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THE JACKET FROM DACHAU:
One Survivor’s Search for
Justice, Identity, and Home
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ADVISORY BOARD
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Chairperson
Diane Cohen
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Manfred Korman
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PAST CHAIRPERSONS
Martin Seinfeld
Joseph Sciame
Sandra Delson, Ed.D.
Owen Bernstein, Ph.D.
May D. Ladman
Anne B. Morse
Dr. Dan Leshem
Director
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Assistant Director
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Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)
Director’s Message
Dear Friends of the KHRCA,
QPAC SCHEDULE
Susan Agin, Executive and Artistic Director
Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)
Box Office (718) 631-6311, M-F, 10am-4pm
For a full list of events, please log onto: www.visitqpac.org
$5 off every ticket for Kupferberg Holocaust Center members.
(limit - discount available for up to 2 tickets)
Sunday, September 18, 2016, 3pm
TONY DANZA: STANDARDS & STORIES
$50, $45, $40
Sunday, September 25, 2016, 3pm
RITA MORENO IN CONCERT!
$50, $45, $40
Saturday, October 1, 2016, 8pm
The Havana Cuba All-Stars
$45, $40, $35
Sunday, October 9, 2016, 3pm
THE DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY TAMBURITZANS
$35 all seats
Sunday, October 16, 2016, 3pm
MASTERS OF THE MIND
$40, $35
Sunday, October 23, 2016, 3pm
THE CAPITOL STEPS
$45, $40
Friday, October 28, 2016, 11:00am
BRUNCH & SHOW: KINGS OF QUEENS!
$49
Saturday, November 19, 2016, 8pm
KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
$65, $55
Sunday, November 20, 2016, 3pm
THE TEXAS TENORS
$48, $42
Friday, December 9, 2016, 7pm
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
$40, $35
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In the coming year, the KHRCA will host two transformative
exhibits: the first is a partnership with Yahad-in Unum, an
international activism and commemoration organization
headed by Father Patrick Desbois, that has been identifying
sites of mass graves from the Holocaust and the Guatemalan and Yazidi
genocides. This exhibit will run from August 15—September 15, 2016.
The second will be a new exhibit featuring the concentration camp uniform
of a local survivor that was donated to the Center last summer. This exhibit,
in planning and research for over a year already, will feature dozens of
documents, photographs, and videos in addition to the camp jacket from
Dachau. It will cover the chronology of the survivor, Ben Peres’s life and
explore the impact authentic artifacts can have on family, community, and
society. As per usual, we will also host a series of events to explain and
explore the meaning of these artifacts to history, our present and our future.
This year we are pleased to offer you our year-at-a-glance event schedule
that includes a full academic year of programming. We hope this will make it
easier to plan your participation. Please note that this year, also for the first
time, we are requesting RSVP for all of our events. To facilitate this process,
we have set up a RSVP website, khrca.org/rsvp.html. We will also accept
RSVPs via phone call to our office and via email to [email protected].
We would like to thank the following for helping to make this year of events
possible:
• Once again we are pleased to offer a series of lectures sponsored by our
longtime supporters Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein;
• New
York City Council Members: Crowley, Dromm, Grodenchik, Koo,
Koslowitz, Vallone, as well as the Queens Delegation.
• Our advisory board
• Eight profound events
in our KHRCA colloquium series exploring the
impact of refugee experiences of the Holocaust and other contemporary
genocides, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Finally, I thank all the KHRCA members whose annual contributions allow
us to offer these programs. If you are not yet a member, or need to renew,
we have included a “tear out” form on the last page of this catalogue. If you
prefer to give online, please visit www.khrca.org/give.html.
Dan Leshem, Ph.D.
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Fall 2016 Events at a Glance
To Register for KHRCA Events visit www.khrca.org, email [email protected], or 718-281-5770
DATEEVENT
August 28
Exhibit Opening, Lecture
Women at the Frontline of Mass Violence World
A panel discussion with Yahad-In-Unum See page 5
The KHRCA would like to thank our
2015-2016 Academic Year supporters:
$100,000 +
Dr. Sandra Delson
$25,000-$49,999
September 8 Lecture
My Father’s Story: A Jewish Resistance Fighter in Nazi-Occupied Belgium
See page 5
Kupferberg Foundation, Inc.
(Mr. Mark Kupferberg)
National Endowment of the
Humanities
September 14 Film
Fateless See page 14
$10,000-$24,999
September 21 KHRCA Colloquium
Refuge Denied: St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust See page 8
October 19
Film
As If I Am Not There See page 14
October 30
Exhibit Opening, Lecture
The Jacket from Dachau: Exhibition Opening with Co-Curator Dr. Cary Lane
See page 6
November 9
Film
The Pawnbroker See page 15
November 16KHRCA Colloquium
Building a Better Future: Supporting Refugee Youth To Thrive See page 8
November 30Film
Son of Saul See page 15
December 7KHRCA Colloquium
Displacement, Refuge, Migration - The Context of United Nations Peace
Operations See page 8
December 9th Special Event
KHRCA Fellowship Showcase See page 12
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Congregation Emanu-el of the
City of New York
Mrs. Elsi Levy/The Levy Family
Foundation
Queens Jewish Community Council
Ms. Linda Ramirez
Ms. Rosemary Sullivan Zins
$500-$999
Professor Kitty Bateman
Mrs. Hannah T. Gordon
Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Halegua
M.D.N.Y.C. LLC
Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Mostel
Temple Sinai of Roslyn
$5,000-$9,999
Mr. Ronald S. Appel, ‘81
Bank of New York Mellon
Dr. Bebe Bernstein
Dr. Diane B. Call
Claire Friedlander Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Halegua
Mr. Louis Sapir
Sinai Chapels, Inc.
Dr. Amy Wong
$250-$499
Rabbi Charles Agin
Mr. Mark Arroll
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hierbaum
Queens Tribune
Siegel & Reiner, LLP
St. John’s University
Mr. & Mrs. Herb Wald ‘96
Mrs. Mahvash Zarabi
$1,000-$4,999
Mr. Stephen Di Dio
Kensington Vanguard Holdings LLC
(Mr. Abraham Daniels)
The KHRCA would also like to thank:
The New York City Council • The New York State Assembly
National Endowment for the Humanities
A special thank you to Sinai Chapels for their sponsorship of this publication.
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THE HARRIET AND KENNETH
KUPFERBERG HOLOCAUST
RESOURCE CENTER AND ARCHIVES
2010 COMMUNITY BUSINESS LEADER
MICHAEL RESNICK
President, Sinai Chapels
With the emergence of the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust
Resource Center and Archives as an educational resource for not
only the students of Queensborough Community College but also the
surrounding communities of Queens and Long Island, many business
and civic leaders have come to the forefront to assume a leadership
role in supporting the expansion of our efforts. One such outstanding
individual is Michael Resnick, President of Sinai Chapels.
Sinai Chapels and the Resnick family began serving New York’s Jewish
Community at their time of need some 80 years ago. Michael Resnick
has devoted his time and resources to meet the challenge of Holocaust
education and, in doing so, has guaranteed a continuity of programming
for a growing number of students and Kupferberg Holocaust Center
members. Having originally sponsored the Kupferberg Holocaust
Center Yiddish Cinema program, Michael now leads a growing number
of local business leaders who support our Arts Initiative, music project,
lecture program, and renowned Holocaust Freedom Seder.
As we witness the emergence of a generation of children and
grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, we are both assured and
invigorated that individuals such as Michael Resnick are coming
forward to answer our challenge - When the last survivor is gone, will
you help us tell of the Holocaust?
162-05 Horace Harding Expressway, Fresh Meadows, New York 11365
Phone: 1-800-446-0406 • 718-445-0300 • Fax 718-321-0896
[email protected]
Spring 2017 Events at a Glance
To Register for KHRCA Events visit www.khrca.org, email [email protected], or 718-281-5770
DATEEVENT
February 8
Film
Judgment at Nuremberg See page 16
February 16
Lecture
Reparations and the Holocaust with Mary Maudsley, J.D. See page 6
February 22KHRCA Colloquium
A Common Thread of Uncommon Courage:
From Genocide Orphan to Human Rights Activist See page 9
March 5
Panel Discussion
Through My Parents’ Eyes: Second Generation Memories of WWII See page 7
March 8
Film
Granito See page 16
March 24KHRCA Colloquium
The LGBT Refugee Crisis See page 9
April 2
Special Event
Annual Holocaust Freedom Seder See page 12
April 5
Film
Sometimes in April See page 17
April 20KHRCA Colloquium
Musical Performance: Echoes of Exile See page 9
April 23
May 3KHRCA Colloquium
Girlhood, Displacement, and Resistance During the Japanese Occupation
See page 9
May 10Film
Woman in Gold See page 17
May 12
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Special Event
Yom HaShoah Commemoration See page 7
Special Event
KHRCA Fellowship Showcase See page 12
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Exhibition
New Original KHRCA Exhibition
The Jacket from Dachau:
One Survivor’s Search
for Justice, Identity, and
Home
Opening October 2016
In July of 2015, the KHRCA was
contacted by a vintage clothing dealer
about a recent acquisition of a unique garment at an estate sale. In the
back of a walk-in closet, amid a variety of old shirts and vintage dresses,
hung a faded striped jacket. A year later, we now know the story of
Benzion Peresetski, a young Jewish man from Lithuania who wore this
jacket for ten months in Dachau and kept it for 33 years. The exhibit
tells Peresetski’s story of his immigration to the US, his legal pursuit
for reparations, as well as historic photos, maps, multiple testimonies,
and short films. It is a story of Holocaust survival, chance encounters,
and how a single artifact can weave a narrative of justice, identity, and
a search for home.
This exhibit is co-curated by Cary
Lane, Ph.D., the KHRCA 2016-2017
Curator-in-Residence and assistant
professor of English at Queensborough
Community College. Dr. Lane has
curated and contributed to multiple
professional art exhibits, including
the 2009 exhibit, “Visualizing
the Unknown: Forensic Art” in the
President’s Art Gallery at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, CUNY,
and as artist-in-residence for the
2010, exhibit, “Rivane Neuenschwander: True Love” at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. His most recent curatorial
duties were for the capstone exhibit for his 2015-2016 KHRCA/NEH
Colloquium Series, which engaged students as both content creators
and co-curators.
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Cinema Series
Sometimes in April
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 at 12:10pm
Honoré Butera and Augustin Muganza are
Hutu brothers living in Rwanda at the time of
the Rwandan genocide. Augustin, a captain in
the Rwandan Army, struggles to safely ferry
his Tutsi wife and child out of Rwanda. The
film follows the brothers in the lead up to the
genocide, through their division over politics
once the genocide begins, and then examines
the aftermath as they, and Rwanda, try to find
justice and reconciliation. Released in 2005, 140 minutes.
Woman in Gold
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 at 12:10pm
Sixty years after fleeing Vienna in the wake of the
Anschluss, Maria Altmann, now an elderly Jewish
widow living in Los Angeles, seeks to reclaim
family possession that were seized by the Nazis.
Chief among them is a famous portrait of Maria’s
beloved Aunt Adele: Gustave Klimt’s “Portrait
of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” more commonly known
as “Woman in Gold.” With the help of a young
lawyer, Randy Schoeberg, they embark upon
a legal battle with the Austrian government to
recover the painting and others, ultimately ending up in the Supreme
Court of the United States. Released in 2015, 109 minutes.
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Cinema Series
Judgment at Nuremberg
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
at 12:10pm
In 1947, four judges who served
prominently on the bench during
the Nazi regime, using their office to
enforce racist and cruel laws, face a
military tribunal, headed by retired
American jurist, Dan Haywood. As
America cautiously steps onto the stage as a world power, Chief Justice
Haywood must balance the need to seek justice for those who were
unfairly prosecuted under Nazi law, while also remaining cognizant of
the limitations of the court in condemning an entire nation. Released
in 1961, 179 minutes.
Granito
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 at 12:10pm
Granito follow-up to her first feature-length
film, When the Mountains Tremble (1984), which
was one of the first documentary records of the
Guatemalan Civil War. Granito reviews the struggle
of the past thirty years to bring Guatemala’s exdictator, José Efraín Ríos Montt, to justice for
the genocide committed against Guatemala’s
Mayan population in the eighties. Flashing back
and forth from the present to the past, Granito
examines how Mountains served as a catalyst in bringing the genocide
of the Guatemalan Mayans to the public consciousness, which led to
Montt’s successful prosecution. Released in 2011, 82 minutes.
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Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture
Woman at the Frontline of
Mass Violence Worldwide:
A Panel Discussion with
Yahad-In Unum
Lecturers: Patrice Bensimon,
Dr. Rochelle Saidel, and Dr. Amy Traver
Sunday, August 28th, 2016 at 1:00pm
After more than 12 years of field investigation on the Holocaust by Bullets
and contemporary mass crimes, Yahad-In Unum’s exhibit aims to give
voice to women who were victims of mass violence perpetrated in various
countries and continents from WWII until today. The exhibit presents the
fates of: Jewish female survivors of the Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern
Europe, Roma female survivors of the Porajmos - the genocide of Roma
during WWII, Indigenous women from Guatemala - victims during the
internal armed conflict in the 1980s, and Yazidi female survivors - victims
of ISIS in Iraq today. This panel discussion includes: Patrice Bensimon,
Director of Yahad-In Unum Research Center; Dr. Rochelle Saidel, founder
and Executive Director of the Remember the Women Institute; and Dr. Amy
Traver, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community
College. Exhibition on view through September 15, 2016.
My Father’s Story: A Jewish
Resistance Fighter in NaziOccupied Belgium
Lecturer: Dr. Moshe Michel Werber
Thursday, September 8th, 2016 at 6:30pm
This lecture will introduce Abusz Werber, the
leader of the Linke Poalei Zion (LPZ) in Belgium
during WWII. Dr. Moshe Michel Werber will share his
father’s story as well as present research from his
book documenting the Comite de defense des Juifs en Belgique (Jewish
Defense Committee in Belgium), a Jewish section within the Belgian
Independent Front. Weber is a biotechnologist who was born in Brussels
and later immigrated to Israel.
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Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture
Cinema Series
Exhibition Opening
The Pawnbroker
The Jacket from Dachau:
One Survivor’s Search for
Justice, Identity, and Home
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 at
12:10pm
Lecturer: Dr. Cary Lane
Sunday, October 30th, 2016 at 1:00pm
The KHRCA unveils our newest original exhibition that tells the story
of Holocaust survival, chance encounters, and how a single artifact
can weave a narrative of justice, identity, and a search for home. This
exhibit is co-curated by Cary Lane, Ph.D., the KHRCA 2016-2017 Curatorin-Residence and assistant professor of English at Queensborough
Community College. Join us for the official public opening as Dr.
Lane discusses the process of research and discovery that led to the
development of this new exhibition.
Reparations and the Holocaust
Lecturer: Mary Maudsley, J.D.
Thursday, February 16th, 2017 at 6:00pm
As a supplement to our Fall 2016 exhibition,
Mary Maudsley, J.D. will discuss the history of
reparations during and after the Holocaust. Mary
Maudsley is an adjunct faculty member in the
Holocaust and Genocide program at Stockton
University. A retired trial attorney, she specialized in ethics matters,
discrimination issues, and state and local government litigation.
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In the years after World War II, Sol Nazerman, a
Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, lives his days in
New York City as an emotionless pawnbroker.
Having lost his family and faith, as well as
any belief in the goodness of man, Sol lives a
primarily solitary life, plagued by flashbacks to
his wartime memories. Turning away anyone
who attempts to reach out to him, including
a kindly social worker and one of his own
employees, Sol struggles to find any meaning in his, or anyone else’s,
existence. Released in 1965, 116 minutes.
Son of Saul
Wednesday, November 30th at 12:10pm
Taking place over the course of two days,
this film follows Saul Auslander, a Hungarian
prisoner assigned work as a Sonderkommando
at the Auschwitz crematoriums. Forced to work
among the corpses of his own people, Saul has
been numbed to the daily horror, until he comes
across the body of a young boy. Imagining the
boy to be his illegitimate son, Saul experiences a
spiritual awakening, and seeks to provide the boy
with a proper Jewish burial. Saul attempts the
impossible, all while taking part in the preparations for a prisoner rebellion.
Released in 2015, 107 minutes.
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Cinema Series
Fateless
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 at
12:10pm
In 1944 Hungary, 14-year-old Gyorgy Koves, a
young Jewish student, quits school after his
father is taken by the Nazis to a forcedlabor
camp. Working at a brickyard to provide for
his family in his father’s absence, Gyorgy
is seized during a police raid and sent to
Auschwitz. Lying about his age, Gyorgy must
figure out how to survive life in the camp,
while embracing his entrance into adulthood and struggling with the
question of what it means to be a Jew. Released in 2005, 140 minutes.
As If I Am Not There
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 at
12:10pm
Samira is a modern schoolteacher in Sarjevo
who takes a job in a small country village just
as the Bosnsian War is beginning to escalate.
Shortly after her arrival, Serbian soldiers
overrun the village, shoot the men and keep
the women as slaves. Samira must navigate
her way through this new hellish way of life,
struggling to maintain a sense of self as
she dissociates from her continued abuse.
Released in 2009, 109 minutes.
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Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture
Through My Parents’ Eyes:
Second Generation Memories
of WWII
Lecturers: Dr. Alisse Waterson and
Dr. Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Sunday, March 5th, 2017 at 1:00pm
Conversation with Dr. Alisse Waterston, author of
“My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the
Violence of a Century” and Dr. Barbara Rylko-Bauer,
author of “A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My
Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration,
and a Life Remade.” Waterston, professor at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY, uses her
anthropology background in this account of her Polish Jewish father’s
journey during the Holocaust. Rylko-Bauer, a medical anthropologist
and adjunct associate professor at Michigan State University, discusses
her Polish Catholic mother’s resistance and wartime experiences.
Yom HaShoah Commemoration
The State of Antisemitism Today
Lecturers: Mark Weitzman and Ira Forman
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 at 1:00pm
This year’s commemoration will feature a keynote
presentation by Mark Weitzman in conversation with
Ira Forman. Mark Weitzman is Director of Government
Affairs and the Director of the Task Force Against
Hate and Terrorism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
as well as the Chief Representative of the Center
for the United Nations. Ira Forman is the Special
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism for the
U.S. Department of State and served as the Jewish
Outreach Director for the Obama for America
campaign. Weitzman and Forman will discuss present-day antisemitism
and reflect on the future.
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KHRCA Colloquia Series
Bagels, Books & Talk
Fleeing Genocide:
Displacement, Exile and the Refugee
2016-17 Colloquia
Queensborough Community College Faculty Coordinators
Aliza Atik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Kathleen Alves, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Mirna Lekic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Music
Refuge Denied: St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
Dr. Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
12:20-1:50pm
Dr. Miller, discusses his book, co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie, on the fate of the passengers of the SS
St. Louis ship that left Nazi Germany in 1939 only to be turned away by the Cuban and US governments
upon arrival.
Building a Better Future: Supporting Refugee Youth to Thrive
Sara Rowbottom, Education and Learning Manager at the International Rescue Committee
Dr. Kathleen Landy, Director of CETL, Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
12:20-1:50pm
Ms. Rowbottom highlights issues relevant to educating refugees, providing information on IRC’s
educational programs, and discussing the IRC Refugee Youth Summer Academy, a six-week program
designed to transition newly arrived refugees into New York schools.
Displacement, Refuge, Migration - The Context of United
Nations Peace Operations
Lieutenant General Stefan Feller, Police Adviser, Department of Peacekeeping Operations,
United Nations
Dr. Jean Murley, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
12:20-1:50pm
BAGELS, BOOKS & TALK
A Program for Holocaust Survivors
films • speakers • music • books
and opportunities to get together and talk
The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, in partnership
with the Samuel Field Y, invite Holocaust survivors from across the
region for an opportunity to engage with students, scholars, artists,
and community members. This program is dedicated to the concerns,
resources, and priorities of our local community’s Holocaust survivors.
Program Schedule: First Fridays
September, 2nd • October, 7th • November, 4th
December, 2nd • January, 6th • February, 3rd
March, 3rd • April, 7th • May, 5
Time: 10:00AM - 11:30AM
Location: The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at
Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Avenue, Bayside, New York 11364
This program is free. If interested in enrolling, please contact the
Kupferberg Holocaust Center at 718.281.5770
Lieutenant Feller discusses crises which cause internal and external displacement, and the challenges of
reverting displacement and migration.
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Special Events
Fellowship Showcases
Join us as we celebrate the work of
students in the KHRCA Fellowships.
The Center offers three semesterlong programs: Exploring the
Holocaust, Asian Social Justice World War II in Asia, and Identifying
Hate Crimes in Our Community.
Fellows will present their experiences
on learning each respective topic and interviewing survivors and
representatives of local social organizations.
Fall 2016 Showcase: Friday, December 9th at 12:10pm
Spring 2017 Showcase: Friday, May, 12th at 12:10pm
KHRCA Colloquia Series
A Common Thread of Uncommon Courage: From Genocide
Orphan to Human Rights activist
Jacqueline Murekatete, Esq., Founder, Genocide Survivors Foundation
Dr. Trevor Milton, Assistant Professor of Social Science, Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
12:20-1:50pm
Ms. Murekatete, speaks about her own experiences as a victim of the Rwandan genocide and her work
establishing the Genocide Survivors Foundation.
The LGBT Refugee Crisis
Hon. Daniel Dromm, New York City Council Member
Pamela Denzer, Client Programs Director and BIA, Immigration Equality
Jamila Hammami, Executive Director, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Dr. Amy Traver, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Friday, March 24, 2017
12:20-1:50pm
Annual Holocaust
Freedom Seder
Through personal stories of LGBT refugees, this program led by Councilman Dromm, examines the
challenges facing LGBT populations in Africa and in exile.
Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
at 12:00pm
At the Student Union Building
Echoes of Exile Join us as we once again honor
the Holocaust survivors of our
community by recreating the same
Passover Seder held in 1946, the first to be held after World War II. Return
with us to the DP camp of Munich as the survivors of the Holocaust come
together to celebrate the holiday of Freedom, the Season of Deliverance.
Musical testimonies of resistance, remembrance and exile, featuring QCC music faculty, Ensemble 365 and
the QCC Jazz Ensemble.
Admission is $14.00 per person. Guests receive a Haggadah, a program led
by a local rabbi and cantor, and a kosher meal. You must pre-register to
attend. Online registration is encouraged. No one will be admitted without
a reservation. No tickets will be sold at the door. Visit www.khrca.org for
more information.
Additional registration information to follow by mail.
QCC Department of Music Faculty, Ensemble 365, and the QCC Jazz Ensemble
Thursday, April 20, 2017
7:00-8:30pm, QPAC
Girlhood, Displacement, and Resistance during the Japanese
Occupation
Dr. Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Assistant Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Dr. Aliza Atik, Assistant Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Dr. Benjamin Miller, Assistant Professor of English, Queensborough Community College
Prof. Alisa Cercone, Lecturer of English, Queensborough Community College
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
12:20-1:50pm
Dr. Alves addresses displacement, victimhood, survival, and resistance through the girlhood narratives
of her family’s flight from persecution during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, supplying the
historical and cultural context of World War II in Asia. This program will immediately be followed by a student
and faculty roundtable discussion.
The KHRCA Colloquia, initiated in the 2012/2013 academic year, is supported by funding from the
National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant. All events are held at the KHRCA
unless otherwise indicated.
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The Kupferberg Holocaust Center 2016 Highlights
The Kupferberg Holocaust Center 2016 Highlights
Director Dr. Dan Leshem
shows New York City
Councilmember Barry
Grodenchik materials
from the KHRCA
archives.
Bosnian Genocide survivor Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic signs copies of her memoir The River
Runs Salt, Runs Sweet for QCC students at the third lecture in the 2015-16 Colloquia –
Gender, Mass Violence, and Genocide.
QCC students read
the Haggadah at the
Freedom Seder.
Rabbi Charles Agin addresses the crowd at the KHRCA’s 2016 Holocaust Freedom Seder.
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A Hate Crimes Fellow
presents at the KHRCA
Spring 2016 Fellowship
Showcase.
Maria Abreu – Spring 2016 Joanne Blumin student Intern, QCC President Dr. Diane B. Call,
Dr. Marlene Blumin, Ricky Panayoty – KHRCA Holocaust Fellow and QCC Student Body
President, and Dr. Leshem.
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