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The Vatican and the Holocaust Will Be Topic of Lecture

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Stanislao Pugliese, professor of History at Hofstra University, will speak about “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” on Wednesday, April 18 at 4 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of  the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Italian Club of Ramapo College. The […]

Screening of Film About Turkish Armenian Identity in Context of 100th Commemoration of Genocide

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Naré Mkrtchyan will screen her film,“The Other Side of Home,” an eye-opening account of the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turkish government. on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the Armenian Students Association of Ramapo College, the Armenian National […]

Daughter to Discuss Her Father’s Holocaust Art Journey

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), Miriam Friedmann Morris of Pomona, New York , will speak about “From Chess Masters to Clydesdales—Holocaust Survivor David Friedmann’s Art Journey” on Monday, April 19 at 1 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the the Gross Center […]

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: A Holocaust Hero and the Lives He Saved

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

   Joan Arnay Halperin and Monique Rubens Krohn, the daughters of two families rescued by the Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will tell the story of his unique and heroic accomplishment. As the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, Sousa Mendes found himself confronted in June of 1940 with the reality of many thousands […]

Role of Women in Postwar Effort to Aid Displaced Persons to Be Discussed

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will  delve into the encounters that women of the UNRAA had with the massive human catastrophe faced in the […]