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‘Schindler’s List’ screening to open Rodgers Center Holocaust history series

Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education opens its annual lecture series with a free screening of Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning Schindler’s List on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Sandhu Conference Center.

The film, which marks its 20th anniversary this year, will be introduced by Marilyn Harran, Ph.D., director of the Rodgers Center. Schindler’s List, based on Thomas Keneally‘s book, Schindler’s Ark, tells the compelling story of Nazi Party member, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and fortune to rescue Jewish factory workers during the war. The event is free and open to the public.

The Schindler’s List screening is just one of several special events that make up the series “Moving History Forward: Perspectives on the Holocaust.”

Additional programming includes:

  • “Oskar Schindler, Raphael Lemkin, and the Question of Genocide: The Trial of Amon Goeth,” Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center. In this groundbreaking lecture, David Crowe, professor of history at Elon University and a professor of legal history at Elon University School of Law, explores the intersection among Oskar Schnindler, a Nazi Party member who became a rescuer; Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish émigré lawyer from Poland who worked tirelessly to promote the concept of genocide; and Amon Goeth, the sadistic Nazi who implanted genocide.
  • “The Unknown Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of the Roma During the Shoah,” Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center. In this second lecture by Professor Crowe, learn about the Nazi persecution of the Roma, often referred to as Gypsies, during the Holocaust. Roma twins were particularly targeted by Dr. Josef Mengele for medical experimentation.
  • “The Wonder of Their Voices: The History and Meaning of Interviewing Holocaust Survivors,” Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m. in Beckman Hall, Room 404. Some of the earliest oral testimonies and interviews given by Holocaust survivors are also some of the least well known. Hear scholar and author Alan Rosen, Ph.D., explore the special contribution of psychology professor David Boder who traveled to Europe in 1946 to interview survivors in displaced persons camps and “shelter houses.” Rosen is the author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder, published by the Oxford University Press.
  • “Four Perspectives on Kristallnacht: 75 Years Later – Nov. 9, 1938,” on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center. This year the university’s annual Kristallnacht commemoration will include the memories and reflections of Holocaust survivors and Kristallnacht witnesses Engelina Lowenberg Billauer, Curt Lowens, Idele Steuer Stapholtz and Cantor Leopold Szneer. A reception will follow at 6:30 p.m.
  • “An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht,” Friday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fish Interfaith Center. This interfaith remembrance is co-sponsored by the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, the Fish Interfaith Center, Hillel and the Chapman Interfaith Council.

The series’ events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Rodgers Center at (714) 628-7377.

Dawn Bonker

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