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Family History and the Holocaust:
A Day of Learning |
The 2nd Annual Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund Lecture Series
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The Holocaust was a seminal event in Jewish history, and it has affected almost every Jewish family. The Jewish Genealogical Society seminar “Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning” has been conceived to give those attending the most up-to-date information on how to research the events of the Holocaust as they relate to their families’ histories.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Registration: 9:15 a.m.
Lectures: 9:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hebrew Union College
1 West 4th Street @ Broadway, Manhattan
Distinguished Speakers
The early registration fee for the all day seminar (including a kosher buffet lunch) is $25 for JGS members registering before March 31/late registration is $30; and early registration is $35 for non-members registering before March 31 /late registration is $40.
The seminar – “Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning” – takes the place of JGS’ regularly scheduled April meeting. The last two seminar lectures will be open to all JGS members and will not require paying a registration fee to attend those two lectures. The fee for non-members will be $10.
Download the Seminar flyer and registration form here - click here.
For Seminar questions, contact: dayoflearning@jgsny.org or call 212-294-8326.
- NOLAN ALTMAN, Coordinator for JewishGen’s Holocaust Database.
He has presented his “How to Document and Research Your Family History” seminar to a university Holocaust history class and numerous adult education classes. He is the Technical Coordinator for the JewishGen JOWBR (cemetery burial indexing) project, as well as the Project Coordinator for the presentation of the English translation of the Deblin Yizkor book in an online format. He has had articles published in the following magazines and journals: Stammbaum, FEEFHS Journal, Shemot, Avotaynu, Dorot and The Jewish Magazine.
- ZVI BERNHARDT, Assistant Director of the Hall of Names and Deputy Director of the Reference and Information unit at Yad Vashem. A member of the development team for the user interface for The Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names, he has been instrumental in the provision of Yad Vashem’s interdepartmental and interdisciplinary services to the public. He is also credited with administering the digitization of names of Shoah victims from Yizkor books, resulting in the addition of 250,000 names to the Central database. As Yad Vashem’s liaison to genealogical organizations, he has addressed numerous genealogy workshops and seminars and has worked closely with JewishGen, the 24th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy in 2004 and with groups in Israel, such as the Tapuz Family Roots forum.
- JAN TOMASZ GROSS, Norman B. Tomlinson Professor of War and Society at Princeton University. He was born in Warsaw and is now an American citizen. He has held academic appointments at the University of Haifa, New York University, the University of Vienna, the University of Paris and Yale and Harvard Universities, among many others. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, a Fellowship from IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board), Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Distinguished Humanist Award from Ohio State University and the Order of Merit, Knight’s Cross from the Polish Republic in 1996. He was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for non-fiction in 2002 and a National Book Award in 2001. Among his dozens of publications is his widely discussed book, Neighbors: Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001 and his most recent book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz. An Essay in Historical Interpretation. Random House: New York, 2006.
- PETER LANDÉ, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer extraordinaire. He was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1937. He was a State Department Foreign Service Officer from 1956 to 1988. Over the past fifteen years he has collected and processed numerous lists of Holocaust victims and survivors for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and JewishGen databases. These combined databases now total more than four million names. In 2001 he received the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on Holocaust records.
- ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO, Assistant Professor of East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies and Yiddish in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He has been a Fellow of the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and both a Fulbright Fellow and a Yad Ha-Nadiv Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has published two edited volumes: Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Accounts (KTAV with Yeshiva University, 1999); and Why Didn't the Press Shout? American and International Journalism during the Holocaust (KTAV and Yeshiva University, 2003). In 2006, Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, published his translation from Yiddish, Polish, German, and Hebrew of Isaiah Trunk’s classic Lodz Ghetto: A History. He is currently completing the editing of his translation from Polish of the new catalog of the Ringelblum Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto at the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. Other projects under way include translations of diaries from the Lodz ghetto.