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Genetic Discrimination: Exploring the Echoes between Nazi and American Eugenic Histories
When Adolf Hitler established the involuntary euthanasia program in 1939 codenamed Aktion T4, he empowered medical personnel throughout the Third Reich to sterilize and kill those deemed “unworthy of life.” Join Tiarra Maznic...

Performance as Witness: Recognizing the Rhetoric that Leads to Violence
Join Dr. Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, for a discussion about how ...

Paragraph 175: The Contemporary Impact of Nazi-era Homophobia and Persecution
Paragraph 175 was an 1871 German statute criminalizing sexual relations between men. Predating the Nazi regime, it was revised in 1935 allowing the Nazis to persecute larger numbers of men more aggressively. Join Dr. Jake New...

Outlawing Homosexuality in Nazi Germany: Reflections on the film, BENT
During the Holocaust, homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps were required to wear inverted pink triangle badges on their uniforms, a symbol that was later reclaimed as an emblem of Gay Pride. Join Dr. Jake New...

Identity in Context: Building the American LGBTQ+ Museum
In a time when students and museum professionals are questioning the structures and even the founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions, this program looks at the more recent creation of the American LGBTQ...

Uncomfortable Histories: From Nazi Book Burnings to Contemporary Book Bans
Join us for a conversation about the erasure of uncomfortable histories, beginning with an overview of the 1933 Nazi book burnings as part of Adolf Hitler’s plan to “cleanse” public discourse and participate in an “Action Aga...

2024 Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis - 85 Years Later
In July 1938, international diplomats from 32 countries gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Reich. In commemoration of Internation...

Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws
Hitler and the Nazis looked to the US’s eugenics movement, Jim Crow laws, and culture of white supremacy in their quest to racialize European Jews, a policy that was first enshrined in the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws. In this co...

2023 Kristallnacht Commemoration: The State of Holocaust Education in the U.S. Today
With antisemitism on the rise around the world, the demand for Holocaust education has become even more pressing. About half of the states in the United States have mandated Holocaust education while museums and academic prog...

Archives of Nostalgia: Exploring America’s Many Pasts
How do archival collections and their commercialization frame contemporary American narratives of belonging? Join us for this roundtable discussion examining the archives of nostalgic American pasts, including memorabilia rel...

Building and Sustaining Indigenous Cultural Institutions of Today
At a moment when museum professionals and cultural workers are questioning the structures and founding principles of older museums and cultural institutions that came out of earlier colonial contexts, this program looks at th...

Integrating Holocaust Education into the Community College Classroom
In 2022, Queensborough Community College’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) Community of Holocaust Education Centers (CHEC), a dedicated network ...

Weaponizing the Past: German Fascism in the Twentieth Century
Join Drs. Aliza Atik and Kathleen Alves, both Associate Professors of English at Queensborough Community College-CUNY and the 2023-24 KHC-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellows, for a discussion about the...

“Just Like Me:” Embracing Our Common Humanity with Self-Compassion
Join Laura Banks, Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Instructor, for an exploration into how we can bear witness and respond to our own and others’ suffering with increased courage and care. During this workshop, Banks...

Wartime Cabaret: Remaking Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto
In 2017, two teams of artists from Australia and South Africa reimagined a cabaret created in 1943 by Jewish prisoners in the wartime ghetto at Terezín (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia. Using video from both performances, D...

2023 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Exploring Centropa’s Library of Rescued Memories
Centropa was founded in Vienna and Budapest in 2000 with the goal of preserving and disseminating Jewish memory before the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the former Soviet Union. In hon...

Dramatic Engagement: The Arts and Holocaust Education
Join Dr. Janet Rubin, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Visual and Performing Arts, Humanities, and Speech at Eastern Florida State College, as she demonstrates how the power of theater can be harnessed within the cla...

Teaching "The Beauty in Breaking": A Workshop for Educators
Join Queensborough Community College (QCC) professors Dr. Angela Ridinger-Dotterman and Dr. Ilse Schrynemakers as they share pedagogical strategies for integrating the KHC’s exhibition, The Concentration Camps: Inside the Naz...

Deconstructing Atrocity Imagery: A Conversation with Dr. Wendy Lower
Join Dr. Wendy Lower, Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, for a timely conversation about the impact that both historical and contemporary atrocity imagery and traumatic videos have upon our collective psyche. ...

View from Gold Mountain: Commemorating Asian American Civil Rights Through Monuments
Located outside of the Bernalillo County Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico stands View from Gold Mountain, a monument commemorating Territory of N.M. vs. Yee Shun, the 1884 lawsuit that brought about a change in the law a...

2023 Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Ongoing Legacy & Impact of the Holocaust in U.S. Foreign Policy
Holocaust issues manifest themselves in foreign policy in many ways ranging from restitution and compensation for Holocaust survivors to international efforts to counter Holocaust distortion and denial. In commemoration of In...

2022 Kristallnacht Commemoration: Stones of Memory
On the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938, Dr. Ruth Mandel, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at University College London, discusses her ethnographic research on Stolpersteine (stumbling ston...

Legacies of Genocide: Mauthausen and its Memorialization
Do we have an ethical responsibility toward “violated spaces” like those of a former concentration camp? What legacy do such spaces create for us? And how might cultural differences alter our perceptions of the memorial in ou...

Exploring Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American
Join Laura Gao, author and illustrator of "Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American," who discusses their experiences around the themes of trauma, remembrance, and compassion. What are some things that inspired th...

Pedagogical Approaches to the KHC’s “Concentration Camps” Exhibit
In this workshop, Dr. Cary Lane, Associate Professor at QCC in the English Department and Curator-in-Residence at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, highlights ways instructors can incorporate content and th...

Creating John Lewis’s March: Book Two: A Conversation with Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin
Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin share insights and anecdotes about their time spent working on the March Trilogy which documents U.S. Congressman John Lewis’s experience during the civil rights movement in the 1960s which Aydin ...

Mapping the Holocaust by Bullets
Dr. Ewa Schaller, Senior Program Officer, Educator and Education Coordinator at American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, discusses investigations into the fate of the Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, as well as showca...

The Digitization of Genocide Memory: Consequences and Contestation
Dr. David J. Simon, Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, discusses the memorialization of mass atrocities and genocide across a vast array of digital technologies, including both academic settings and ...

Decolonizing Design and Cultural Symbols
This presentation addresses graphic design, propaganda, and the potential for the reclamation or reinterpretation of symbols of cultural imperialism. Curator Darienne Turner will speak about decolonizing design and her exhibi...

Trauma in Digital Spaces: The Future of Holocaust Remembrance
What are the complexities of remembering the Holocaust through contemporary technologies? How can digital spaces facilitate compassionate responses to trauma and loss? Dr. Rachel Baum, Deputy Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl...

2022 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Preservation of Holocaust Memory Today
Join us for a discussion about how institutions and scholars are finding new ways to preserve and document Holocaust memory. The event includes a screening of the documentary film, "Preserving the Holocaust" (3Generations), w...

From Slavery to Revolution: Afro-Cuban Folkloric Drumming of Matanzas
The city of Matanzas remains an important hub of Afro-Cuban culture where drumming traditions that arrived with Africans who were forcibly brought to the island in the 19th century are still practiced today. This drumming tra...

Art Against War, Art Against Hate: A Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Join us for a special conversation with Polish poet/post-rock musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski who was born into a very particular history. His grandfather was a prisoner in Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp east of what use...

The Visual Archive: Documenting the Holocaust and Genocide Through Photography
Visual archives offer tangible proof of the horrors that have befallen communities who have experienced genocide and mass atrocities. This event explores the importance of using photography to document the existence and destr...

Gendered Memories: The Legacy of Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In a conflict that introduced the concept of rape camps into international consciousness, the 1992-1995 Bosnian War continues to have serious repercussions for the survivors of sexual violence left in its wake. Three decades ...

Fighting Off the Weight of Nonexistence: author Claudia Rankine on Citizen: An American Lyric
In this event, Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, discusses how Black people endure racism and microaggressions in various facets of their lives and the institutions they navigate. This special event was a...

Gendered Aspects of LGBTQIA+ Experiences During the Holocaust
Dr. Danny Sexton, Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, and Dr. Jake Newsome, a public historian of the LGBTQIA+ Past and author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaus...

Returning What Was Taken: How Museums Approach Repatriation
This lecture was recorded on March 8, 2022. Western museums are increasingly grappling with a growing number of requests for repatriation—the highly politicized process of returning artwork, cultural items, and human remains ...

Cultural Landscapes of Confinement: Strengthening Refugee Communities at the Syrian-Turkish Border
Cultural Landscapes of Confinement: Strengthening Refugee Communities at the Syrian-Turkish Border

Composers Sahba Aminikia and Aleksandra Vrebalov speak of their involvement with the Flying Carpet Children’s Festival,...

The Nazi Camp Universe, 1933-1945: Landscapes of Suffering and Paths of Persecution
Join Dr. Alexandra Lohse for a brief overview of the Nazi concentration camp universe consisting of more than 40,000 sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies, an almost incomprehensible number that challenges our unde...

2022 Holocaust Remembrance Day: Confronting Antisemitism at Home & Abroad
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2022, Dr. Robert Williams, Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discusses how current conspiracy ...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Maurice Pikelny (January 10, 2022)
Maurice Pikelny was born in Belgium in 1936. In this interview he tells the story of his survival as a hidden child while his parents were deported to concentration camps. He and his mother immigrated to the United States on ...

Unheard Melodies
This lecture took place on November 17, 2021 and was part of the 2021-22 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Incarceration, Transformation & Pa...

Narrating Srebrenica: Conducting Oral Histories with Genocide Survivors
In the hills of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina sits the small town of Srebrenica–once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War. In July 1995, the Bosnian...

Intersecting Identities: Growing Up Asian and Jewish
In their book, "JewAsian" (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), authors and spouses Dr. Helen Kiyong Kim, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Sociology at Whitman College, and Dr. Noah Samuel Leavitt, Dire...

2021 Kristallnacht Commemoration: Spectatorship and the Exclusion of Jews from the German Community
On the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom, Dr. Peter Fritzsche examines the ­first major step toward the persecution and exclusion of German Jews: the boycott of April 1, 1933—Day 62 of the Thousand Year Reich. He will p...

Intersecting Identities: Navigating Race and Religion
This conversation focuses on how constructions of identity impact the ways both Jewish and Muslim people are racialized in our society, as well as how beliefs about "the other" contribute to rising antisemitism and Islamophob...

Planting New Roots: Picturing Jewish and Native Migration Narratives in the Museum
This lecture was recorded on October 28, 2021. Museums and historical centers regularly showcase exhibitions about the migrations of different populations, including how events of the past affect them today. For many Jewish A...

Criminalization and the Other?
Join Dr. Celia Sporer, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York, for a discussion about the institutionalization of criminality based on social identity. Dr...

Museums as Places of Trauma and Healing: Processing Visitor Experiences
This lecture was recorded on September 30, 2021 and is part of the “Human Rights and the Museum” Series, a collaboration between the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program a...

Illustrating the Civil Rights Movement: A Conversation with Nate Powell
Join Nate Powell, illustrator of March: Book One, as he recounts his memories of working with John Lewis while illustrating the Congressman’s graphic memoir about the civil rights movement. This event is a collaboration betwe...

QCC 2021 Welcome Read - March: Book One: Book Talk with President Mangino
Dr. Christine Mangino, President of Queensborough Community College, leads a book club talk with students about their impressions and experience reading March: Book One, as well as their hopes and expectations as first year c...

The Genre of Graphic Novel/Student Activism Then and Now
Join Queensborough Community College English department faculty members Dr. Robin Ford, Associate Professor of English, and Professor Sybil White for this two-part event about John Lewis's graphic memoir, "March: Book One." D...

Holocaust Education and Transformational Learning
This lecture took place on September 22, 2021 and was part of the 2021-22 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Incarceration, Transformation & P...

Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 2
This program is a celebration of a participatory action research methodology known as Social Presencing Theater (SPT), a body-based approach for sensing and enacting change. Because SPT is practiced in community, it positions...

A Prisoner’s Voice: Poetry of Psychological Resistance
This performance took place on April 21, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 KHC/NEH Colloquium entitled “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” This colloquium is aligned with the Harriet & Ken...

Voices from Srebrenica: Survivor Narratives of the Bosnian Genocide
In the hills of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina sits the small town of Srebrenica–once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War. In July 1995, when the to...

Indigenizing Institutions: A Conversation with Curator and Museum Worker, Taylor Payer
This lecture was recorded on April 12, 2021 and is part of the “Human Rights and the Museum” Series, a collaboration between the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program at Quee...

2021 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Remembering The Town Known as Auschwitz
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Tomasz Kuncewicz and Maciek Zabierowski from the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland discuss about the complexities of educating people about the Holocaust ...

KHC Exhibit Talk: Women in the Nazi Concentration Camps
Join Dr. Azadeh Aalai, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York, for a discussion about the intersection between gender and persecution, including how victimizati...

KHC Exhibit Talk: LGBTQI+ People in the Nazi Concentration Camps
Join Dr. Danny Sexton, Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College at the City University of New York, for a conversation about the different ways the Nazis persecuted gay, lesbian, and transgender peopl...

La Convivencia: Exploring Sephardic Music’s Traditions of Peace and Coexistence
“La Convivencia” is the work of two Bosnian artists, accordionist Merima Kljuco and contralto Jelena Milušic, who have woven a musical narrative using arrangements of traditional Sephardic songs, selections from Merima’s comp...

Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 1
This program is a celebration of a participatory action research methodology known as Social Presencing Theater (SPT), a body-based approach for sensing and enacting change. Because SPT is practiced in community, it positions...

Graphic Internment
This lecture took place on March 10, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting ...

Queer Art, Curatorial Collaboration and Social Justice: A Conversation with Carmen Hermo and Levi Narine
This lecture was recorded on March 8, 2021 and is part of the “Human Rights and the Museum” Series, a collaboration between the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program at Queen...

Italian Internment During World War II and the Limits of Racism in America
This lecture took place on March 3, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting M...

Oppression and Resistance in America’s World War II Concentration Camps?
This lecture took place on February 24, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronti...

2021 Holocaust Remembrance Day: Holocaust Distortion & the Rise of Hate Crimes Against Jews
To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp, several Holocaust education centers in the New York region co-s...

Contain and Control: The American Obsession with the Black Body
This lecture took place on November 18, 2020 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronti...

Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention and How People Resist
This lecture took place on November 12, 2020 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronti...

2020 Kristallnacht Commemoration: November 1938 as a Turning Point?
This lecture took place on November 10, 2020 and featured Dr. Peter Hayes for the 12th Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture, “November 1938 as a Turning Point?”. Dr. Hayes’ talk focuses on the November 1938 incident known as Krist...

Poetry of Psychological Resistance at Auschwitz: The Words of Krystyna Zywulska
This lecture took place on October 21, 2020 and was part of the 2020-21 KHC/NEH Colloquium entitled “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original ...

Dismantling Democracy
The flip side of authoritarianism is democracy, which is performed and protected through a complex web of institutions, documents, social norms, and belief systems. Dr. Jessica Pisano, Associate Professor of Politics at the N...

Protest And Social Movements
For the past decade, under authoritarian regimes and bourgeois democracies alike, we have seen millions of urban protesters take to the streets across the globe, sometimes occupying local spaces and other times bringing the w...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Hanne Liebmann (February 7, 2020)
Hanne Liebmann, a Holocaust survivor born in Karlsruhe, Germany, describes pre-war antisemitism, her family’s deportation to Gurs concentration camp in southern France, the refuge she was provided by community of Protestant p...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Renée Kann Silver (February 7, 2020)
Renée Kann Silver, a Holocaust survivor who was born in the German state of Saarland in 1931, recalls her experiences living as a Jewish child among the culture of German Nazism and French patriotism. Eventually her family wa...

KHC Survivor Testimony: George Schiffman (February 7, 2020)
George Schiffman, a Holocaust survivor, was born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1926 to a family of bakers. The oldest of his siblings, George describes an easy childhood before being deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau exter...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Kurt Goldschmidt (February 6, 2020)
Kurt Goldschmidt, a Holocaust survivor from Hamburg, Germany, discusses his experiences in as a teenager who was half-Jewish during the war. His memories include interactions with the Gestapo, his deportation to the Theresien...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Felice Katz (February 6, 2020)
Felice Katz, a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor, talks about her mother Ethel who was the sole survivor of her family of six. Born in Buczacz, Poland (present-day Ukraine), her family went into hiding after Nazi occupation. ...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Anita Weisbord (February 5, 2020)
Anita Weisbord, a Holocaust survivor, shares her experiences growing up in a Jewish family in pre-war Austria, her recollection of Hitler’s rise to power, her experience being deported to England during the Kindertransport, a...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Arnold Newfield (February 5, 2020)
Arnold Newfield, a Holocaust survivor born in the Westerbork transit camp located in Holland during World War II, recalls his family's experiences in various concentration camps, their liberation, and eventual immigration to ...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Ellen Bottner (February 5, 2020)
Ellen Bottner, a Holocaust survivor, grew up in Germany under the Third Reich. She describes her experiences on the Kindertransport, life under refuge with a foster family in England, the fate of her extended family during th...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Manfred and Gerd Korman (February 5, 2020)
Brothers Gerd and Manfred Korman, Holocaust survivors, describe their family’s deportation from Germany, their last-minute rescue on the Kindertransport, and the fate of their parents who had completely different experiences ...

KHC Survivor Testimony: David Widawsky (February 4, 2020)
David Widawsky, a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor born in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp in Germany, discusses his father’s experience in the Lódz, Poland Ghetto, his deportations to the Auschwitz-Birkenau exterminati...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Kate Haberman (February 4, 2020)
Kate Haberman, a Holocaust survivor, provides a detailed testimony of life in pre-war Hungary (present-day Romania), her family’s deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, her brutal in...

KHC Survivor Testimony: Rosette (February 4, 2020)
Rosette, a Holocaust survivor, was born in France, and hidden by Catholic farmers while her mother was a part of the French Underground. Unaware of her Jewish heritage until she was older, she discusses her struggle with her ...

Artists Respond to Authoritarianism
Artists have been responding to governmental action across the world throughout history. Focusing on artist responses to repression, state aggression, and authoritarianism in places like the United States, the Middle East, an...

Mass Democracy and the New Populist Challenge
The United States and various European countries have been experiencing a rise in populist authoritarian movements, sparking new research and debates concerning what constitutes authoritarianism. Dr. Adam Leudtke, Assistant P...

2019 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Intergenerational Memories
As the number of survivors and eyewitnesses of the Holocaust sadly dwindles with the passage of time, the imperative to both remember the past as well as educate young people about its connection to the present takes on great...

Standing with Standing Rock: Allyship and the Environment
Speakers: Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, director of the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College & Rachel Waters, graduate student at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs

Date: March 13th, 2019
Duration: 1h:52m:35s
Category: Events
Department: Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center & Archives