An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for "Kristallnacht"
November 10 | 7:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Chapman University gathers as an interfaith community to commemorate Kristallnacht. We remember the violence and destruction that swept across Germany on November 9-10, 1939, and the terror, arrests, and deportations that followed. We also remember the courageous people from many walks of
Rodgers Center Fall Series Opens with Premiere Screening of “After Auschwitz"
Co-sponsored by Department of History •Department of Religious Studies,Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences • Civic Engagement Initiatives September 13| 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium | Memorial Hall In Jon Kean’s 2007 documentary Swimming in Auschwitz , six women—from different countries and diverse backgrounds—shared their unforgettable stories of surviving Auschwitz. After Auschwitz
Remembering--With Purpose
This Tuesday, May 3, at 7 p.m., in Memorial Hall on the Chapman University campus we will gather once again as a community of Holocaust remembrance. On our first occasion of remembrance, in April 2000, we screened the haunting documentary The Last Days , directed by James Moll, that focused on the last phase of
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
MUSICAL TRIBUTES David Lisker— Violinist and Artistic Director, Lisker Music Foundation Graduate of Juilliard School and protégé of violinist, Itzhak Perlman Daniel Alfred Wachs— Director of Orchestral Activities, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University Music Director and Conductor, Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra Cantor Chayim Frenkel— Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of
The Vienna Paradox: From the 'Woman in Gold' to the Edge of Irony
On Tuesday, February 16 at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center , the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education continues its year-long series with a lecture by Dr. Marjorie Perloff. The author of a dozen books, including works on poets W.B. Yeats and Frank O’Hara and on post-modern literature and art, Dr. Perloff is professor
Never To Be Forgotten: Thomas Blatt, April 15, 1927 - October 31, 2015
Tom Blatt was such a force of nature that it seemed unimaginable that there would ever be a time when he would not be with us. Tom spent virtually his entire life fighting–first for survival and then, after the Holocaust, for memory and justice. One of the few survivors of Sobibor, the death camp in
A Night of Broken Glass and Shattered Community
November 10 | 7:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Reflections by Ambassador Dr. Bernd Fischer Chancellor Fellow, Chapman University Former Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Los Angeles Honoring Curt Lowens Witness to Kristallnacht, Holocaust Survivor and Rescuer On his 90th
To Capture the Fire: The Life and Works of Elie Wiesel
October 27 | 4 PM Bush Conference Center | Beckman Hall | Room 404 Alan Rosen, Ph.D. Author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder In this lecture, Dr. Alan Rosen, who has written extensively on the life and writing of Elie Wiesel, explores a theme central to many
Who Owns the Past?
A few weeks ago, at Chapman University, we screened the compelling film Woman in Gold , starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. On Tuesday, October 13, we are fortunate to have with us the real life attorney, E. Randol Schoenberg, portrayed by Reynolds in the film. The case which Mr. Schoenberg won for his client,
"'Americans, Americans,' the angel said."
“‘Americans, Americans,’ the angel said.” The “angel” who spoke those words was a U.S. soldier, and the teenager who heard them in early May 1945 was a Lithuanian survivor of a death march from the Dachau concentration camp. His name was Solly Gaynor. Solly’s angel didn’t look at all like he had