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Anne Frank’s Stepsister, Eva Schloss, to Tell Her Story

Ramapo High School 331 George Street, Franklin Lakes, NJ, United States

Eva Schloss the stepsister of Holocaust victim and diarist, Anne Frank, will share her story, including her account of the publishing of Anne's famed diary.on Tuesday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the  Ramapo High School Auditorium (331 George St., Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417.  The program is being held jointly by the Center for […]

Scholar to Discuss Contrasting Holocaust Diaries from Lodz, Poland

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Dr. Robert Shapiro, Professor of Professor of East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, and Yiddish at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, will speak about “A Tale of Two Diaries from the Lodz Ghetto,” on Tuesday, October 30 at 1:45 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. […]

Fate of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust to be Examined

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Graduate School of Touro College, will speak about “Gender and the Daily Lives of Jews Hiding in Nazi Occupied Eastern Europe during the Holocaust,” on October 30 at 7 p.m. in the Robert a Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) at Ramapo College of […]

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 […]

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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Shifting Diasporas of Bialystok Jewry to be Discussed

Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Rebecca Kobrin, the Joseph Engel Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Harvard University, will speak on Tuesday, November 26 at 1:45 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges (SC138) of the Robert A. Scott Student Center at Ramapo College of New Jersey about “Competing Diasporas, Shifting Centers: Bialystok's Jews in the Age of World Wars.” […]

British Fascist Women, the Anti-War Campaign and Antisemitism

Via Zoom Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Professor Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield, UK) will be in conversation with Ellen Ross, Ph. D., Professor Emerita of History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College who written widely in British Women’s History. In the 1930s, Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), despite never having more than 50,000 members and never having one of […]

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

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

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

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

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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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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