Western Galilee College Holocaust Studies Program Appalachian State University You are cordially invited to the international conference and workshop Abba Fenichel: Woman Seated at a Table, Writing Courtesy of the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum, Art Collection The Future of Holocaust Testimonies V Wednesday, 13 March 2019, Western Galilee College, Akko Shamash Auditorium, Sir Harry Solomon School of Management Western Galilee College ‫הקתדרה על שם סימון וייל‬ Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Open to the General Public with Simultaneous Translation 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-10:00 Greetings Prof. Nisim Ben David, President, Western Galilee College Prof. Wolf Gruner, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University Dr.Boaz Cohen, Head, Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College Keynote Lecture The Holocaust, 75 Years After It Ended Prof. Gerhard L. Weinberg 10:00-11:00 Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Chair: Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. Israel 11:00-12:30 Women and Men in Testimonies Chair: Prof. Judy Baumel –Schwartz, Bar Ilan University, Israel Belated Legitimacy for Revealing the Truth: #MeToo and Late Life Holocaust Testimonies Prof. Yaacov Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Interviews and Testimonies of Women in the Partisans near Bialystok: Methodological and Substantive Challenges (Prof. Emeritus) Lenore J. Weitzman, George Mason University, USA What Difference Does Gender Make? Reassessing the Analysis and Debates over Gender Difference in Holocaust Studies and Testimonies Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Appalachian State University, USA 12:30-12:45 Break 12:45-13:15 Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award: Mr. Moshe Porat 13:15-14:00 lunch break Dimensions in Testimony: A Discussion Ms. Kia Hays, USC Shoah Foundation 14:00 -15:00 15:00-16:30 Use and Misuse of Testimony Chair: Dr. Verena Buser, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany "Do not Make it Worse than it was!":Danger of Adapting the Narratives of Holocaust Survivors` testimonies Dr. Denisa Neštáková, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia "How can the Document be authentic and I'm not Authentic?": Treblinka Survivors’ Testimonies and the Demjanjuk Trial Dr. Tamir Hod, Bar Ilan University, Israel Interviewing survivor children: from Holocaust to Genocide Dr. Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College Keynote Speaker: Prof. Gerhard Weinberg, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Prof. Gerhard Weinberg is a prominent historian noted for his works on military and diplomatic history of the second World War. Born in 1928, he escaped Germany in 1938 and went on to the USA. His work is path breaking in incorporating the story of the Holocaust in the History of the Second World War. Mr Moshe Porat Guardian of Holocaust Memory Award Mr. Moshe Porat (né Frish) was born in 1931 in Hajdúnánás in southeastern Hungary to a Hasidic family of seven. When Hungary’s Jews were deported to Auschwitz he was taken to forced labor in Vienna and from there in the death march to Mauthausen from where he was liberated at the age of 14. He lost 50 members of his family in the camps, of them 36 in Auschwitz- Birkenau. He reached Eretz Israel at the age of 17 and was one of the group that established Kibbutz Shluhot. After decades of silence Porat chose to tell his story to the next generations. He accompanied scores of high-school trips to Poland and established strong connections with the teenagers. These show strongly in his book An unbreakable bond – letters to grandfather Moshe that contains many touching letters of teenagers sent to Porat after the joint experience in the tour of the death sites. Porat is a fitting representative of the generation of witnesses that are ensuring that the memory of the Holocaust will carry on to the next generations. Their work is a major pillar of Israeli Holocaust memory. The New Dimensions project, USC Shoah Foundation Dimensions in Testimony is an initiative of the USC Shoah Foundation to record and display testimony in a way that enables learners to have conversations with pre-recorded video images of Holocaust survivors. This will ensure the continuation of a dialogue between Holocaust survivors and learners far into the future. Kia Hays of the USC Shoah Foundation will lead a discussion on the methodologies and processes used in developing the interactive experience. Monday, 11 March 2019 Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only 09:00 – 09:20 Opening remarks –Dr. Boaz Cohen 09:20 – 10:50 Material culture, Photographs and Testimony Chair: Dr. Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College, Akko “Jewish Cartloads on the Move”: Unpacking Artifacts Found in Holocaust Testimony Prof. Karen Shawn, Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University, USA Survivor Testimonies as Counter-Narratives. Contextualizing SS Photographs from Concentration Camps Mr. Lukas Meissel, University of Haifa, Israel Testifying Through Pictures or Words? A Reflection on the Use of Photographs in Post-War Written Testimonies Ms. Ariane Santerre, Université de Montréal / University of Western Ontario, Canada 10:50 – 11:00 Break 11:00 - 13:00 Viewpoints Chair: Prof. Dina Porat, Chief Historian, Yad Vashem and Tel Aviv University The “Lucifer Effect”. A Promising Approach to understanding Functionaries´ Holocaust Testimonies? Dr. Verena Buser, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany “It Was in The Time of Harvest…”. Polish Testimonies of “Aktion Reinhardt” in Nowy Targ County Dr. Karolina Panz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Testimony over Time: Memory of Verdi’s Requiem in Theresienstadt. Ms. Catherine Greer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA In Whom we trust? Testimonies That tell Contradictory Things about the Same Event. Case of the Janusz Korczak’s Last March Ms. Agnieszka Witkowska Krych, University of Warsaw, Poland 13:00 -14:00 Break 14:00 – 15:20 Memory and Historiography Chair: Dr. Yaron Pasher, Western Galilee College, Akko “One Survivor’s Testimonial Journey Through Time: Gabriel Finder Interviews Shimon Redlich” Prof. Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia & Prof. Emeritus Shimon Redlich Ben-Gurion University Personal Letters and Archives and The Historiography of The Holocaust Dr Hannah Holtschneider, University of Edinburgh. Editor of Holocaust Studies, Scotland Prof. Shirli Gilbert, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK 15:20-15:35 Break 15:50 Evening program at Ghetto Fighters House Tour Dinner Testimonies and Education Chair: Mr. Yigal Cohen, Director, Ghetto Fighters House From Empathy to Critical Reflection: The Use of Testimonies in the Training of Educators Dr. Lilach Naishtat Bornstein, Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel The Future of Holocaust Child Survivor Testimonies in the 21th Century: The Importance of an Evaluation Tool for Best Practices Dr. Michal Sadan and Ms. Madene Shachar, Yad Layeled (children memorial) Ghetto Fighters House, Israel Testimonies and Digital Storytelling: "Satellite Camps" - an App about Satellite Camps of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps in Berlin" Mr. Thomas Irmer, Historian, independent scholar, Berlin "The Children's Voice"- The Use of Children's Early Testimonies Ms. Pnina Rotem, Bar Ilan University, Israel Tuesday, 12 March 2019 Workshop for Researchers – By Invitation Only 09:00 - 10:30 Testimonies in place and time: Transnistria Chair: Dr. Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College, Akko Dynamics of Remembrance across Time and Media: On Ruth Glasberg Gold’s Multiple Accounts of Her Holocaust Experiences in Transnistria Prof. Dana Mihailescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Transnistria as a Total Institution - Using Testimonies for A New Methodological Approach Dr. Ana Barbulescu, University of Bucharest, Romania The Fascinating and Happy Year in Our Lives" A case study of Refugee Children from Romania, in the "Ilania" Children's Village Near the Town of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands Dr. Sarah Rosen, Bar Ilan University, Israel 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 12:15 Testimony and the Personal. Chair: Prof. Wolf Gruner, University of South California, USA Salvation through Servitude: The Life Narrations of Jewish Refugee Domestics 1938-1950 Dr Jennifer Craig-Norton, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton. UK Israeli Cracow Ghetto Interviews in a Post-Zionist Moment: The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Testimonial Mediations Prof. Sheila E. Jelen, University of Kentucky, USA History, Memory and Testimony- Case study: Life Stories of Holocaust-Survivor Aircrew Members in the Israeli Air Force Dr. Lea Ganor, Bar Ilan University, Mashmaut Center, Israel 12:15 – 13:00 Break 13:00-14:20 The Challenge of Remembering Chair: Prof. Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia, USA Audio Testimonies, Written Testimonies, Literature and their Usage in Post-Literature Ms. Hana Nichtburgerová, University of Prague, Czech Republic ‘Indirect Testimony’ in Claude Lanzmann’s Outtakes Prof. Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK Researching Historical Fiction using Digital Storytelling Prof. Rosemary Horowitz, Appalachian State University, USA 14:20– 15:40 Children’s Testimonies Chair: Dr. Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Akko Testimonies of Jewish child Forced Labourers. Methodological Challenges, Limitations and Boundaries Prof. Johannes-Dieter Steinert,University of Wolverhampton, UK "We were Five Children Without Parents" The Testimony of Ilse Kahane Frieda Wollheim, Engele Billauer, Elizabeth Steinlauf and Traude Saul Prof. Benjamin Lapp, Montclair State University, USA Remembering and Re-remembering the Family: Interviews with Child Survivors of the Holocaust Dr. Sharon Kangisser, Yad Vashem, Israel 15:40 – 15:50 Break 15:50 – 17:30 Memory Wars Chair: Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Appalachian State University, USA Accessing Changing, Protected and Silenced Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile and Mexico Dr. Yael Siman, Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico History of the Holocaust as a Political Tool – Contemporary Disputes Surrounding its History in Poland and the Role of the Survivor’s Testimonies to Preserve the Memory of the Holocaust Dr.Agnieszka Zajączkowska-Drożd, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Jewish Escape Routes from the Occupied Poland in 1943. Polish and Jewish testimonies Ms.Dagmara Swa tek-Niewi ska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland 19:30 Evening program at Western Galilee College Formal Reception for participants and guests