Shoshana Feld-Sobol Strategic and Corporate Communication (’17) On Thursday, April 20th Chapman University hosted An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance with a special tribute to the late Elie Wiesel. This event was intended to honor Yom Ha’Shoah also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was Monday, April 24. The ceremony was a beautiful and moving experience
You’re invited to a very special evening with Hasia Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust – Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Fish Interfaith Center Chapel. In the two decades from
You’re invited to a special evening with Marjorie Perloff, author of Differentials: Poetry, Poetics and Pedagogy and the forthcoming Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Hapsburg Empire on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center. Marjorie Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a
After the Looted Art faculty panel and presentation you can hear E. Randol Schoenberg , the indefatigable attorney who waged an eight-year battle on behalf of Maria Altman in her quest to regain six paintings by Gustav Klimt that had once belonged to her family but were taken by the Nazis in the Wallace All
Please join us on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 for a special Chapman University faculty panel presentation and discussion – Looted Art: Stealing Cultural Heritage, 3-4:45 p.m. in Argyros Forum, Room 209. Topics and panelists include: From the Woman in Gold to the Manuscripts in Gold: The Precedent of Holocaust Litigation with Professor Michael
On Thursday, September 10, 2015, you’re invited to a FREE screening of Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds as part of the Memory, Meaning, and Justice Lecture Series. The Woman in Gold is a remarkable story of one women’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to
You’re invited to view, “Nicky’s Family” — the award-winning documentary about Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 Jewish children on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall. Dr. Marilyn Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education and Directory, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University, will introduce the film
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
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 …
Students from nearly 150 high schools and middle schools from throughout Southern California, from other states and even from outside the U.S. will visit Chapman University and meet more than 60 local Holocaust survivors at the 14th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Awards Ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, March 8, held in the university’s Memorial