Center Symposium features renounced Holocaust Scholar
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
2-3 p.m.
This year's annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium features internationally-renowned Holocaust scholar professor Debórah Dwork from the City University of New York who will speak on “Kindertransporte During the Holocaust.”
From 1938-40, these transports brought close to 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to safety in the United Kingdom. Dwork’s virtual lecture will take place on Wednesday July 21, from 2-3 p.m. EST.
Organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, this year's week-long 19th Rosen Symposium centers on the struggles and suffering of children in the Shoah.
For more information and to register for this lecture, see https://holocaust.appstate.edu/node/400.
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About the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies was founded in 2002 to develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers and the community. Located administratively within the College of Arts and Sciences, the center seeks to strengthen tolerance, understanding and remembrance by increasing the knowledge of Jewish culture and history, teaching the history and meaning of the Holocaust, and utilizing these experiences to explore peaceful avenues for human improvement and the prevention of further genocides. The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is an associate institutional member of the Association of Jewish Studies, a member of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and a member of the North Carolina Consortium of Jewish Studies.
Flyer for the “Kindertransporte During the Holocaust” event. Graphic submitted.
Flyer for the “Kindertransporte During the Holocaust” event. Graphic submitted.