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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- All are welcome to attend the following events. Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free and held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126. So we may ensure sufficient space for each event, please reserve seating in advance by telephoning (202) 488-6162. All programs are subject to change, and new events are often added. Please check the reservation line or the Museum's Website (www.ushmm.org) for actual times, locations, and updates. CHILDREN AND THE HOLOCAUST 3 April 2003 Helena Rubinstein Auditorium United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Over one million children were killed during the Holocaust. The small minority who escaped that fate did so by hiding; emigrating, often without their families; or concealing their Jewish identity. Others were ghettoized, deported, and murdered by mobile killing squads or in concentration, transit, labor, and death camps. After the war ended, those children left alive struggled to reunite with surviving members of their families. Others had to come to terms with the fact that they had become orphans. This symposium explores the variety of fates children encountered, as examined by scholars and from the perspective of child survivors themselves. It is one of several programs focusing on children taking place between April 2003 and April 2004 in commemoration of the Museum's 10th Anniversary. 10:00 - 10:15 Introduction Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (hereafter USHMM) 10:15 - 11:00 Keynote Address Nechama Tec, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut-Stamford; Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council and its Academic Committee; and 1997 Senior Research Fellow, Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, USHMM 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:45 Emigration and "Mischlinge" Moderator: Severin Hochberg, Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Jewish Emigration and International Refugee Policy: The Situation of Children-Susanne Heim, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Berlin; and 2003 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Heroic Acts and Missed Opportunities: The Rescue of Youth Aliyah Groups from Europe During World War Two-Sara Kadosh, Director, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives, Jerusalem; and former Research Affiliate, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Plight of German Children from Jewish-Christian 'Mixed Marriages:' Often-Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust-Cynthia A. Crane, Assistant Professor of English, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 12:45 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:15 Ghettoization, Hiding, and the Camp Experience Moderator: Ann Mann Millin, Assistant to the Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto-Barbara Engelking-Boni, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw "Unbekannte Kinder:" The Unknown Children of Westerbork-Daphne L. Meijer, author and journalist, Amsterdam, and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1997) Transformation and Resistance: Schooling Efforts for Jewish Children and Youth in Hiding, in Ghettos, and in Camps-Lisa Anne Plante, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, California State University-San Marcos 3:15 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 5:00 The "Surviving Remnant" and Reconstruction Moderator: Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Founding Chairman, International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors The Destruction and Rescue of Jewish Children in Besserabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria-Radu Ioanid, Director, International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Coming to Terms with Memory Through Fiction and Poetry-Henryk Grynberg, novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and essayist, Washington, D.C., nominee, Nike Literary Prize, and winner, Tadeus Borowski Prize, Koscielski Foundation Prize, the Stanislaw Vincenz Prize, the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, and the Jan Karski-Pola Nirenska Prize The Role of Children in the Rehabilitation Process of Survivors: The Case of Bergen-Belsen-Hagit Lavsky, Professor, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of Post-Holocaust Studies, and Director, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem This symposium is made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. Biographies of the Speakers Cynthia A. Crane is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. She is winner of that university's Elsie B. Westheimer Short Story Prize (1993) and author of Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany (2000). Barbara Engelking-Boni is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw. She is author of Holocaust and Memory: The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences: An Investigation Based on Personal Narratives (2001), among other works. She is currently engaged in a comprehensive study of the Jewish experience in the Warsaw ghetto. Henryk Grynberg is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and essayist based in Washington, D.C. A child survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, Mr. Grynberg has written novels, stories, and works of documentary prose, including The Jewish War (1965); Victory (1969)-named among the One Hundred Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature in 2000-The Ideological Life (1975); The Private Life (1979); The Everyday and Artistic Life (1980); Kadisz (1987); Family Sketches (1990); Children of Zion (1994); Drohobycz, Drohobycz (1997), which was nominated for the Nike Literary Prize in Poland in 1998; and Memorbuch (2000), also nominated for the Nike Literary Prize. His awards include the Tadeus Borowski Prize, the Koscielski Foundation Prize, the Stanislaw Vincenz Prize, the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, and the Jan Karski-Pola Nirenska Prize. Susanne Heim is Deputy Research Director for the Max Planck Society's research program "The History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist Era" in Berlin, and 2003 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. As Revson Fellow, she is completing her manuscript "International Immigration Policy and Forced Emigration from Germany, 1933-1941." Radu Ioanid is Director of the International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He is author of The Sword of the Archangel: Fascist Ideology in Romania (English edition, 1990) and Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (2000), published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, with French and Hebrew editions (2002). Sara Kadosh is Director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives, Jerusalem, and former Research Affiliate of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1995, with the dissertation "Ideology versus Reality: Youth Aliyah and Rescue of Jewish Children during the Holocaust Era, 1933-1945." Hagit Lavsky is Professor at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of Post-Holocaust Studies, and Director of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel. She is the author of numerous books, including Before Catastrophe: The Distinctive Path of German Zionism (1996) and New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950 (2002). Daphne Louise Meijer is an author and journalist based in Amsterdam. Former Writer-in-Residence at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she has published numerous essays, short stories, novellas, and works of drama, fiction and nonfiction. She is author of Onbekende kindern: De laatste trein uit Westerbork (Unknown Children: The Last Train out of Westerbork, 2001). Lisa Anne Plante is Adjunct Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at California State University-San Marcos. She received her doctorate in Cultural Studies from the University of Tennessee College of Education in Knoxville, based on her dissertation, "We Didn't Miss a Day": A History in Narratives of Schooling Efforts for Jewish Children and Youths in German-Occupied Europe. Menachem Z. Rosensaft is a partner at the law firm of Ross & Hardies, New York City, and director and editor in chief of the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, World Jewish Congress. A member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council since 1994, he has served on its Executive Committee and chaired its Collections and Acquisitions Committee. Born in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp, Mr. Rosensaft is the child of survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut-Stamford and a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and its Academic Committee. In 1997, Professor Tec was Senior Research Fellow of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A child survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, she is author of Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (1984) and When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland (1986), both awarded the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League; author of In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen (1990), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (1993), recipient of the International Anne Frank Special Recognition Prize in Switzerland (1994) and the First Prize for Holocaust Literature by the World Federation of Fighters, Partisans, and Concentration Camp Survivors in Israel (1995). Her most recent book is Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust (2003). -- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museum Professionals E -Mail: h-museum@h-net.msu.edu WWW: http://www.h-museum.net
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