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Teachers Workshop: CHOICES MATTER: COMPLICITY AND ACTION DURING THE HOLOCAUST

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

CHOICES MATTER: COMPLICITY AND ACTION DURING THE HOLOCAUST Thursday, November 19, 2020; 10 AM to 1 PM Virtually via WebEx FREE OF CHARGE  Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours: Additional online activities to be assigned)  Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2  Registration: bit.ly/2DWLarM “Peoples’ stories will help students relate and empathize more with this topic and theme. One thingI’ll remember is to teach students that silence can do great […]

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Son of Survivors to Provide Presentation on Conducting Research about Family Members’ Experiences in the Holocaust

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

Jerry Zaks, a retired IT professional from Bergen County and son of survivors, will conduct a presentation on researching the history of one’s family in the Holocaust titled, “Recovering the Past: Researching the Fate of One’s Family in the Shoah.”  He will also discuss his endeavor with Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff. The program […]

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Family Letters and Auschwitz Memoir Tell Story of Sephardic Community of Salonica in Twentieth Century

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

On Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m., Dr. Sarah A. Stein, Professor of History, U.C.L.A and Dr. Joe Halio, physician and President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, will discuss “A Sephardic Journey: The Jews of Salonica from the Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust.” The Center for Holocaust and Genocide […]

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Authors of Recent Books on Notorious Nazis to Discuss their Subjects’ Crimes and Fates

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

On Thursday, February 18 at 12 p.m., Dr. Daniel Lee, author of The SS Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi(Hachette, 2020) and Senior Lecturer in Queen Mary University London’s School of History and, and Philippe Sands, Q.C., author of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive (Knopf, 2021) and […]

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Work of German-Jewish Attorney and Political Scientist in Resisting Nazism to be Discussed

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

Dr. Douglas Morris, Esq., Ph.D., a legal historian and a criminal defense attorney for indigent clients in New York City., will discuss his recently published book, Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Dr. Mia Serban, Associate Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. […]

Novel by Ramapo Professor that Traverses the Terrain of the Russian-Jewish Experience to be Discussed

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Dr. Lisa Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at Ramapo College, will discuss her recently published book, Forget Russia (Tailwinds Press, 2020) with Dr. Santamaría Laorden, Associate Professor of Spanish at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Thursday, […]

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Bearing Witness for my Family: Surviving the Holocaust

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the Friends of the River Edge Library and the River Edge Cultural Center invite you to a presentation in commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in which Jerry Zaks, a son of survivors from Poland, will relate a deeply personal story about the human experience of the Holocaust. It starts in 1937, when his parents […]

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Conversation to Examine the Remarkable Legacy of the German Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon

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Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) will be in conversation with Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College, PA) about the work and life of the German Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, April 20 at 2 p.m. It will […]

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A single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family—drives a riveting forensic investigation

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0n October 6 at 7 P.M., E.T., in conversation with Ramapo College librarian Christina Connor and Center Director Michael A. Riff, Dr. Wendy Lower will share the gripping story of the photograph she discovered at the U.S. Holocaust Museum taken at the moment of the horrific murder of Jewish woman by a Ukrainian collaborator during […]

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Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz: Support, Opposition, and Reservation

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

On October 20th at 4 PM, ET, Zohar Segev, professor of History at the University Haifa in Israel, will offer a new understanding of the Allied decision of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz Concentration Camp. In conversation with Center Director Michael A. Riff, Segev will present new research into archival documents related to the work of […]

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