Author and poet Victoria Redel will speak about her book, The Border of Truth (Counterpoint, 2007) on March 10 at 1 p.m. at the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC137-138). The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is sponsoring the event. Like so many children of survivors and refugees, she grew up in […]
Rutgers (Camden) law professor Michael Livingston will examine the legal framework, case-level operation, and ominous consequences of Fascist Italy’s racial laws from their introduction in 1938 to the regime’s destruction in 1943. The program is being held at Ramapo College of New Jersey on March 26 at 4:45 p.m. in the Robert A. Scott Student […]
An extraordinary testament to one man’s perseverance, the Sundance award-winning film Watchers of the Sky examines the life and legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide. This multi-faceted documentary interweaves Raphael Lemkin’s struggle with the courageous efforts of four individuals keeping his legacy alive: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Chief […]
PBS producer/director Gary Hochman has traveled the world producing national documentaries on science, history, and Jewish heritage for PBS and NOVA. He will screen “sneak preview” of his film, Deadly Deception at Sobibor, about how archeologists Yoram Haimi (Israel) and Wojtek Mazurek (Poland) uncover evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a 1943 revolt and mass […]
In commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host a conversation between Ragip Zarakolu and Nanore Barsoumian on “The Denial Industry in Turkey.” They will examine how, inside and outside of official government channels, efforts have been made to discredit the truth about the systematic and organized […]
On May 13, 2015, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will be hosting an Echoes and Reflections training program for middle and high school teachers in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League and the New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education. It is free-of-charge. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. This professional learning […]
Dr. Mark Lewis, Associate Professor of History at the College of Staten Island of the City University, will examine how ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War evolved into an attempt to repress aggressive war, war […]
Growing up, Fethiye Çetin had no reason to suspect that she had other than Turkish Muslim roots, until one day her maternal grandmother, Seher, revealed to her that she was by birth an Armenian Christian, who had been taken away from her mother on a death march in the course of the Armenian Genocide. This […]
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 […]
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