The 15th Annual Conference on the Holocaust


The Holocaust: Then and Now,
What have we Learned?


Sunday and Monday
April 14-15, 1996



Director: Dr. Jack R. Fischel
Co-Director: Dr. Saulius A. Suziedelis
Co-Director: Dr. David S. Zubatsky
Systems Administrator: Dr. Thomas C. Tirado



Sunday, April 14


1:00-2:00 p.m.

Registration
Lobby, McComsey Hall

2:00-3:30 p.m.

C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
McComsey Hall

Opening of the Conference
Dr. Jack Fischel, Millersville University

Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Linda Clark-Newman
Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, Millersville University

Invocation
Reverend Robert Sayre
United Campus Ministry, Millersville University

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Dr. Saulius A. Suziedelis, Millersville university

Aristides de Sousa Mendes Keynote Address
The Honorable Jerzy Kosminski
Ambassador to the United States, The Republic of Poland

3:45-5:00 p.m.

Reception - Hosted by Office of the Provost
Biemesderfer Executive Center

5:30-7:00 p.m.
C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Introduction of Koppel Lecture Speaker Dr. Craig Koslofsky

Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Browning, Pacific Lutheran University
"The Genesis of the Final Solution: What Do We Know Now?"

7:30-9:00 p.m.

C. Maxwell and Edna H. Myers Auditorium
Program Introduction
Sy Colen, Friends of Israel War Veterans

Video Presentation
Shirley A. Swartz
"Children of the Third Reich"


Monday, April 15


8:00-9:00 a.m.

All Sessions in Gordinier Conference Center

Late Registration
Gordinier - Second Floor

9:00-10:30 a.m.

Group Sessions

Plenary Session - Lehr

"The Third Generation Confronts the Holocaust"

Betsy Anthony
Stuart Kreindler
Brian Richards
Max Koltuv
Melissa Goldberg
Rivka Bernstein
Michael Novrocki
Vicki Simons

Moderator - Bob Leiter
Jewish Exponent

10:45-12:15 p.m.

Plenary Session - Lehr

Introduction
Dr. Jack Fischel, Millersville University

Dr. Yehuda Bauer - Hebrew University
"The Impact of the Holocaust on the World Today"

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Lunch Break

1:15-3:30 p.m.

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 University

Moderator - Sanford Pinsker
Franklin and Marshall College

Session #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 University

Moderator - Leory Hopkins
Millersville University

Session #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 -CUNY

Moderator - Lilliana Zancu
Millersville University

Session #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 Australia

Moderator - Steven Rodger
Department of Justice

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Plenary Session - Old Main

"Factories of Death"? "Suggestive Images - Limited Understanding
The (Re)Presentation of the Holocaust in Germany"

Alf Luedtke - Max Planck Institute

Moderator - Craig Koslofsky
Millersville University


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