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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 Gross Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff. The […]

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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 Gross Center for Holocaust and […]

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

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

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. Gross Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on […]

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Franci’s War: A True Story of Survival in Theresienstadt and Beyond

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

On November 16 at 7 P.M., E.T., renowned author and journalist Helen Epstein will discuss her mother's Holocaust memoir, Franci's War (New York: Penguin, 2020)by Franci Rabinek Epstein. Franci's story begins in Prague with the German occupation of March 15, 1939 and continues with her deportation, in the summer of 1942, to Terezin, the former fortress […]

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Virtual Event in Commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: From Awareness to Action: Confronting Antisemitism At Home and Abroad

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On January 27 at 6 PM, ET, In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Robert Williams, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss about how current conspiracy theories and tropes fuel antisemitism domestically and internationally. He will also address how Holocaust education contributes to combatting this menace. […]

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Genealogy in Researching Holocaust History to be Unpacked

Via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3G2NCYm

On February 2 at 7 PM, ET, Avraham Groll, executive director of JewishGen-The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy and Ramapo alum, will be in conversation about “Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots - Including Holocaust Related Information” with Jerry Zaks, a retired technology expert, who has done just that. The program will take place under […]

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Holocaust Diary of Orthodox Jew from Alsace to be Discussed

Webex

On March 23 at 7 PM, ET, Alexandra Garbarini, , professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College, will discuss "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch" The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus, published last year by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Garbarini co-edited the diary with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, reader in Holocaust Studies at the University […]

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Avinoam Patt

Avinoam Patt discusses his new book on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Webex

On April 25 at 7 PM, ET, Avinoam Patt, the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut, will discuss his new book, The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, published last year by Wayne State University […]

Maus Read-In for Students

MAUS Read-In for Students

York Room, The Birch Mansion 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the School of Humanities and Global Studies are sponsoring a MAUS read-in for 35 students on Wednesday April 27 from 3-5 PM in the York Room. Refreshments will be served, and together we will read MAUS and then have a brief discussion. The students will be […]

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