Lunch & Learn (Online)
Join us once a month for a Lunch & Learn program to hear children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, notable speakers on timely issues, and historical experts.
All programs are virtual on Zoom and are open to everyone. Watch the program live to ask questions or participate in the chat. Or watch the recorded program at your convenience on our website.
Check out the many previous Lunch & Learn programs available for you to watch.
PREVIOUS LUNCH & LEARN PROGRAMS
APRIL 21, 2026 | Criminalizing Enablers and Bystanders: Legal Accountability and Professional Responsibility
Online | 12:00-1:00pm (PT) | Register Now
Abuse and systemic misconduct rarely occur in isolation. Instead, they develop within legal, institutional, and cultural ecosystems shaped by decisions, omissions, and norms established by those in positions of authority. While perpetrators commit the underlying acts, bystanders and enablers—through inaction or misuse of authority—often create the conditions that allow unlawful and unethical conduct to persist.
During this session, we will examine the legal frameworks governing bystander and enabler liability, including criminal accountability, prosecutorial discretion, and the evolving standards applied to individuals and institutions. Drawing on real-world examples and experience, Professor Guiora will speak to the threat that unchecked bystander conduct has upon civil society, and explore when omissions and failures to act may give rise to criminal responsibility, how courts assess causation and duty, and the broader implications for compliance, governance, and risk management. In addition, we will consider the challenges posed by instances where bystanders try to respond but are met with further authoritarian responses.
Throughout this presentation, we will consider the ethical and professional obligations of lawyers advising individuals and organizations, serving in leadership roles, or acting as gatekeepers of a civil society. The program challenges attorneys to assess how law can—and should—be used to disrupt cycles of abuse, protect victims, and impose accountability before harm escalates.
Amos N. Guiora has an A.B. from Kenyon College, a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and a Ph.D. from Leiden University. In 2026, Guiora was named a University of Utah Presidential Societal Impact Scholar.
Washington state attorneys can earn 1 continuing legal education credit (other - improving the legal system) from the Washington State Bar Association.
MAY 5, 2026 | Soccer under the Swastika: Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust
Online | 12:00-1:00pm (PT) | Register Now
It has been famously said that soccer is war by another means. In the heart of the 20th Century, war engulfed Europe at precisely the moment the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses. Soccer is the truly world’s game and that it continued to be played in deadly conditions during World War Two never ceases to amaze. Soccer during the Nazi era was an irresistible force and responses by prisoners in the Nazi German camps and ghettoes were as varied as the camps themselves. As one of the forms of cultural life that appeared during the Holocaust, sport was also a pursuit laden with the most ambiguity. Though not particularly widespread across the expansive universe of camps within the Nazi sphere, sport and competition offered human contact, solidarity, and, most importantly, a means of survival. With the return of the World Cup to the United States this summer, come and see why soccer meant life!
Dr. Kevin Simpson is a professor at John Brown University and holds a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. He previously taught for 12 years at Concordia University in Portland and has been a Fulbright Scholar to the Slovak Republic, teaching sport psychology and Holocaust psychology at Comenius University in Bratislava. A three-time research fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and a faculty fellow at Yad Vashem, Dr. Simpson has taught and conducted research across Europe and led study-abroad programs in London and Vienna. He is the author of Soccer under the Swastika, an award-winning book examining the role of football during the Holocaust that has inspired museum exhibitions in the U.S. and Slovakia and contributed to his receipt of the 2021 Julius Hirsch Prize for combating antisemitism in football. He teaches a wide range of psychology courses and writes on genocide studies, creativity, propaganda, and sport psychology.
Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed in these programs are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of the Holocaust Center for Humanity and its employees.
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