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

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

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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Experiences of Refugees Coming to America to be Related in Their Own Words

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah

Lee T. Bycel, a humanitarian activist, rabbi, teacher and author, who serves as the Sinton Visiting Professor of Holocaust, Ethics and Refugee Studies at the University of San Francisco, will speak on Tuesday, November 12 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC156) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New […]

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 […]