Upcoming Events | The Breman Museum in Atlanta

Join fellow Georgians and others across the Southeast for a live digital program featuring representatives from the Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Documentation who collect, preserve, and make accessible to the public our vast collection of record on the Holocaust. Learn how the Museum continues its acquisition efforts despite the pandemic and about a project that, in a race against time, collects eyewitness accounts abroad to expand what is known about Holocaust history.

Nazi resistance fighter Sophie Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the group The White Rose. She, her brother Hans, and other members of the group were executed on February 22nd, 1943, for treason after publishing multiple leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime at the University of Munich. She was 21 years old at the time of her death.

Join us for "Researching Jewish Families in America," a special series of JewishGenTalks highlighting archives, museums, and historical society collections of interest to family historians from around the country. The inaugural talk will focus on Southern Jewish Resources, and will feature repositories with collections about the Jews of South. The program is co-sponsored by the Southern Jewish Historical Society.

Join us to relive a landmark moment in the history of our nation's civil rights struggle when 16 rabbis were arrested in St. Augustine, FL, in 1964 in support of Martin Luther King's request to Jewish leaders to help bring attention to the plight of black people in America.

For over 25 years, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum has long been a part of the fabric of a vibrant midtown community. It has evolved from its early days as a museum dedicated to Jewish culture and heritage to what it has become today: the most respected Jewish history museum in the South. This September we are hosting an anniversary event to honor our past and celebrate our future! Join us as for this festive occasion which will be the first event of the Jewish New Year. Please mark your calendar now for the evening of Sunday, September 19, 2021. The event will include a tour of a powerful new exhibition entitled HISTORY WITH CHUTZPAH. The exhibition, steeped in passionate curatorial content, will reveal history once hidden in attics and filing cabinets. Guests will be invited to tour the newly installed exhibition followed by a dynamic, not to be missed evening of cocktails and cuisine ... entertainment and enlightenment.