2022 Kristallnacht Commemoration: Stones of Memory

Date: November 9th, 2022
Duration: 1h:1m:41s

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 stones), a counter-memorial art project marking the final homes of Jewish and other victims of Nazi violence found throughout Europe. How do local communities incorporate these street-level brass stones in their commemorations, and how do the stones’ locations in different countries influence these acts of remembrance?

This event is underwritten by the Eva Bobrow Memorial Fund and organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College. It is co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at Saint Elizabeth University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu

Website: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/