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Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz: Support, Opposition, and Reservation

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

On October 20th at 4 PM, ET, Zohar Segev, professor of History at the University Haifa in Israel, will offer a new understanding of the Allied decision of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz Concentration Camp. In conversation with Center Director Michael A. Riff, Segev will present new research into archival documents related to the work of […]

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A single photograph—an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family—drives a riveting forensic investigation

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

0n October 6 at 7 P.M., E.T., in conversation with Ramapo College librarian Christina Connor and Center Director Michael A. Riff, Dr. Wendy Lower will share the gripping story of the photograph she discovered at the U.S. Holocaust Museum taken at the moment of the horrific murder of Jewish woman by a Ukrainian collaborator during […]

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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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