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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLISH UNDERGROUND AND THE JEWS IN WORLD WAR II TO BE PROBED

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

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 […]

THE LIBERATION OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF GUNSKIRCHEN

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

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 […]

MUSLIMS IN NAZI GERMANY’S WAR, 1941-1945

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

Dr. Motadel will not only discuss Berlin's attempts to promote Nazi Germany as a patron of Islam, including the collaboration of prominent figures like the Mufti of Jerusalem, but also show that the realities on the ground were often very complex. In North Africa, the Balkans, and the Eastern front, German soldiers were confronted with […]

2016 RECIPIENT OF PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY TO VISIT RAMAPO COLLEGE

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

On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]

FILM NARRATED AND PRODUCED BY ROBIN WRIGHT EXPOSING THE  ILLICIT MINERAL TRADE IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO TO BE SCREENED

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

Narrated and executive produced by Golden Globe award winner Robin Wright (House of Cards), When Elephants Fight spotlights the illicit mineral trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo and shows how global tech corporations’ complicity has affected the continued conflict in the region. The film will be screened on October 17 at 2 p.m. in the […]

GENOCIDE SURVIVOR TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON EVENTS IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI

Alumni Lounges (SC156-157) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

On November 4, 2016 in the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges ( SC156-157), Eugenie Mukeshimana, Rwandan genocide survivor and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, will provide an update on developments in her native country and neighboring Burundi. More than a quarter of a million people in Burundi have fled in terror […]

RECOVERING ARMENIA: THE LIMITS OF BELONGING IN POST-GENOCIDE TURKEY

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

On November 29 at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion of Ramapo College, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak about her recent book Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2016) . The book follows the trajectories of the survivors of the […]

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: A Holocaust Hero and the Lives He Saved

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

   Joan Arnay Halperin and Monique Rubens Krohn, the daughters of two families rescued by the Portuguese diplomat, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, will tell the story of his unique and heroic accomplishment. As the Portuguese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, Sousa Mendes found himself confronted in June of 1940 with the reality of many thousands […]

Imagine A World Without Hate: the Current State of International and Local Anti-Semitism

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in co-sponsorship with Hillel will present Joshua Cohen, ADL New Jersey Regional Director, who will explore the recent rise of anti-Semitism around the world, in the U.S. and locally. Ways to fight anti-Jewish hatred in your community will also be shared. Mr. Cohen joined ADL in 2009, serving […]

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