannina Odyssey | Directed by Gary Glassman and Manya GlassmanWhen a mysterious box arrives on my doorstep, its century-old ship manifests, family photos, and crumbling documents launch an odyssey to […]

  • Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940–1945

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    Featuring Dr. Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita, New York University As National Hispanic Heritage Month begins, join us for the remarkable story of one of the Holocaust’s least-known rescue efforts. During the Second World War, the Dominican Republic became the only country in the Americas to officially welcome large numbers of […]

  • The Art of Listening: Engaging with Holocaust Survivor Testimony

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    In partnership with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center is pleased to partner with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University for The Art of Listening, an engaging workshop that is open to everyone and qualifies as professional development for educators. This workshop […]

  • Revisiting Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah in the Digital Age

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
    Adult Education

    In 1973, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann began work on what would become his landmark documentary Shoah (1985). Over the course of twelve years, he recorded more than 230 hours of interviews and location footage before shaping that material into the film’s nine-and-a-half-hour final version. A little more than a decade after Shoah premiered, the unused footage […]

  • Ballet RI: In Motion

    Woodman Center at Moses Brown School 250 Lloyd Ave, Providence, RI, Rhode Island

    The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center is proud to partner with Ballet RI for the world premiere of a powerful new ballet inspired by the family story of Speakers’ Bureau member Lilliane Birch and her parents’ experiences during the Holocaust. Part of Ballet RI’s 2026–2027 season, In Motion also features Yury Yanowsky’s Bathers and the […]

  • One SMALL miracle: Restoring an Abandoned Jewish Cemetery

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
    Adult Education

    Join the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center for a screening of one SMALL miracle, followed by a discussion with preservationist Alan Metnick. One SMALL miracle tells the inspiring story of the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Goniądz, Poland, the ancestral home village (shtetl) of filmmaker Dr. Myrna Teck’s family. After discovering the abandoned cemetery […]

  • Kristallnacht Commemoration 2026

    Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center 401 Elmgrove Ave, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

    The Jews of Nazi Vienna: Rescue and Destruction Join historian Dr. Ilana Offenberger as she examines the experiences of Vienna’s Jewish community under Nazi rule. Drawing on years of archival research, Dr. Offenberger explores how Jews navigated persecution through resilience, rescue efforts, and acts of survival while confronting the rapid destruction of a centuries-old community. […]