In this presentation, Michael Shara, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) professor and curator of the 2002 landmark AMNH exhibit, “Einstein,” will discuss Einstein’s experiences as a refugee and his political and humanitarian activism.
Dr. Natasha Zaretsky, author of "Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina" (Rutgers University Press, 2021), explores new generations of Holocaust memory and their significance for democracy and the public sphere.
Dr. Regina Kazyulina and Dr. Christopher Mauriello, Directors of Salem State University’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, discuss the teachers who did everything in their power to ensure the children’s stories and voices would not forgotten.
Dr. Laurel Leff, author of "Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life and Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale University Press, 2019), introduces how academic institutions in the United States undertook these fraught choices.
Join Dr. Raymond Codrington, Weeksville’s President and CEO, and Irvin Weathersby, Jr., author of "In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space," for a conversation about memory work at cultural heritage institutions.
Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, discusses the system of fear and control installed by the Nazis, its impact on the national cultural landscape, and artists’ strategies of survival.
In commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, Dr. Wolf Gruner presents a new and broader definition of Jewish resistance against Nazi persecution in Germany.
Join documentarians Joel Sucher & Steven Fischler will share their process making the film, "From Swastika to Jim Crow," that tells the story of German Jewish scholars fleeing Nazi Europe who joined the faculty at historically Black colleges & univ
