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Miller Center for Holocaust Studies The Bulletin OF THE CAROLYN AND LEONARD MILLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES VOLUME 20 THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SPRING 2016 Miller Center for Holocaust Studies Receives Major Award from New England Higher Ed Board by Jeffrey R. Wakefield, UVM Office of University Communications Aaron Washington Photo: The UVM delegation at the NEBHE awards dinner in Boston on March 4. Front row (left to right): Kathleen Kelleher, Vice President, UVM Foundation; William Falls, Dean, UVM College of Arts and Sciences; Alan Steinweis, Director, Miller Center; Thomas Sullivan, President of UVM; Jonathan Huener, Department of History. Back row (left to right): Corinne Cott, representing the Miller family; Jerold Jacobson, supporter of the annual Hilberg Lecture and member of Miller Center Advisory Board; Deborah Lichtenfed, Director of Development, UVM Hillel; Wolfgang Mieder, Department of German and Russian; David Scrase, Department of German and Russian and founding director of the Miller Center; Susanna Schrafstetter, Department of History; Kathy Rachlin; Robert Rachlin, Chair of Miller Center Advisory Board; Frank Nicosia, Department of History; Leslie Black Sullivan; Matt Vogel, Executive Director, UVM Hillel. Continued on next page IN THIS ISSUE Miller Center for Holocaust Studies Receives Student and Alumni News ................. 7 Events of 2015-2016 ................... 12 Major Award .......................... 1 A German Edition of Personal Accounts ....... 7 Preview of Events, 2016–2017 ............ 18 Susanna Schrafstetter Presents New Book ..... 3 Samuel Bak: Survival & Memory ............ 8 Volumes from the Miller Symposia ......... 19 Ordinary Soldiers Project Update ........... 3 Miller Center Acquires Blood Libel .......... 9 Contact Information .................... 20 News from the Faculty ................... 4 HEF Academic Council Letter ............. 10 1 continued from Page 3 THE BULLETIN OF THE CAROLYN AND LEONARD MILLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES SPRING 2016 Miller Center Receives Major Award, continued from front page The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) has supports graduate training in the disciplinary departments. chosen the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Among the many public events sponsored by the center are Studies at the University of Vermont as the recipient of its the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture and the Miller 2016 Robert J. McKenna Award for Program Achievement. Symposium, an important intellectual forum for leading The award was presented at NEBHE’s 2016 New England Holocaust scholars from around the world. Higher Education Excellence Awards Dinner in Boston on The serious academic study of the Holocaust began at March 4, 2016. Four hundred higher education, government UVM when the young scholar Raul Hilberg was recruited and business leaders from the region were in attendance. to join the Political Science Department at UVM in 1956 “The Robert J. McKenna Award for Program after completing his doctorate at Columbia. Hilberg would Achievement represents recognition for the highest level spend his entire academic career at UVM, eventually retiring of learning by an institution of higher education that goes in 1991. In 1961 he published his path-breaking book, The beyond the ‘ivory tower’ and reaches the community,” said Destruction of the European Jews, which remains to this day Michael Wool, a senior partner at Langrock Sperry & Wool a foundational, standard work about the subject. Upon in Burlington, UVM alumnus and NEBHE chair. “The Hilberg’s retirement, faculty at UVM founded the Center for Carolyn & Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies Holocaust Studies in order to perpetuate UVM’s standing of the University of Vermont exemplifies higher education in the field. Instrumental in the founding of the center and programming at the highest level.” the minor in Holocaust Studies were professors of German David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder. Scrase served as “UVM’s Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for founding director of the center for 15 years. After Hilberg’s Holocaust Studies is one of the preeminent centers in the retirement, UVM’s basic course on the Holocaust was shifted world for the study of the Holocaust,” said UVM president to the Department of History, where it has been offered Tom Sullivan. “We’re pleased that NEBHE has recognized continuously to the present day, first by Doris Bergen and its many contributions to understanding the Holocaust, then by Jonathan Huener. to educating new Holocaust scholars and to maintaining awareness among undergraduates and the public at large of In 2006, Leonard (’51) and Carolyn Miller, who had the scope and nature of the Holocaust.” previously endowed the center’s biennial symposium, made a gift of five million dollars to UVM to support Holocaust “We are greatly honored to receive this award,” said Alan Studies. The Center for Holocaust Studies was renamed in Steinweis, director of the Holocaust Center. “It recognizes their honor. While three of the five million was earmarked the collective efforts of many people in the extended UVM for the renovation of the historic Billings Library, where the community -- faculty, administrators, students, donors and center will ultimately be housed, two million were used to local supporters -- who have contributed to the success of endow distinguished professorships in Holocaust Studies the center since its founding a quarter century ago. “ -- the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professorship, currently The Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust held by Francis Nicosia, and the Leonard and Carolyn Studies at the University of Vermont promotes scholarship, Miller Distinguished Professorship, currently held by Alan education and public awareness about the events that Steinweis. brought about, comprise and continue to issue from the The New England Board of Higher Education is an Holocaust. Drawing upon the expertise of a distinguished interstate compact founded in 1955 by the six New England faculty from across the university, the Miller Center offers governors that promotes greater educational opportunities an undergraduate minor field in Holocaust Studies and and services for the residents of New England. 2 THE BULLETIN OF THE CAROLYN AND LEONARD MILLER CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES SPRING 2016 Susanna Schrafstetter Presents New Book at Community CenterJüdische in Allgemeine Nr. 1/16Munich | 7. Januar 2016 MÜNCHEN | 15 KOMPAKT von Helmut Reister rsprünglich wollte die Histori- kerin Susanna Schrafstetter Dialog nur einen kurzen wissenschaft- In late 2015, Susanna Schrafstetter, Associate Professor of History and a member of the lichenMiller Beitrag schreiben, am JÜDISCH-MUSLIMISCH So fremd und UEnde wurde ein 300 Seiten starkes Buch doch so nah lautet der Titel des im Pat- daraus. Flucht und Versteck heißt ihr 2015 mos-Verlag erschienenen Buches von im Wallstein-Verlag erschienenes Werk, in Lamya Kaddor und Michael Rubinstein. dem sie sich mit einem Thema befasst, das Center faculty, published a new book about fugitive Jews who attempted to surviveDie Islamwissenschaftlerin the undHolocaust Reli- historisch bisher wenig inaufgearbeitet wur- gionspädagogin sowie der Medienwirt de: dem Schicksal der vielen Juden in Mün- und Geschäftsführer des Landesver- chen, die in die Illegalität abtauchten, um Überleben im bands der Jüdischen Gemeinden von der Deportation und dem nationalsozialisti- and around the city of Munich. In December she presented the book to an audienceNordrhein of sprechenseveral am Montag, den 11. hundredschen Völkermord zu entgehen. Januar, 19 Uhr, als Angehörige der jün- Die Vorstellung des Buchs im Gemein- geren Generation von Muslimen und Ju- dezentrum der Israelitischen Kultusge- den über ihr Leben in Deutschland. Die meinde München und Oberbayern stieß people gathered at the Jewish community center in Munich. Radio moderator ArmandVeranstaltung, zu der die PresserEvangelische auf großes Interesse.read Neben der Autorin, Versteck Stadtakademie, das Erzbistum München die ihre Motivation und Vorgehensweise und Freising sowie die Liberale Jüdische bei der Aufarbeitung der Thematik erläu- LESUNG Susanna Schrafstetter Gemeinde Beth Schalom einladen, fin- terte, standen mit Margit Szöllösi-Janze det im Jüdischen Museum, St.-Jakobs- von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität stellte in der IKG ihr Buch several passages from the book, and Professor Schrafstetter was interviewed aboutPlatz 16, statt. ikgher researchund Jürgen Zarusky vomby Institut für Zeit- geschichte an diesem Abend zwei weitere über untergetauchte Juden vor kompetente Historiker als Gesprächspart- Jürgen Zarusky of Munich’s Institute for Contemporary History. TheJüdische AllgemeineAntizionismus, Germany’sner zur Verfügung. VORLESUNG Johannes Becke, Lehrstuhl- inhaber der Ben-Gurion-Stiftungsprofes- Mehr als 10.000 Juden sur für Israel- und Nahoststudien an der Universität Heidelberg, referiert am versteckten sich major Jewish newspaper, published a lengthy reportage about the event, an imageMontag, den 11. fromJanuar, 19.15 Uhr, imwhichwährend der NS-Zeitis in Rahmen der Ringvorlesung des Zent- rums für Israel-Studien über Facetten Deutschland. der israelischen Gesellschaft. Der Titel reproduced here. seines Vortrags lautet »Antizionismus in der israelischen radikalen Linken«. Der Margit Szöllösi-Janze wies in ihrer Ein- Vortrag findet im Universitätshauptge- führung auf ein grundsätzliches Merkmal bäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Hör- des Buches hin. »Susanne Schrafstetter saal A 014, statt. Der Eintritt
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