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Family History and the Holocaust
“Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning” An all-day seminar to provide the most up-to-date information on how to research the events of the Holocaust as they relate to family histories is being presented by the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York on Sunday, April 22, 2007. The seminar will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hebrew Union College, located at 1 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, with registration starting at 9:15 a.m. and the first lecture starting at 9:45 a.m. The early registration fee for the all day seminar (including a buffet lunch) is $25 for JGS members registering before March 31/late registration is $30; and early registration is $35 for non-members registering before March 31 /late registration is $40. There will be five speakers covering a wide range of Holocaust related themes. Our speakers will be: NOLAN ALTMAN, Coordinator of the Holocaust Database of JewishGen, the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. ZVI BERNHARDT, Assistant Director of the Hall of Names and Deputy Director of the Reference and Information unit at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel. · JAN TOMASZ GROSS, Norman B. Tomlinson Professor of War and Society at Princeton University, author of the widely discussed book, Neighbors: Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. His most recent book is Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. An Essay in Historical Interpretation. PETER LANDÉ, retired foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department and presently a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. who has collected and processed numerous lists of Holocaust victims and survivors. · ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO, Assistant Professor of East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies and Yiddish in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He has published two edited volumes: Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Accounts and Why Didn't the Press Shout? American and International Journalism during the Holocaust His translation from Yiddish, Polish, German, and Hebrew of Isaiah Trunk’s classic Lodz Ghetto: A History has just been published.. The last two seminar lectures will be open to all JGS members and will not require a registration fee to attend those two lectures. The fee for non-members will be $10. A photo ID is required for entry into the premises of Hebrew Union College. This is the second program funded by the Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund. Lucille Gudis was a most valuable part of the JGS and of the world-wide Jewish genealogical community; the Lucille Gudis Fund was created to perpetuate her interests and her generous spirit in helping her brother and sister genealogists. For the most up-to-date information and Seminar questions, contact: [email protected] or call 212-294-8326. The Seminar flyer and registration form can be accesses at http://www.jgsny.org/dayoflearning.htm.
“Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning” An all-day seminar to provide the most up-to-date information on how to research the events of the Holocaust as they relate to family histories is being presented by the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York on Sunday, April 22, 2007. The seminar will take place from 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hebrew Union College, located at 1 West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, with registration starting at 9:15 a.m. and the first lecture starting at 9:45 a.m. The early registration fee for the all day seminar (including a buffet lunch) is $25 for JGS members registering before March 31/late registration is $30; and early registration is $35 for non-members registering before March 31 /late registration is $40. There will be five speakers covering a wide range of Holocaust related themes. Our speakers will be: NOLAN ALTMAN, Coordinator of the Holocaust Database of JewishGen, the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. ZVI BERNHARDT, Assistant Director of the Hall of Names and Deputy Director of the Reference and Information unit at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel. · JAN TOMASZ GROSS, Norman B. Tomlinson Professor of War and Society at Princeton University, author of the widely discussed book, Neighbors: Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. His most recent book is Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. An Essay in Historical Interpretation. PETER LANDÉ, retired foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department and presently a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. who has collected and processed numerous lists of Holocaust victims and survivors. · ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO, Assistant Professor of East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies and Yiddish in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He has published two edited volumes: Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Accounts and Why Didn't the Press Shout? American and International Journalism during the Holocaust His translation from Yiddish, Polish, German, and Hebrew of Isaiah Trunk’s classic Lodz Ghetto: A History has just been published.. The last two seminar lectures will be open to all JGS members and will not require a registration fee to attend those two lectures. The fee for non-members will be $10. A photo ID is required for entry into the premises of Hebrew Union College. This is the second program funded by the Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund. Lucille Gudis was a most valuable part of the JGS and of the world-wide Jewish genealogical community; the Lucille Gudis Fund was created to perpetuate her interests and her generous spirit in helping her brother and sister genealogists. For the most up-to-date information and Seminar questions, contact: [email protected] or call 212-294-8326. The Seminar flyer and registration form can be accesses at http://www.jgsny.org/dayoflearning.htm.