PROGRAM

PROGRAM

Tuesday, June 14

7:00 PM: Screening and Q and A,

Director Roberta Grossman: Who Will Write Our History? (2018)

Moderator: Elke Weesjes Sabella, City University of New York and Kingsborough Manhattan Beach

Holocaust Center

Wednesday, June 15

8:00-8:30 AM: Light breakfast

8:30-9:00: Remarks: Laura Morowitz and Lori Weintrob

9:00-10:30 Opening Roundtable -- A "Canon" of Heroines:

Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Bar-Ilan Univ.

Andrea Pető, Central European University

Dr. Steven Meed, Editor and Translator, son of Vladka Meed

Rachel Einwohner, Purdue University

Moderator: Lori Weintrob, Wagner College

11-12:30 - PANEL A1: Female Solidarity in Rescue and Resistance

Borbála Klacsmann, Independent Researcher: "Salvaged bonds – Fates of Families as Reflected in Women’s Compensation Claims"

Daniela Ozacky-Stern, Bar-Ilan Univ. and Western Galilee College: "Jewish Women In The Framework of The Partisan Units in Lithuania and Belarus”

Hannah Wilson, Nottingham Trent Univ. “And with these boots, I’m gonna run away from here”: The Significance of Female Narratives in the Sobibór Uprising and its Aftermath"

Hanna Abakunova, Hugo Valentin Center, Uppsala University, "The Role of Ukrainian Women in Helping and Rescuing the Roma and Jews during the Holocaust in Ukraine"

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Bar-Ilan Univ.

PANEL A2: Gendered Identities: Public v.Private:

Sharon Geva, Kibbutzim College: "Zivia Lubetkin: Her Public Story, Her Private Story"

Joanna Sliwa, Conf. on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: "Counterfeit Countess: One Woman’s Involvement in Rescue, Relief, and Resistancein Lublin in German-Occupied Poland"

Andrea Genest, Ravensbrück Memorial Museum: "Activities of Polish Prisoners in Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp: The Hidden Pictures of Three Polish Women From 1944"

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Erik N. Jensen, Miami Univ.

7:30-9 PM - Screening and Director Talk, Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust. A film by Martha Goell Lubell and Barbara Attie. Screening and director talk. MANZULLI, FOUNDATION HALL

Thursday, June 16

7:30 AM: Registration opens

8:00: Light Breakfast

8:15-8:45: Remarks from President Angelo Araimo and Dr. Victor Avis/Fern Zagor

9:00-10:30 PANEL B1: Medical and Legal Rescuers:

Cheyenne Martin, University of Texas Medical Branch: "Profiles in Moral Courage: Nurse and Physician Warriors in Resistance During the Holocaust and in Ukraine"

Michal Ben Ya'akov, Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar Ilan University: "Assisting Refugees in Morocco During World War II: The Work of Hélène Cazes-Benatar"

Katy Matello, Gratz College: "Professions of Life: Teachers, Nurses, and Social Workers in the Resistance to Nazi Atrocities"

CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University

PANEL B2: Women Resistance Leaders:

Avihu Ronan, Univ. of Haifa: “A New Type of Girl: Chajka Klinger and The Leading Role of Women in The Jewish Fighting Organizations"

Lori Weintrob, Wagner College: "Leadership Lessons of Zivia Lubetkin in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising."

Avinoam Patt, University of Connecticut, "Don't Set Us On a Bright Pedestal: Collective Memory and Myth-Making after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Sharon Geva, Kibbutzim College

10:45-12:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JUDY BATALION

In the Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos.

12:15-1:30: Lunch. FACULTY DINING ROOM

Tribute by Dr. B Schanzer and H. Schanzer, Esq. to Mmes Dorel and Bonhomme, and their mother, Bella Schanzer

1:30-2:45: Panel C1: Women in Genocide:

Sayantani Jana, Univ. of Southern California: "Gender in Crisis: Women’s Experiences During The November Pogrom of 1938 in Berlin and the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings”

Samantha Lakin, Clark Univ.: "Heroines of Rwanda"

Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University: "‘In the Night of Our Lives’: Women Resisters to the Armenian Genocide"

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Verena Meier, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

PANEL C2: In The Lion's Den:

Hana Green, Clark Univ.: "Sailing Under False Colors: An Exploration of Agency, Self-Help and ‘Quiet’ Heroism in Female Jewish Passers

Wolf Gruner,USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, : "This Thug Hitler!” Defiance and Protest of Jewish Women in Nazi Germany"

Elisabeth Pönisch , Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg: "'A Heroism which was left to fend entirely for itself': Everyday Routines as a Form of Female Resistance."

Elizabeth Hyman, Independent Scholar, “Beyond the Grave: Tosia Altman and Tema Schneiderman”

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Justina Smalkyté, Sciences Po Paris.

PANEL C3: Educators Workshop: The Power of Women: Resistance During the Holocaust

Dr. Andrew Buchanan, Echoes and Reflections and Sheri Rosenblum, MA, Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

COMMENTATOR: Traci Frey, Retired Deputy Superintendent, district 31

3:00-4:30 PANEL D1: Woman In The Camps:

Chad Gibbs, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: "Women in Resistance at Treblinka: Recovering Stories & Addressing Past Erasure"

Michal Aharony, Univ. of Haifa: "Ordinary Virtues: Unarmed Resistance among Women in the Nazi Concentration Camps."

Bozena Karwowska, Univ. of British Columbia: "Auschwitz, Oct. 1943 - A Woman Hero Without a Name."

Daan De Leeuw, Clark Univ.: “Girls, We Need Each Other So Badly, Be Strong and Steadfast”: Female Solidarity & Hostility in Concentration Camps

COMMENTATOR AND CHAIR: Sonja Hedgepeth, Middle Tennessee State University

PANEL D2: Women In The Partisans:

Anita Lukic, Northwestern University: "Thea Altaras: Reclaiming Jewish Identity After The Resistance”

Yitzhak Kerem, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem: "“Greek Women as Resisters and Rescuers in the Holocaust”

Sheri Rosenblum, The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation,"The Power of Women: The Tale of Three Partisan Heroines"

CHAIR AND COMMENTATOR: Fern Zagor, Chair, Chai Society of Wagner College

4:45-6:00: Concluding Roundtable: Forms of Resistance:

Sabine Kalff, Humboldt University: "The Reich from Below: Maria Leitner’s Undercover Reportages and Research on German National Socialism"

Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College: "Jewish and Muslim Women Heroines: Rescue and Reconciliation."

Rochelle Saidel, Remember the Women Inst., "Reflections on my Personal Holocaust Heroes"

Insa Eschebach, Inst. for Religious Studies of the Free Univ. Berlin, "Cultural Acts of Resistance in Ravensbrück"

Moderator: Laura Morowitz, Wagner College

6:00-7:30 PM- Cocktail Reception in Union Atrium

Reception for Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females an exhibit of original tapestries in the Union gallery, with remarks by Linda Stein, Rochelle Saidel and Menachem Rosensaft. Introduced by Lori Weintrob.

Remarks by Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany

Performance--Music and Resistance: Jay Saper and Corbin Allardice: "Rikle Glezer: Partisan Poet of Vilna"

Singing of The Partisan Song (Zog Nit Keinmol) by Wagner College students Jaylen Grey and Gianna Romano