Recorded Presentations
Name of Speaker: Prof. Michael Berenbaum Date: July 18, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the lecture by Prof. Michael Berenbaum, the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at American Jewish University, Los Angeles. In his presentation entitled "Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism: Long Histories, Present Dangers.," Prof. Berenbaum traced the emergence and manifestations of the hatred of Jews since antiquity, often demonstrating how children figured prominently in ant--Judaic and antisemitic narratives and practices. The speaker also analyzes forms of antisemitism in the Muslim world and as a rising phenomenon amidst the continued growth of right-wing populism in the U.S. and elsehere. | |
Name of Speaker: Prof. Debórah Dwork Date: July 21, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the talk by Prof. Debórah Dwork, the founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center – City University of New York. In her presentation entitled "Kindertransporte During the Holocaust," Prof. Dwork explained how close to 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland managed to escape the Nazis and reach the UK from 1938 until 1940. This part of the symposium also included testimony by Kindertransport survivor Margot Lobree, which is also available on this website. | |
Name of Speaker: Margot Lobree Date: July 22, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the testimony by Margot Lobree, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939. Lobree reflects on her early childhood in Frankfurt-Bockenheim and the family's many challenges during the early years of the Nazi dictatorship. She recounts her mother Hedwig's struggles as a single parent after her husband's death in early 1938 and the horror of the November 1938 pogrom that prompted her to explore any option for her and her children to escape Hitler Germany. The speaker's testimony reveals how her mother managed to get the papers for her oldest child Helmut to immigrate to Palestine, while she was able to send Margot on a Kindertransport to the UK in April 1939. Lobree talks about the journey and subsequent obstacles she faced in the UK. The testimony also reflects on how she managed to emigrate to the U.S. in early 1944 and her first years in New York and California. Center Affiliate Faculty member Dr. Chris Patti, who has done extensive research on compassionate communication, listening, and navigating suffering through ethnographic work with Holocaust survivors, introduces her and asks the first questions. | |
Name of Speakers: Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff and Margot Lobree Date: July 22, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of a panel discussion on testimonies by Holocaust child survivors and their uses in the classroom. The panel includes Margot Lobree, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939, and Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, a child survivor from Slovakia, who fled with her parents and baby brother on an eight-month train journey from Hungary to Lisbon, where they managed to get on one of the last ships leaving for the U.S. in late spring 1941. The panel is moderated by Center Affiliate Faculty member Dr. Chris Patti and CJHPS Director Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan. | |
Name of Speaker: Dr. Al Münzer Date: July 22, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah" and the Appalachian Summer Festival's Lunch and Learn series This video is a recording of the testimony by Dr. Al Münzer, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who escaped deportation with the help of an Indonesian family in the German-occupied Netherlands, whose members hid him until the end of the war and genocide. The speaker was born to a Jewish family in the Netherlands during World War II. When his father was ordered to report to a German labor camp in 1942, the entire family went into hiding, sending the children to various neighbors and rescuers. A Dutch-Indonesian family hid Al(fred) in The Hague. His sisters stayed elsewhere, until they were betrayed and deported to Auschwitz where they were murdered. Al came to the United States in 1958 with his mother, who had survived several camps and death marches. Symposium Co-Director Dr. Racelle Weiman moderates the program. | |
Name of Speaker: Dr. Umuhire Ntabana Date: July 23, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the testimony by Dr. Umuhire Ntabana, a child survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Dr. Ntabana was seven years old when this genocide took place. Her parents worked in the medical field, her mother as a nurse, her father as a physician and dentist. The family, which included eight other children, lived in Gitarama—at the time the country's third-largest city. As Tutsi, they were swiftly targeted by Hutu militias at the onset of the 1994 genocide. The parents sent their children into hiding. They were temporarily taken in by nuns, a priest, and even some supportive Hutu neighbors. From their hiding places, Umuhire Ntabana and her siblings observed the unfolding communal genocide. Along with most of the family, including some siblings, both parents were murdered. The testimony is introduced by Dr. Racelle Weiman. | |
Name of Speakers: Prof. emeritus Shimon Redlich (Modi’in, Israel) in conversation with Prof. G. Finder (UVA) Date: July 20, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah. This video is a recording of the testimony by Prof. emeritus Shimon Redlich, a child survivor of the Holocaust. Redlich survived the Holocaust in the German-occupied formerly Polish, now Ukrainian town of Brzezany in hiding with the help a Polish and, subsequently, a Ukrainian family, whose members provided food and shelter. He talks about his family and life in Brzezany before the German invasion, the suffering of family members during German rule, and the struggles to survive in hiding. Prof. G. Finder asks questions and moderates the program. | |
| Name of Speakers: Prof. emeritus Shimon Redlich (Modi’in, Israel) and Prof. G. Finder (UVA) Date: July 20, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah. This video comprises a recording of the talk by Prof. Gaby Finder about the film Unzere Kinder, one of the first films on the Holocaust. It is followed by testimony from child survivor Prof. Emeritus Shimon Redlich (Israel) about his involvement in the 1948 film. Prof. G. Finder moderates the program. | |
Name of Speaker: Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice Date: July 19, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the lecture by Dr. P. Heberer Rice, the Senior Historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Heberer Rice, an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar with especially noteworthy studies of the Nazi state's eugenic policies and euthanasia killings, speaka on "Children in the Nazi State and Party Organizations." Her talk sheds light on how the Nazi movement and subsequently the Hitler state aimed to capture the imagination and loyalty of the gentile German youth. Also discussing nonconformity among young Germans, Dr. Heberer Rice's talk demonstrates that the history of gentile children in the Third Reich was hardly mainly a "story of uniformity," but one of "divergence and contradiction." | |
Name of Speaker: Dr. Racelle Weiman Date: July 18, 2021 Location: ZOOM, Part of the 19th (Virtual) Martin and Doris Summer Symposium on "Remembering the Shoah," which centered on children in the Shoah This video is a recording of the talk by Dr. Racelle Weiman, the 2021 symposium's co-director and an internationally renowned Holocaust educator, that explored the topic "The Mosaic that is the Mosaic People: Judaism and Jews" with a specific emphasis on children in Judaism. The presentation includes short videos of a visit by local Florida teacher and symposium participant, Riley Dunn, at Temple Emanu-El in Sarasota, FL, and her conversation with Rabbi Michael Shefrin. |