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Kristallnacht

  

An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for “Kristallnacht” A Conversation with Holocaust Survivors and Witnesses to Kristallnacht, Engelina Billauer and Idele Stapholtz

October 26, 2017 by | Lectures and Events

November 9 | 7:00 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center For the tenth year, Chapman University gathers as an interfaith community to commemorate Kristallnacht. We remember the violence that swept across Germany on November 9-10, 1938, and the arrests and deportations that followed. Children at the time, both Engelina Lowenberg Billauer and

An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for “Kristallnacht”

October 31, 2016 by | Lectures and Events

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

An Interfaith Service of Remembrance for Kristallnacht

October 28, 2014 by | Lectures and Events

A Night of Broken Glass and Shattered Community November 7 | 6:30 PM Wallace All Faiths Chapel | Fish Interfaith Center Reflections by Curt Lowens Holocaust Survivor and Rescuer This event is co-sponsored by the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Hillel, Chapman Interfaith Council, Fish Interfaith Center. Admission is free. No tickets/reservations required. Reserved seating

Recent Books on Kristallnacht

November 8, 2013 by | Books and Authors

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

November 4, 2013 by | Lectures and Events

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

October 31, 2013 by | Lectures and Events

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

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