Director’s Column...... Page 2 Spotlight on Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduates...... Pages 6-8 Anne, A Personal Essay...... Page 9 INSIDE Center Publishes LeFrak 2016 - 2017 Edition Proceedings by Dr. James Paharik Holocaust By Bullets Forensics Tour: and Nostra Aetate: Toward a Greater Understanding (Seton & Seton Hill University Hill University, 2017, edited by Carol Rittner, RSM), is the proceedings of the Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education total of thirty Conference which took place at Seton students from Hill University in the Fall of 2015. Seton Hill The conference commemorated the and Georgetown A fiftieth anniversary of the landmark participated on an Vatican II document, “Nostra Aetate: eight-day forensics A Declaration on the Relation of the tour in March to the Church to Non-Christian Religions.” killing fields of the It featured many leading scholars of Holocaust in Jewish-Christian relations, including: and . The Mary C. Boys, forensics trip was SNJM; John part of a three-credit Pawlikowski, spring semester course. Fr. Dennis McManus, Georgetown University, Fitzgerald Robertson, OSM; Kevin Fr. Patrick Desbois, Seton Hill University student, and Dr. Tim Crain, Director of Seton Hill University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education Spicer, CSC; a French Catholic John K. priest and noted Holocaust Most victims of the Holocaust died in death camps Roth; Dennis historian, led the excursion or concentration camps during World War II. The McManus; in Eastern Europe. Holocaust forensics tour though focused more on Elena Procario- Fr. Dennis McManus who were murdered and buried in mass graves across Foley; and Steven Leonard Jacobs. of Georgetown, and Dr. Poland and Belarus. The volume includes fifteen papers Tim Crain of Seton Hill, The trip began in Poland, and the first stop was and an afterword by Gemma Del also participated on the Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million people were Duca, SC, co-founder of Seton Hill’s tour. Both Fr. Desbois and murdered, most within hours National Catholic Center for Holocaust Fr. McManus presented of their arrival at the camp. Education. at the 2015 Ethel LeFrak In Belarus, the The papers in this impressive Holocaust Education Georgetown/Seton Hill group volume focus on examining the mean- Conference at Seton Hill. interviewed eyewitnesses ing of Nostra Aetate in the context of The classroom aspect to the murders, and also its time, documenting its impact on of the course focused on discovered three new mass Jewish-Christian relations, and reflect- the Holocaust itself, with graves outside of Brest, that ing on how it might continue to nur- particular focus on the contained the corpses of over ture Jewish-Christian understanding legacy of Christian anti- 1,000 Jews. The forensics in the future. The contributors make it , Germany’s defeat tour focused a good deal of clear that Nostra Aetate dramatically in World War I, and the attention on the cities of rise of Adolf Hitler and the Fr. Patrick Desbois and Continued on page 3 Nazi Party. Dr. Tim Crain Continued on page 3 1 Center Publishes LeFrank Proceedings Continued from page 1

of Seton Hill University’s re-oriented Catholic doctrine toward in the Middle East Jews and Judaism by calling for a re- and the Israeli- National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, jection of the “teaching of contempt” Palestinian conflict toward Jews which had characterized have the potential aspects of Church teaching before to undermine the he past year has been very exciting and produc- Interfaith dialogue has long been a major part World War II. They also point out that progress of the tive as the National Catholic Center for Holocaust of our Center since its inception, and I have been Nostra Aetate affirmed the Jewish past half-century. T Education continues to expand. The year was very impressed with the many , priests, and roots of Christianity as well as the Yet as Mary Jo highlighted by Seton Hill University’s participation sisters we work with, as well as many outstand- eternal covenant between God and Leddy points out, in a joint forensics tour with Fr. Patrick Desbois of ing Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. The National the Jewish people. an important lesson Georgetown University, to the killing fields of the Catholic Center for Holocaust Education began in To a large extent, Nostra Aetate learned both from Holocaust in Poland and Belarus. Patrick Desbois, a 1987 with an interfaith Kristallnacht commemo- was motivated by awareness of the Holocaust and French Catholic priest, has dedicated his life to iden- ration. We were honored to have four Holocaust the great damage that centuries of more recent tragedies tifying mass graves in Eastern Europe in an attempt survivors this past November. Ruth Drescher, Christian antisemitism did to Jewish- is the necessity to better understand the murder of Holocaust survivor, delivered the keynote lecture, Christian relations. In Germany, the of respecting the millions of Jews during World War II. and she discussed her early life in Nazi Germany. contempt, which many Church leaders “authority of those His research has uncovered thousands Yolanda Willis, Shulamit Bastacky, and Solange had expressed toward Jews, provided who suffer.” Similarly, of mass graves, containing the corpses Lebovitz also described their experiences during the cultural context that permitted Bjorn Krondorfer Elisa Di Simone of Staten Island, NY, completed requirements of over one million Jews. Many of you the Holocaust. The interfaith service marked the Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda to argues persuasively for for a graduate certificate in Genocide and Holocaust Studies during would remember Patrick Desbois and 30th anniversary of our Center, started by our two flourish. As Kevin Spicer explains, a renewed commitment the spring semester, and she traveled to Seton Hill University to his excellent keynote lecture during co-founders, Sr. Mary Noël Kernan, S.C., and Sr. though there were certainly notable to “unsettling empathy” participate in the May 13, 2017 Commencement. Elise teaches the 2015 Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Gemma Del Duca, S.C. exceptions, many German clerics as a means of attaining religion at St. Joseph Academy High School. From left to right above Education Conference at Seton Hill We look forward to two major events in the up- discussed the “Jewish question” in reconciliation in this are: Wilda Kaylor, CIHS 2000, NCCHE Associate Director, University. The March tour to Belarus coming year. This fall, the National Catholic Center terms strikingly similar to those used current climate of religious James Paharik, CIHS ’05, Professor of Sociology and Genocide and Poland was an unforgettable expe- for Holocaust Education is co-sponsoring a confer- by the Nazis. With the publication of and political strife. These and Holocaust Studies Coordinator, Elisa, and Dr. John Spurlock, rience for Seton Hill and Georgetown ence with Northern Arizona University entitled, Nostra Aetate, the Church emphatically ethical commitments will CIHS ’91, Professor of History. University students. “Strangers or Neighbors? Abrahamic Perspectives declared once and for all that such serve us well in advancing I had the privilege of presenting at a number of on Refugees,” October 15-17, 2017, in Flagstaff, views were fundamentally contrary to Nostra Aetate’s legacy of tolerance academic conferences over the past year. I delivered Arizona. Bjorn Krondorfer, director of the Martin Catholic doctrine. and constructive dialogue in the years memoir about World War II and Holocaust By Bullets Forensics lectures at the Association of Catholic Colleges Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University, Dennis McManus, John K. Roth to come. the Holocaust. Tour: Georgetown University and Universities in Washington D.C., the Lessons and I have been planning this conference for a and John Pawlikowski carefully docu- An additional highlight of the Finally, the book is graced with & Seton Hill University and Legacies Conference at Claremont McKenna number of years. The Arizona symposium will bring ment the changes in Catholic liturgy conference was the presentation by many illustrations by Polish-Jewish Continued from page 1 and theology that were engendered Father Patrick Desbois, author of artist . It also includes an College, and Manhattan College’s Abrahamic together scholars from Judaism, Christianity, and Krakow, Brest, and Minsk. by Nostra Aetate. Examples of the Holocaust by Bullets, describing the overview of Szyk’s Holocaust-related Religions: Challenges and Cooperation in the Islam who will address major challenges associated Although the eight- latter are John Paul II’s 1997 efforts of his organization, Yahad – In work written by Irvin Ungar, Curator Age of Extremism. I participated as part of a with the most significant refugee crisis since World day trip was not uplifting, speech, “The Roots of Anti-Judaism Unum, to document the Nazi mass of the Arthur Szyk Society. panel discussion on the Syrian Refugee Crisis at War II. Our triennial Ethel LeFrak Conference, many students from the in the ,” and Pope murders of Jews in Eastern Europe. Ohio State University, and continued Holocaust which will focus on women, the Holocaust, and two universities described Benedict XVI’s 2011 book Jesus of The proceedings contain an edited Book Review by Dr. James Paharik, teacher training in Pennsylvania and at the Illinois genocide, will be held in October of 2018. We an- it as “life-changing.” It Nazareth. In her contribution, Carol transcript of Desbois’ address, which Professor of Sociology and Coordinator Holocaust Museum and Education Center outside ticipate an excellent and informative conference. was a tremendous honor Rittner reviews the pioneering recounts in riveting detail what he of Seton Hill University's Genocide and of Chicago in Skokie. I The calendar of our Center continues to fill for students from Seton initiatives begun by Catholic women has learned in the process of identify- Holocaust Studies Program. also attended Association with lectures, films, and countless other events. I Hill University and before and after Vatican II to foster a ing the burial sites and interviewing of Holocaust Organization have been traveling extensively meeting friends of Georgetown University respectful and constructive Jewish- eyewitnesses to the atrocities. (AHO) conferences in our Center, National Advisory Board members, The price of the book is $15.00. to participate on a Christian dialogue. Another feature of the volume Cincinnati, New Orleans, educators, and countless others. It has been a most To obtain a copy, contact the forensics tour with Fr. Editorial Staff A number of papers ask whether is the paper by George D. Schwab, and Seattle, as well as an rewarding experience. I thank you for your con- Center via email, ncche@ Patrick Desbois and his Co-Editors: Tim Crain, Ph.D. the positive developments in Jewish- a Latvian Jewish survivor of the Wilda Kaylor and interfaith symposium in tinual support of the National Catholic Center for setonhill.edu, or by telephone, organization Yahad-In Christian relations inspired by Nostra Holocaust and retired Professor of Sister Mary Noël Kernan Aspen that focused on the Holocaust Education, and I wish you the very best. 724-830-1033. Unum. The trip illustrated Graphic Design: Mary Kay Neff, S.C. Aetate will continue into the future. History. His poignant reflection is common bonds of Judaism, the dangers of bigotry Tim Crain, Ph.D. Events such as wars and rebellions excerpted from his forthcoming Christianity, and Islam. Director, National Catholic Center and intolerance. 2 for Holocaust Education 3 Highlights of Fall 2016-Spring 2017

b On March 28, the Center along with Seton Hill’s NCCHE Humanities Division sponsored a JoAnne Boyle World Affairs Forum featuring Fulbright Visiting Scholar bThe National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education presented a full slate of programs over the academic year thanks Events Gabriela Abramac, CIHS ’03, discussing the “European in part to the assistance of our two dedicated interns, Jamarius Richardson (fall) and Rhett Baldwin (spring). Also, as Refugee Crisis.” Abramac from Croatia provided an over- in previous years, we partnered with other Seton Hill departments as well as outside organizations to bring speakers and view of the reasons for migration and the main routes into Dr. Roni Kay O’Dell and Dr. Abramac programs to campus. We are grateful to all of our partners for making these programs possible. Here is a brief overview. Europe. She then focused on the Balkan Route with which she is most familiar. Just two years ago, she collected Spring 2017 toiletries and food items which she distributed to refugees Fall 2016 b The Center also in no man‘s land between Croatia and Slovenia. participated in the 20th Annual Celebration of b Film and the Center sponsored a JFilm Unity sponsored by the Festival screening of “There Are Jews Here” on April 26. This Westmoreland Diversity independent documentary film focused on four synagogues Dr. Tim Crain welcomes Dr. Gabriela Abramac Dr. Abramac answers individual Coalition on October 18. One across the U.S. struggling questions. of dozens of organizations with membership and taking part, the Center other issues. Congregation b Each year the Center marks provided information about Beth of nearby the International our work in Holocaust Latrobe, PA, was one of Holocaust Remembrance Day, education and Christian- these. The film sensitively January 27, which commemorates Jewish relations. documented Beth Israel’s the liberation of Auschwitz, with eventual closing. Rachel an information session. This year Seton Hill University’s Fr. Robert Keffer, OSB, CIHS ’16 b Colker, managing director Intern Rhett Baldwin prepared Kristallnacht Remembrance of Film Pittsburgh, an exhibit of books, maps and Our first program on September 26, a Coffee Talk Dr. Alan Rosen, Nick Filotei, Dr. Daniel Martino b Service on November 10, interviewed Mickey video clips to provide passersby co-sponsored with Campus Ministry, featured Fr. Robert and Xenia Yelovich marked the Center’s 30th Radman Brian Balk with information about the event. Keffer, O.S.B., CIHS ’16, on “The Art of the Holy Land.” and anniversary and featured In remembrance of Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), the on stage following the film. He also organized an activity, Fr. Keffer, Seton Hill University’s chaplain, attended the b Holocaust Survivors Shulamit Center hosted Visiting Scholar Dr. Alan Rosen presenting Several former members of which garnered the participation Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies last summer. As Bastacky, Ruth Drescher, The Eva Fleischner, Ph.D., Endowed Fund Lecture titled the Shul—some traveling of students, faculty and staff. an artist, he reflected on the art he encountered at Yad Solange Lebovitz and “To Capture the Fire: The Life and Work of Elie Wiesel” on from out of state to attend Vashem as well as around Jerusalem. His photographs and Yolanda Willis. Afterwards, February 7. Dr. Rosen was a personal friend and doctoral the showing—also joined in the discussion. Rachel Colker, Mickey Radman and Brian Balk personal insights resulted in a powerful presentation. students and faculty joined student of Wiesel. the Survivors to learn more b The Center about their stories. The Annual partnered with b b On February 22, the Center Westmoreland Classrooms hosted an afternoon Open House in County Yom HaShoah Without Borders order to educate the campus com- Interfaith Service to present a munity about the Center’s work. on April 23 featured guest lecture by Dr. Tim Crain and Wilda Kaylor Uwe and Gabi Holocaust Survivor greeted guests and discussed the Judah Samet, von Seltmann Uwe and Gabi von Center’s history and work, while titled “The Seltmann (left) and who as a young Intern Rhett Baldwin guided Judah Samet—photo reprinted with Future of the Humans of Tel Aviv (right) boy survived tours of the facility. The event also permission of the Tribune-Review Past—A Family Research Project That Resulted Bergen-Belsen featured refreshments and door in the Bestselling Book ‘Gabi I Uwe’” on October Concentration Camp. Also participating in the service prizes. There was an excellent turn- 20 and an exhibit titled “Humans of Tel Aviv” from were special guests Egidio DiVirgilio, WWII veteran and out by the campus community. November 6-11. Nuremberg trail guard, and Phyllis Davis, wife of the late Intern Rhett Baldwin discusses the Center’s archival photos and artworks. Bob Davis, a WWII veteran and D-Day participant. 4 5 blanket with the school’s logo on it.” In the mass murder of Jews Holly Price, CIHS addition to extensive travels, Mary is Fr. Manfred Deselaers, and Roma by the Nazis ’10, moved to Los translating poems CIHS ’98, and Sister during WWII. Her teach- Angeles where she by the inmates of Mary O’Sullivan, ing and publications focus works for a Jewish Theresienstadt. CIHS ’10, of the Centre on women’s experiences, Spotlight memorial park and Pacific Coast for Dialogue and post-Holocaust interfaith mortuary as the Philology pub- Prayer in Oswiecim/ dialogue, and the role of community outreach lished the first Auschwitz, announced the Church during and af- on Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduates manager. Aware that third of these that the Center had ter the Shoah. In addition, many Holocaust poems under the created a special she serves on Holocaust survivors are buried title Voices of website to prepare and interfaith committees Dr. Lisa Festa, CIHS ’06, and Dr. Kathy Froriep presented “Hidden there, she reached out Theresienstadt in World Youth Day in the Rochester area. Artists of the Holocaust” at the Histories Seen and Unseen Conference to the UCLA fine arts 2008. She contin- 2016 participants in in Atlanta on April 1. Lisa, who traveled to Scotland and England to department to find ues translating the advance of visiting the Fr. Alfred Patterson, research the his- an artist to design a remainder of the Memorial Place of the OSB, CIHS’99, was tory of Jews there, Holocaust memorial, poems, which she Former German Nazi appointed Pastor of St. wrote: “Much which she hopes can located in the archives Concentration and Mary’s Church, St. Marys, to my surprise, be placed there. of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Extermination Camp PA in 2014. He had on my first day Auschwitz-Birkenau. served the parish previ- in Glasgow, I Retired Catholic Sister Mary Annette Dworshak, SNJM, The materials, available ously as Parochial Vicar ‘discovered’ an- teacher Susan Miller, CIHS ’05, is Religion teacher and Peace in 17 languages, pro- and Hospital Chaplain. Fr. other Holocaust CIHS ’11, donated 3 and Justice Coordinator at Holy Names vided participants with Alfred is a member of the artist, [the late] full bins of Holocaust Academy in Seattle, WA. This year’s Peace historical facts as well as Benedictine community of Marianne Grant, teaching materials and Justice Day, an annual all-school event guidance for prayer and Saint Vincent Archabbey, who was from to West Virginia that she has coordinated for years, included reflection. Latrobe, PA. He is actively Prague, but lived University. She said two Holocaust presentations: one by the engaged in ecumenical in Glasgow the materials were son of a Kindertransport survivor and the ministerium events. after the war. for distribution to other by the granddaughter of a woman She wrote a teachers throughout who hid Jews in France. Last summer she Dr. Miriam Zimmerman, book before her Dr. Lisa Festa and Dr. Kathy Froriep West Virginia. Susan traveled to Vietnam where she taught con- CIHS ’98, Professor death called I Knew I Was Painting took part in the versational English. Emerita, Notre Dame For My Life, which had a few of Catholic Educators de Namur University, her works illustrated in it. She Group’s Trip to Elena Procario-Foley, CIHS ’14, was Belmont, CA, contin- was in Terezin, typical of Jews Poland in 2005 with invited to participate in the consultation ues teaching her always from Prague, but then worked for the March of the on the document “The Gifts and Calling fully enrolled course, “The Mengele at Auschwitz.” Living. of God are Irrevocable” convened by the Holocaust,” each fall. She ’s Commission for Religious Dr. Susan Nowak, SSJ, is also a board member of Dr. William Shea, CIHS ’06, Though retired from Relations with the Jews and the Woolf CIHS ’97, Professor The Helen and Joe Farkas former Director of the Center for teaching, Mary Mills, Center at Cambridge University in and Chair of Religious Center for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Culture at the CIHS ’99, was May 2016 at Westminster College of Studies at Nazareth the Holocaust in Catholic College of the enticed by the Cambridge University. College, is a Holocaust Schools at Mercy High Holy Cross, is principal of the scholar who facilitates School in . currently Adjunct Gloucester Catholic Holocaust Education Professor of High School, from trips for students to Dr. Shannon Phillips- Religious Studies which she graduated, Poland and Germany. Shyrock, CIHS ’15, there. Though to teach a Spanish 4 She also accompanied was recently appointed retired, he also class during the Fr. Patrick Desbois Assistant Director of continues to write. Anaphora 2015-16 academic and his Yahad-In the Holocaust Center Dr. Lisa Festa discusses art of the Holocaust. Literary Press published his latest year. She said, “He Unum research team of Pittsburgh (PA). At book, Judas Was a Bishop: An Old was so grateful that I to in August Indiana University of Man in His Reforming Catholic was awarded a plaque 2013, where the team Pennsylvania, where she Church, in 2015. and given a heavy interviewed witnesses to Continued on page 8 6 7 Spotlight on Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduates continued from page 7 served as Holocaust Remembrance Events Organizing Committee Chair, she initi- The Mobile Area Jewish Federation ated an April 3rd presentation by Judah honored Dr. Don Berry, CIHS ’06, Samet followed by a reception with Sister Anne Brady, CIHS ’01, and Jerry Samet, Moshe Baran, Shulamit Bastacky, Darring, CIHS ’00, with the Shalom Solange Lebovitz, Harry Schneider and Award on March 13, 2017. Rickie Voit, his wife Patty, Holocaust Survivors resid- who serves on the boards of the Gulf ing in Pittsburgh. She worked with Dr. Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Paul Arpaia, History Department, and Dr. Rights Education, Mobile Area Jewish Thomas Slater, English Department, for Federation and the Christian-Jewish an April 4th screening and discussion of Dialogue, wrote: “Their remarks left the “Europa, Europa.” full synagogue inspired and deeply moved. These wonderful individuals have gra- ciously played such an important role in each of these organizations.” The herwoman hands pressed tightlyturns together. to us, quietly, studiously. Each picture passes before my Anne“Welcome to the world of the Nazis.” eyes and the text imprints itself on my brain— Catholic Institute With those words, the elevator opens. Its and then I close the work and continue on. for Holocaust Studies 2016 passengers spill silently out of the car into dim, In the museum, I stop in one of its corners. Bro. Russel Murray, OFM, Ph.D., Catholic Institute disorienting light. Only then, having spent the better part of an Some years ago, I made a one day research hour unconsciously searching for her among for Holocaust Studies Coordinator, and Sister Gemma By Vanessa Waltz Del Duca, SC, Ph.D., Co-Director Emerita of the trip to the Holocaust Memorial the exhibits, do I stumble upon Anne. National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC; I In an introductory photograph, Anne is were pleased to show participants Patrick Markham had wanted to visit the museum specifically, tucked into this corner, near an exit, writing. and Fr. Robert Keffer, OSB, around Jerusalem and the city generally, since 1993. That year, She sits at a desk, head up and pen in hand. last summer. Patrick teaches theology at Allentown my mother pressed ’s diary into I see her in the museum’s snapshots, and the Central Catholic High School (PA) and Fr. Robert, my nine-year-old hands with the same sweet past becomes present. I see five-year-old Anne a Benedictine priest and artist, serves as Seton Hill urgency with which Anne records Edith Frank outside her father Otto’s office, importantly This essay was first University's Sacramental Minister. pressing a prayer book into her own. checking her wristwatch. A small cap covers published in PRISM: Since that year, I have been caught up in the dark locks, which she would later grow An Interdisciplinary Anne’s world. She, a self-described chatterbox out, and of which she would be so proud, as Journal for Holocaust and frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether, girlhood friend Lies remembers. In one pho- Educators (K. Shawn, functions for me, and, I suspect, for many tograph, I see Anne, elder sister Margot, and Congregation Imanu-El Israel, Ed.), Spring 2016, Vol. young girls, as an adored older sister—even as Edith cluster together for a snapshot by Papa Local Community Honor 8, pp. 68-69. New York: I surpassed her in age a decade and a half ago. Frank prior to a day of shopping. In one more Azrieli Graduate School Anne remains averse to studying algebra. She is, photograph, I see Anne, older, bent down on Perman with of Jewish Education and however, interested in mythology, royal families, the neighborhood square, revealing knobby Retirement Tribute, Party Administration, Yeshiva and brooding in notebooks grandly referred to knees. Squinting, she greets the camera with University. as diaries. Anne remains equally interested in quick and ready smile. She crouches close to Marilyn Davis unveils an engraved “stone” on the Tree of Life Vanessa Waltz has strolling about her respective neighborhood in Lies, who stands to shyly reach and brush hair Mural honoring Rabbi Sara Rae served on the judg- a short summer dress with the ideal boy. She from her face. In a final museum photograph, I Perman in recognition of her 31 ing committee for is secretly and not-so-secretly boy-mad and at see Anne on her family’s flat roof, paused, hat years of service to Greensburg, PA’s the New England inopportune times considered a terrible flirt and on lap, in spring sunshine. Congregation Emanu El Israel Holocaust Memorial’s reader of romances. These last characterizations Some time later, a train starts, wanders, and and local community. Perman, who student essay contest in are noted for posterity in the contemplative stops to deposit persons under that same spring retired in June, was feted with a “Bye Boston. She earned an appeal of the diary’s final paragraphs. sun. Dazed, disoriented, lolling tongues lust- Bye Rabbi” party, prayer service and MA in English from To this day, when coming across a world ing for water, its passengers spill out of boxcars. tree planting. She is Chair of the Middlebury College in history encyclopedia or volume on display, I Somewhere, prisoners in lines and in tears National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education’s Advisory Vermont and completed flip to the index, and look up “Frank, Anne– make their way en masse into a camp. Board Steering Committee. her studies at Lincoln Holocaust–Concentration Camps” in that order. Soon enough, Anne will think of packing. College, Oxford in 2010. I absorb the pictures and accompanying text At that moment, in the sun, she may well be Continued on page 10 8 9 Anne Continued from page 9

thinking of curlers; a comb; her little cat; admirers. But she’s not sorry. Memories mean more to her than dresses. Paused in In Memoriam . . . that final museum photograph, Anne grins, May their memory be a blessing to all who knew and loved them, bashfully. particularly their families. On my bookshelf sits the Anthology of Holocaust Literature, a farewell gift from the museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Jacqueline Berke, 94, Professor Emerita of English and Co-founder of the Holocaust Studies. Its bright orange cover nestles Center at Drew University (NJ), died on June 13, 2017. Jackie was a long-time member of against Anne’s diary on the one side and the NCCHE Advisory Board and friend of the Center. The Scarlet Letter, with its exhortation to “be true!” on the other. I recall absorbing Anne’s pictures and Richard Gair, Professor of Holocaust Studies and Reading at Valencia Community accompanying text at the museum. Each ENDOWMENT SPECIAL DONORS Barbara L. Kennedy Fred R. 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Born in Konstanz, Msgr. John A. Regoli Jack Markowitz JoAnne W. Boyle DONORS Nancy & Farrell Rubenstein Germany in 1925, he immigrated with his family to the U.S. after experiencing PATRONS Barbara Molinaro Karp Mary Jane Leone (Gifts of $1,000 to $4,999) (Gifts from $100 to $499) Sybil R. Schwartz Kristallnacht. Following high school, he retuned to Europe near the end of WWII as a U.S. Sister Mary Jo Mutschler, Marilyn & James Davis, Mary Ann Scott Bechtel Group Foundation S.C. Michael Dell Army soldier. For many years, Fritz spoke about his experiences as a Jew in Nazi Germany Pioneer Supply Company Thomas G. Slavic Rabbi Aaron Bisno, Rodef Cindi & Vincent Pasceri Wilda K. Kaylor during Seton Hill University’s annual Kristallnacht Remembrance Interfaith Service. He also Hans & Leslie Fleischner Marianne Squyres Shalom Congregation Garland Debner Pohl met with students and staff to discuss his story, which he chronicled in his memoir, Escape Marvin & Soralé Fortman Greta Stokes Tucker Philanthropic Fund Sister Lynn Rettinger, S.C. Winnie Gustofson The Edward B. and Judith Charmaine R. Strong and Return: Memories of Nazi Germany. This summer’s Catholic Institute for Holocaust Barbara S. Burstin Sister Lois Sculco, S.C. Wilda K. Kaylor A. Friedman Family Erica H. Van Adelsberg Studies group convened in Jerusalem, Israel The Sidney N. and Sylvia A. Marvin H. Shagam Fund of The Pittsburgh Leonard Weitzman from June 30 to July 20, 2017. Our Seton Busis Philanthropic Fund Joy M. Sjoberg Robert & Joan Mendler Foundation Miriam L. Zimmerman of the Jewish Federation of Joan K. Smeltzer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey J. Donald Robinson, 91, died June 25, 2017 in Boca Raton, FL. He was a Pittsburgh, Hill University group included: Michael Glasser Family Foundation, Greater Pittsburgh Carolyn “Bing” Sopko Reisner Mirobito, professor and department Inc. PA community leader and philanthropist as well as a talented photographer. Donald Mary L. Costello Sister Mary Arlene The Charles F. & Margaret was a close friend to the Center, and we are privileged to work each day surrounded by a chair, Communications Arts, Marywood Tim Crain, Ph.D. SUSTAINING Squitieri, S.C. Lynn Palmer M.H. Obrecht Family (Gifts from $50 to $99) collection of his exquisite photographs. University; Roni Kay O’Dell, assistant Susan S. Del Vecchio Alexi J. Swank Wilda K. Kaylor Foundation, Inc. professor, Political Science, Seton Hill Carolyn S. Falcon Melvin and Romaine Backer Patsy A. Turrini Donald & Sylvia Robinson Lisa A. Festa Shulamit I. Bastacky Florence Zeve Anne Pavlicek University; Sister Gemma Del Duca, SC, Family Foundation Edward B. Friedman Phyllis L. Davis Carol Zippi Brennan Wilda K. Kaylor Sr. Mary Arlene Squitieri, S.C., CIHS ’89, died on August 20, 2016. She taught co-director emerita, National Catholic Center GE Foundation William C. French primary students in the Dioceses of Greensburg and Pittsburgh, served as Principal of Saint for Holocaust Education; Amy McLaughlin Margie and Jerry Gross Ina R. Friedman Dolores Zitt Paul School, in Carbon, PA (1968-1981), and was a Parish Minister to the elderly at Saint Hatch, teacher, Social Studies, Southeastern Patricia A. Hart Rabbi Walter & Irene Jacob OTHER Wilda K. Kaylor Regis Parish (1993 to 2015). Sr. Mary Arlene participated in the Center’s very first Catholic High School (MA) and Genocide and Carolyn C. Holland Janet Bender Jacoby & Leo CONTRIBUTORS Institute for Holocaust Studies in Israel. Holocaust Studies Certificate Student, Seton Frank & Delores Infanger Jacoby Ronald S. Angerman A. Richard Kacin Philip & Theresa Jaworski Carl Wallace Brown, Jr. *This report lists donors from Hill University; and Bro. Russel Murray, Wilda K. Kaylor Boris and Bobbi Kozolchyk Jean Fineman July 1, 2015 through June OFM, CIHS program coordinator. James R. Kelley Fred J. Moleck 30, 2016. 10 11 Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID National Catholic Center Greensburg, PA for Holocaust Education Permit 384 1 Seton Hill University Seton Hill Drive Greensburg, Pennsylvania 15601-1599

Upcoming Event Tuesday, September 12, 7 p.m., Cecilian Hall, Seton Hill’s Hilltop Campus The Mitzvah Project, starring Roger Grunwald and co-authored and directed by Annie McGreevey, is a combination one-person play and lecture. The play tells the tragic story of a German half-Jew who was an officer in the Wehrmacht; the lecture explores the historical circumstances that produced over 150,000 German men of Jewish decent who served in Hitler’s military. Free and open to the public. Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Kristallacht Remembrance Interfaith Service, 6-7 p.m., St. Joseph Chapel. Visitor parking in E Lot. Take shuttle bus to Administration Building.

Judith Banki William C. French John T. Pawlikowski, Carol Rittner, R.S.M. Toni G. Verstandig Senior Advisor, Interreligious Theology, Peace Studies and O.S.M. Distinguished Professor of Executive Director, Middle Affairs, Tanenbaum Center for Environmental Studies, Professor Emeritus of Social Holocaust & Genocide Studies East Programs at the Interreligious Understanding Loyola University Chicago Ethics, Representative Emerita and the Dr. Marsha Aspen Institute; Senior Vice to Council of Centers for Radicoff Grossman Professor President, S. Daniel Abraham Vera Bonnet Dennis B. Klein Jewish-Christian Relations of Holocaust Studies Emerita, Center for Middle East Peace Marian Center, PA Founding Editor, Dimensions; and Consultant for Catholic- Stockton University, NJ Donald Cardinal Wuerl Professor of History and Jewish Studies Program of the Gwen Borowsky-Camp Archbishop of Washington Director, Jewish Studies Cardinal Joseph Bernardin A. James Rudin Executive Director, (DC) Program and M.A. in Center, Catholic Theological Rabbi; Senior Interreligious National Liberty Museum Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Advisor, American Jewish Union, Chicago David A. Zubik Kean University Committee; Distinguished Mary C. Boys, SNJM Bishop of Pittsburgh (PA) Dean of Academic Affairs and Abraham Peck Visiting Professor of Religion, Eugene Lauer Lecturer in History, Bates Saint Leo University Skinner and McAlpin Professor Pastoral and Theological College; Adjunct Research Emeritus Advisory of Practical Theology, Ministry, Diocese of Michael Sand Union Theological Seminary Professor, University of Board Members Pittsburgh; Prince of Peace Southern Maine Harrisburg, PA Audrey Doetzel, N.D.S. Parish Eva Fleischner, Sara Rae Perman Sybil Schwartz Professor Emerita of Religion, Associate Director Emerita, Vivien Linkhauer, S.C. Center for Christian-Jewish Rabbi Emerita, Congregation Program Liaison, Montclair State University Vice President for Mission, Emanu-El Israel, “Skilled Volunteers for Israel” Learning, Boston College Marcia M. Gumberg, Seton Hill University Greensburg, PA Eugene Fisher Sissy Stein Pittsburgh, PA David Machlis Retired Associate Director, Michael Phayer Stamford, CT Vice Chairman, International Michael B. McGarry, Secretariat for Ecumenical & Professor Emeritus of History, March of the Living Greta Stokes Tucker C.S.P. Interreligious Affairs, U. S. Marquette University; Secretariat for Parish Services, Director, Paulist Center, Conference of Catholic Bishops; Edward C. Malesic Distinguished Visiting Diocese of Pittsburgh Boston, MA Distinguished Professor of Bishop of Greensburg (PA) Professor of Genocide & Theology, Saint Leo University Holocaust Studies, Seton Hill Vijay K. Verma Donald Moritz Catherine Meinert, S.C. University President and CEO, Atlantic Pittsburgh, PA Gertrude Foley, S.C. President/Provincial Superior, Healthcare Management Coordinator of Seton Family, U.S. Province, Sisters of T. Michael Price Thomas G. Voss Solutions, LLC; Executive Vice Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Charity of Seton Hill President & CEO, First New York, NY Commonwealth Financial President & Chief Operating Edie Naveh Corporation, Indiana, PA Officer (COO), Foothills Mary Ann Winters, S.C., ADVISORY BOARD ADVISORY National Catholic HolocaustNational for Education Center Pittsburgh, PA Consulting Associates, LLC Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill 12