Director: Dr. Jack R. Fischel
Co-Director: Dr. Saulius A. Suziedelis
Co-Director: Dr. David S. Zubatsky
Systems Administrator: Dr. Thomas C. Tirado
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Registration
Lobby, McComsey Hall
C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
McComsey HallOpening of the Conference
Dr. Jack Fischel, Millersville UniversityWelcoming Remarks
Dr. Linda Clark-Newman
Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, Millersville UniversityInvocation
Reverend Robert Sayre
United Campus Ministry, Millersville UniversityIntroduction of Keynote Speaker
Dr. Saulius A. Suziedelis, Millersville universityAristides de Sousa Mendes Keynote Address
The Honorable Jerzy Kosminski
Ambassador to the United States, The Republic of Poland
Reception - Hosted by Office of the Provost5:30-7:00 p.m.
Biemesderfer Executive Center
C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Introduction of Koppel Lecture Speaker Dr. Craig KoslofskySpeaker:
Dr. Christopher Browning, Pacific Lutheran University
"The Genesis of the Final Solution: What Do We Know Now?"
C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Program Introduction
Sy Colen, Friends of Israel War VeteransVideo Presentation
Shirley A. Swartz
"Children of the Third Reich"
Monday, April 15
All Sessions in Gordinier Conference CenterLate Registration
Gordinier - Second Floor
Group SessionsPlenary Session - Lehr
"The Third Generation Confronts the Holocaust"
Betsy AnthonyModerator - Bob Leiter
Stuart Kreindler
Brian Richards
Max Koltuv
Melissa Goldberg
Rivka Bernstein
Michael Novrocki
Vicki Simons
Jewish Exponent
Plenary Session - LehrIntroduction
Dr. Jack Fischel, Millersville UniversityDr. Yehuda Bauer - Hebrew University
"The Impact of the Holocaust on the World Today"
Lunch Break
Session #1 - Kline
"Surviving the Holocaust""Bad Taste or Good Scholarship? Holocaust Humor Then and Now"
Nancy Rupprecht - Middle Tennessee State University"Memory = History? Problems of Reference in Post-War Literature of Survivors"
Pasale R. Bos - University of Minnesota"Remembering the Past: Art Spiegelman and the Second Generation"
Rocco Versaci - Indiana UniversityModerator - Sanford Pinsker
Franklin and Marshall CollegeSession #2 - Matisse
"Individuals and Institutions in the Third Reich""The Case of Otto Morike"
Hans Wuerth - Moravian College"Margit Slachta and the Early Rescue of Jewish Families in Hungary"
Jessica Sheetz - Marquette University"Theology and Practice of the Confessing Church vis-a-vis the Third Reich's Persecution of the Jews"
Theodore Langenbruch - Eastern Kentucky UniversityModerator - Leory Hopkins
Millersville UniversitySession #3 - Old Main
"Understanding the Holocaust""Trying to Situate the Holocaust Within the Context of Modern Jewish History"
Dan Michman - Bar-Illan University"The Etymotology of the Holocaust"
Eric Epstein - Penn State (Harrisburg)"Why We Know More and Have Learned Little"
Henry Huttenbach -CUNYModerator - Lilliana Zancu
Millersville UniversitySession #4 - Audubon
"War Crimes, Collaborators and Nuremberg""Researching Ukrainian Collaborators: Opportunities and Limitations"
Howard Margolin - Ontario Canada"The Case of Byelorussian War Crimes"
Frank Buscher - Christian Brothers University"Proving the Holocaust in Court: The Case of Ernst Zundel"
Robert Khan - Johns Hopkins University"Australia, Nuremberg and the Holocaust: Atrocity and Punishment Viewed from Down Under"
Paul Bartrop - University of South AustraliaModerator - Steven Rodger
Department of Justice
Plenary Session - Old Main"Factories of Death"? "Suggestive Images - Limited Understanding
The (Re)Presentation of the Holocaust in Germany"
Alf Luedtke - Max Planck InstituteModerator - Craig Koslofsky
Millersville University