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FORMER CNN CORRESPONDENT TO DISCUSS BOOK ON FATE OF JEWS IN POLISH TOWN OF TOMASZOW

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

On September 28 at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1&2), Mr. Allan Chernoff will discuss the book he co-authored with his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, The Tailors of Tomaszow. A communal memoir and history of Holocaust survivors from Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, the book provides a glimpse into the extinguished world of Eastern European Jewry, before, during, […]

Noted International Jurist and Writer to Discuss the Personal Origins of the Concepts of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

York Room, The Birch Mansion 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Philippe Sands, QC, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London and an international human rights lawyer, will speak about his recently published and acclaimed book, EAST WEST STREET: On the Origins of the “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). It tells […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop–The Exploitation of Women in Genocide: How to Bring a Delicate Subject into the Classroom

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

In the light of the many accounts of sexual vulnerability, abuse and rape that occurred during the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we have come to accept that sexual violence is an intrinsic feature of genocide. No longer is the issue a taboo. Survivors, witnesses, and scholars have become less reticent to discuss […]

Postponed-Historian to Examine Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine

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

Due to inclement weather, the previously scheduled lecture by Dr. Martin Dean on “Babi Yar and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” scheduled for Thursday, March 8 at 1:20 p.m. in The […]

Daughter to Discuss Her Father’s Holocaust Art Journey

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), Miriam Friedmann Morris of Pomona, New York , will speak about “From Chess Masters to Clydesdales—Holocaust Survivor David Friedmann’s Art Journey” on […]

A Commemorative Concert: 80 Years-KRISTALLNACHT

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

A commemorative concert for the 80th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, will be held on Sunday, October 21 (2 pm) at Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (280 […]