The College of St. Elizabeth’s Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Education will sponsor several events from March through May that are
free and open to the public, all on the campus of the college at 2 Convent
Station Road, off Madison Avenue in the Convent Station section of Morris
Township. Some of the events will provide professional development hours for
teachers.
• In a collaboration with the New Jersey Jewish Film
Festival, “Farewell Herr Schwartz” will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March
16, in the college’s Dolan Performance Hall.
The film focuses on Michla and Feiv’ke Schwarz, siblings who
survived the Holocaust but never reunited after the war. Michla moved to the
soon-to-be-founded Jewish state in the Middle East and started a family there.
Her brother Feiv’ke, believed dead, returned to East Germany, married a German
woman and inexplicably lived amidst the ruins of the concentration camp where
he was once a prisoner. Their Israeli and German descendants lived unaware of
each other for half a century until first-time filmmaker Yael Reuveny probed
exactly what happened to her family in 1945.
“Farewell Herr Schwartz” was the winner of the Best
Documentary at the Haifa International Film Festival. Refreshments will be
served following the March 16 screening.
• A day-long symposium, “Rescuers during the Holocaust: Acts
of Courage in Challenging Times,” will be held Tuesday, April 21, for teachers,
students and the general public in the Dolan Performance Hall. The event will
begin at 8 a.m. with registration and breakfast and end at 3 p.m. The event is
co-sponsored with the N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education and the American
Society for Yad Vashem and is free to all. Advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter. Seven professional development hours will be
awarded to teachers.
The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Vromen, professor
emeritus of sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and author of
2010’s “Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue
of Young Jews from the Nazis.”
The symposium’s workshops will address Jewish and non-Jewish
rescuers, the New Jersey state mandate about Holocaust education, global
perspectives on Holocaust education, and how to use archival documents in Holocaust
education.
• The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be
marked with a program beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Dolan
Performance Hall. An introduction will be provided by Garabed “Chuck” Haytaian,
who was the Speaker of the state Assembly 1n 1991 when New Jersey passed its
law to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in the schools. The event’s
co-sponsors are St. Mary’s Armenian Church in Livingston and the N.J.
Commission on Holocaust Education.
Following remarks by College of St. Elizabeth President
Helen J. Streubert, the film “Aghet” will be shown, surveying the history of
Armenia with a focus on the Armenian genocide in 1915. Poetry and music of
Armenia and a selection of traditional Armenian foods will be offered.
At 7:30 p.m. the college will premiere the film “Testimonies
of Armenian Genocide Survivors,” introduced by Roy Stepanian, and followed by a
question-and-answer session with children and grandchildren of survivors. The
keynote speaker will be Herand M. Markarian, whose topic will be “The Impact of
the Armenian Genocide: 100 Years Later.”
The event is free and open to the public. Teachers who
attend will receive curriculum materials for teaching about the Armenian
genocide as well as certificates for professional development hours. For
teachers, advance registration is required at www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
• From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, a free
teacher-training event, “Echoes and Reflections,” will be held in the college’s
Annunciation Center. The session will prepare educators to teach students the
complex history of the Holocaust in ways that stimulate engagement, critical
thinking and personal understanding.
Participants will receive a teachers’ resource guide,
supplementary multimedia assets and other supportive tools for educators. The
session will engage teachers with the multimedia curriculum “Echoes and
Reflections,” developed jointly by Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust
memorial, museum and education center; the University of Southern California
(USC) Shoah Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation League.
The topics for discussion will include: Studying the
Holocaust, anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, the Jewish Ghetto, the “Final
Solution,” Jewish resistance, rescuers and non-Jewish resistance, survivors and
liberators, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; and the children of the
Holocaust.
Advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter. Teachers will receive professional development
credit.
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