Memorial ensemble at Salaspils, Latvia

 

As the population of Holocaust survivors diminishes and antisemitism across the globe surges, The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust is on the front lines working to raise awareness of the Holocaust through powerful and educational public programming that addresses the history of the Holocaust, the singular most catastrophic genocide in history, and its consequences including the challenges of contemporary antisemitism.

The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust is a program of the Gayle and Paul Gross Family Foundation.

Event Schedule

Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

Sunday December 3, 2023 - 11:00 a.m.
David de Jong
Florida Atlantic University
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Friedberg Auditorium
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it.

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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it.

Please register each attendee individually.

    Lithuanian Holocaust Fraud

    Sunday December 17, 2023 - 11:00 a.m.
    Grant Arthur Gochin
    Florida Atlantic University
    Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
    Friedberg Auditorium
    777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

    Gochin is a serial litigant against the Government of Lithuania to expose their rampant rewriting of their Holocaust history. Through his litigation, he has exposed the Lithuanian President, Prime Minister, Parliament, Public Prosecutor, Heritage Department, Mayor of Vilnius, every single one of their Courts including both of their Supreme Courts, as participants in the national program of Holocaust deception.

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    Gochin is a serial litigant against the Government of Lithuania to expose their rampant rewriting of their Holocaust history. Through his litigation, he has exposed the Lithuanian President, Prime Minister, Parliament, Public Prosecutor, Heritage Department, Mayor of Vilnius, every single one of their Courts including both of their Supreme Courts, as participants in the national program of Holocaust deception.

    Please register each attendee individually.

      IBM and the Holocaust:
      The Smoking Gun Documents

      Sunday January 7, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
      Edwin Black
      Florida Atlantic University
      Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
      Friedberg Auditorium
      777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

      “IBM and the Holocaust” is the New York Times’ best-selling and stunning story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. Edwin Black will show how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create the technologies that enabled the Nazis to target the Jews of Europe for asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation.

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      “IBM and the Holocaust” is the New York Times’ best-selling and stunning story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. Edwin Black will show how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create the technologies that enabled the Nazis to target the Jews of Europe for asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation.

      Please register each attendee individually.

        Artificial Intelligence and Automated Antisemitism

        Monday January 8, 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
        Edwin Black
        Boca Raton Synagogue
        7900 N. Montoya Circle, Boca Raton, Florida 33433

        From the author of the New York Times best selling book, IBM and the Holocaust, comes a spellbinding lecture on one of the largest threats to the Jewish community that remains unspoken.

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        From the author of the New York Times best selling book, IBM and the Holocaust, comes a spellbinding lecture on one of the largest threats to the Jewish community that remains unspoken. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence, online Jew hatred and precision fakery will be unimaginably multiplied. Understand the threats. Prepare.

        Please register each attendee individually.

          Artificial Intelligence and Automated Antisemitism

          Tuesday January 9, 2024 - 7:00 p.m.
          Edwin Black
          Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens
          6100 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418

          From the author of the New York Times best selling book, IBM and the Holocaust, comes a spellbinding lecture on one of the largest threats to the Jewish community that remains unspoken.

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          From the author of the New York Times best selling book, IBM and the Holocaust, comes a spellbinding lecture on one of the largest threats to the Jewish community that remains unspoken. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence, online Jew hatred and precision fakery will be unimaginably multiplied. Understand the threats. Prepare.

          Please register each attendee individually.

            The Nazi Titanic

            Sunday January 21, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
            Dr. Robert Watson
            Florida Atlantic University
            Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
            Friedberg Auditorium
            777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

            The final days of WWII were defined by desperate fighting, final acts of heroism and inhumanity, and chaos. One incident that embodies all these descriptions occurred in the final hours of the war when Nazi units in northern Germany on the southern Baltic Coast were forced to surrender.

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            The final days of WWII were defined by desperate fighting, final acts of heroism and inhumanity, and chaos. One incident that embodies all these descriptions occurred in the final hours of the war when Nazi units in northern Germany on the southern Baltic Coast were forced to surrender. In one last brutal act of hate, Nazi commanders issued an unthinkable order. It involved an infamous ship, seen by Hitler as a sign of Nazi might, featured by Goebbels in Nazi propaganda, used by Himmler in a bizarre plan, and ultimately the scene of one of history’s most tragic events. Even WWII and the Holocaust still have their secrets. One that occurred in the final fitful throes of the war was so shocking that the Allies ordered all records pertaining to it classified for 100 years. This is the story of those long-classified documents.

            Book Signing and Sale following the lecture.

            Please register each attendee individually.

              International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Featuring Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, FIDF

              Sunday January 28, 2024 - 1:00 p.m.
              Major General Nadav Padan, Natl. Dir.
              Captain Itai Tzur, Naval Commander
              Palm Beach Synagogue
              120 N County Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480

              MAJOR GENERAL NADAV PADAN, During his distinguished 36 years of military service in the IDF, Major General Padan has held several leadership positions, including commander of the central command and head of the cyber defense directorate.

              CAPTAIN ITAI TZUR, Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, Captain Itai joined the Naval Academy and was eventually promoted to command a Naval Patrol Battleship, charged with securing the southern maritime border along the Gaza Strip and playing an active role in Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021.

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              MAJOR GENERAL NADAV PADAN, During his distinguished 36 years of military service in the IDF, Major General Padan has held several leadership positions, including commander of the central command and head of the cyber defense directorate.

              CAPTAIN ITAI TZUR, Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, Captain Itai joined the Naval Academy and was eventually promoted to command a Naval Patrol Battleship, charged with securing the southern maritime border along the Gaza Strip and playing an active role in Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021.

              Please register each attendee individually.

                Time Capsules Under the Rubble: the Ringelblum Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

                Sunday February 4, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
                Dr. Samuel Kassow
                Florida Atlantic University
                Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                Friedberg Auditorium
                777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                During World War II Jews resisted not only with guns but also with pen and paper. Even in the face of death they left “time capsules” full of documents that they buried under the rubble of ghettos and death camps.

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                During World War II Jews resisted not only with guns but also with pen and paper. Even in the face of death they left “time capsules” full of documents that they buried under the rubble of ghettos and death camps. They were determined that posterity would remember them on the basis of Jewish and not German sources. The Ringelblum archive in the Warsaw Ghetto buried thousands of documents. But of the 60 people who worked on this national mission, only three survived. This will be their story.

                Please register each attendee individually.

                  Jerusalem and the Disputed Territories: Definitive Sovereignty in International Law

                  Sunday February 18, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
                  Dr. Jacques P. Gauthier
                  Florida Atlantic University
                  Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                  Friedberg Auditorium
                  777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                  The answers to the question of Israel’s entitlements in respect to the City of Jerusalem and the disputed territories under international law depend on certain prior legally binding decisions which are reflected in international legal instruments.

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                  The answers to the question of Israel’s entitlements in respect to the City of Jerusalem and the disputed territories under international law depend on certain prior legally binding decisions which are reflected in international legal instruments. Frequently, allegations of violations of international law against the State of Israel are based on political arguments devoid of legal merit. False narratives are accepted by many globally in the midst of rising antisemitism disguised as anti-Israel/Zionist initiatives. In order to counter the weaponization of international law against Israel, it is vital to increase the knowledge and understanding of the international law sources of the territorial sovereignty entitlements of Israel.

                  Please register each attendee individually.

                    The Masada of Warsaw

                    Sunday March 3, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
                    Dr. Irving Berkowitz
                    Florida Atlantic University
                    Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                    Friedberg Auditorium
                    777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                    In this talk Dr. Berkowitz will provide a sweeping analysis of the historic, symbolic and political significance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April – May 1943).

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                    In this talk Dr. Berkowitz will provide a sweeping analysis of the historic, symbolic and political significance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April – May 1943). He will contrast this event with another well known historic parallel, the heroic last stand by Jews against the overwhelmingly superior military forces of Rome, the siege of Masada (73-74 CE). Dr. Berkowitz will underscore the legacy, inspiration and contemporaneous relevance of the “resistance”in both instances to the moral imperative of rising above fear and intimidation and pushing back against escalating Jew-hatred with the same courage, leadership, passion and defiance as the Ghetto fighters.

                    Please register each attendee individually.

                      The Taylor Force Act: Halting Pay To Slay

                      Sunday March 17, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
                      Mr. Stuart Force
                      Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen B. West
                      Julie Strauss Levin, Esq.
                      Florida Atlantic University
                      Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                      Friedberg Auditorium
                      777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                      Mr. Stuart Force has a distinguished record of service to our nation. He and his wife, who tragically lost their soldier son Taylor in a pay to slay terror attack, were instrumental in bringing the Taylor Force Act into current legislation.

                      LIEUTENANT COLONEL (Ret) ALLEN B. WEST is a combat veteran, and former Member of the US Congress. He is the third of four generations of military combat veterans. After 22 years of honorable service in defense of the Republic, Allen was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida’s 22nd District.

                      JULIE STRAUSS LEVIN is an attorney with extensive experience in both the for-profit and non-profit spaces. Julie was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Feld Entertainment, Inc., the largest provider of live family entertainment in the world. Julie was appointed to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. She also sits on the Virginia Israel Advisory Board.

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                      Mr. Stuart Force has a distinguished record of service to our nation. He and his wife, who tragically lost their soldier son Taylor in a pay to slay terror attack, were instrumental in bringing the Taylor Force Act into current legislation. LIEUTENANT COLONEL (Ret) ALLEN B. WEST is a combat veteran, and former Member of the US Congress. He is the third of four generations of military combat veterans. After 22 years of honorable service in defense of the Republic, Allen was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida’s 22nd District. JULIE STRAUSS LEVIN is an attorney with extensive experience in both the for-profit and non-profit spaces. Julie was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Feld Entertainment, Inc., the largest provider of live family entertainment in the world. Julie was appointed to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. She also sits on the Virginia Israel Advisory Board.

                      Please register each attendee individually.

                        The Rothschild Dynasty: Overcoming Antisemitism

                        Sunday March 31, 2024 - 11:00 a.m.
                        Dr. Ralph Nurnberger
                        Florida Atlantic University
                        Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                        Friedberg Auditorium
                        777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                        The Rothschild family had lived in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto for 400 years. They earned their living by selling goods on the back of a donkey. By the mid-1800s they likely were the wealthiest family on the planet.

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                        The Rothschild family had lived in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto for 400 years. They earned their living by selling goods on the back of a donkey. By the mid-1800s they likely were the wealthiest family on the planet. Their enormous wealth enabled them to impact major events throughout Europe and the Middle East, including funding Wellington’s army against Napolean, Britain’s abolition of slavery, control of the Suez Canal, and the railways in Austria and Germany.

                        Please register each attendee individually.

                          The Masada of Warsaw:
                          A Special Presentation in Honor of Yom Hashoah

                          Sunday May 5, 2024 - 1:00 p.m.
                          Dr. Irving Berkowitz
                          Palm Beach Synagogue
                          120 North County Road, Palm Beach, Florida 33480

                          In this talk Dr. Berkowitz will provide a sweeping analysis of the historic, symbolic and political significance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April – May 1943).

                          Read More

                          In this talk Dr. Berkowitz will provide a sweeping analysis of the historic, symbolic and political significance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April – May 1943). He will contrast this event with another well known historic parallel, the heroic last stand by Jews against the overwhelmingly superior military forces of Rome, the siege of Masada (73-74 CE). Dr. Berkowitz will underscore the legacy, inspiration and contemporaneous relevance of the “resistance” in both instances to the moral imperative of rising above fear and intimidation and pushing back against escalating Jew-hatred with the same courage, leadership, passion and defiance as the Ghetto fighters. 

                          Please register each attendee individually.

                            Israel at War: What Comes Next

                            Sunday November 12, 2023 - 11:00 a.m.
                            Gregg Roman
                            Director of the Middle East Forum
                            Florida Atlantic University
                            Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
                            Friedberg Auditorium
                            777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431

                            You are invited to join a crucial discussion led by Gregg Roman, Director of the Middle East Forum, focusing on the recent tragic events in Israel and the path forward. Mr. Roman will analyze the factors contributing to the calamity where Hamas claimed over a thousand lives in one day. He will outline strategies for dismantling the group, emphasizing the necessity of addressing this issue for regional stability.

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