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Film on Return of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to Hungary to be Screened

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen the film, “1945,” on Thursday, April 4 at 10 a.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program is free and open to the public. Directed by Ferenc Török and based on the acclaimed short story Homecoming by Gábor T. Szántó, […]

Son to Tell Story of His Parents’ Escape during Holocaust from Poland to the Soviet Union and Iran

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Victor Borden, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist from Bergen County, Thursday, April 25 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey will recount how his parents escaped the Holocaust in a presentation with the title, “Flight from German Oppression:Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson.”  The program will be […]

TEACHERS WORKSHOP– Ethnic Cleansing: When Does it Become Genocide?

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

In cooperation and with the support of the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) 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 Although the term "ethnic cleansing" gained currency after its use by the media to describe Serb initiatives to remove non-Serbs, especially Muslim Bosnians, from its territories during the breakup of […]

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Film about Wondrous Life and Career of Dr. Ruth Westheimer to be Screened

Truistees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen the film, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” on Friday, September 20 at 1:45 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1&2) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program is free and open to the public. Directed by Ryan White, the Hulu Original Documentary, Ask Dr. Ruth, tells the story […]

The Fate of Persons of Mixed Jewish-Non-Jewish Origin in Nazi Germany to be Discussed

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Carolyn Enger, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, and Maren Friedman, who survived as a hidden child in Nazi Germany, will present a program, Mischlinge: The Fate of Mixed Jewish-Non-Jewish Persons in Nazi Germany, on Friday, October 11 at 1:45 p.m at Ramapo College in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Student Center (SC158). […]

Year 1938 in the Development of the Holocaust to be Examined

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research and Chief Archivist at The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) New York , will speak on Tuesday, October 22 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC158) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New Jersey about “The Crucial Year of 1938: The Fate of Jews […]

Frontlines and Fault Lines: Notes and Observations from field work among Muslim communities in Gujarat and Kashmir, India

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Ruma Sen, Professor of Communications at Ramapo College of New Jersey, will speak on Tuesday, October 29  at 1:45 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion, Ramapo College of New Jersey about “Frontlines and Fault Lines:  Notes and Observations from field work among Muslim communities in Gujarat and Kashmir, India.” The program will be presented under the […]

Linkage of Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide to be Explored

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On Friday, November 1 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Center at Ramapo College (SC158), Dr. Laura B. Cohen, the Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s Executive Director, will unpack the term of “Ethnic Cleansing” and analyze how the phenomenon is connected to genocide. Her talk, “Ethnic Cleansing: The Language of Mass […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop: In Hiding: Saving Jewish Lives in the Holocaust

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Doctors treat Jewish partisans at a field hospital.Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum During the Nazi occupation of much of Europe, many Jewish men, women and children struggled to survive by hiding. Some were able, more often than not with the help of non-Jews, to obtain false papers and places of refuge. In the process, survival entailed […]

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