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NOV. 14, 1996 CONFERENCE

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Conference Speakers and Topics
Dr. Ann L. Saltzman
Co-Director, Drew Center for Holocaust Study

Professor Jonathan Rose
Department of History; Director, Center for the History of the Book at Drew University
Welcome and Opening Comments
Dina Abramowicz
Research Librarian at YIVO
Keynote Address
"Keeping a Civilization: The Library in the Vilna Ghetto"
Dr. Stanislao G. Pugliese
Hofstra University
"The Destruction of the Library of the Rome Ghetto"
Dr. Yitzchak Kerem
Aristotle University and Hebrew University
"The Confiscation of Jewish Books in Salonika During the Holocaust"
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean
President of Drew University
former Governor of New Jersey
Respondent/Speaker
"Books and Freedom"
Dr. Sigrid Pohl Perry
Northwestern University Library
"The Secret Voice: Clandestine Fine Printing in the Netherlands, 1940-1945"
Dr. Eva Ungar Grudin
Williams College
"May the World Have This Knowledge: Our Destruction in Pictures, Bergen-Belsen, December 1946"
Professor Rosemary Horowitz
Appalachian State University
"Reading and Writing During the Holocaust as Described in Yisker Bikher"
Professor Leonidas Hill
University of British Columbia
"The Destruction, Preservation and Reading of Books in Germany and Austria (1933-1939) as Reflected in Autobiographies Written During the War"
Jack Polak
"Loveletters: Letters Exchanged between Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen"

Dr. Anna Halberstam-Rubin and Anthony Zupancic
"A Young Girl in the Holocaust: Memory and Interpretation"

Dr. Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann
"When the Printed Word Celebrates the Human Spirit"

Annette B. Peck
"Crying for Freedom: Memories of a Dutch Girl During the Holocaust"

Survivors Bear Witness: Descriptions of Reading and Writing Experiences During the Holocaust
Exhibit Curated by Gerard Gurland, FAIA Exhibit on loan from the Special Collections Library of Northwestern University

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