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Sixty Years Later" Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:01:37 -0500 ------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT THE HOLOCAUST IN HUNGARY: SIXTY YEARS LATER Tuesday, March 16 through Thursday, March 18 The Museum's Founding Chairman, Nobel Peace laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel will deliver the keynote address on March 16 at the Museum. Spring 2004 marks the passing of 60 years since the deportation and destruction of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., and the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York have organized this major international conference of scholars to coincide with the worldwide commemoration of the Holocaust in Hungary. In coordination with this conference, the Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation of Budapest is organizing an international scholars conference, The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years Later - A European Perspective, which will take place in Budapest, April 16-18, 2004. The conferences in Washington and Budapest are intended to promote international scholarly cooperation, present recent scholarship, and explore the historical lessons of the Holocaust. At the Washington conference, scholars and specialists from Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Romania, the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere will present cutting-edge research and documentation on the Holocaust in Hungary and its postwar ramifications. So that we may ensure sufficient space for this program, please reserve seating in advance by calling 202.488.0407. For the keynote address, reservations must be made by March 9, 2004. All programs are subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, all programs are FREE. Audio/video recording and flash photography are not permitted Please use the Museum's Raoul Wallenberg entrance after 5:30 p.m. Street parking is limited. Visitors are encouraged to use public transportation. Metro: Blue or Orange line, Smithsonian station, Independence Avenue exit. TUESDAY, MARCH 16 7 p.m. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater Introduction Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Keynote Address Elie Wiesel, Founding Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 10-10:45 a.m. Helena Rubinstein Auditorium Greetings Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Randolph L. Braham, Director, The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council His Excellency András Simonyi, Ambassador to the United States of America, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Washington, D.C. The Honorable Tom Lantos, United States House of Representatives, and Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Panel 1: Hungarian Collaboration and Jewish Response Classroom B, Gonda Education Center Chair: Randolph L. Braham (The City University of New York) Gábor Kádár (University of Debrecen, Hungary; 2003-2004 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), The Economic Annihilation of Hungarian Jewry, 1944-45 Tim Cole (University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 1999-2000 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), A Gendered Holocaust? The Experiences of Jewish Men and Women in Hungary, 1944 Judit Molnár (University of Szeged, Hungary; 2001 Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), Hungarian Gendarmes and People's Courts Panel 2: International Ramifications Classroom C, Gonda Education Center Chair: Bernard Klein (Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York) László Karsai (University of Szeged, Hungary; 1997 Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), The Hungarian Holocaust from an International Perspective Raphael Vago (Tel Aviv University, Israel), From the Periphery to the Center: The Holocaust in Hungary and Israeli Historiography Radu Ioanid and Ferenc Katona (USHMM), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archival Acquisitions on the Holocaust in Hungary 1-2:30 p.m. Break 2:30-4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Panel 3: Northern Transylvania Classroom B, Gonda Education Center Chair: Paul A. Shapiro (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM) Jean Ancel (Yad Vashem, Israel; 2004 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow and Rosenzweig Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), The Sherit Hapletah: Holocaust Survivors in Northern Transylvania Holly Case (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2003 Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), The Holocaust in Transylvania: A Regional Approach to the Study of Ethnic Violence Daniel Lowy (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.), Christian Help Provided to Jews in Northern Transylvania As Revealed by the Newspaper Egység (Unity) Zoltán Tibori Szabó (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), The Transylvanian Jewish Community during the Postwar Period, 1945-48 Panel 4: The Holocaust in Literature and Film Helena Rubinstein Auditorium Chair: Robert M. Ehrenreich (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM) Zsuzsanna Ozsváth (University of Texas at Dallas), Trauma and Distortion: Holocaust Literature and the Ban on Jewish Memory in Hungary Catherine Portuges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Imre Kertész's Fateless on Film: A Hungarian Holocaust Saga Ivan Sanders (Columbia University, New York), Jewish Literary Renaissance in Postwar Hungary THURSDAY, MARCH 18 10 a.m.-Noon Concurrent Sessions Panel 5: Postwar Reactions, 1945-48 Classroom B, Gonda Education Center Chair: Suzanne Brown-Fleming (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM) Alice Freifeld (University of Florida, Gainesville; 2001 Life Reborn Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), Budapest Jewry, 1945-48 Peter Kenez (University of California-Santa Cruz), Pogroms in Hungary, 1946 Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Jersey; 1999-2000 Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), The Christian Churches and Memory of the Holocaust in Hungary, 1945-48 Panel 6: Postwar Reactions among Survivors Helena Rubinstein Auditorium Chair: Wendy Lower (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM) Victor Karády (Central European University, Budapest), "Ordinary Deaths" in a Time of Mass Murder: Comparative Study of Jewish Mortality before and after the Holocaust in Budapest, 1937-1960 Dan Danieli (Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles), Interviews with the Survivors of the Hungarian Forced Labor Service: An Evaluation Attila Pók (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Approaches to the Hungarian Holocaust, 1990-94: Why Was There No Historikerstreit? Rabbi Arthur Schneier (Appeal of Conscience Foundation and Park East Synagogue, New York), Hungary - Pre-German Occupation, during and after the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry - A Survivor's Personal Reflection Noon-1:30 p.m. Break 1:30-3:30 p.m. Panel 7: Postwar Research and Reactions, 1989 and Beyond Helena Rubinstein Auditorium Chair and Commentator: Istvan Deak (Columbia University, New York) Peter Longerich (University of London, United Kingdom; 2003-2004 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM), German Anti-Jewish Policy and the Murder of Hungarian Jews: Remarks on Recent German Research Michael Shafir (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague), Hungarian Politics and the Legacy of the Holocaust since 1989 András Kovács (Central European University, Budapest), Perceptions of Antisemitism among Hungarian Jews Today Ivan Berend (University of California-Los Angeles), Hungary after the End of Communism: Antisemitism during the First Period of Transition 4-5:30 p.m. Concluding Panel Helena Rubinstein Auditorium The Budapest Holocaust Memorial Museum Gábor Székely, Head, Board of Directors, Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation, Budapest The Budapest Holocaust Memorial and Documentation Center: Background and Activities Tibor Vámos, Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest The Holocaust in Hungary, 60 Years Later: The State of the Field Randolph L. Braham, Director, The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council This conference has been made possible through the generous support of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Jack Rosenthal, and Gábor Várszegi. -- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museums and Museum Studies E -Mail: h-museum@h-net.msu.edu WWW: http://www.h-museum.net
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