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  • British Fascist Women, the Anti-War Campaign and Antisemitism

    Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

    Professor Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield, UK) will be in conversation with Ellen Ross, Ph. D., Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College who written widely in British Women’s History. In the 1930s, Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), despite never having more than 50,000 members and never having one of […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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

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

    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

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

    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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  • The Jewish Boxers Who Fought Back and for their Lives before and after the Shoah

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

    On November 10 at 7 P.M., E.T. the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host Jeffrey Sussman who will discuss his new book, Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers (Rowan&Littlefield, Oct. 2021) that tells riveting stories of victims who fought back against the Nazis. The lives of five boxers who were forced to fight for their […]

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