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Becoming Aram: The life and Legacy of a Revolutionary Statesman

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

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor at Columbia University, will examine the tumultuous journey of the revolutionary turned statesman Aram Manougian, whose struggle against the oppressors […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop: Complicity in Genocide: Individuals, Nations and the Lessons to be Learned

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

TIME: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Trustees Pavilion Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623 FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2 Registration http://bit.ly/21WcbAh Email: holgen@ramapo.edu Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments   11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Alternatives to Betrayal and Complicity in Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Lessons for the Classroom […]

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 […]