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The Future ofHolocaust Testimonies IV

Thursday, March 10, 2016Western Galilee College

Shamash Auditorium, Sir Harry Solomon School of Management

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Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award Mr. Yosale Carmin was born in Bukovina, Romania. At the age of 11 he was deported to Transnistria with his family, where he was incarcerated in a ghetto for three years. On 11 March 1944 he was liberated by partisans and in 1948 he arrived to Israel. He was one of the first settlers in Kibbutz Magen in the Northern Negev. During a visit to the Yad Vashem archive in 1995, he learned that thousands of testimonies and documents in the archive, written in Yiddish and in European languages, had never been translated. Carmin felt that this situation had to be rectified and succeeded in organizing a group of 130 volunteers who spoke the languages

to translate these early testimonies into Hebrew. Over two decades of work Carmin and his colleagues made more than 10,000 testimonies accessible to the Israeli researcher and reader, enabling them to tell the story of the Holocaust through the viewpoint of the survivors and to incorporate their experiences into the historical literature. The project initiated and led by Carmin became one of the important repositories of testimonies available to the Israeli researcher. In this way, Carmin made an immeasurable contribution to Israeli Holocaust research and commemoration.

Thursday, 10 March 2016 Open to the General Public with Simultaneous Translation

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Greetings Prof. Jacob Hornik, Vice President, Western Galilee College Prof. Gabriel Finder, Director, The Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia Prof. Avinoam Patt, The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford Dr. Anat Livne, Director Ghetto Fighters House Museum Dr. Boaz Cohen, Head, Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College

10:00-11:45 Reconsidering Testimony and History Chair: Dr. Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College, Israel

The Sonderkommando Testimonies: An Essential Weapon in the Battle Against the Denial of Auschwitz

Prof. Gideon Greif, Shem Olam Institute, Israel

Bearing Witness More Than Once: Anita Lasker Remembering her 1945 BBC Interview

Ms. Christina Bruening, University of Freiburg, Germany

Was It or Wasn’t It? The Limited Amount or Absence of Testimonies as an Obstacle in Research

Dr. Emunah Nachmany Gafny, Independent Researcher, Israel

Testimonies on Wiktor Gutsztadt, Chairman of the Judenrat in the Radomsko Ghetto, Poland

Mr. Tzahi Drory, Independent Researcher, Israel

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-12:50 Testimonies of Jewish Doctors Chair: Prof. Bill Seidelman, Prof. Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada

Posthumous Testimony for Dr. Leo Gross: Restoration of the ‘Lost’ Biography of a Physician Victim of the Holocaust

Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

The Lost Writings Left Behind by Jewish Physicians: Broadening Perspectives and Research Challenges

Dr. Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College, Israel

12:50-13:30 Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award: Mr. Yosale Carmin

13:30-14:30 Break

14:30-16:30 Testimony and the Arts Chair: Prof. Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford, USA

Women Inmates’ Visual Art during the Holocaust: Embellished Testimonies or Reflections of Reality?

Dr. Pnina Rosenberg, Technion & Yezreel Valley College, Israel

Intersections of Emotional and Historical Testimony in Visual Representation: Art as Testimony in the Collection of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne

Dr. Anna Hirsh, Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne, Australia

Enacting Testimonies as a Way to Keep the Memory of the Holocaust Alive Prof. Felicia Waldman, University of Bucharest, Romania

Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies in Israeli Animation Films Dr. Liat Steir-Livny, Sapir Academic College, Israel

Exhibitions Two exhibitions will be shown in the college on occasion of the conference: Jan Karsky, courtesy of the Polish Institute in the Ecology Building Foyer Habricha, courtesy of the Bricha Legacy Foundation in the College Library Foyer

Tuesday, 8 March 2016 Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only09:00 -10:25 Methodological Issues in the Study of Testimonies Chair: Prof. Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia, USA

Analyzing Personal Accounts in the Age of ‘Post-Testimony’ Prof. Éva Kovács, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Hungarian

Academy of Sciences, Hungary Sociological Research on the Holocaust – Some Methodological Remarks on the

Use of Direct Testimonies Prof. Małgorzata Melchior, University of Warsaw, Polish Centre for Holocaust

Research, Poland Norm Transformation during the Holocaust? The Testimonial Evidence Dr. Paul Morrow, University of Virginia, USA 10:25 -10:40 Break10:40 -12:30 Historical Issues in the Study of Testimonies Chair: Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA

Rereading Koniuchovsky’s Collection of Holocaust Testimonies Dr. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky, Tel Aviv University, Israel Testimonies of Survivors of Postwar Anti-Jewish Violence: Deconstructing a Myth

of Polish Collective Memory Ms. Karolina Panz, University of Warsaw, Poland Marceline Loridan-Ivens: A French Birkenau Survivor Interprets the Present

Through the Past: From “Old” to “New” Anti-Semitism Prof. Anna Norris, Michigan State University, USA Memoirs of Camp Survivors: Between Personal Accounts to Collective Memories Dr. Ross W. Halpin, University of Sydney, Australia12:30 -13:10 Plenary Lecture: Forgotten Experiences: Video Testimonies as a Source for

Holocaust Research Prof. Wolf Gruner, University of South California, USA13:10 -14:30 Break14:30 -15:50 Children’s Testimonies Chair: Dr. Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Shaanan College, Israel

Statistical Analysis of Holocaust Testimonies Using the Example of Hidden Children in France – Methodological Issues

Dr. Annelyse Forst, University of Salzburg, Austria The Legacy of Testimonies: The Story of the Rescue of Children and Youths at

Buchenwald Prof. Kenneth Waltzer, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USA Child Survivors and Testimony: Emotions, Memory, and Identity Prof. Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University, UK15:50-16:00 Break16:00 -17:20 Memoirs, Literature, and Testimony Chair: Prof. Jennifer Geddes, University of Virginia, USA

Writing Against and Despite Silence: A Literary Analysis of Testimonies of the Post-War Years

Ms. Ariane Santerre, University of Montreal, Canada Betar’s Participation in Armed Resistance to the Nazis in Eastern Europe as

Reflected in Yizkor Books Mr. Peter Keeda, University of Sydney, Australia Hidden Memories: The Lost Narratives of Ireland’s Holocaust Survivors Dr. Kevin McCarthy, Independent Researcher, Ireland

Wednesday, 9 March 2016 Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only08:30-10:00 Tour of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum10:20-11:15 Testimonies in Courts Chair: Prof. Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University, UK

Eichmann’s Defense in the Face of the Witnesses (1961): Holocaust Testimonies vs. Testimonies of the Perpetrator Prof. Fabien Theofilakis, University of Montreal, Canada “I didn’t come here to lie”: Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz

Lucas: the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1965) Prof. Andrew C. Wisely, Baylor University, USA11:15-11:25 Break11:25-13:15 Testimony, Film, Digital and Social Media Chair: Dr. Axel Dossmann, Jena University, Germany

Formatting Testimony in Documentary Film Prof. Tomasz Łysak, University of Warsaw, Poland Digitized Survivors’ Testimonies: Some Archival and Historiographical

Considerations Mr. Amir Lavie, University of Toronto, Canada Holocaust Testimony in Yizkor Books: From Text to Hypertext to Text Again Prof. Rosemary Horowitz, Appalachian State University, USA “Add Review”: Holocaust Testimonies in Social Media Ms. Stephanie Benzaquen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 13:15-14:10 Break 14:10-15:40 The Role of Testimonies in Holocaust Education Chair: Prof. Zehavit Gross, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Holocaust Testimonies in Education and Memory: Beyond the Survivor (A Case Study for Britain)

Dr. Kara Critchell, Ms. Emily Stiles, University of Winchester, UK David P. Boder´s Challenging Heritage: How to Make Somebody Understand by

Listening to Audiotaped Testimonies from 1946 Dr. Axel Dossmann, Jena University, Germany Historical Learning about the Shoah in Schools from a Transnational Perspective:

Using Video-Testimonies and Tablet PCs Ms. Anne Schillig, University of Teacher Education Lucerne, Switzerland 15:40-15:50 Break15:50-16:45 Second and Third Generation Chair: Prof. Sabine Hildebrandt, Harvard Medical School, USA

Children of Survivors and the Future of Holocaust Memory Prof. Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford, USA Instances of Re-Witnessing in Texts of the Second and Third Generation Dr. Rebekah Slodounik, University of Virginia, USA16:45-17:45 Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Dr. Miriam Offer Prof. Gabriel Finder, Prof. Avinoam Patt, Prof. Jennifer Geddes, Prof. Wolf

Gruner, Dr. Boaz Cohen