29th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide
Resisting Genocide: History, Culture and the Arts in the Holocaust and Beyond
Director: Saulius Sužiedėlis
Co-Director: Jack R. Fischel
Committee Members: Robert Bookmiller, Joshua Fischel, Sue Ortmann
Administrative Assistant: Margaret Eichler
Graduate Assistant: Kimberly Hartlove
Conference Patrons
Mr. William W. Adams
Mr. Eric Berman
Dr. Clark Kaufman
Lancaster Jewish Community Center
Mr. P. Alan Loss
Dr. Robert A. Matlin
Dr. Bruce H. Pokorney
Mr. Robert A. Zuckerman
Mr. Steven J. Zuckerman
The 29th Annual Conference is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Offices of the President and Provost.
Special thanks to Amnesty International, Millersville University Chapter.CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(The Wednesday events will be held in the Lehr Room, Gordinier Conference Center. All Thursday and Friday sessions will be held in the rooms indicated.)
Wednesday, April 1
5:00-6:30 p.m. Information and Contacts
Second Floor, Gordinier Center
Book exhibit opens
The book exhibit, organized by the Library of Social Science, will be open during the Conference. Please stop by the Audubon Room and browse. All books are on sale at special, discounted prices.
7:00-7:20 p.m. Opening of the Conference
Saulius Suñiedlis, Millersville University
Welcoming Remarks
Vilas Prabhu
Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs
Millersville University
Invocation
Rabbi Jack Paskoff
Congregation Sharaai Shomayim
7:20-9:00 p.m. The Aristides de Sousa Mendes Lecture
Introduction: Why Aristides de Sousa Mendes?
Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
The Lecture
Hitler, Anti-Communism and the Holocaust
Robert Gellately, Florida State University
9:00-9:30 p.m. Author’s Book Signing
Thursday, April 2
9:00-10:15 a.m. The Reynold Koppel Lecture Lehr Room
Introduction: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University
Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City
Gordon J. Horwitz, Illinois Wesleyan University
10:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m. Plenum Session Lehr Room
A panel presented by Research Fellows at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
National Myths of Holocaust Resistance and Rescue: Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria
Chair/Discussant: Cristina Bejan, CAHS, USHMM
Rewriting Slovak Wartime History: President Tiso as a Case Study
Hana Klamkova, Charles University (Prague), Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, CAHS, USHMM
The Making of the Story of Heroic Turkish Rescuers and Its Abuse in the Denial of the Armenian Genocide
Corinna Guttstadt, Research Fellow, CAHS, USHMM
Positioning Bulgaria as a ‘Balkan Denmark’
Steven Sage, Researcher, Survivors Registry, USHMM
12:15-1:45 p.m. Conference Luncheon and Presentation Lehr Room
Luncheon Speaker
Dennis B. Klein, Director, Jewish Studies Program, Kean University
Living with Genocide: Expressions of Forgiveness in Post-Traumatic Testimonies
Conference Book Exhibit, Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall open 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Session 1: Film and Visual Arts as Depictions of Genocide University Room
Chair: Sue Ortmann, Millersville University
‘Comfort Women’: The Victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan and Representation of Trauma in the Paintings by the Victims
Hanna Song, War and Women’s Human Rights Museum, Republic of Korea
Movies and the Death Camps: The Grey Zone and Escape from Sobibor as Depictions of Resistance and Escape from the Holocaust
Paul Bartrop, Bialik College, Australia
The Film Blessed is the Match: The Life of Hanna Senesh
Mary Johnson, Senior Historian, Facing History and Ourselves
Session 2: Visual and Literary Media in Response to Genocide Old Main
Chair: Dennis Downey, Honors College, Millersville University
Maus and Caricature as Responses to Genocide
Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky
Writing the Genocide Memoir as Activism: The Case of Yolande Mukagasana and Esther Mujawayo
Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi, Alabama A&M University
Session 3: Genocide in the Balkans and Central Europe – Matisse Room
Chair: John McLarnon, Millersville University
Aspects of the Genocide against the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire
Theofanis Malkidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Saving Bulgaria’s Jews
Zev-Hayyim Feyer, Claremont Graduate University
The Righteous: Budapest 1944
Mario Fenyo, Bowie State University
4:00-6:15 p.m. The Miriam Fischel Lecture and Program Myers Auditorium, McComsey Hall
Genocide, Cinema and Art: A Special Presentation and Discussion
Introduction: Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University
Discussion: “Art, Film and the Holocaust”
Hilary Helstein, Producer, As Seen Through These Eyes and Executive Director, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Judith Goldstein, Artist, Composer, Survivor of the Vilna Ghetto
Film: AS SEEN THROUGH THESE EYES
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Concert – Lyte Auditorium
Musical Program
Dr. Robert Convery’s Songs of Children
In Memory of the Children of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp
A cantata for choir performed by the Millersville University Chorale under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Gemmell, with a special introduction by the Composer
Friday, April 3
9:00-10:15 a.m. The Jack R. Fischel Lecture Lehr Room
Introduction: Jack R. Fischel, Millersville University
Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Samuel D. Kassow, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
10:30 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
Session 4: The United States and Responses to Genocide University Room
Chair: Robert Bookmiller, Millersville University
The List Controversy: America’s Contribution to Indonesian Genocide, 1964-1966
Laura Iandola, Northern Illinois University
Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the Office of U. S. High Commissioner, and Jewish Refugees in the Philippines, 1938-1939
Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University
Philanthropy as an Agent of Genocide Rescue
Keith Pomakoy, Adirondack Community College
Session 5: Culture, the Moral Universe and the Prevention of Genocide Klein Room
Chair: Neil Leifert, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg
What Was That Word “Shoah”? The Holocaust and Israeli Cultural Discourse
Aya Ben Naftaly, Massuah Institute of Holocaust Studies, Israel
Genocide Prevention in Contemporary Philosophy
Barbara Meyer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Africa as a New Moral Universe in the Rhetoric of Antisemitic German Colonizers during the Kaiserreich
Christian Davis, College of Charleston
Session 6: Graduate Student Panel Matisse Room
Early Warning Signs: State Propaganda and the Seeds of Genocide
Presentations by
Chair: Keith D. Nunes, Kean University
An Appeal to the Emotions: The Use of Propaganda as a Tool to the Masses
Evan Alberhasky, Kean University
The Politics of Fear
Jeremy Chaudruc, Kean University
Dictatorship and Democracy: Considering Propaganda in Context
Walter McGee, Kean University
12:30 p.m. -1:45 p.m. Lunch Break Gordinier Conference Center
Conference Book Exhibit, Audubon Room, Gordinier Hall open 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
2:00-3:30 p.m. The Beautiful Beast: The Life and Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese
University Room
Chair: Steven Rogers, Senior Historian, Office of Special Investigations, U. S. Department of Justice
Daniel P. Brown, Moorpark College, California
Alice Tennenbaum, Holocaust Survivor, Auschwitz
Hotel Information
Heritage Hotel
500 Centerville Road
Lancaster, PA 17601
For reservations call (717) 898-2431 or (800) 223-8963
Rate: Single/double $94 + tax (breakfast buffet included)
To receive the conference lodging rate, you must indicate that you are attending the Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide.
Mailing List
If you would like to be included on our mailing list, please send your name and address to:
Maggie Eichler
History Department, Millersville University
P.O. Box 1002
Millersville, PA 17551-0302
or e-mail maggie.eichler@millersville.edu
Visit our conference website at: www.millersville.edu/~holo-con/
CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
[Outside Cover] DIRECTIONS TO MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Millersville University is located in south-central Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County.
DIRECTIONS TO THE CAMPUSFrom Baltimore and south:Take Route I-83 north to Route 30 east. Take exit for Rout 741 east. Then follow "From Route 741," below.From Harrisburg and west:Take Route 283 east. Take exit for Route 741 east. Then follow "From Route 741," below.From the Pennsylvania Turnpike, traveling east:Take Exit 19/247 (Harrisburg East), onto Route 283 east. Take exit for Route 741 east. Follow "From Route 741," below.From the Pennsylvania Turnpike, traveling west:Take Exit 21/286 (Reading/Lancaster) and follow Route 222 south to Route 30 west. From Route 30, take exit for Route 741 east. Then follow "From Route 741," below.From Route 30:Take exit for Route 741 east. Then follow "From Route 741," below.From Route 222, traveling south:Take the exit for Route 30 west, then follow"From Route 30," below.From Route 741:On Route 741 east, the name Rohrerstown Road will change to Millersville Road. About four miles beyond Route 30, turn right at the light onto Route 999. Follow "Almost There," below.From downtown Lancaster City:Go west on Orange Street, turn left on Charlotte Street and then bear right onto Manor Street. It will become Route 999 (Manor Avenue). When you cross Route 741 (Millersville Road), follow "Almost There," below.
Almost There:After the second traffic light (after Route 741), watch for the fork in the road and bear left onto George Street. Follow George Street. After you cross West Cottage Avenue, you will see University buildings on either side. Continue on George Street, crossing Frederick Street. Turn left onto James Street. Parking for Bolger Conference Center is on the left.