The Honorable Robert Morgenthau District Attorney, New York County; Chairman, Museum of Jewish Heritage |
Keynote Address
America's Predicament During the Holocaust: Safe Across the Ocean-What Could We Do? |
Dr. Mitchell Bard Executive Director, America- Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; Author, Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps (1994) |
Forgotten Victims: U.S. Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps |
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean President, Drew University Former Governor of New Jersey |
Recognizing the Holocaust as it was Happening/Remembering it Today |
Dr. Joyce Ladner Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former President, Howard University; Alumna of Tougaloo College, Mississippi where she was a student of Professor Ernst Borinski, originally from Silesia, Germany |
Black Colleges give Sanctuary to Jewish Refugee Scholars |
| American Efforts to Rescue During the Dark Days of the Holocaust |
George Rich Board Member and Co-Chair, Eastern European Committee of the "JOINT" |
1. The Story of The Joint Distribution Committee |
Martin Kesselhaut Attorney at Law Former President, HIAS |
2. The Story of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Personal Testimony: Eric Ross |
Diana Rosen New Jersey State Committee, American Red Cross |
3. The Story of the American/International Red Cross Personal Testimony: Hedy Brasch |
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Dr. Jeffrey Shandler Dorot Teaching Fellow Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University; Author, While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (1999) |
"Living Room Witnesses": American Television and the Holocaust |
| Exhibit Curated by Gerard Gurland, FAIA |
America Remembers the Holocaust: Building the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum |