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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 […]

The Mischlinge Expose: Multimedia Performance about Intermarriage in the Third Reich and Beyond

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

The Mischlinge Exposé is a many-layered multimedia performance centering around Carolyn Enger’s family's history and her personal experience with Judaism. The program features the music of German-Jewish-born composers Felix Mendelssohn, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Hanns Eisler. It will also highlight a new work written by the acclaimed composer Bruce Adolphe especially for this project. The […]

Lisbon, the Port of Last Resort, and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of World War II

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

Professor Kaplan will focus on Jewish refugees in Portugal during World War II and examine a triangle of actors: the Jewish refugees themselves; the Portuguese national and local governments, civil servants, and citizens; and Jewish and transnational philanthropies. Using diplomatic, political, and legal history, and the history of daily life, Kaplan’s presentation will analyze the […]

On the Run from Hitler in the Soviet Union: A Conversation about Memoir and History

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

Dr. Ellen Friedman, Professor of English Literature at the College of New Jersey, and Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at the Cooper Union, New York, will discuss their recent work on the fate of the Polish Jews who during the Holocaust found refuge in the Soviet Union and beyond. While both Friedman and Grossmann are […]

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 Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC-158) is being canceled. It is being re-scheduled for the fall.

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 Monday, April 19 at 1 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the the Center for […]

Screening of Acclaimed Hungarian Film ‘1945’ in Memory of John Gunzler

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

The recently released and critically acclaimed Hungarian film, “1945,” postponed on account of inclement weather, will now be screened at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Thursday, May 3  at 7 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1-2) under the auspices of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The program is being held in memory […]

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 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, N.J.). It will be held under the auspices of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Temple Beth Haverim Shir […]

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