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Teachers Workshop: CHOICES MATTER: COMPLICITY AND ACTION DURING THE HOLOCAUST

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

CHOICES MATTER: COMPLICITY AND ACTION DURING THE HOLOCAUST Thursday, November 19, 2020; 10 AM to 1 PM Virtually via WebEx FREE OF CHARGE  Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours: Additional online activities to be assigned)  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  Registration: bit.ly/2DWLarM “Peoples’ stories will help students relate and empathize more with this topic and theme. One thingI’ll remember is to teach students that silence can do great […]

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Role of Churches in Nazi Germany and Legacies of Antisemitism to be Explored

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Rebecca Carter-Chand, Acting Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust in the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss "The German Churches in the Nazi-Era and the Legacies of Antisemitism." The event will be held under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust […]

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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 […]

Hitler’s First Hundred Days

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Fritzsche (University of Illinois-Urban-Champaign) will conduct a virtual conversation about his recent book, Hitler’s First Hundred Days. When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Basic Books) with Ramapo professor Sam Mustafa, Ph.D., who teaches German History and is the author of several books in the field. Fritzsche’s probing account reveals how Germany’s fractured republic, in the spring […]

Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), will conduct a virtual conversation about his 2019 book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas(Yale University Press) with Ramapo professor Sarah Koenig, Ph. D., who teaches Native American History, and whose book, Providence and the Invention of American History, will be published […]

Re-scheduled as a Webex Event–Scholar to Examine Legacy of Anti-Jewish Persecution in the Soviet Union

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On Thursday, April 23 at 12 p.m., Elissa Bemporad, Ph.D., the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust and an Associate Professor of History at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will speak about her new book, Legacy of Blood: Jews, […]

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FILM ON ATTEMPT TO HIDE SOBIBOR REVOLT TO BE SCREENED

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

PBS producer/director Gary Hochman has traveled the world producing national documentaries on science, history, and Jewish heritage for PBS and NOVA.  He will screen “sneak preview” of his film, Deadly Deception at Sobibor, about how archeologists Yoram Haimi (Israel) and Wojtek Mazurek (Poland) uncover evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a 1943 revolt and mass […]