"If something isn't blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it." Nicky Winton.
“If something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.” Nicky Winton. What a great message with which to start the fall semester and our 2014-15 program Saving Memory: Fragments of the Holocaust. I have watched Nicky’s Family, the film we will be screening on September 16, several times. Each time
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 rescuer Nicholas Winton remained untold. Only the serendipitous discovery of a suitcase filled with documents brought Winton’s story, and the stories of those he saved, to light. In 1938, Nicky, then
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 of Pacific Palisades Accompanied by David Kamenir Words of Reflection Rabbi Heidi Cohen Temple Beth Sholom, Santa Ana Rev. Dr. Gail Stearns Dean of the Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Chapman University
Surviving the Holocaust: The Jews of Bucharest in Nazi Allied Romania
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 Education Chapman University In this lecture, Stefan Ionescu examines the diverse experiences of Romanian Jews during the years 1940-1944 when the country was ruled by fascist leader and Nazi ally, Marshal Ion Victor
Judita Matyášová Shares Unknown Stories of Czech Jewish Teenagers
November 19 •4:00 PM Bush Conference Center | Beckman Hall |Room 404 Judita Matyášová Researcher, Military History Institute, Prague, Czech Republic Judita Matyášová is a freelance journalist and author in Prague, Czech Republic, where she is a researcher at the Military History Institute. She is a regular contributor to the Czech newspaper
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 about Kristallnacht, “The pogrom of 9 November 1938 was the end of the beginning; the 10th of November was the beginning of the end” (Holocaust: A History, p. 102). Nazi Germany
More than Broken Glass--Kristallnacht 75 Years Later
This Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” in which a tidal wave of Nazi violence swept through Germany and Austria, leaving in its wake not only broken glass, burnt synagogues, and desecrated Torahs, but shattered human lives. To us, these events seem remote at best. For many of our
Commemorating "Kristallnacht" - 75 Years Later
Perspectives on Kristallnacht November 7 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Holocaust Survivors and Witnesses to Kristallnacht Engelina Billauer, Curt Lowens, Idele Stapholtz, Cantor Leopold Szneer Chapman University Faculty Participants School of Law: Michael Bazyler; Department of History: Marilyn Harran, Stefan Ionescu, Jennifer Keene, Shira Klein, Jeff Koerber
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: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder Thanks to the dedicated work of organizations such as The “1939” Club and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, tens of thousands of Holocaust survivor
Chapman University's Nobel Prize Recipient -- A Hidden Child of the Holocaust
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 Institute for Quantum Studies, had received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a person who has accomplished the truly extraordinary–and he is also a child survivor of the Holocaust.