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"
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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 |