Stay tuned for events in Fall 2013!

Past Lectures and Events

• The Arc of Holocaust Memory after 9/11: The Cases of Berlin and New York City
  Co-sponsor: the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center
  Lecture by scholar Dr. James E. Young, Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies University of Massachusetts Amherst
  
• Music Amici
  An evening of chamber music, vocal music, poetry, and visual art to mark the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht with music composed in the camps and by survivors. The event featured artist-composer Judith Goldstein's music along with that of other survivor-composers.
• Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
  Neal Bascomb
  Author and photojournalist Neal Bascomb will describes his research about the hunt for, and capture of Adolf Eichmann, the operational manager for the mass murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazi Party during WWII.
  
• Of Christian Heroism
  Cynthia Ozick
  In commemoration of the Shoah, author and local resident Cynthia Ozick will offer reflections on what she calls “those extraordinary Christian rescuers who during the Shoah saved Jewish lives while radically endangering their own. The meditation is a writer’s grappling with one merciful shaft of light in the blackest period of the twentieth century.”
• A Survivor Testamony
  Stanley L. Ronell Born in Krakow, Poland, a Holocaust survivor, Ronell was saved with his mother by being hidden in Poland and Hungary by “The Righteous Among Nations”. His father perished in Auschwitz. Most of his father’s and mother’s family died in various concentration camps. Mother and son came to the USA in 1951. Ronell has devoted himself to the teaching of the Holocaust to students in secular and religious schools. He has lectured on the subject of the Holocaust to over 5000 students, including student teachers, full time teachers, and various adult groups.
• The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust
  Jerry Silverman
  One of america's outstanding folksingers, Silverman will perform The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust for Iona College's An
  
  The Renaissance of a Survivor: An Evening of Art, Song, and Reflection
  Judith Goldstein
  Artist, musician and Holocaust survivor, Judith Goldstein, will use slides of her art and offer selections from her musical compositions as she reflects on living through the deep sorrows of the Holocaust, the empathetic solidarity with those experiencing subsequent human tragedies, and the necessity to discover joy again.
• Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
  Aviva Slesin
  A new documentary film by Academy Award Winner Aviva Slesin
• The Challenge of the Holocaust for Christian Ethics and Theology
  John T. Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
  Rabbi Michael D. Stanger, Westchester Jewish Center
• Voices from the Attic: A film screening and discussion
  Sally Frishberg, Holocause Survivor
  Grace M. Caporino, Mandel Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah
  Works by Alice Lok Cahana
  This six-week exploration of the Shoah was highlighted by an exhibition of the paintings and sculpture of Hungarian surivor, Alice Cahana. Special events included public addresses by the artist, screenings of the Oscar winning documentary The Last Days, a lecture by the documentary's research coordinator, Bonnie Samotin of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a dramatic presentation in word, song, and slide of the memoirs of Cahana titled "Through My Mother's Eyes," and a closing panel discussion led by Dutch, Polish, and Hungarian survivors.
• The Holocaust Kingdom
  William Donat, Warsaw Ghetto Survivor and Author
• Is God Still Our Father After Auschwitz?
  Rabbi Leon Klenicki, formerly ADL Director of Interreligious Affairs

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