34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
April 6–8, 2016
Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocide
Director: Victoria Khiterer
Advisory Board: Lawrence Baron (San Diego State University), Holli Levitsky (Loyola Marymount University), Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University), David Shneer (University of Colorado Boulder), Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College)
Committee Members: Onek Adyanga, Tanya Kevorkian
Administrative Assistant: Maggie Eichler
Graduate Assistant: Abigail Gruber
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Richard Welkowitz
Congregation Shaarai Shomayim
Jonathan Lichter
Please see the conference addendum insert for the full list of conference donors
The 34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide Committee is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Offices of the President and Provost.
Transportation:
Limited shuttle transportation from and to Heritage Hotel – Lancaster (500 Centerville Road, Lancaster, PA 17601) will be provided at night on April 6 (before and after the conference opening), and before and after conference sessions on April 7 and April 8.
All conference sessions will be at the Bolger Conference Center (Gordinier Hall), Millersville University, 2nd floor
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, Opening Night, 6:30-10:00 pm
6:30-7:00 pm Opening Reception, Lehr Room
7:00-7:10 pm Welcoming Remarks by Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
Plenary talk 7:10-7:50 pm, Lehr Room
Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia, Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (The Jack Fischel Lecture)
8:05 - 10:00 pm Documentary Film “The Long Way Home” (1997, Writer/Director Mark Jonathan Harris, Running time 1 hour, 54 minutes), Lehr Room
Thursday, April 7, 2016
8:30 am-5 pm Registration of conference participants
9:00-10:30 am
Panel 1: Aftermath of the Holocaust and Modern Anti-Semitism in Russia, Ukraine and Poland, University Room
Chair: Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
Alexander Prusin, New Mexico Tech, The Holocaust in the Polish War Crimes Trials
Anya Quilitzsch, Indiana University Bloomington, Returning Home? Jewish Life in Soviet Transcarpathia after the Catastrophe
Igor Kotler, Museum of Human Rights, Freedom and Tolerance, Holocaust Denial and anti-Semitic Propaganda in Russia: A Case of YouTube
Panel 2: Aftermath of the Holocaust and its Commemoration in Western Europe, Old Main Room
Chair: Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
David H Weinberg, Wayne State University, Recovering a Voice: West European Jewish Communities after World War II
Annette Finley-Croswhite, Old Dominion University, Moveable Memory: Commemorating the Shoah in Paris
Annemarike Stremmelaar, Leiden University, The Netherlands, “Anne Frank speaks Turkish.” Retelling the Story of the Holocaust in the Netherlands
10:45 am- 12:30 pm
Panel 3: Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, University Room
Chair: Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan, Antisemitism and its Consequences in the Soviet Military in World War Two (The Reynold Koppel Lecture)
Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware, The Language of Genocide and Soviet Postwar Antisemitism
Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, A Footnote to the Shema in a Moscow Magazine: July 1946
Discussant: Brian Horowitz, Tulane University
Panel 4: The Holocaust in American Life, Matisse Room
Chair: Jeffrey Scott Demsky, San Bernardino Valley College
Bat-Ami Zucker, Bar-Ilan University, The Harrison Report and its Impact on the Creation of the State of Israel
Cynthia A. Crane, University of Cincinnati, Cultural Consequences/Legacy and Impact of the Holocaust on Immigrants to America
N. Ann Rider, Indiana State University, Cultural Mental Schemas of American Holocaust Reception: Ruth Klüger’s Still Alive
Panel 5: Resistance and its Representation in Film, Old Main Room
Chair: Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University
Paul R. Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast University, St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Berlin as a Focus of Anti-Nazi Opposition during the Holocaust
Michael Rubinoff, Arizona State University, Jewish Resistance Depicted on Film
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch for the Invited Conference Participants, Lehr Room
1:30-3:15 pm
Panel 6: Polish Jewish Refugees and Displaced Persons, University Room
Chair: Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
Eliyana R. Adler, Penn State University, Displaced Children: Polish Jewish Youth on the Margins of the War
Ellen G. Friedman, The College of New Jersey, Writing About Other People’s Memories
Gennady Estraikh, New York University, The Second Repatriation of Polish Jews from the Soviet Union (The Miriam Fischel Lecture)
Discussant: Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Panel 7: The Armenian Genocide and its Commemoration, Matisse Room
Chair: Sylvia A. Alajaji, Franklin and Marshall College
Elke Heckner, University of Iowa, Tehlirian on Trial: The Public Production of Testimony to Genocide
Jeffrey Scott Demsky, San Bernardino Valley College, A Duty To Remember, A Duty To Forget: Examining Americans' Unequal Memories of the War on Armenians and the War on Jews
Panel 8: Holocaust in Film I, Old Main Room
Chair: Stuart Liebman, CUNY Graduate Center
Steven Alan Carr, Indiana University—Purdue University—Fort Wayne “It Was to Be a Picture About Genocide”: We Accuse (Film Rights, 1945) and America’s Forgotten First Holocaust Documentary Film
Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Somewhere in Europe and the Postwar Aftermath in Hungarian Cinema: an Intergenerational Perspective
Marat Grinberg, Reed College, The Psychotic Survivor: Amnesia, Psychosis, and the Holocaust in “The Juggler” (1953), “Singing in the Dark” (1956), and “The Pawnbroker” (1964)
3:30-5:15 pm
Panel 9: Holocaust in Film II, Lehr Room
Chair: David H Weinberg, Wayne State University
Stuart Liebman, CUNY, From Propaganda to Truth: Soviet Atrocity Footage in the West during and after World War II
Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University, Statuettes of Limitations: The “Holocaust” in Oscar-Nominated and Winning Films,” 1945-1950
Panel 10: Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide, University Room
Chair: Polly Zavadivker, University of Delaware
Richard Libowitz, Temple University, The Evolution of Teaching About the Holocaust
Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum University, Mourning, Memorialization, & Reconciliation: Teaching the Aftermaths of Genocide in Postwar Europe and Rwanda
Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University, Witnessing History Across a Divide: The Survivor Memoir as Text, Context and Prooftext
5:20-7:00 pm Dinner for the Invited Conference Participants, Campus Grill
7:10-7:20 pm Welcoming Remarks by Diane Umble, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Millersville University, Lehr Room
7:20-8:20 pm The Aristides De Sousa Mendes Lecture, Keynote Speech, Lehr Room
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan, The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
Friday, April 8
9-10:45 am
Panel 11: Prosecution of Nazi Perpetrators, Lehr Room
Chair: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
Elizabeth B. White, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Nowhere to Run: Denying Safe Haven to the Perpetrators of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, from the Perspective of the U.S. Experience
Peter Black, Independent Scholar, Lease on Life: How the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Impacted Investigations of Alleged Nazi Offenders in the United States as Reflected in Cases Developed against alleged former Trawniki-Trained Guards, 1991-2012
Roni Stauber, Tel Aviv University, The Initial Cooperation Between Israel and West Germany in the Prosecution of Nazi Perpetrators
Plenary Talk, Old Main Room
Moderator: Onek Adyanga, Millersville University
Dennis B. Klein, Kean University, The Renegotiated Societ
11 am-12:45 pm
Panel 12: Aftermath of the Holocaust in Austria, University Room
Chair: Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum University
Elizabeth Paige Anthony, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Protecting the Beneficiaries: Advocating for the Retention of “Aryanized” Property in Postwar Austria
Tim Corbett, The Center for Jewish History in New York City, Between Memory and Oblivion: Austria’s Jewish Cemeteries as Sites of Memory, Power and Politics in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Kinga Frojimovics, Yad Vashem Archives (Jerusalem, Israel), Hungarian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Mass Graves of Hungarian Jewish Victims in Post-War Austria between 1945 and 1950
Panel 13 (Graduate Student Panel): Transitional Justice in Post Genocidal States, Old Main Room
Chair: Dennis B. Klein, Kean University
Michael Carter, Kean University, The Nuremberg Paradigm in Transitional Periods: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Punishing Mass Atrocity
Racheal Wagner, Kean University, Without International Oversight: Implications of International Pullout for Criminal Justice in the Court System of Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Lestrange, Kean University, Forgiveness and Amnesty in Transitional Justice: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
12:45-1:45 pm, Lunch for the Invited Conference Participants and Closing Remarks by Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Lehr Room
1:45-2:15 pm, Dennis B. Klein, Kean University, Graduate Study in the United States: The Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University, Old Main Room
Hotel Information
Heritage Hotel – 500 Centerville Road, Lancaster, PA 17601, United States
Reservations: 800-223-8963 • Fax: 717-898-2344 • www.heritagelancaster.com
The conference rate is $103 single and $113 double plus tax, breakfast included. Conference participants should indicate that they are with the Millersville University Holocaust and Genocide Conference. Please make your reservation by March 5th, after which all unreserved rooms will be released.
Additional Information or Questions
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If you have questions, please email or call Ms. Maggie Eichler at 717-871-7212.
Visit us at millersville.edu/holocon
Directions
For detailed directions to campus, please visit: millersville.edu/directions.
If you arrive at the Lancaster train station, you can get to the hotel by taxi. Please pick up a cab at the train station taxi stand or call a taxi at 717-824-4488, 717-392-7327 or 717-397-8100.
Parking
Conference participants may park their cars in the Ann Street Parking lot and the Student Memorial Center lot on April 6–8. No parking permit is required. Please do not park in any reserved parking areas.
After the second traffic light (after Route 741), watch for the fork in the road and bear left onto George Street. Follow George Street through the traffic light at Cottage Avenue and turn right at the second traffic light onto W. Frederick St. Immediately move into the left hand lane and turn left onto the first roadway which is Shenks Lane. The Ann Street Parking lot is approximately 40 yards on the right hand side of the road, and the rear of the SMC (Student Memorial Center) lot will be on the left at the end of the Student Memorial Center. The Bolger Conference Center is on the second floor of Gordinier Dining Hall, a short walk from either lot (see map).
THE CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
