Workshop: Genocide Testimonies from the Shoah Foundation for the Classroom and Research
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 from 12 -2 p.m.
Dr. Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History, University of Southern California
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 421
This event is free and open to the public, but sign up is suggested at https://workshops.appstate.edu/detail.aspx?key=1662
In collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and The Center for Academic Excellence, Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies will be offering a special workshop to provide the campus community with information on how to utilize the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive to enhance teaching, learning and research endeavors.
Dr. Wolf Gruner is a renowned specialist in comparative genocide studies and the history of the Holocaust. He is currently the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He is the author of eight books on the Holocaust, among them “Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims,” with Cambridge University Press (paperback 2008), as well as over 60 academic articles and book chapters.
Workshop participants will have full access to the Foundation’s Visual History Archive that contains over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan, Armenian, Cambodian and Guatemalan genocides, and the Nanjing Massacre in China. The archive encompasses the experiences not only of survivors but also of witnesses, liberators, aid providers and war crimes trials participants. It is the largest of its kind in the field and only recently has become available at Appalachian with the support of the College of Arts and Sciences and Belk Library and Information Commons.
The event and workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Wolf Gruner. To sign up for the workshop, go to https://workshops.appstate.edu/detail.aspx?key=1662.
Professor Gruner will also give a public lecture entitled “Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Individual Jewish Reactions to the Persecution in Nazi Germany”on Monday, Mar. 19, 2018 at 7 p.m. in Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114.
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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 of the North Carolina Consortium of Jewish Studies.
Workshop: Genocide Testimonies from the Shoah Foundation for the Classroom and Research
Workshop: Genocide Testimonies from the Shoah Foundation for the Classroom and Research