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March 22, 1995 "Looking Back on Life Behind the Secret Window"
Lecture-slide presentation by Nelly Toll, artist, writer, teacher. Nelly Toll is the author of "Behind the Secret Window; A memoir of a Hidden Childhood During WWII"

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
April 17, 1996 Holocaust Education in Germany Today
Speaker: Matthias Heyl, Historian and Educator, University of Hamburg. Respondants: Edwina Lawler, Ph.D. Professor of German, Associate Dean of the College; Maren Boedeker, Graduate Student, Modern Intellectual and Cultural History; Melissa Goldberg, Undergraduate, Holocaust Studies Minor

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
March 31, 1997 "How to Deal with Holocaust Denial: In the Classroom and in the Community"
Speaker: Professor Shelly Shapiro, Director, Holocaust Survivors and Firends in Pursuit of Justice, an organization dedicated to supporting the prosecution of Nazi war criminals and educating the public about their presence in the United States: author, Truth Prevails: Demolishing Holocaust Denial (Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1991); Adjunct Professor, University of Albany School of Education.

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
April 2, 1998 DP Camps: The Plight of Liberated Jews
Speaker: Dr. Abraham Peck, Director, Holocaust Museum Houston. Born in a DP camp, Dr. Peck, who has done extensive research on this subject, shares a riveting account of " what life was like" in DP camps. Presented as part of the 1997-1998 Film/Lecture Series, " The Long voyage Home: From Auschwitz to Jerusalem"

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
April 18, 1999 Speaker: Aharon Applefeld
Noted Israeli novelist, Aharon Applefeld is a holocaust survivor and author of essays, criticism, short stories and internationally acclaimed novels which include Badenheim 1939 and most recently The Iron Tracks. Mr. Applefeld won the 1999 National Jewish Book Award.
Unfortunately, Mr. Applefeld had to canel his appearance due to illness.

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
April 5, 2000 "Looking Toward the Future: Holocaust/Genocide Education in the 21st Century"
Speaker: Dr. Hubert Locke, Corbally Professor of Public Service, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of washington, Seattle, WA. Mr. Locke is a pioneer in Holocaust studies and a co-founder of the Annual Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.

Sponsored by Hildred and Dr. Jerome Nozick. About the Nozicks.
April 17, 2001 My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport.
Presented by the Charles Kushner Commemoration of Children of the Holocaust: The Extraordinary and Unprecedented Story of the Kindertransports. Introduction and commentary by filmmaker Melissa Hacker, whose mother was in the Kindertransport; with testimonials from other invited members of the Kindertransport.

Sponsored by Charles Kushner.
April 30, 2003 Children of the Third Reich
Speakers: Dr. Daniel Bar-on and Ingrid Schirrholz

Sponsored by Charles Kushner.
April 4, 2006 Documentary film: "The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews"
Speakers: Leopold Lowy and Ela Weissberger, survivors of Terezin
April 18, 2007 Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good
Speakers: Benjamin Abeles and Hannah Slome
Free and open to the community.
 

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