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Historian to Examine Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Dr. Martin Dean, Historical Consultant at Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, will give a talk on “Babi Yar and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” at Ramapo College of New Jersey.  The program is rescheduled from last March after having been postponed because of inclement weather. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Dean will […]

Film to be Screened Exploring Experiences of Jewish Professors from Nazi Germany at Historically African American Colleges

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

Steven Fischler, co-director and producer of “From Swastika to Jim Crow,” will screen his film on Thursday, February 14 at 10 a.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The program will be presented under the auspices of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is free and open to […]

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 […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop: In Hiding: Saving Jewish Lives in the Holocaust

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Doctors treat Jewish partisans at a field hospital.Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum During the Nazi occupation of much of Europe, many Jewish men, women and children struggled to survive by hiding. Some were able, more often than not with the help of non-Jews, to obtain false papers and places of refuge. In the process, survival entailed […]

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