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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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Son of Survivors to Provide Presentation on Conducting Research about Family Members’ Experiences in the Holocaust

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

Jerry Zaks, a retired IT professional from Bergen County and son of survivors, will conduct a presentation on researching the history of one’s family in the Holocaust titled, “Recovering the Past: Researching the Fate of One’s Family in the Shoah.”  He will also discuss his endeavor with Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff. The program […]

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Authors of Recent Books on Notorious Nazis to Discuss their Subjects’ Crimes and Fates

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

On Thursday, February 18 at 12 p.m., Dr. Daniel Lee, author of The SS Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi(Hachette, 2020) and Senior Lecturer in Queen Mary University London’s School of History and, and Philippe Sands, Q.C., author of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive (Knopf, 2021) and […]

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Work of German-Jewish Attorney and Political Scientist in Resisting Nazism to be Discussed

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

Dr. Douglas Morris, Esq., Ph.D., a legal historian and a criminal defense attorney for indigent clients in New York City., will discuss his recently published book, Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Dr. Mia Serban, Associate Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. […]

Bearing Witness for my Family: Surviving the Holocaust

Virtually via Zoom:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/german-jewish-attorney-and-political-scientist-resisting-nazism-tickets-140695753787

The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the Friends of the River Edge Library and the River Edge Cultural Center invite you to a presentation in commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in which Jerry Zaks, a son of survivors from Poland, will relate a deeply personal story about the human experience of the Holocaust. It starts in 1937, when his parents […]

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A single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family—drives a riveting forensic investigation

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

0n October 6 at 7 P.M., E.T., in conversation with Ramapo College librarian Christina Connor and Center Director Michael A. Riff, Dr. Wendy Lower will share the gripping story of the photograph she discovered at the U.S. Holocaust Museum taken at the moment of the horrific murder of Jewish woman by a Ukrainian collaborator during […]

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The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

On October 27 at 7 P.M., E.T., noted scholar Khatchig Mouradian will discuss his new book, The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitariansm in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021) with Center Advisory Board member Ani Tchaghlasian who also serves on the National Board of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). Mouradian […]

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Jews Hiding and Passing as Gentiles in Eastern Galicia (Nazi occupied Poland)

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

On February 9 at 7 PM, ET, Natalia Aleksiun, currently a scholar at the Warsaw Institute of Advanced Study and soon-to-be the Henry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, will discuss the research she has conducted about “Jews Hiding and Passing as Gentiles in Eastern Galicia.” Then Nazi occupied Poland, after […]

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Holocaust Diary of Orthodox Jew from Alsace to be Discussed

Webex

On March 23 at 7 PM, ET, Alexandra Garbarini, , professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College, will discuss "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch" The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus, published last year by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Garbarini co-edited the diary with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, reader in Holocaust Studies at the University […]

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