MARGATE — The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University will present “From Darkness to Light,” a weekly lecture series starting Oct. 15 at the Marjorie and Lewis Katz Jewish Community Center.
The lectures will be held on five consecutive Wednesdays and begin at noon.
Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez, director of the Holocaust Resource Center, will kick off the series with “Introduction to the Holocaust and Holocaust Education in New Jersey.”
On Oct. 22, Stockton history professor Michael Hayse will present “Beware the Beginnings: The Role of Antisemitism in the Nazi Rise to Power.”
Dienke Hondius, assistant professor of contemporary history at Vrije Universiteit University in Amsterdam and an adviser and staff member at the Anne Frank House, will be the featured speaker Oct. 29. Her lecture is titled “Hiding Places in Europe: The Role of Rescue and Bystanders during the Holocaust.”
Stockton University has returned ownership of the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage to Woodbine Museum LLC after it was decided that it did not align with the school’s future priorities.
Christopher Probst, who consults with Holocaust museums on exhibit content and was a visiting scholar at the New York University Center for the Study of Antisemitism, will speak Nov. 5 on “Confessing Church’s view of Jews and Judaism, their resistance to the Nazis’ Final Solution, and the relationship between German Protestant clergy and Jews in the early postwar era.”
The series will conclude Nov. 12 as Doug Cervi, former director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and an adjunct professor at Stockton, will speak on “After 1945: The Impact of the Holocaust.”
Registration is $45 for all five lectures. Participants will receive a copy of “The World Must Know” by Michael Berenbaum, a commendation letter from the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and a certificate of completion from the Holocaust Resource Center. A light lunch will be served each week.
The Katz JCC is located at 501 N. Jerome Ave. in Margate. For more information, call the Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699.
Contact Dan Grote:
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