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Holocaust Center Lecture Series At Ramapo College To Feature New Research

(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)September 22, 2000

(Mahwah) – The Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Ramapo College is sponsoring a series of three lectures showcasing new work being done on the Third Reich and the Holocaust. The series is free and open to the public. School groups are welcome. For more information, please contact Dr. Michael A. Riff, (201) 684-7409.

Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m.

Mansion York Room
“Escape Via Siberia: A Polish Jewish Boy’s Odyssey of Survival”
Dr. Dorit Whiteman, a Holocaust survivor, clinical psychologist and author of The Uprooted: A Hitler Legacy, is the speaker.

Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m.

Mansion York Room
In commemoration of Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938
“Nazi Architecture and the Holocaust”
Dr. Paul Jascot, professor of history, DePaul University, Chicago, and the author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy, will speak.

Thursday, December 7 at 7 p.m.

Mansion York Room
“Polish Society and the Holocaust”
Dr. Antony Polonsky, professor of Judaic and social studies and the Albert Abramson Professor in Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, is the speaker. He is the author of The Little Dictators: A History of Eastern Europe Since 1918, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1941-45), and A History of the Jews of Poland and Russia: 1764 to the Present (forthcoming).

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