10:30am
Oakland (exact location shared closer to the event)
Marking ten years since his passing, a tribute to Shimon Peres's life and vision of peace, with a virtual conversation with his son Chemi Peres. Hosted by the Consulate General of Israel and JCC East Bay.
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8:30pm
AMC 14, 700 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose
Barry Avrich's documentary follows retired general Noam Tibon's October 7 drive across southern Israel to rescue his son's family.
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5pm – 8:30pm
JCCSF, 3200 California Street, San Francisco
Film premiere, live piano and conversation with Mona Golabek about her mother's Kindertransport escape.
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7pm – 9pm
Congregation Sherith Israel, 2266 California Street, San Francisco
A Kristallnacht anniversary screening of a short film on Jewish refugees in Shanghai, with the filmmaker and archival artifacts.
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7pm – 8:30pm
Albers Chapel, Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, Oakland
An evening of readings from Jewish poets who served in the two World Wars, marking Veterans Day.
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7:45pm – 9pm
Peninsula Temple Sholom, 1655 Sebastian Drive, Burlingame
Screening of a 2025 film telling the Holocaust through poems and drawings made by children in Terezín.
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5:30pm – 7pm
Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Senior Curator Alissa Schapiro lectures on photographer Ilse Bing, whose career was upended by the Holocaust, and her portrait by Nancy Lee Katz.
More about Ilse Bing: From Jewish Avant-Garde Photographer to Nancy Lee Katz’s Most Complicated Sitter (opens in a new tab)
6pm – 7pm
Manny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco
Jennifer Levine's puppet play with music tells of artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who taught children art in Theresienstadt. A second show follows at 7:30 pm.
More about Under Friedl's Wing (opens in a new tab)7pm – 8:30pm
Sanctuary, Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, Oakland
Pianist Catherine Kautsky plays music of classical Vienna and works by composers exiled or killed in the Holocaust, with images and commentary.
More about Vienna and the Anschluss: Intersections of Music, Politics, and Judaism (opens in a new tab)
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Community commemoration on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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The ICC's annual run and ride in memory of the fallen.
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The ICC's annual community ceremony for Israel's Memorial Day.