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Film Screening Co-sponsored with Communication Arts Cinematheque Series: Kinderblock 66

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

The film centers around four survivors, one of whom is Steven Moskovic’s father, who lived through the horror of came to be known as Kinderblock 66, a part of Buchenwald Concentration Camp that was designated for the roughly 2,000 teenage boys and young men who were separated from their families and sent to the camp. […]

Panel Discussion: Islamicized Armenian Women and Orphans and the [Re]emergence of Armenian Identities in Turkey A Century after the Armenian Genocide

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

The panelists will develop, through narratives, interviews, photos and personal histories, a framework for what constitutes new Armenian identities in light of the increasing prevalence of Islamicized Armenians reclaiming their former heritage. Members of the panel are: Ishkhan Chiftjian, who teaches at Hamburg University, Germany, will focus on genocide, language and collective identity. He is […]

Film Screening Co-sponsored with Communication Arts Cinematheque Series The Search for the White Rose

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

The film focuses on retelling the story of this small group of German students who formed a clandestine resistance against the Nazis in the midst of the war by imploring their countrymen to consider the "dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes […]

Kristallnacht Commemoration

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

The evening will feature a talk by Dr. Peter Appelbaum on “Loyal Sons. German Jews in the First World War.” With the participation of Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, Cantor David Perper and the Adult Choir of Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom.

Conversation about Beleagered Christian Communities in the Middle East

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

Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian Khatchig Mouradian                   The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to a conversation between Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon, and Khatchig Mouradian, Coordinator of the Armenian Genocide Program at the Center for the Study of […]

Film about Rwanda’s First Female Drumming Group and Ice Cream Store to be Screened

Remotely via WebEx Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Co-director/Producer Rob Fruchter will screen and lead a discussion of the film he made with his sister Lisa, Sweet Dreams, at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Monday, March 9, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H129). The College’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Communication Arts’ Cinematheque Series are co-sponsors. […]