Noble Peace Prize Laureate and Distinguished Presidential Fellow, Elie Wiesel, will be on campus Tuesday, April 8, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., “Stories and Memories: From Always and Now” and again on Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m., “An Evening of Stories and Story Telling” in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel. This event is
You are invited to a special lecture with Stefan Ionescu on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7 p.m. in the Bush Conference Center, Beckman Hall, Room 404. Ionescu is a Research Associate in the Department of History and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education. He will examine the diverse experiences of Romanian Jews during the
Chapman University, The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and Wilkinson College bring you Judita Matyášová in a lecture titled, ““Unknown Stories: Czech Jewish Teenagers in Denmark and Sweden, 1939-1945.” Matyášová will be speaking on Tuesday, November 19, at 4 p.m. in Beckman 404. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Judita Matyášová is a freelance
Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education has planned two days of special programs to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the violent November night in 1938 that became a turning point in Nazi anti-Jewish policy. Four Holocaust survivors and Kristallnacht witnesses will share their memories in a panel titled “Four Perspectives on Kristallnacht: 75
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 4 p.m. The Rodgers Center presents, Dr. Alan Rosen, Author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder in Beckman Hall, Room 404. In this lecture, Dr. Alan Rosen will explore Boder’s special contribution to Holocaust memory. Dr. Rosen is the author of Sounds
Chapman University History and Religious Studies Professor Marilyn J. Harran will be at the Leatherby Libraries booth at the Big Orange Book Festival to sign the book authored by the late Leon Leyson, to which she and Elisabeth Leyson contributed. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible … on Schindler’s list,
You are invited to a lecture on Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 4 p.m. in Wallace All Faiths Chapel to hear Dr. David Crowe’s lecture, “The Unknown Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of the Roma During the Shoah.” Dr. David Crowe is one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Roma. In 2007, he published the second
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 suit with a Nazi Party lapel pin. The viewer soon discovers that this is Oskar Schindler, not only a Nazi but an opportunist, a businessman with questionable ethics, and a notorious
In this groundbreaking lecture on Tuesday, October 1, 2013 (7 p.m., Wallace All Faiths Chapel), Professor David Crowe explores the intersection among Oskar Schindler, 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
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education invites you to a free screening of Schindler’s List, Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sandhu Conference Center D. Dr. Marilyn Harran, Professor of History and Religious Studies and Director of The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education will introduce the film. Watch the trailer here …