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COLLEGE OF ST. ELIZABETH TO HOST SERIES ON HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE
New Jersey Hills - Florham Park Eagle , NJ
March 5 2015
Most events free and open to public
The College of St. Elizabeth's Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Education will sponsor several events from March through May that are
free and open to the public, all on the campus of the college at 2
Convent Station Road, off Madison Avenue in the Convent Station section
of Morris Township. Some of the events will provide professional
development hours for teachers.
* In a collaboration with the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival,
"Farewell Herr Schwartz" will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March
16, in the college's Dolan Performance Hall.
The film focuses on Michla and Feiv'ke Schwarz, siblings who survived
the Holocaust but never reunited after the war. Michla moved to the
soon-to-be-founded Jewish state in the Middle East and started a
family there. Her brother Feiv'ke, believed dead, returned to East
Germany, married a German woman and inexplicably lived amidst the
ruins of the concentration camp where he was once a prisoner. Their
Israeli and German descendants lived unaware of each other for half
a century until first-time filmmaker Yael Reuveny probed exactly what
happened to her family in 1945.
"Farewell Herr Schwartz" was the winner of the Best Documentary at
the Haifa International Film Festival. Refreshments will be served
following the March 16 screening.
* A day-long symposium, "Rescuers during the Holocaust: Acts
of Courage in Challenging Times," will be held Tuesday, April
21, for teachers, students and the general public in the Dolan
Performance Hall. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with registration
and breakfast and end at 3 p.m. The event is co-sponsored with the
N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education and the American Society for
Yad Vashem and is free to all. Advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter. Seven professional development hours
will be awarded to teachers.
The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Vromen, professor emeritus of
sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and author
of 2010's "Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their
Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis."
The symposium's workshops will address Jewish and non-Jewish
rescuers, the New Jersey state mandate about Holocaust education,
global perspectives on Holocaust education, and how to use archival
documents in Holocaust education.
* The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be marked with
a program beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Dolan
Performance Hall. An introduction will be provided by Garabed "Chuck"
Haytaian, who was the Speaker of the state Assembly 1n 1991 when New
Jersey passed its law to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in
the schools. The event's co-sponsors are St. Mary's Armenian Church
in Livingston and the N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education.
Following remarks by College of St. Elizabeth President Helen J.
Streubert, the film "Aghet" will be shown, surveying the history of
Armenia with a focus on the Armenian genocide in 1915. Poetry and
music of Armenia and a selection of traditional Armenian foods will
be offered.
At 7:30 p.m. the college will premiere the film "Testimonies of
Armenian Genocide Survivors," introduced by Roy Stepanian, and followed
by a question-and-answer session with children and grandchildren of
survivors. The keynote speaker will be Herand M.
Markarian, whose topic will be "The Impact of the Armenian Genocide:
100 Years Later."
The event is free and open to the public. Teachers who attend
will receive curriculum materials for teaching about the Armenian
genocide as well as certificates for professional development
hours. For teachers, advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
* From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, a free teacher-training event,
"Echoes and Reflections," will be held in the college's Annunciation
Center. The session will prepare educators to teach students the
complex history of the Holocaust in ways that stimulate engagement,
critical thinking and personal understanding.
Participants will receive a teachers' resource guide, supplementary
multimedia assets and other supportive tools for educators. The
session will engage teachers with the multimedia curriculum "Echoes
and Reflections," developed jointly by Yad Vashem, Israel's official
Holocaust memorial, museum and education center; the University of
Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation
League.
The topics for discussion will include: Studying the Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, the Jewish Ghetto, the "Final Solution,"
Jewish resistance, rescuers and non-Jewish resistance, survivors
and liberators, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; and the
children of the Holocaust.
http://www.newjerseyhills.com/florham_park_eagle/news/college-of-st-elizabeth-to-host-series-on-holocaust-and/article_fbfdb75e-3bce-555a-9f89-779086d42316.html
New Jersey Hills - Florham Park Eagle , NJ
March 5 2015
Most events free and open to public
The College of St. Elizabeth's Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Education will sponsor several events from March through May that are
free and open to the public, all on the campus of the college at 2
Convent Station Road, off Madison Avenue in the Convent Station section
of Morris Township. Some of the events will provide professional
development hours for teachers.
* In a collaboration with the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival,
"Farewell Herr Schwartz" will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March
16, in the college's Dolan Performance Hall.
The film focuses on Michla and Feiv'ke Schwarz, siblings who survived
the Holocaust but never reunited after the war. Michla moved to the
soon-to-be-founded Jewish state in the Middle East and started a
family there. Her brother Feiv'ke, believed dead, returned to East
Germany, married a German woman and inexplicably lived amidst the
ruins of the concentration camp where he was once a prisoner. Their
Israeli and German descendants lived unaware of each other for half
a century until first-time filmmaker Yael Reuveny probed exactly what
happened to her family in 1945.
"Farewell Herr Schwartz" was the winner of the Best Documentary at
the Haifa International Film Festival. Refreshments will be served
following the March 16 screening.
* A day-long symposium, "Rescuers during the Holocaust: Acts
of Courage in Challenging Times," will be held Tuesday, April
21, for teachers, students and the general public in the Dolan
Performance Hall. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with registration
and breakfast and end at 3 p.m. The event is co-sponsored with the
N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education and the American Society for
Yad Vashem and is free to all. Advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter. Seven professional development hours
will be awarded to teachers.
The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Vromen, professor emeritus of
sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and author
of 2010's "Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their
Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis."
The symposium's workshops will address Jewish and non-Jewish
rescuers, the New Jersey state mandate about Holocaust education,
global perspectives on Holocaust education, and how to use archival
documents in Holocaust education.
* The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be marked with
a program beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Dolan
Performance Hall. An introduction will be provided by Garabed "Chuck"
Haytaian, who was the Speaker of the state Assembly 1n 1991 when New
Jersey passed its law to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in
the schools. The event's co-sponsors are St. Mary's Armenian Church
in Livingston and the N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education.
Following remarks by College of St. Elizabeth President Helen J.
Streubert, the film "Aghet" will be shown, surveying the history of
Armenia with a focus on the Armenian genocide in 1915. Poetry and
music of Armenia and a selection of traditional Armenian foods will
be offered.
At 7:30 p.m. the college will premiere the film "Testimonies of
Armenian Genocide Survivors," introduced by Roy Stepanian, and followed
by a question-and-answer session with children and grandchildren of
survivors. The keynote speaker will be Herand M.
Markarian, whose topic will be "The Impact of the Armenian Genocide:
100 Years Later."
The event is free and open to the public. Teachers who attend
will receive curriculum materials for teaching about the Armenian
genocide as well as certificates for professional development
hours. For teachers, advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
* From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, a free teacher-training event,
"Echoes and Reflections," will be held in the college's Annunciation
Center. The session will prepare educators to teach students the
complex history of the Holocaust in ways that stimulate engagement,
critical thinking and personal understanding.
Participants will receive a teachers' resource guide, supplementary
multimedia assets and other supportive tools for educators. The
session will engage teachers with the multimedia curriculum "Echoes
and Reflections," developed jointly by Yad Vashem, Israel's official
Holocaust memorial, museum and education center; the University of
Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation
League.
The topics for discussion will include: Studying the Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, the Jewish Ghetto, the "Final Solution,"
Jewish resistance, rescuers and non-Jewish resistance, survivors
and liberators, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; and the
children of the Holocaust.
http://www.newjerseyhills.com/florham_park_eagle/news/college-of-st-elizabeth-to-host-series-on-holocaust-and/article_fbfdb75e-3bce-555a-9f89-779086d42316.html