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Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947

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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 look at some of the encounters the women of UNRRA had with the occupying armies and with the […]

Speaker Janet Brennan Croft Will Discuss Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy

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Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien's fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the difference in tone between the children's book and the vastly […]

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3)

Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, will discuss his recent book “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945.” He will examine one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior […]

Muslims in Nazi Germany’s War 1941-1945

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1)

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1&2) Muslims in Nazi Germany’s War. 1941-1945 Dr. David Motadel Research Fellow in Modern History at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration

Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom 280 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration Featuring liberator Alan Moskin