FEBRUARY 20-21, 2017
Symposium on Holocaust Research
Yad Vashem, Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem
Monday, February 20
Afternoon session: The State of Academic Research on the Holocaust Today: Insights, Challenges and Nurturing the Future - Roundtable Discussion
13:00 to 17:30 | Graduate students and junior scholars from all universities and research institutions are welcome | RSVP to khegburg@ushmm.org | This session is not open to the general public | ushmm.org/future-research
Participants: Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University, Krista Hegburg, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Elana Heideman, Israel Forever Foundation, Arieh Kochavi, University of Haifa, Dan Michman, Yad Vashem, Iael Nidam Orvieto, Yad Vashem, Dalia Ofer, Hebrew University, Dina Porat, Yad Vashem
Keynote Lecture: Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust, Sara R. Horowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature, York University
Moderated by Dan Michman, Yad Vashem, with a response by Dina Porat, Yad Vashem
18:00 | Free and open to the public | RSVP at ushmm.org/holocaust-symposium
Tuesday, February 21
9:00 to 16:30 | Free and open to the public | Lunch buffet will be provided | Full schedule and RSVP at ushmm.org/holocaust-symposium
Panel 1: New Historiographies of the Holocaust
Between Religious Life and the Life of the Religious Havi Dreifuss, Tel Aviv University
Nazi Reactions to the Przytyk Pogrom (1936-1942) Idit Gil, The Open University
Respondent: Hagit Lavsky, University of Haifa (invited)
Panel 2: The Turn to the East
Refugees without Refuge: The Warsaw Ghetto Lea Prais, Yad Vashem
The Creation and Liquidation of the Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-42 Paul A. Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Respondent: David Silberklang, Yad Vashem
Panel 3: The Memory of Memory and the Future for Survivors
“Iran’s Children” in the Shadow of World War II Orly Rahimiyan, Ben Gurion University
Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Abraham Sagi-Schwartz, University of Haifa
The Survivor as Educator: The Impact of Momentary Survival in the Transmission of Holocaust Memory Elana Heideman, Israel Forever Foundation
Respondent: Sara R. Horowitz
The proceedings will be held in English with simultaneous translation.
This program has been co-organized by the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Heideman-Greenberg Fellows for Holocaust Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Funding for the Symposium has been provided by Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Richard D. Heideman. The Symposium is taking place through the generous support of the Gutwirth Family Fund at Yad Vashem.