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Oct. 23, 2000

Conversation with Martha Rich, originally from Hungary, survivor of Auschwitz and the slave labor camp run by Dynamite-Noble in Germany.

Nov. 28, 2000

Conversation with Charlotte Turner, a second generation Polish refugee who traveled to the small village of her heritage, in what is now Belarus, to learn the story surrounding the extermination of her family. Chartotte's talk will be accompanied by a pictorial essay of her journey.

View Charlotte Turner's pictorial essay

Feb. 6, 2001

Conversation with Witold Szymanski, Polish Christian witness to the Holocaust; member of the "Secret State" and the Polish Home Army, underground resistance movements during WWII.

April 10, 2001

Conversation with William T. Kenny and Richard Tisch, members of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division, who participated in the liberation of Dachau on April 29, 1945. Excerpts from the video The Trail of the Rainbow will be shown.

Learn more about Dick Tisch.

October 22, 2001

Conversation with Johanna Reiss, a Dutch Hidden Child, author of award winning children's book The Upstairs Room.

Learn more about Johanna Reiss and her book.

November 19, 2001

Conversation with Jack (Jaap) and Ina Polak, two Dutch survivors whose love story unfolded within the concentration camps where-incredibly-they conducted a spirited correspondence. Letters were written clandestinely on whatever scraps of paper they could find in the camps and published subsequently as Steal A Pencil For Me: Love Letters from Camp Bergen-Belsen and Westerbork. In 1992, on Jack's eightieth birthday, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands knighted him for his efforts on behalf of the Anne Frank Center, USA.

September 30, 2002

Conversation with Ursula Pawel. Ursula Pawel was born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother. She is a survivor of Terezín, Auschwitz, and the Merzdorf Slave Labor Camp. She is the author of My Child Is Back!

February 27, 2003

Conversation with Helena and Orest Melynchuk, "Righteous Amoung the Nations", orginally from the Ukraine; and Clara Vinokur, survivor of the Ukraine and secretary of Babi Yar Memorial Park.
This conversation is part of a month long program built around a photographic exhibity by Sharon Faulkner on Pre- and Post-Holocaust Jewry in the former Soviet Union. More information on this program.

March 24, 2003

Conversation with Dr. Susan Chernyak-Spatz, Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau who arrived in the US in 1946. She is a retired language professor.

October 13, 2003

Conversation with Cheryl Perl Sucher, author of The Rescue of Memory a second generation view of the Holocaust.

December 8, 2003

Conversation with H. William Caming, Esq., former Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Political Ministries Division (1946-49). This event is presented in conjunction with "When Hate became Law: Lessons from the Holocaust" exhibit.

Oct 16, 2006 A conversation with Dr. Eva Gossman, Ph.D., Associate Dean of the College (1987 - 1996) Princeton University, author of Good Beyond Evil: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

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