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

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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. […]

Novel by Ramapo Professor that Traverses the Terrain of the Russian-Jewish Experience to be Discussed

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Dr. Lisa Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at Ramapo College, will discuss her recently published book, Forget Russia (Tailwinds Press, 2020) with Dr. Santamaría Laorden, Associate Professor of Spanish at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Thursday, […]

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Bearing Witness for my Family: Surviving the Holocaust

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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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Conversation to Examine the Remarkable Legacy of the German Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon

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Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) will be in conversation with Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College, PA) about the work and life of the German Jewish artist, Charlotte Salomon. Center Director, Dr. Michael A. Riff will act as moderator. The program will be delivered virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, April 20 at 2 p.m. It will […]

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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

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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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Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz: Support, Opposition, and Reservation

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On October 20th at 4 PM, ET, Zohar Segev, professor of History at the University Haifa in Israel, will offer a new understanding of the Allied decision of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz Concentration Camp. In conversation with Center Director Michael A. Riff, Segev will present new research into archival documents related to the work of […]

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The Jewish Boxers Who Fought Back and for their Lives before and after the Shoah

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On November 10 at 7 P.M., E.T. the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host Jeffrey Sussman who will discuss his new book, Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers (Rowan&Littlefield, Oct. 2021) that tells riveting stories of victims who fought back against the Nazis. The lives of five boxers who were forced to fight for their […]

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Genealogy in Researching Holocaust History to be Unpacked

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On February 2 at 7 PM, ET, Avraham Groll, executive director of JewishGen-The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy and Ramapo alum, will be in conversation about “Using JewishGen to Research Your Roots - Including Holocaust Related Information” with Jerry Zaks, a retired technology expert, who has done just that. The program will take place under […]

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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

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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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