The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies

‏You are cordially invited to the international conference and workshop ‏The Future of Holocaust Testimonies IV Survivors: Oil painting by Chaim Goldberg, on permanent exhibit at the Museum, I Remember, Krakow, Poland Krakow, Survivors: Oil painting by Chaim Goldberg, on permanent exhibit at the Museum, I Remember, ‏Thursday, March 10, 2016 Western Galilee College‏ Shamash Auditorium, Sir Harry Solomon School of Management

הקתדרה על שם סימון וייל Thursday, 10 March 2016 12:50-13:30 Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award: Mr. Yosale Carmin ‏Open to the General Public with Simultaneous Translation 13:30-14:30‏ Break 09:00-09:30 ‏ Registration 14:30-16:30‏ Testimony and the Arts 09:30-10:00 ‏ Greetings ‏ Chair: Prof. Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford, USA ‏ Prof. Jacob Hornik, Vice President, Western Galilee College ‏ Prof. Gabriel Finder, Director, The Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia Women Inmates’ Visual Art during the Holocaust: Embellished Testimonies or ‏ Prof. Avinoam Patt, The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, Reflections of Reality? University of Hartford ‏Dr. Pnina Rosenberg, Technion & Yezreel Valley College, Israel Dr. Anat Livne, Director Ghetto Fighters House Museum Intersections of Emotional and Historical Testimony in Visual Representation: Art ‏Dr. Boaz Cohen, Head, Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College as Testimony in the Collection of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne ‏ Dr. Anna Hirsh, Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne, Australia 10:00-11:45 ‏ Reconsidering Testimony and History ‏ Chair: Dr. Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College, Israel Enacting Testimonies as a Way to Keep the Memory of the Holocaust Alive ‏ Prof. Felicia Waldman, University of Bucharest, Romania The Sonderkommando Testimonies: An Essential Weapon in the Battle Against the Denial of Auschwitz Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies in Israeli Animation Films ‏ Prof. Gideon Greif, Shem Olam Institute, Israel ‏ Dr. Liat Steir-Livny, Sapir Academic College, Israel

Bearing Witness More Than Once: Anita Lasker Remembering her 1945 BBC Interview ‏ Ms. Christina Bruening, University of Freiburg, Germany Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award ‏Mr. Yosale Carmin was born in Bukovina, Romania. At the age Was It or Wasn’t It? The Limited Amount or Absence of Testimonies as an Obstacle of 11 he was deported to Transnistria with his family, where he in Research was incarcerated in a ghetto for three years. On 11 March 1944 he ‏ Dr. Emunah Nachmany Gafny, Independent Researcher, Israel was liberated by partisans and in 1948 he arrived to Israel. He was one of the first settlers in Kibbutz Magen in the Northern Negev. During a visit to the Yad Vashem archive in 1995, he learned that ‏ Testimonies on Wiktor Gutsztadt, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Radomsko Ghetto, thousands of testimonies and documents in the archive, written Poland in Yiddish and in European languages, had never been translated. ‏ Mr. Tzahi Drory, Independent Researcher, Israel Carmin felt that this situation had to be rectified and succeeded in organizing a group of 130 volunteers who spoke the languages to translate these early testimonies into Hebrew. Over two decades of work Carmin and 11:45-12:00‏ Break his colleagues made more than 10,000 testimonies accessible to the Israeli researcher and reader, enabling them to tell the story of the Holocaust through the viewpoint of the survivors and to incorporate their experiences into the historical literature. The project 12:00-12:50‏ Testimonies of Jewish Doctors initiated and led by Carmin became one of the important repositories of testimonies available to the Israeli researcher. In this way, Carmin made an immeasurable contribution ‏Chair: Prof. Bill Seidelman, Prof. Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada to Israeli Holocaust research and commemoration. Posthumous Testimony for Dr. Leo Gross: Restoration of the ‘Lost’ Biography of a Physician Victim of the Holocaust ‏ Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA ‏Exhibitions ‏Two exhibitions will be shown in the college on occasion of the conference: The Lost Writings Left Behind by Jewish Physicians: Broadening Perspectives and ‏Jan Karsky, courtesy of the Polish Institute in the Ecology Building Foyer Research Challenges ‏Habricha, courtesy of the Bricha Legacy Foundation in the College Library Foyer ‏ Dr. Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College, Israel Tuesday, 8 March 2016 Wednesday, 9 March 2016 ‏Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only ‏Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only 09:00‏-10:25 Methodological Issues in the Study of Testimonies 08:30-10:00 Tour of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum ‏ Chair: Prof. Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia, USA 10:20-11:15 Testimonies in Courts ‏ Analyzing Personal Accounts in the Age of ‘Post-Testimony’ ‏Chair: Prof. Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University, UK Prof. Éva Kovács, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Eichmann’s Defense in the Face of the Witnesses (1961): Holocaust Testimonies vs. ‏ Sociological Research on the Holocaust – Some Methodological Remarks on the Testimonies of the Perpetrator Use of Direct Testimonies ‏ Prof. Fabien Theofilakis, University of Montreal, Canada Prof. Małgorzata Melchior, University of Warsaw, Polish Centre for Holocaust ‏“I didn’t come here to lie”: Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz Research, Poland Lucas: the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1965) ‏ Norm Transformation during the Holocaust? The Testimonial Evidence ‏ Dr. Paul Morrow, University of Virginia, USA ‏ Prof. Andrew C. Wisely, Baylor University, USA 10:25‏-10:40 Break 11:15-11:25 Break 10:40‏-12:30 Historical Issues in the Study of Testimonies 11:25-13:15 Testimony, Film, Digital and Social Media ‏ Chair: Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA ‏ Chair: Dr. Axel Dossmann, Jena University, Germany ‏ Rereading Koniuchovsky’s Collection of Holocaust Testimonies ‏ Formatting Testimony in Documentary Film ‏ Dr. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky, Tel Aviv University, Israel ‏ Prof. Tomasz Łysak, University of Warsaw, Poland Testimonies of Survivors of Postwar Anti-Jewish Violence: Deconstructing a Myth ‏ Digitized Survivors’ Testimonies: Some Archival and Historiographical of Polish Collective Memory Considerations ‏ Ms. Karolina Panz, University of Warsaw, Poland ‏ Mr. Amir Lavie, University of Toronto, Canada ‏Marceline Loridan-Ivens: A French Birkenau Survivor Interprets the Present Through the Past: From “Old” to “New” Anti-Semitism ‏ Holocaust Testimony in Yizkor Books: From Text to Hypertext to Text Again ‏ Prof. Anna Norris, Michigan State University, USA ‏Prof. Rosemary Horowitz, Appalachian State University, USA Memoirs of Camp Survivors: Between Personal Accounts to Collective Memories ‏ “Add Review”: Holocaust Testimonies in Social Media ‏Dr. Ross W. Halpin, University of Sydney, Australia ‏Ms. Stephanie Benzaquen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 12:30‏-13:10 Plenary Lecture: Forgotten Experiences: Video Testimonies as a Source for 13:15-14:10 Break Holocaust Research 14:10-15:40 The Role of Testimonies in Holocaust Education ‏Prof. Wolf Gruner, University of South California, USA ‏ Chair: Prof. Zehavit Gross, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 13:10‏-14:30 Break ‏ Holocaust Testimonies in Education and Memory: Beyond the Survivor (A Case 14:30‏-15:50 Children’s Testimonies Study for Britain) ‏ Chair: Dr. Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Shaanan College, Israel ‏ Dr. Kara Critchell, Ms. Emily Stiles, University of Winchester, UK Statistical Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies Using the Example of Hidden Children David P. Boder´s Challenging Heritage: How to Make Somebody Understand by in France – Methodological Issues Listening to Audiotaped Testimonies from 1946 ‏ Dr. Annelyse Forst, University of Salzburg, Austria ‏ Dr. Axel Dossmann, Jena University, Germany ‏ The Legacy of Testimonies: The Story of the Rescue of Children and Youths at Historical Learning about the Shoah in Schools from a Transnational Perspective: Buchenwald Using Video-Testimonies and Tablet PCs Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA Ms. Anne Schillig, University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland ‏ Child Survivors and Testimony: Emotions, Memory, and Identity 15:40-15:50 Break ‏ Prof. Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University, UK 15:50-16:00 ‏ Break 15:50-16:45 Second and Third Generation ‏Chair: Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt, Harvard Medical School, USA 16:00‏-17:20 Memoirs, Literature, and Testimony ‏ Chair: Prof. Jennifer Geddes, University of Virginia, USA Children of Survivors and the Future of Holocaust Memory ‏ Writing Against and Despite Silence: A Literary Analysis of Testimonies of the Post-War ‏ Prof. Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford, USA Years ‏ Instances of Re-Witnessing in Texts of the Second and Third Generation ‏ Ms. Ariane Santerre, University of Montreal, Canada ‏ Dr. Rebekah Slodounik, University of Virginia, USA ‏ Betar’s Participation in Armed Resistance to the Nazis in Eastern Europe as 16:45-17:45 Roundtable Discussion Reflected in Yizkor Books Moderator: Dr. Miriam Offer ‏ Mr. Peter Keeda, University of Sydney, Australia ‏ Hidden Memories: The Lost Narratives of Ireland’s Holocaust Survivors Prof. Gabriel Finder, Prof. Avinoam Patt, Prof. Jennifer Geddes, Prof. Wolf ‏ Dr. Kevin McCarthy, Independent Researcher, Ireland Gruner, Dr. Boaz Cohen