The Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Gordinier Conference Center
April 1-3, 2009
Director: Saulius Sužiedėlis
Co-Director: Jack R. Fischel
Committee Members: Robert Bookmiller, Joshua Fischel, Sue Ortmann
Administrative Assistant: Margaret Eichler
Graduate Assistant: Kimberly Hartlove
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
(The Wednesday program will be held in the Lehr Room, Gordinier Conference Center.
All Thursday and Friday sessions will be held in the rooms indicated.)
Wednesday, April 1
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Information and Contacts Second Floor, Gordinier Center
The book exhibit, organized by the Library of Social Science, will be open during the Conference. Please stop by the Audubon Room and browse. All books are on sale at special, discounted prices.
7 - 7:20 p.m.
- Opening of the Conference Saulius Sužiedėlis
Millersville University
- Welcoming Remarks John Short,
Dean School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Millersville University
- Invocation Rabbi Jack Paskoff
Congregation Sharaai Shomayim
7:20 - 9 p.m.
- The Aristides De Sousa Mendes Lecture
Introduction: Why Aristides de Sousa Mendes?
Saulius Sužiedėlis
Millersville University
- The Lecture Robert Gellately
Hitler, Anti-Communism and the Holocaust Florida State University
9 - 9:30 p.m.
Author’s Book Signing
Thursday, April 2
9 - 10:15 a.m.
- The Reynold Koppel Lecture Lehr Room
- Introduction Saulius Suziedelis
Millersville University
- Ghettostadt:
Gordon J. Horwitz
Lσdz and the Making of a Nazi City Illinois Wesleyan University
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Plenum Session
Lehr Room
A panel presented by Research Fellows at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- National Myths of Holocaust Resistance and Rescue: Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria Chair/Discussant: Cristina Bejan CAHS, USHMM
- Rewriting Slovak Wartime History:
President Tiso as a Case Study Hana Klamkova
Charles University (Prague)
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
CAHS, USHMM
- The Making of the Story of Heroic Turkish Rescuers and Its Abuse in the Denial of the Armenian Genocide Corry Guttstadt
Research Fellow
CAHS, USHMM
- Positioning Bulgaria as a Balkan Denmark Steven Sage
Researcher, Survivors Registry
USHMM
12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Conference Luncheon and Presentation Lehr Room
Luncheon Speaker
Dennis B. Klein, Director, Jewish Studies Program, Kean University
Living with Genocide: Expressions of Forgiveness in Post-Traumatic Testimonies
Conference Book Exhibit
Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, open 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
2 - 3:45 p.m.
Session 1:
Film and Visual Arts as Depictions of Genocide University Room
Chair: Sue Ortmann
Millersville University
- Comfort Women:
The Victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan and Representation of Trauma in the Paintings by the Victims Hanna Song
War and Womens
Human Rights Museum
Republic of Korea
- Movies and the Death Camps:
The Grey Zone and Escape from Sobibor as Depictions of Resistance and Escape from the Holocaust Paul Bartrop
Bialik College
Australia
- The Film Blessed is the Match:
The Life of Hanna Senesh Mary Johnson
Senior Historian
Facing History and Ourselves
Session 2:
Art, Literary Media and the Press in Response to Genocide Old Main
Chair: Dennis Downey
Honors College
Millersville University
- Survivors and Victims in the Postwar German Press: The Personnel and Content of the Early Frankfurter Rundschau Robert Williams
American University
- Kurt Singer, Charlotte Salomon and the Jόdischer Kulturbund Adam J. Sacks
Brown University
- Writing the Genocide Memoir as Activism: The Case of Yolande Mukagasana and Esther Mujawayo Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi
Alabama A&M University
Session 3:
Genocide in the Balkans and Central Europe Matisse Room
Chair: John McLarnon
Millersville University
- Aspects of the Genocide against the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire Theofanis Malkidis
Democritus University of Thrace
Greece
- Saving Bulgarias Jews Zev-Hayyim Feyer
Claremont Graduate University
- The Righteous: Budapest 1944 Mario Fenyo
Bowie State University
4 - 6:15 p.m.
The Miriam Fischel Lecture and Program Myers Auditorium
McComsey Hall
Genocide, Cinema and Art: A Special Presentation and Discussion
Introduction: Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University
Hilary Helstein, Producer, As Seen Through These Eyes and Executive Director, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Judith Goldstein, Artist, Composer, Survivor of the Vilna Ghetto
Film: AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES
7:30 - 9 p.m.
Concert Lyte Auditorium
Musical Program
Dr. Robert Converys Songs of Children
In Memory of the Children of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp
A cantata for choir performed by the Millersville University Chorale under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell, with a special introduction by the Composer
Conference Book Exhibit
Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, open 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday, April 3
9 - 10:30 a.m.
The Jack R. Fischel Lecture Lehr Room
Introduction Jack R. Fischel
Millersville University
Who Will Write Our History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto Samuel D. Kassow
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Session 4: The United States and Responses to Genocide University Room
Chair: Robert Bookmiller
Millersville University
- Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the Office of U. S. High Commissioner, and Jewish Refugees in the Philippines, 1938-1939 Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University
- Philanthropy as an Agent of Genocide Rescue Keith Pomakoy, Adirondack Community College
Session 5: Culture, the Moral Universe and the Prevention of Genocide Klein Room
Chair: Neil Leifert
Pennsylvania State University
Harrisburg
- What Was That Word Shoah?
The Holocaust and Israeli Cultural Discourse Aya Ben Naftaly
Massuah Institute of Holocaust Studies
Israel
- Africa as a New Moral Universe in the Rhetoric of Antisemitic German Colonizers during the Kaiserreich Christian Davis
College of Charleston
- Genocide Prevention in Contemporary Philosophy Barbara Meyer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Session 6: Graduate Student Panel Matisse Room
Chair: Keith D. Nunes
Kean University
- Early Warning Signs:
State Propaganda and the Seeds of Genocide
- An Appeal to the Emotions:
The Use of Propaganda as a Tool to the Masses Evan Alberhasky
Kean University
- The Politics of Fear Jeremy Chaudruc
Kean University
- Dictatorship and Democracy:
Considering Propaganda in Context Walter McGee
Kean University
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch Break Gordinier Conference Center
Conference Book Exhibit, Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
2 - 3:30 p.m.
The Beautiful Beast: The Life and Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese University Room
Chair: Steven Rogers
Senior Historian
Office of Special Investigations
U. S. Department of Justice
Daniel P. Brown
Moorpark College
California
Alice Tenenbaum
Holocaust Survivor
Auschwitz
Conference Book Exhibit
Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall, Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Information: http://www.millersville.edu/~holo-con/2009