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Scholar to Discuss Her Work on Jewish Survivors Returning to Poland after Holocaust

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Monika Rice, Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs at Gratz College in Philadelphia, will speak on Thursday, February 28 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey about her recently published book, “What! Still Alive?!" Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming, published by Syracuse University […]

The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism to be Explored

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Paul Hanebrink, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will speak on Thursday, March 7 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey about his recently published book, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018). The program will be presented under […]

Film on Return of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to Hungary to be Screened

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen the film, “1945,” on Thursday, April 4 at 10 a.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program is free and open to the public. Directed by Ferenc Török and based on the acclaimed short story Homecoming by Gábor T. Szántó, […]

Son to Tell Story of His Parents’ Escape during Holocaust from Poland to the Soviet Union and Iran

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Victor Borden, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist from Bergen County, Thursday, April 25 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey will recount how his parents escaped the Holocaust in a presentation with the title, “Flight from German Oppression:Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson.”  The program will be […]

Film about Wondrous Life and Career of Dr. Ruth Westheimer to be Screened

Truistees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen the film, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” on Friday, September 20 at 1:45 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1&2) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program is free and open to the public. Directed by Ryan White, the Hulu Original Documentary, Ask Dr. Ruth, tells the story […]

The Fate of Persons of Mixed Jewish-Non-Jewish Origin in Nazi Germany to be Discussed

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Carolyn Enger, an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, and Maren Friedman, who survived as a hidden child in Nazi Germany, will present a program, Mischlinge: The Fate of Mixed Jewish-Non-Jewish Persons in Nazi Germany, on Friday, October 11 at 1:45 p.m at Ramapo College in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Student Center (SC158). […]

Year 1938 in the Development of the Holocaust to be Examined

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research and Chief Archivist at The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) New York , will speak on Tuesday, October 22 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC158) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New Jersey about “The Crucial Year of 1938: The Fate of Jews […]

Linkage of Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide to be Explored

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On Friday, November 1 at 1:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Center at Ramapo College (SC158), Dr. Laura B. Cohen, the Kupferberg Holocaust Center’s Executive Director, will unpack the term of “Ethnic Cleansing” and analyze how the phenomenon is connected to genocide. Her talk, “Ethnic Cleansing: The Language of Mass […]

Experiences of Refugees Coming to America to be Related in Their Own Words

Alumni Lounge (SC156) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Lee T. Bycel, a humanitarian activist, rabbi, teacher and author, who serves as the Sinton Visiting Professor of Holocaust, Ethics and Refugee Studies at the University of San Francisco, will speak on Tuesday, November 12 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC156) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New […]

Shifting Diasporas of Bialystok Jewry to be Discussed

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Rebecca Kobrin, the Joseph Engel Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Harvard University, will speak on Tuesday, November 26 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC138) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New Jersey about “Competing Diasporas, Shifting Centers: Bialystok's Jews in the Age of World Wars.” […]