Rodgers Center Fall Series Opens with Film Screening of "Nicky's Family"
Poster for the film “Nicky’s Family” September 16 | 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium | Memorial Hall For more than fifty years, the story of…
Holocaust Education
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
April 29 • 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium • Memorial Hall Lighting of Candles of Remembrance Musical Tribute Cantor Chayim Frenkel Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation…
Surviving the Holocaust: The Jews of Bucharest in Nazi Allied Romania
Stefan Ionescu February 11•7 p.m. Bush Conference Center Beckman Hall•Room 404 Stefan Ionescu Research Associate, Department of History and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust…
Judita Matyášová Shares Unknown Stories of Czech Jewish Teenagers
Judita Matyasova November 19 •4:00 PM Bush Conference Center | Beckman Hall |Room 404 Judita Matyášová Researcher, Military History Institute, Prague, Czech Republic…
Recent Books on Kristallnacht
Photo: Burning of the synagogue in Hanover, Germany, night of 9 November 1938 As historians Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt have observed…
More than Broken Glass
This Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” in which a tidal wave of Nazi violence swept through Germany…
Commemorating "Kristallnacht"
Perspectives on Kristallnacht November 7 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Holocaust Survivors and Witnesses to Kristallnacht…
Alan Rosen shares "The Wonder of Their Voices"
October 22 • 4:00 PM Bush Conference Center | Beckman Hall | Room 404 Dr. Alan Rosen Author of The Wonder of Their Voices:…
Chapman University's Nobel Prize Recipient
Earlier this week we at Chapman University celebrated the news that Dr. François Englert, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence and founding member of Chapman’s…
The Unknown Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of the Roma During the Shoah
October 3 • 4:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Dr. David N. Crowe Professor of History, Elon University Professor of…
"Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List" (David Crowe)
The first scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) show a man lay out his fine clothing, carefully select a tie, and embellish his…
"Schindler's List"
A few days ago I viewed for the first time in several years Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed film Schindler’s List. In my experience, relatively few…