Dr. Avinoam Patt will examine how in the Holocaust humor was both a psychological weapon and a defense mechanism. He will show how in the face of unspeakable it established camaraderie and helped boost morale. At the University of Hartford since 2007, Dr. Patt teaches courses on Modern Jewish History, American Jewish History, the Holocaust, […]
Dr. Joanne Intrator, a practicing psychiatrist and author, will speak about her pursuit of restitution for Wallstrasse 16, a center-city Berlin property stolen by the Nazis. The evening also will include a service and a program featuring choral music performed by the Ramapo Chorale and the adult choir of Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom.
Dr. Hasia Diner, the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, will discuss her book Roads Taken. The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way (Yale U. Press, 2015), that tells the story of millions of young Jewish men who sought opportunity abroad, […]
Dr. Ellen Ross, Emerita Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey will discuss “Food and Shelter for Seven Million: The Women of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1945-1947.” She will delve into the encounters that women of the UNRAA had with the massive human catastrophe faced in the […]
Dr. Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History and the Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University in New York, will discuss his recent book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945. He will examine one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior […]
Mr. Alan Moskin of Nanuet, New York will speak about how at the beginning of May 1945 as a young G.I. he participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. He was a member of the 66th infantry, 71st Division, part of General George Patton's 3rd Army. Alan's outfit fought […]
Dr. Wallach will argue that there was, in fact, a pronounced desire for visibility among Jews in Weimar Germany and that gender played a central role in decisions about displaying Jewishness. Instead of “passing” as non-Jews or overtly displaying Jewishness at all times, many Jews inhabited a state of ambiguity in public, but adopted signifiers […]
Mr. Alan Moskin of Nanuet, New York will speak about how at the beginning of May 1945 as a young G.I. participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. Mr. Moskin's unit fought in combat through France, Germany and Austria during which time he was promoted from Private to Staff […]
On the night of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich fled her home in Skokie, Illinois, insisting that someone was trying to kill her — to “put a bullet in head,” she told anyone who would listen. It would take a year for her son, Chicago Tribune journalist Howard Reich, to understand why she was running […]
On September 23 at 2 p.m. in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Freinds Hall (SC219), Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cooper Union in New York City, will discuss her recent work on “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue […]
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