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MUSLIMS IN NAZI GERMANY’S WAR, 1941-1945

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Motadel will not only discuss Berlin's attempts to promote Nazi Germany as a patron of Islam, including the collaboration of prominent figures like the Mufti of Jerusalem, but also show that the realities on the ground were often very complex. In North Africa, the Balkans, and the Eastern front, German soldiers were confronted with […]

THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF GUNSKIRCHEN

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah

Mr. Alan Moskin of Nanuet, New York will speak about how at the beginning of May 1945 as a young G.I. he participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. He was a member of the 66th infantry, 71st Division, part of General George Patton's 3rd Army. Alan's outfit fought […]

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLISH UNDERGROUND AND THE JEWS IN WORLD WAR II TO BE PROBED

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, will discuss his recent book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945. He will examine one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior […]