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Virtual Lecture with Author Loung Ung for her book, “First They Killed My Father” in S-132

On Tuesday, February 27 from 11:00 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. we will be joined in room S-132 by internationally recognized author and advocate for peace Loung Ung via video conference. Her story should be of great interest to English, history, and political science...

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Film Showing- C313

Paper Clips is the moving and inspiring documentary film that captures how these students responded to lessons about the Holocaust with a promise to honor every lost soul by collecting one paper clip for each individual exterminated by the Nazis. Despite the...

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Spring 2024 Tutoring Begins

Beginning Monday, January 22, 2024, on-campus and online tutoring from the nationally recognized Cerullo Learning Assistance Center (Tutoring Center) at the Paramus campus is available for the Spring 2024 semester. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday 10:00...

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Documentary Film: Navalny

Streaming of NAVALNY Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Sundance Film Festival Favorite Award Date: October 16- October 28 To stream, click here NAVALNY takes viewers inside the careful investigation into the shocking and brazen assassination attempt against...

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Jim Crow, the Chinese Exclusion Act and Anti-Immigration Prejudice

Wednesday, October 11 from 11am-12:15pm in room S134 BCC's Common Read and the Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation invite you to a special event featuring our own Dr. Kil Yi from the History Department. He will be providing a talk entitled...

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Off the Grid: Passionate Abstractions – Gorky’s Dream Garden

“Off the Grid: Passionate Abstractions - Gorky’s Dream Garden” September 20th at 7:30pm in the Ciccone Theater “Gorky's Dream Garden,” a hybrid opera written and composed by Michelle Ekizian, will feature performances by musicians, artists, and dancers including 2023 Faculty mini grant...

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CPJR Discussion with Dr. Yi: “Is peace possible in Northeast Asia?”

CPJR Discussion Is peace possible in Northeast Asia? Prof. Kil J. Yi Wednesday, April 19, 2023 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. B321 Sponsored by Center for Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation and the Asian Heritage Committee

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Remembering the Holocaust- Virtual Story with Survivor Sami Steigmann

Join us for "Remembering the Holocaust on the anniversary of Kristallnacht" for a virtual story with survivor Sami Steigmann on Monday, November 9th at 11:00am-12:30pm. Sami Steigmann was born in 1939 in Bukovina, Romania. As a toddler Sami was subjected to cruel...

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Spring 2023

Bergen Union Debate: “Peace with Honor or Dishonorable Peace?”

March 8 from 11am-12:30pm in room C313

The year 2023 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War. Two years thereafter in 1975, Saigon fell and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) ceased to exist. Bergen historians Professors Keith Chu and Kil J. Yi will debate whether the Paris Peace Accords achieved a peaceful conclusion to America’s longest war or disguised a colossal failure. Prof. Chu will argue for the “Dishonorable” thesis and Prof. Yi will support the “Honorable” notion. Dr. Peter Dlugos of the Philosophy and Religion Department will serve as the moderator.

The US and the Holocaust: Old Debates and New Approaches

January 26  from 7-8pm on Zoom. To register for this event, please click here or use this URL:
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An event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day with speaker Dr. Barry Trachtenberg. Co-sponsored with The Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center, William Paterson University, and Saint Elizabeth University

Barry Trachtenberg is Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is the author of The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye, The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance, and The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917. He also serves on the Board of Scholars of Facing History and Ourselves.

Fall 2022

A screening of the documentary film Reckonings will be available to stream October 26- November 8.

Click Here to watch the film trailer

Click Here to stream the full documentary film anytime between October 26 and November 8.  The full film is 74 minutes long.

Reckonings was an official selection at the United Nations Association Film Festival in 2022 and is directed by award winning documentarian Roberta Grossman

It is the perfect film for any course or individual that wants to examine the topics of diplomacy, international law, US and World History, Reparations and Restorative Justice models, Holocaust and Jewish history, and questions of reconciliation.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, German and Jewish leaders met in secret to negotiate the unthinkable – compensation for the survivors of the largest mass genocide in history. Survivors were in urgent need of help, but how could reparations be determined for the unprecedented destruction and suffering of a people? Directed by award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman, RECKONINGS is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people, which resulted in the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. Filmed in six countries and featuring new interviews with Holocaust survivors, world-renowned scholars and dignitaries and the last surviving member of the negotiating delegations, the film powerfully models how political will and a moral imperative can join forces to bridge an impossible divide. By confronting the past, the German and Jewish leaders charted a better future for a desperate and traumatized people. Their actions led to the first time in history that individual victims of persecution received material compensation from the perpetrators.

 

Maud Dahme: A Hidden Child of the Holocaust shares her story

November 3 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in room S-138
An event to commemorate Kristallnacht

Maud Dahme, one of the hidden children of the Holocaust, will come to Bergen to share her story in person with our college community.

An estimated 1.5 million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust. Only about 10% of the Jewish children in Europe survived the Nazi persecution. Many of these were “hidden children” who were kept hidden, often in non-Jewish homes. Maud Dahme was born in Amersfoort, Holland in 1936. In 1942, the Germans sent letters to all the Jewish families ordering deportation. Maud’s parents asked one of their Christian friends in the anti-Nazi Resistance to hide Maud and her sister Rita. After Liberation of Europe in 1945, Maud and her sister were reunited with their parents but their extended family had all died at the concentration camp Sobibor. Maud has shared her story of survival and the family who kept her hidden in a PBS documentary and at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and through her book, “Chocolate, the Taste of Freedom”.

Spring 2022

A Screening of the documentary film Who Will Write Our History and Q&A with filmmaker  Roberta Grossman

Streaming of the Film will be available from April 11-April 25

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The talk and Q&A by filmmaker Roberta Grossman will be virtual via Webex Monday April 25, 2022 12:30-1:30pm

Click here to join the Webex talk on April 25

In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group of journalists, scholars, and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists, but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told in the documentary featuring the voices of three-time Academy Award® nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody. Written, produced, and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

Email Sarah Shurts [email protected] with any questions about the event

Fall 2021

Holocaust Survivor, Fran Malkin, Speaks (flyer) – virtually via Webex – Thursday 11/04/21  @11am  – 12 pm

Fran Malkin was born in Sokal, Poland in 1938.  In 1939, Russia occupied her town. Under Communist rule, her family’s properties were taken away and strangers occupied their home. In spring 1941, Germany invaded and occupied Sokal. They ordered all Jewish men between the ages of 16-60 to report to the town square. 400 Jewish men, including her father, were taken to a brick factory and shot. Fran was two years old.

The family was later forced into the ghetto. In the fall of 1942, the family went into hiding. They were among sixteen people who were hidden for two years in the hayloft of a barn by Francisca Halamajowa, 13 in the hayloft over the pigsty and 3 in a hole under her kitchen.  Watch Amazon movie trailor

view recording of Fran Malkin’s talk 

 

1-hour Webinars from echoesandreflections.org  – Register on their 2021 Registration calendar

Explore Virtual Holocaust events at Kean.edu  holocaust-resource-center-events

 


Spring 2021 (virtual events)

France Divided_ Understanding the WWII Occupation of Franceby Dr. Eileen Angelli co-hosted by Kean University Wednesday, April 28 @7pm – contact [email protected] for details

Holocaust Survivor Talks:

Holocaust Survivor, Bronia Brandman to speak for Yom HaShoah
Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:30 -1:00pm   Register for webex JOIN link
Bronia Brandman was born into a family of six children in Jaworzno, Poland.  She was just eight years old when Book cover for "The Girl Who Survived"WWII broke out. She and her family were confined in ghettos, enslaved in labor camps, deported, and murdered. Ms. Brandman narrowly escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz by running away from her assigned line and joining her older sister in another line. Her sister soon developed typhus, and the Nazis sent her to the gas chambers. Her parents and a brother were also deported to Auschwitz, never to be heard from again. Bronia remained at Auschwitz until January 1945, when she was forced on a death march. Though sick and delirious with fever, Ms. Brandman survived until liberation in May 1945. Today, she is a retired teacher and volunteer member of the Speakers Bureau of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, mjhnyc.org


Holocaust survivor, Erwin Forley,
to speak for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Co-hosted by The Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC. mjhnyc.org     view Event Poster International Holocaust Remembrance Day Zoom Event Header
Tuesday, January 26th  12:00pm

 

Dialogues:
Dialogue for WomenPoster  Thursday March 25 – 12- 1:30 pm
Dialogue on Race –  Poster  Feb 25th
E-Board NIF Healthcare Discussion (SGA private event 6/18)

 

Fall 2020 (virtual events)

Holocaust Survivors Speak – in commemoration of  Kristallnacht

Sami returns to Bergen to tell his story of surviving the HOLOCAUST – November 9  Monday 11:00 – 12:30 pm – view the recording
PJR Speaker Sami SteigmannSami Steigmann  was born in 1939 in Bukovina, Romania. As a toddler Sami was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experimentation and starvation, in the Transnistria labor camp.  He suffered all of his life with chronic head, neck, and back pain.  His life was saved by a German woman who had access to the camp.  

Virtual Dialogue Series

Join us in an open dialogue. Listen to multiple, diverse perspectives that allow us to address racism in our society. Advanced sign-up required – Email Cristina Haedo, Facilitator, Student Services Counselor, [email protected].

  • Racial Justice and Policing –  Tuesday, November 10, and Thursday November 12.
  • Identity -What’s your Story? Tuesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 15, 12 -1:30 pm
  • The Golden (Platinum )  Rule – Listen to Golden Rule Rap song
    Tuesday, October 20 and Thursday, October 22, 12 – 1:30 pm

Faculty should also explore opportunities for Dialogues from our partner at Facing History

Spring 2020

  • Annual Prahkin Literary Awards Ceremony – Wednesday, 1/29, 6:30pm, TEC-128
  • Women’s History Book and Brunch: Women and War – 3/19
  • Literary Arts Series: Author’s on War – 3/24
  • Holocaust Commemorative Speaker, Paul Galan, Survivor – Thursday 4/02, 11am-12:30pm, C-211
    Paul Galan was born in Czechoslovakia. He and his family were fortunate to survive the Holocaust through a series of unusual circumstances and good luck. He will share his unique story of survival. Despite the separation of his siblings, and family members sent to concentration camps, all of his immediate family miraculously survived and were reunited at the end of the war.

Fall 2019

  • No Man’s Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War – series of 3 weekly sessions beginning November 11 – S-134 – 6:30 pm. co-hosted by BCC’s Center for Veterans and Military Affairs.

 

  • Dr. Waitman Beorn, Holocaust historian from Northumbria University in England will be speaking over Skype at the Meadowlands – Nov 19, 11:45-1pm.
  • Women’s Experiences during the Rwandan Genocide – Dr. Sara Brown – December 10, 2019 – 11:45am Room 5 Meadowlands
  • Injuries of Reconciliation: Being an Armenian in Post-Genocide Turkey – Wednesday, November 6, 2019 – 7 pm – A-104
    Dr. Melissa Bilal, a native of the Istanbul Armenian community, will share her research from three generations of genocide survivors who continued living side-by-side with the people who murdered their loved ones, as well as survivor families of the 1930s’ Armenian exodus from the village of Burunkışla. Dr. Bilal will share how songs and stories were used as means of transmitting memories within a framework of forgiveness and reconciliation.
  • NIGHTINGALES, True Stories of Escape, Hope and Resilience – Mimi Melkonian, author. Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 7 p.m. – A-104
    11 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes as a result of civil war. Melkonian profiles 16 inspiring migrants, including artists, musicians, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs, who left their homes and family, knowing they may never return.

Spring 2019

“No Man’s Land: Dialogues on the Experience of War” – series of 3 open sessions from 6 – 8 pm – C325. co-hosted by BCC’s Center for Veterans and Military Affairs.  Read: news.bergen.edu/100k-grant-spurs-programs-for-military-veterans 

Holocaust Remembrance – April 2019
co-sponsor: NJ Commission on Holocaust Education

  1. Monday, April 1, 11 am – 12:30 pm – TEC-128 – Iris Dorbian: INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA: Struggling With a Painful Legacy – In the Aftermath of the Camps.  As the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Iris speaks about her father’s Holocaust experiences and the effects his trauma had on her and her family. Hirsh Dorbian was 11 years old, when he and his family were arrested and separated. He spent six months following his liberation in a displaced persons camp, and a lifetime deeply traumatized.
  2. Wednesday, April 3, 11 am- 12:30 pm TEC-128 – HOLOCAUST Survivor Hidden Child in France – Simon Jeruchim  was born in Paris, France on December 25, 1929. In July 1942 the French police, collaborating with the Nazis, rounded up Jews in Paris to be sent to death camps. Simon’s parents were put in touch with neighbors, a compassionate gentile couple, connected with an underground network organized to save Jewish children. Twelve-year old Simon and his two siblings, fourteen and five, were sent in hiding in Normandy and placed separately with gentile families. Simon’s parents, while attempting to escape to the unoccupied zone of France, were arrested crossing the border, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Simon and his siblings survived.

Monday, April 8, 11am – 12:40 pm A104Chris Nicola presents “No Place on Earth”.
American Cave Explorer, Chris Nicola narrates the story of how five Ukrainian Jewish families survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in a cave for over a year. He explains how he spent 10 years finding and interviewing the survivors, to confirm what he had accidentally discovered; Plus 10 years in bringing about both a book and documentary; : www.noplaceonearthfilm.com.
040819- Chris Nicola- No Place on Earth Holocaust Remembrance Lecture

Armenian Genocide – March -April 2019

  1. WORKSHOP for Educators
    Thursday, March 28 -PJR hosts Facing History  – a workshop for teaching “The Armenian Genocide “ – 9 – 1:30 pm – Examine the events leading up to the systematic murder of over one million Armenians, and the aftermath of such atrocity. Middle and High School educators welcome.  flyer details.  RSVP – facinghistory.org/newyork/events
  2. Book presentation “Feast of Ashes” – by Sato Moughalian – Thursday, April 11, 7 pm – A-104
    The story of David Ohannessian, the renowned ceramicist who in 1919 founded the art of Armenian pottery in Jerusalem. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new ceramics tradition in Jerusalem.

Early SPRING 2019 Holocaust Studies Events

  1. Tuesday, January 29, 12:30-1:30pm – Opening of the Exhibit: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Present ‘They Risked Their Lives: Poles Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
  2. Thursday January 31 @5:30 pm TEC-128 – 12th Annual Student Award Ceremony – The Holocaust, Genocide and Stalinist Repression  
  3. Tuesday, February 19, 1:45-3:00pm A-104 – “Karski & Lords of Humanity” by Sławomir Grünberg: documentary film screening followed by Q&A
  4. Tuesday, February 26, 12:30-1:30 pm – “Resistance of the Heart” —  the Rosenstrasse Protest of February 27, 1943, Berlin

 FALL 2018 Events

  • October 18Kinderblock 66 – 7 pm Ciccone Theater.
    Documentary of 1000 boys who were survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp. Producer Steve Moskovic
  • October 23At the Foot of Ararat: Armenian Folk Dance– flyer 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  and 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. TEC-128
    Traditional village dances of ancient Armenian culture. Susan Lind-Sinanian, Textile Curator at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, MA will introduce and teach line dances that she has collected over the last forty years from immigrants and survivors of a lost generation from western Armenia.
  • October 30 – Holocaust Survivor Trudy Album shares her story…..10:30 am – 12pm   – Paramus Campus – TEC-128  view photos
    Trudy Album was born in 1929 in Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis invaded, her family was sent to a ghetto, then to several concentration camps. Trudy arrived in the women’s section of Birkenau, a sub-camp of Auschwitz, before her 15th birthday. Her mother and three younger siblings had already been gassed to death.Trudy has worked with the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education for several decades. Though it is difficult to share her painful experiences, Trudy is committed to ensuring that the memory, lessons, and legacies of the Holocaust are carried on.
  • November 13 – LGBTQ Awareness Day – 11 am – 2:30 pm A-104
    • 11:00 – 12:15 Chris Mosier  – Transgender keynote speaker, a Hall of Fame triathlete.
    • 12:30 -1:30 pm Bergen PRIDE panel moderated by Jennifer Long, a transgender retired sergeant major.

Genocide Speaker Series – via Skype Sessions 5th floor Meadowlands Campus 11:30-1pm


Spring 2018 Events

  • April 24 – Tuesday evening 7 pm – TEC-128
    Out of My Great Sorrows: Armenian Genocide & Artist Mary Zakarian the story of a woman whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her parents, who were Armenian Genocide survivors. It follows Zakarian’s personal problems resulting from a traumatic background and provides a cultural history of the Armenian immigrant experience in the U.S.  By examining Mary Zakarian’s life and art, the authors  bring a fresh perspective of the Armenian experience, as well as an understanding of all people who have struggled to express themselves in the face of injustice and oppression.

  • April 19 – Thursday 12 pm  L-147 – (includes lunch)
    Remembrance and Beyond: Hillel is hosting Bella Miller, a remarkable Holocaust survivor. Bella Miller was raised in Boryslaw, Poland. She and her family hid from the Nazis, escaped to the forest, but were eventually captured and sent to Auschwitz.
  • April 18 – Wed. 2-4 pm – A104
    Together” author Ann Arnold and Holocaust survivor Mark Schonwetter – Ann Arnold’s book, Together: A Journey for Survival, chronicles her grandmother’s courageous story of saving her family from the Nazis. Mark Schonwetter, Ann’s father, was just 6 years old, when he was forced to flee his home in Poland. The story portrays the strength of a mother’s love and the incredible courage of good people during the worst of times.  Ann earned the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Heroes for Tolerance award for her work and lectures on tolerance. View video.
  • April 9 – Attorney Rebecca Salk – Preventing Genocide – Law
  • April 4 – Maud Dahme – A Holocaust Survivor Remembers: Reflections on Being a Hidden Childpicture of Maud
    When she was four years old, Dahme’s native Netherlands was invaded and several of her immediate family members were sent to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland.  She survived in hiding with her sister, thanks to the brave and righteous Westerink family. Dahme will discuss the significance of genocide education and the importance of emphasizing the efforts of people who hid, protected and rescued Jewish people with no concern for their own safety. Maud Dahme has been a  member of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education since 1982. She is the author of “Chocolate, the Taste of Freedom”. View Video.
  • March 6 Tuesday evening @7pm –
    Armenia!” At The Met: Making Medieval Armenian Art and Culture Relevant” – Dr. Helen Evans of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. TEC-128.   View Photos from “Armenia! at the Met”
  • Feb 27 – 11 am – 2:00 pm – “How to Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story” film viewing and discussion with Denis Mulcahy – A104
  • Feb 19 – 12:30 – 8pm – Interfaith Awareness Day
  • Jan. 27 Saturday 1-4 pm – 11th Annual Student Award Ceremony – Holocaust, Genocide, Stalinist Repression TEC-128

FALL 2017 Events

Holocaust survivor Norbert BikalesView Bikales Poster PDF
Date: November 30 – 11:30-1 pm – Meadowlands campus.

Dr. Norbert Bikales was born in Germany and sent on a Kindertransport to France in 1939 after his parents and brother were deported to Poland. He never saw his parents again. He spent much of the war in various children’s homes throughout France, most of the time looked after by OSE, a Jewish welfare organization that helped save him and well over a thousand other Jewish children. A part of this period is depicted in the award-winning documentary The Children of Chabannes. Arriving in the U.S. when he was 17, he studied hard to overcome the disruption in his education and became a well-known polymer science chemist.


Marijuana Flyer Marijuana: a Road to…? – November 16 TEC-128


Holocaust survivor Erwin Ganz
co-sponsored by NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE
Date: Tuesday, November 14 – 9:30 -11 am A-104
Erwin Ganz talks about his life as a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany, before, during and after Kristallnacht.

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4th Annual Transgender Awareness Day 2017 (View Poster PDF) – Wed. November 8th – 9:30 am -3:30 pm


Genocide Studies Speaker Series

Forced into Genocide Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army (View Poster PDF)

Date: Thursday, November 2 – evening 7 – 8:30 pm, TEC-128
Adrienne G. Alexanian, presents the memoir of Yervant Edward Alexanian, an eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and countrymen in Ottoman Turkey during World War I.


Author Norman Naimark, “Stalin and the Question of Genocide.View Poster PDF
Norman M. Naimark is a Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Date: November 7 – 11:40-1 pm Meadowlands 5th floor


1917-2017 – 100 year Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution,
Date: November 7 –
1:30 – 4:30 pm, C211 – View Stalin’s Terror Poster PDF
Marxist ideas about building a Socialist Paradise devolved into a dystopian state – presided over by Josef Stalin – which terrorized the population for more than three decades, sending millions of soviet citizens to concentration camps (Gulags); where they were killed or died from starvation, overwork, and disease.

  • 1:45 – 3:00 Jacob Mankovich, “Stalinist Genocide”, a new college curriculum
  • 3:15-4:30 – L. Kowalski, “Hell on Earth”

Short video about Yefim Milshtein, author of the book “Journey through Hell,” which tells the story of his survival of both Nazi death camps and the Soviet GULAG.



Summer 2017

Mann v Ford The True story of the Lanaape First Nation People’s fight to make Ford Motor Co. stop poisoning them. Friday, June 30th, 2017 – 6:00 pm in Room –A-104

Spring 2017 Events:
Armenian Genocide Series – April 2017

  • Lerna EkmekciogluSurvivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey
    April 17 Monday 1:30 – 3:00 pm S-111
    Lerna Ekmekcioglu follows survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders in the 1920s and 30s. Lerna is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Recovering Armenia”.
  • They Shall Not Perish – The Story of Near East ReliefThe Heroic American Response to the Refugee Crisis During the Armenian Genocide – a 1-hour documentary followed by Q&A with Executive Producer, Shant Mardirossian
    April 26, 2017 Wednesday -7:00 pm TEC-128

Yom Ha Shoah – Holocaust Memorial programs

  • Holocaust Survivor – Sami Speaks
    April 20
    Thursday 9:30 -11:30 amTEC-128
    Sami Steigmann
    is a Holocaust survivor and motivational speaker. As a toddler Sami was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experimentation followed by starvation, in the Transnistria labor camp. He suffered all of his life with head, neck, back pain which caused him chronic pain.

Sami travels the world to share his inspirational life lessons. Last year, Sami was awarded the Harmony Power Award at the NYC Museum of Tolerance, along with a proclamation from the NY State Assembly recognizing him as an example of courage, compassion and for his work speaking with students and visitors to New York. – co-sponsored by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE

  • Sugihara: Being an Upstander in a Tumultuous World.
    April 20 Thursday 1:45 pm – 3 pm A-104 (view Photos on Flickr)
    At great risk to himself and his family, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara dared to do what was right, signing transit visas in order to save thousands of Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Mark Salomon, whose grandfather received visa #299, will explore why Sugihara acted as he did, as well as the lessons for us today. Sugihara was the only Japanese person recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. To learn more: watch “Persona Non Grata” movie trailer – co-sponsored by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education DOE
  • Everything is Illuminated” Holocaust themed Film
    April 24
    Monday 11:30 am- 1:30 pm – A104
    co-sponsored with Student Affairs

Other Programs

Addiction SeriesApril 3 Monday A-104 9:30-12

  • Film: Under the Influence: The Science of Drug Abuse and Q&A
  • The Young Adult Brain and Drug Use: What College Students Should Know, a lecture by Dr. Sion Kim Harris
    Dr. Harris, a Harvard Medical School research scientist, will present the latest science on the young adult brain, and how different addictive drugs affect the brain. Learn about the vulnerabilities of the young adult brain and what science says about how to promote a healthy, youthful brain for years to come.
  • Climate Change Film & Discussion -Anthropocene & Empire
    • Film screening and discussion: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Lecture III: “History” (2016, ~45 minutes), April 6, 11:00am – 12:15 pm, C313
    • Film screening and discussion: Nero’s Guests – journalist Palagummi Sainath documents the increasing phenomenon of debt-induced suicides in India’s “cotton belt.”
      April 13
      Thursday 11-12:15, C313
  • Teach-In on Immigration and Executive Orders –
    April 18 Tuesday – C211 – 12:30- 1:45 pm Cheryl Lin, Immigration Attorney
    2 -3 pm Dialogue & Mindfulness

Fall 2016 Events:

 

Posters of  PJR Events: Fall 2015 – Spring 2016


PJR Events in the News:

Spring 2016 Events:


Rwandan genocide survivor speaks

PJR Director Tom LaPointe with Eugenie

Eugenie Mukeshimana Poster – Wed April 13, 2016 


Dreamland: Addiction Series

APRIL 27th via Skype, author Sam Quinones – concerning his best-selling book Dreamland which tells the story of the overprescribing of opiates, the rise of the Mexican drug cartel and the heroin epidemic in the US   View this recorded interview on Adobe Connect’s web page


Holocaust remembrance Katka Reszke”Return of the Jew & The Meshugene Effect”

March 31s, 2016 – 12:30 -1:30 pm room C321
Overview: Katka Reszke shares the personal narratives of Polish women (including her own), who embarked on a pursuit of Jewish identity following an intuition about their Jewish descent. These extraordinary memories are set against the landscape of troubled Polish-Jewish history and a new curious Polish-Jewish present. “The Meshugene Effect” –   www.katkareszke.com

Spring 2016 Forgiveness Project

“The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness” displayed Feb. 29 to March 10 in the hallway by room S-152 at the main campus. The F exhibition was created by The Forgiveness Project, an organization that uses personal stories to explore how concepts of reconciliation, conflict resolution and dialogue can be used to break cycles of violence and restore hope.

“Healing Power of Stories around Forgiveness and Reconciliation”

Thursday, March 10 – room C-211 – 11 a.m. Panel – Gayle Kirschenbaum, film maker and director, will share her film “Look at Us Now Mother” which follows the transformation of an abusive mother & tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.


Fall 2015 “Teacher, Torturer, Executioner: Comrade Duch’s Trial at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal” lecture by Alex Hinton

Thursday, December 10th – 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Meadowlands

Alex Hinton is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the immediate past president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and currently holds the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention. He is the author of the award-winning “Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide,” and nine edited or co-edited collections on genocide and mass violence.

Fall 2015 Genocide – Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria 1915-1916

Speaker: Khatchig Mouradian
Thursday, October 22, 2015 Meadowlands Campus

Khatchig Mouradian is a visiting assistant professor at the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University and the coordinator of the Armenian Genocide Program at the University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR). He is the recipient of the Gulbenkian Armenian Studies research fellowship, the Hrant Dink Freedom and Justice Medal, and was the editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2007-2014.


Spring 2015 Genocide Events: Armenian 100th & Holocaust Speakers

The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide PDF

Holocaust speakers: Powel Goldherz & Isaac York – concentration camp survivors


Spring 2015 Armenian Genocide – Dr. Taner Akcam – Forced Assimilation and Islamization as Structural Elements  of Armenian Genocide

Dr. Taner Akcam – April 13 – Monday 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. • C-211

Historian and sociologist, Akcam, who was born in Ardahan, Turkey, was imprisoned for political speech while still a university student in Ankara and later adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in 1976. Akcam is widely recognized as one of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively on the Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century. He has more than 10 scholarly books published on the Armenian genocide and Turkish nationalism. His most well-known are “A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility;” “Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials,” and “Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire.”

Spring 2015 Hibakusha Panel Discussion with Survivors of the Atomic Bomb


Deliberative Dialogues 2014