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One of the ‘Black Angels:’ My Father, A Soldier and Liberator of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

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

Ms. Sampson-Jefferson will share the story of how her father, Otto Sampson Sr., an African-American G.I. in the all-black 380th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. 4th Armored Division, came to be one of the liberators of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. on April 11, 1945. Her presentation will include excerpts from a 1999 interview that she conducted […]

Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) Commemoration to Feature a lecture Struggle for Restitution

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

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.

HISTORIAN TO PROVIDE REVISED LANDSCAPE OF JEWISH PERSECUTION AND SURVIVAL DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR II

Friends Hall (SC219) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mawah, NJ

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 […]