CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
7:30 pm
FILM: INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT
(followed by a Panel Discussion)
Student Memorial Center - Reighard Multipurpose Room
SUNDAY, APRIL 6
All Sessions will be held in Bolger Conference Center, Gordinier Hall
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
REGISTRATION, SECOND FLOOR, GORDINIER
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE, Lehr Room
Jack Fischel - Department of History, Millersville University
WELCOMING REMARKS
John Short, Acting Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
INVOCATION
Rabbi Jack Paskoff - Temple Shaarai Shomayim, Lancaster
Rita Marinho
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES LECTURE
Saulius Suziedelis - Department of History, Millersville University
THE ARISTIDES DE SOUSA MENDES LECTURE Menachem Rosensaft, Esq.,
Director, Holocaust Memoirs Project, and member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum Council "Bergen-Belson: The End and the Beginning"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
RECEPTION, Lehr Room
Hosted by the Offices of the President and Provost
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
INTRODUCTION TO THE KOPPEL LECTURE, Lehr Room
Robert Herzstein - Department of History, University of South Carolina
THE KOPPEL LECTURE
"Jewish Children in Nazi Europe"
Deborah Dwork-Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies, Clark University
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE, Lehr Room
Zev Garber - Chair, Jewish Studies Department, Los Angeles Valley College
THE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE
"The Children of the Warsaw Ghetto"
Michael Phayer - Department of History, Marquette University
MONDAY, APRIL 7
8:00 am - 9:00 am
REGISTRATION, SECOND FLOOR, GORDINIER
9:00 am - 10:30 am
PLENARY SESSION, Lehr Room
MIRIAM FISCHEL LECTURE
Introduction of the Speaker
Jonathon Friedman - Director of Holocaust Studies, West Chester University
"Escape via Siberia: The Rescue of 600 Jewish Orphans"
Dorit Bader Whiteman - Holocaust Survivor, author, Escape via Siberia and The Uprooted
10:45 am - 12:30 pm Session #1
University Room
SURVIVOR MEMORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
"Why Me"
Edith Velmans - author of Edith's Story
"Believing in a Better World"
Nelly Toll - author of Behinf the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War II
"Impressions of a Hidden Child"
Ruth Kapp Hartz - Subject of the biography Your Nmae is Renee
"Three Accounts by Teenage Survivors of the Horrors of the Death Camps: A Comparative Analysis"
Lauren Nussbaum - Professor Emerita, Foreign Languages and Literature, Portland State University
Moderator
Sandra Hoffman, Elementary & Early Childhood Education Department, Millersville University