5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Sunday Nov 6, 2011
Weyerhaeuser Hall
Macalester College
"Unit 731" or the "Death Factory" of the Imperial Japanese Army, located in Harbin in WWII, is little known to the general public today. In what was the world's largest research lab on germ and/or bio-chemical warfare, the Japanese carried out experiments on live human subjects, including Chinese civilians and American and Chinese POWs. In addition, some of the "germ bombs" were flown into the US by hot air balloons toward the end of the war. After the war, the US government took the majority of the "Unit 731" scientists to the US without prosecution for war crimes. This bio-chemical warare has been kept secret for many years, but American scholars are becoming interested in this "forbidden" topic.
Contact: Yue-Him Tam, tam@macalester.edu or 651-696-6262
This event is for: Alumni, Students, Staff, Faculty, Parents and Families and Public
Admission: free
Monday, October 31, 2011
Workshop Explores Childhood Memory as part of the Art Survives: Expressions from the Holocaust Exhibition
Seeing The World Through Art: Creating a Symbol from Your Childhood Memory
Workshop with David Feinberg
Sunday, October 30, 1-4:00 p.m.
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes JCC
Art is a way to investigate the world. During this workshop, create an artistic symbol from your childhood, using inspiration from the exhibit. Your symbol becomes your story and is expanded when shared and explored in a larger context. No artistic experience necessary, just an open mind!
For more information visit the Sabes JCC website.
Art Survives: Expressions from the Holocaust is on display through December 22, 2011.
This extraordinary exhibit showcases the work of five Holocaust survivors who use art as a means to approach all they witnessed. These artists created work during and following the Holocaust, and some still create art today. The colorful artwork created on the walls of the barracks and shreds of paper using coal and pieces of colored pencils are a testament to the human spirit, enduring against insurmountable odds.
Artist Biographies (PDF)
In loving memory of Stephen Feinstein by Susan Feinstein
For Artistic Responses to the Holocaust visit the CHGS Virtual Museum.
Art Survives Expressions from the Holocaust by Jodi Elowitz. Article TCJewfolk.com
Workshop with David Feinberg
Sunday, October 30, 1-4:00 p.m.
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes JCC
Art is a way to investigate the world. During this workshop, create an artistic symbol from your childhood, using inspiration from the exhibit. Your symbol becomes your story and is expanded when shared and explored in a larger context. No artistic experience necessary, just an open mind!
For more information visit the Sabes JCC website.
Art Survives: Expressions from the Holocaust is on display through December 22, 2011.
This extraordinary exhibit showcases the work of five Holocaust survivors who use art as a means to approach all they witnessed. These artists created work during and following the Holocaust, and some still create art today. The colorful artwork created on the walls of the barracks and shreds of paper using coal and pieces of colored pencils are a testament to the human spirit, enduring against insurmountable odds.
Artist Biographies (PDF)
In loving memory of Stephen Feinstein by Susan Feinstein
For Artistic Responses to the Holocaust visit the CHGS Virtual Museum.
Art Survives Expressions from the Holocaust by Jodi Elowitz. Article TCJewfolk.com
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Deborah Lipstadt Lecture Tonight at 7:00p.m. Coffman Theater
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) proudly presents the Bernard and Fern Badzin Lecture featuring Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and author of internationally acclaimed books related to the Holocaust.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union, on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lipstadt will speak on Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism and her recent critically acclaimed book The Eichmann Trial.
The event is free and open to the public; however, reservations are required. To reserve your tickets please click here or call the reservation line at 612-626-2587.
For parking and travel info please click here.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University is the initiating sponsor of Deborah Lipstadt's visit to Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Sponsors: Institute for Global Studies, Center for the Study of Political Psychology, Program in Health and Human rights, Center for Jewish Studies, Human Rights Program, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, and the Institute for Advanced Study
Community Sponsors: Jewish Community Relations Council, CHAIM Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota, St. Paul JCC, and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Lipstadt's new book, The Eichmann Trial, published by Schocken/Nextbook Series in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann trial, has been called by Publisher's Weekly, "a penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects." David Gergen of the Kennedy School has described it as "a powerfully written testimony to our ongoing fascination with the proceedings, the resonance of survivor tales, and how both changed our understanding of justice after atrocity."
Her book History On Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2005) is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist. The book won the 2006 National Jewish Book Award and was first runner up for the Koret Award. Her book Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press/Macmillan, 1993) is the first full length study of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust.
At Emory she created the Institute for Jewish Studies and was its first director from 1998-2008. She directs the website known as Holocaust Denial on Trial (HDOT) which contains answers to frequent claims made by deniers.
Lipstadt was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. She was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council on which she served two terms. She was a member of its Executive Committee of the Council and chaired the Educational Committee and Academic Committee of the Holocaust Museum. On July 7, 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Lipstadt to the Council again.
She has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from City College of New York (1969) and her M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from Brandeis University. Professor Lipstadt is frequently called upon by the media to comment on a variety of matters.
Tune in this weekend to Minnesota Access Radio for an interview with Deborah Lipstadt.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Coffman Theater, Coffman Memorial Union, on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lipstadt will speak on Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism and her recent critically acclaimed book The Eichmann Trial.
The event is free and open to the public; however, reservations are required. To reserve your tickets please click here or call the reservation line at 612-626-2587.
For parking and travel info please click here.
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University is the initiating sponsor of Deborah Lipstadt's visit to Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Sponsors: Institute for Global Studies, Center for the Study of Political Psychology, Program in Health and Human rights, Center for Jewish Studies, Human Rights Program, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch, and the Institute for Advanced Study
Community Sponsors: Jewish Community Relations Council, CHAIM Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Minnesota, St. Paul JCC, and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Lipstadt's new book, The Eichmann Trial, published by Schocken/Nextbook Series in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann trial, has been called by Publisher's Weekly, "a penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects." David Gergen of the Kennedy School has described it as "a powerfully written testimony to our ongoing fascination with the proceedings, the resonance of survivor tales, and how both changed our understanding of justice after atrocity."Her book History On Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2005) is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist. The book won the 2006 National Jewish Book Award and was first runner up for the Koret Award. Her book Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press/Macmillan, 1993) is the first full length study of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust.
At Emory she created the Institute for Jewish Studies and was its first director from 1998-2008. She directs the website known as Holocaust Denial on Trial (HDOT) which contains answers to frequent claims made by deniers.
Lipstadt was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. She was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council on which she served two terms. She was a member of its Executive Committee of the Council and chaired the Educational Committee and Academic Committee of the Holocaust Museum. On July 7, 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Lipstadt to the Council again.
She has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from City College of New York (1969) and her M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from Brandeis University. Professor Lipstadt is frequently called upon by the media to comment on a variety of matters.
Tune in this weekend to Minnesota Access Radio for an interview with Deborah Lipstadt.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Meet Eric Irivuzumugabe, author and Rwandan genocide survivor
Friday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.
University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.
Eric Irivuzumugabe, author and founder of Humura Ministries, will discuss his book My Father, Maker of The Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide, on Friday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.
About the book: My Father, Maker of The Trees is Irivuzumugabe's story of physical survival and spiritual rebirth as he recounts his experiences during the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Forced to spend fifteen days hiding in a cypress tree with little food or water to survive the worst of the attacks. Irivuzumugabe emerged determined to start a new life for himself and his two surviving brothers.
Irivuzumugabe is the founder of Humura Ministries, an organization that supports the orphans of genocide, through which he ministers to hundreds of fatherless children in need of hope.
Irivuzumugabe will sign copies of his book following the discussion.
University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.
Eric Irivuzumugabe, author and founder of Humura Ministries, will discuss his book My Father, Maker of The Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide, on Friday, October 28 at 4:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.
About the book: My Father, Maker of The Trees is Irivuzumugabe's story of physical survival and spiritual rebirth as he recounts his experiences during the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Forced to spend fifteen days hiding in a cypress tree with little food or water to survive the worst of the attacks. Irivuzumugabe emerged determined to start a new life for himself and his two surviving brothers.
Irivuzumugabe is the founder of Humura Ministries, an organization that supports the orphans of genocide, through which he ministers to hundreds of fatherless children in need of hope.
Irivuzumugabe will sign copies of his book following the discussion.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Art Survives: Expressions from the Holocaust
October 10-December 22, 2011
Reception: Sunday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes JCC
This extraordinary exhibit showcases the work of five Holocaust survivors who use art as a means to approach all they witnessed. These artists created work during and following the Holocaust, and some still create art today. The colorful artwork created on the walls of the barracks and shreds of paper using coal and pieces of colored pencils are a testament to the human spirit, enduring against insurmountable odds.
This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to view the art of Samuel Bak, Alfred Kantor, Dina Gottliebova Babbitt and Ela Weissberger on loan from the Gotthelf Art Gallery San Diego Center in La Jolla, California. Additionally, this exhibit includes work from local survivor Lucy Smith.
Artist Biographies (PDF) art-survives-bios.pdf
In loving memory of Stephen Feinstein by Susan Feinstein
Related Events:
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
Remarks by Jodi Elowitz, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U of M followed by a reception and gallery tour.
Seeing The World Through Art: Creating a Symbol from Your Childhood Memory
Workshop with David Feinberg
Sunday, October 30, 1-4:00 p.m.
Art is a way to investigate the world. During this workshop, create an artistic symbol from your childhood, using inspiration from the exhibit. Your symbol becomes your story and is expanded when shared and explored in a larger context. No artistic experience necessary, just an open mind!
For more information visit the Sabes JCC website.
For Artistic Responses to the Holocaust visit the CHGS Virtual Museum.
Art Survives Expressions from the Holocaust. Article TCJewfolk.com
Reception: Sunday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes JCC
This extraordinary exhibit showcases the work of five Holocaust survivors who use art as a means to approach all they witnessed. These artists created work during and following the Holocaust, and some still create art today. The colorful artwork created on the walls of the barracks and shreds of paper using coal and pieces of colored pencils are a testament to the human spirit, enduring against insurmountable odds.
This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to view the art of Samuel Bak, Alfred Kantor, Dina Gottliebova Babbitt and Ela Weissberger on loan from the Gotthelf Art Gallery San Diego Center in La Jolla, California. Additionally, this exhibit includes work from local survivor Lucy Smith.
Artist Biographies (PDF) art-survives-bios.pdf
In loving memory of Stephen Feinstein by Susan Feinstein
Related Events:
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
Remarks by Jodi Elowitz, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, U of M followed by a reception and gallery tour.
Seeing The World Through Art: Creating a Symbol from Your Childhood Memory
Workshop with David Feinberg
Sunday, October 30, 1-4:00 p.m.
Art is a way to investigate the world. During this workshop, create an artistic symbol from your childhood, using inspiration from the exhibit. Your symbol becomes your story and is expanded when shared and explored in a larger context. No artistic experience necessary, just an open mind!
For more information visit the Sabes JCC website.
For Artistic Responses to the Holocaust visit the CHGS Virtual Museum.
Art Survives Expressions from the Holocaust. Article TCJewfolk.com
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
CHGS Photo Exhibit: Maxine Rude Displaced Europe 1945-1946 on display at the Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida
November 1- January 12, 2012
The Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida are displaying the work of photographer Maxine Rude. Rude was a photographer for the United States Army and then for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The organization was formed to help the approximately 21 million people displaced throughout war-torn Europe.
The CHGS owned exhibit consists of Rude's 69 Original photographs of the DP-Displaced Persons camps for Jews and other nationalities established in Germany and Austria at the end of World War II.
The center is located in Maitland Florida and is dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice with the ultimate goal of developing a moral and just community through its extensive outreach of educational and cultural programs. Using the lessons of the Holocaust as a tool, the Center teaches the principles of good citizenship to thousands of people of all ages, religions and backgrounds each year.
For more information on the exhibit in Florida please click here.
For Maxine Rude please visit her CHGS web page.
The Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida are displaying the work of photographer Maxine Rude. Rude was a photographer for the United States Army and then for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The organization was formed to help the approximately 21 million people displaced throughout war-torn Europe.
The CHGS owned exhibit consists of Rude's 69 Original photographs of the DP-Displaced Persons camps for Jews and other nationalities established in Germany and Austria at the end of World War II.
The center is located in Maitland Florida and is dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice with the ultimate goal of developing a moral and just community through its extensive outreach of educational and cultural programs. Using the lessons of the Holocaust as a tool, the Center teaches the principles of good citizenship to thousands of people of all ages, religions and backgrounds each year.
For more information on the exhibit in Florida please click here.
For Maxine Rude please visit her CHGS web page.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Laughing with Traumas: Humor about the Holocaust in Contemporary German and Israeli Popular Culture
A Talk by Ofer Ashkenazi, Ph.D.
Wednesday, October 19
11:45-1p.m.
Room 1210 Heller Hall
The talk examines comic references to the Holocaust in contemporary Israeli and German mainstream culture. Ashkenazi will argue that during the last two decades, Holocaust-related humor has been often used as a means to criticize the fundamental premises of the political discourse in these countries.
In blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the mundane, it provided an alternative language for the discussion of the return of the past as a culturally mediated trauma. The endeavor to represent the Holocaust, and to display its 'meaning,' has been an essential element in post-1945 Western culture.
In numerous works dedicated to this effort scholars have documented and analyzed its role in the formation of current 'trauma-cultures,' in which mediated traumas have become key components of collective identities (as well as popular commodities). For various reasons, these studies tend to focus on somber - often melodramatic -images and narratives, which aim to envisage Holocaust reality "as it was," or could have been. Such inquiries have a particular importance in the examination of popular culture in Israel and Germany, where the memory of the Holocaust still determines not only the national self-perception but also the national and international politics.
A close look at the mainstream culture of these countries since the early 1990s, however, reveals a flood of humorous references to the Holocaust and its iconography (in television shows, films, popular magazines, and file-sharing Internet-sites). In analyzing this phenomenon, Ashkenazi will argue that rather than ridiculing or denying the horrors of the Holocaust, these references often work to expose the (political) implications of the current trauma-culture and warn against its exploitation.
Sponsored by the History Department, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, October 19
11:45-1p.m.
Room 1210 Heller Hall
The talk examines comic references to the Holocaust in contemporary Israeli and German mainstream culture. Ashkenazi will argue that during the last two decades, Holocaust-related humor has been often used as a means to criticize the fundamental premises of the political discourse in these countries.
In blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the mundane, it provided an alternative language for the discussion of the return of the past as a culturally mediated trauma. The endeavor to represent the Holocaust, and to display its 'meaning,' has been an essential element in post-1945 Western culture.
In numerous works dedicated to this effort scholars have documented and analyzed its role in the formation of current 'trauma-cultures,' in which mediated traumas have become key components of collective identities (as well as popular commodities). For various reasons, these studies tend to focus on somber - often melodramatic -images and narratives, which aim to envisage Holocaust reality "as it was," or could have been. Such inquiries have a particular importance in the examination of popular culture in Israel and Germany, where the memory of the Holocaust still determines not only the national self-perception but also the national and international politics.
A close look at the mainstream culture of these countries since the early 1990s, however, reveals a flood of humorous references to the Holocaust and its iconography (in television shows, films, popular magazines, and file-sharing Internet-sites). In analyzing this phenomenon, Ashkenazi will argue that rather than ridiculing or denying the horrors of the Holocaust, these references often work to expose the (political) implications of the current trauma-culture and warn against its exploitation.
Sponsored by the History Department, University of Minnesota
Monday, October 10, 2011
Ron Rosenbaum on Alvin Rosenfeld's The End of the Holocaust
Faustian Bargain
The singular horror of the Holocaust is being lost in exchange for enshrining rare moments of inspiration and universal narratives of suffering
The singular horror of the Holocaust is being lost in exchange for enshrining rare moments of inspiration and universal narratives of suffering
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Art Exhibition "A Hole In Time" unites a local artist and Holocaust survivor to tell the story of pre-war Jewish Poland
August 31 - October 16
Special Artist Reception
Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 pm.
St. Paul JCC
Susan Weinberg, an internationally exhibited artist, combines her passion for genealogy and cultural history in this two-part exhibit "A Hole in Time," developed through a partnership with local Holocaust survivor and educator Dora Zaidenweber and "The Silence Speaks Loudly" inspired by time spent in Vilnius,Lithuania.
"A Hole in Time" is a unique partnership forged through a connection both women have to Radom, Poland. Dora was fifteen and living in Radom when the war broke out. She survived both Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Susan's grandfather emigrated from Radom in the early1900s, leaving behind a large extended family that later perished in the Holocaust.
The exhibit contains Weinberg's paintings based on the community prior to the war, stories she collected, and photographs that Dora's family saved through the Holocaust by hiding them in their shoes. In Poland there is a growing interest in the pre-war Jewish community, and in April 2011 Susan and Dora traveled to Radom for the opening of this exhibition where they shared their story with local residents.
"The Silence Speaks Loudly," recounts the time Weinberg spent in Vilnius, Lithuania learning Yiddish. In Lithuania, the discomfort associated with what happened to the Jews in wartime manifests itself in silence. Weinberg's paintings give a voice to the stories that reside in that silence.
Meet the artist: Artist Reception
Tuesday, October 4 • 7pm
Weinberg will speak about her artwork and Dora Zaidenweber will join her in talking about their recent visit to Radom, Poland. Together through art, they will tell the story of pre-war Jewish life.
For more information, contact Jeffrey Richman, Jewish cultural arts director,
651.255.4752, jrichman@stpauljcc.org.
To learn more about Dora Zaidenweber visit her page on the CHGS website.
Read the article: Weinberg's art illuminates Jewish history, AJW 9-14-2011
Special Artist Reception
Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 pm.
St. Paul JCC
Susan Weinberg, an internationally exhibited artist, combines her passion for genealogy and cultural history in this two-part exhibit "A Hole in Time," developed through a partnership with local Holocaust survivor and educator Dora Zaidenweber and "The Silence Speaks Loudly" inspired by time spent in Vilnius,Lithuania.
"A Hole in Time" is a unique partnership forged through a connection both women have to Radom, Poland. Dora was fifteen and living in Radom when the war broke out. She survived both Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Susan's grandfather emigrated from Radom in the early1900s, leaving behind a large extended family that later perished in the Holocaust.
The exhibit contains Weinberg's paintings based on the community prior to the war, stories she collected, and photographs that Dora's family saved through the Holocaust by hiding them in their shoes. In Poland there is a growing interest in the pre-war Jewish community, and in April 2011 Susan and Dora traveled to Radom for the opening of this exhibition where they shared their story with local residents.
"The Silence Speaks Loudly," recounts the time Weinberg spent in Vilnius, Lithuania learning Yiddish. In Lithuania, the discomfort associated with what happened to the Jews in wartime manifests itself in silence. Weinberg's paintings give a voice to the stories that reside in that silence.
Meet the artist: Artist Reception
Tuesday, October 4 • 7pm
Weinberg will speak about her artwork and Dora Zaidenweber will join her in talking about their recent visit to Radom, Poland. Together through art, they will tell the story of pre-war Jewish life.
For more information, contact Jeffrey Richman, Jewish cultural arts director,
651.255.4752, jrichman@stpauljcc.org.
To learn more about Dora Zaidenweber visit her page on the CHGS website.
Read the article: Weinberg's art illuminates Jewish history, AJW 9-14-2011
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