34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide

AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE

Millersville University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 34th Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide which will discuss the aftermath of the Holocaust and other twentieth century genocides. The Conference will commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and the 70-year anniversary of the end of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials.

The keynote speaker for the conference is Ronald Grigor Suny, the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of social and political history and director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016

Opening Night, 6:30-10:00 p.m.

6:30-7:00 p.m. Opening Reception, Lehr Room

7:00-7:10 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University

7:10-7:20 p.m. Welcoming Remarks by Diane Umble, Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Millersville University, Lehr Room

7:20-8:00 p.m. Plenary Talk, 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)

8:10-10:05 p.m. 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 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration of Conference Participants

9:00-10:30 a.m. 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 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

PANEL 3: HOLOCAUST AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE SOVIET UNION, University Room

Chair: Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University

Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan, Anti-Semitism and Its Consequences in the Soviet Military in World War II (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

Cynthia A. Crane, University of Cincinnati, Cultural Consequences/Legacy and Impact of the Holocaust on Immigrants to America

1. 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 p.m. Lunch for the Invited Conference Participants, Lehr Room

1:10 -1:20 p.m. Greetings to the conference participants by Hillel Zaremba, Director of Community Relations, Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region

1:30-3:15 p.m.

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 OtherPeople’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 & 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 p.m.

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 theWest 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

5:20-6:50 p.m. Dinner for the Invited Conference Participants, Campus Grill

7:00-7:10 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks by John M. Anderson, President of Millersville University, Lehr Room

7:10-8:10 p.m.

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 a.m.

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 Society

11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

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 p.m., Lunch for the Invited Conference Participants and Closing Remarks by Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University, Lehr Room

1:45-2:15 p.m., 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

For more information about the Holocaust and Genocide Conference, please visit www.millersville.edu/holocon.