The Origins of the Holocaust in
Germany and in
Europe

Sunday, April 13

1:00-2:00 pm

Lobby, McComsey Hall
Registration

2:00-3:30 pm

C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Opening of the Conference

Dr. Jack Fischel, Millersville University

Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Francine G. McNairy
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Millersville University

and

Dr. Barbara M. Montgomery
Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences
Millersville University

Invocation

The Reverend Robert Sayre
United Campus Ministry
Millersville University

Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Dr. Craig Koslofsky, Millersville University

Aristides de Sousa Mendes Keynote Address

Dr. Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Crossing the Line: Becoming a Professional Killer in the Holocaust"

3:45-5:00 pm

Biemesderfer Executive Center
Reception, hosted by the Office of the Provost

5:30-7:00 pm

C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Introduction of Koppel Lecture

Dr. Reynold Koppel, Emeritus, Millersville University

Mr. Miles Lerman, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Witness to the Holocaust"

7:30-9:00 pm

C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Introduction of School of Social Sciences and Humanities Lecture

Dr. Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University

Dr. John Weiss, City University of New York, Graduate School
"The Ideology of Death"

Monday, April 14

All Sessions in Gordinier Conference Center

8:00-9:00 am

Gordinier, Second Floor
Registration

9:00-10:30 am

Plenary Session
Lehr

Introduction

William Bowman, Gettysburg College

Plenary Speaker

Omer Bartov, Rutgers University
"The Holocaust and Industrial Killing"

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Session 1
Matisse

"Big Business, Foreign Policy and the Final Solution"

L.M. Stallbaumer, Bloomsburg University
"Big Business and the Persecution of the Jews: The Flick Concern and the `Aryanization' of Jewish Property before the War"

Aaron Gillette, George Mason University
"Fateful Bonds: The Secret Italo-German Committee on Racial Questions"

Thomas J. Laub, University of Virginia
"The German Army and the Final Solution in France, 1940-45"

Moderator: Guillaume De Syon, Albright College

Session 2
Audubon

Roundtable Discussion of the Goldhagen Controversy

Jack Porter, The Spencer School
Jack Fischel, Millersville University
The audience is invited to participate

12:30-1:30 pm

BREAK

1:30-3:15 pm

Session 3
Matisse

"Remembering the Holocaust, Explaining the Holocaust"

Frederick A. Lubich, Rutgers University
"Jews in Germany Today - A Ray of Hope?"

Gilad Melzer, New York University
"Rock, Memory: Yehuda Poliker's Shoa Album"

H.R. Huttenbach, City College of the City University of New York
"In the Beginning...'Who Created the Holocaust? In Pursuit of the Wrong Question!'"

Moderator: Michael Schuldiner, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Session 4
Old Main

"The Road to the Holocaust: Voters, Logic and Complicity"

Helena Waddy, State University of New York, Geneseo
"From Statistics to Microhistory: Who Were the Actual Voters for Hitler in 1930?"

Rado Pribic, Lafayette College
"The Complicity of the German People in the Holocaust"

Richard Koenigsberg, Library of Social Science "The Logic of the Holocaust: Why the Nazis Killed the Jews"

Moderator: William Fletcher, University of Delaware

Session 5
Audubon

"Euthanasia and the Holocaust"

Hans Wuerth, Moravian College
"Grafeneck Revisited: The Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program"

Eric Epstein, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg
"The Legal Path to Judeocide" Moderator: Steven Rogers, U.S. Department of Justice

3:30-5:00 pm

Lehr

Slide Presentation
Steven Paskuly, Buffalo, NY School System
"Auschwitz Remembered"

5:30 pm

Ganser Library Art Gallery

Exhibit and Presentation

Dr. Judith S. Goldstein, Executive Director,
Thanks to Scandinavia, Inc.,
affiliated with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
"Resistance and Rescue: Denmark's Response to the Holocaust"

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The Photo Exhibit "Resistance and Rescue: Denmark's Response to the Holocaust" will be on display in the Ganser Library Art Gallery from April 10 through May 17.

New Judaica books will be for sale at the conference through the Library of Social Science
Dr. Richard Koenigsberg, Director

Mail-in Registration Form

Conference Patrons

Mr. William Adams
Dr. and Mrs. Norman Axelrod
Mr. William Bash
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Belsinger
Mr. Eric Berman
Mr. Michael Gleiberman
Dr. Reynold Koppel
Mr. Simon Lever
Mr. Sidney Lieberman
Mr. P. Alan Loss
Dr. & Mrs. Richard Purdy
Dr. Howard Robbins