Invited Symposium Presenters
Dr. Joan Benbasat - Former Instructor, Florida Atlantic
We Wish to Extend Special Thanks to the
Following for Their Generous Support
Dr. Michael Berenbaum - Director of the Sigi Ziering
Martin and Doris Rosen Endowment
The Conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Germany
University and interviewer for the Shoah Foundation, Los
Angeles, CA
Institute and Professor of Jewish Studies, American
Jewish University
Dr. Rennie Brantz - Professor Emeritus of German
History at ASU
Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz - Auschwitz Survivor
and Professor Emerita of Holocaust literature at
UNC Charlotte
Dr. John Cox - Director of the Center for Holocaust,
Genocide & Human Rights Studies at UNC Charlotte
Lee Holder - Head of the Social Studies Department
at North Lenoir High School and Member of the North
Carolina Council on the Holocaust
We Also Wish To Thank
The Community Advisory Board and Friends of the
Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, Appalachian State
University
Appalachian State University Bookstore
Boone Jewish Community/Temple of the High Country
Havurah of the High Country
The Margolis Family
Ruth and Stan Etkin Symposium Scholars’ Fund
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Program, ASU
AJS Distinguished Lectureship Program at the
Association for Jewish Studies
“Women and Gender
in the
Holocaust”
15th Annual
Martin & Doris
ROSEN
SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
23 July, 2016 - 28 July, 2016
Dr. Rosemary Horowitz - Professor of English
at ASU
Kathy Kacer - Toronto-based author of Holocaust
literature; Recipient of the Silver Birch, Red Maple,
Hackmatack, and Jewish Book awards
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan - Leon Levine
Distunguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic,
Holocaust, and Peace Studies at ASU
Dr. Ann Millin - Historian for the leadership
development programs, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Washington, DC
Dr. Lynda Moss - High School Social Studies Teacher
Contact Information
Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
ASU Box 32146
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: (828) 262-2311
E-mail: holocaust@appstate.edu
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Director
For more information about events and
programs, visit our website:
www.holocaust.appstate.edu
at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, former
Director of Holocaust Education Workshops for the North
Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell - Chair of the Department
of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program,
American University
Dr. Simon P. Sibelman - Professor Emeritus of Judaic,
Holocaust, and Peace Studies, ASU; former Director of the
Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA
Dr. Racelle Weiman - Director of Global Education
and Professional Training for the Dialogue Institute,
Temple University
Appalachian State University is committed to providing equal opportunity
in education and employment to all applicants, students, and employees.
The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs
and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of
employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex,
gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran
status, or sexual orientation. The University actively promotes diversity
among students and employees.
“Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it
may be put can very easily be changed. Still, knowledge
is the best thing one can work for, Freya! Violence cannot
destroy it; man has no control over it; he may indeed seek
to control it by killing other men for what they know, but
their knowledge does not die with them; it will proceed
unchecked, until there are born others, who can profit by it.”
Phyllis Bottome, The Mortal Storm
“Women and Gender
in the
Holocaust”
Tentative Program
All sessions will be held in Plemmons Student Union in
Grandfather Ballroom unless otherwise noted.
2:00 – 4:00
5:30 – 6:45
7:00 – 8:45
A Summer Symposium for Educators,
Students, and Community Members
*Free and open to the public*
8:45 – 9:45
9:45 – 11:30
PURPOSE AND GOAL
To provide public and private school teachers, university
faculty, students, and community members information and
insights about the victims, perpetrators, and consequences of
the Nazi Holocaust. The Symposium provides approximately
forty hours of lectures, workshops, discussions, films, and
demonstrations. Teachers who complete all forty hours receive
four CEUs.
Applications for teacher scholarships
are available on our website.
A detailed Symposium agenda will be available
February 2016 on the Center’s website:
www.holocaust.appstate.edu
or may be obtained by calling
the Center’s office:
(828) 262-2311
2:00 – 3:45
7:00 – 9:00
8:30 – 9:00
9:00 – 10:30
Saturday, July 23
Teacher Registration
By Invitation Only: Welcome, Introductions
and Picnic
Introduction: Film and the Holocaust
Film Screening: Daring to Resist:
3 Women Face the Holocaust
Sunday, July 24
Breakfast at the Temple of the High Country
Women and Gender Relations in Jewish
History and Religious Traditions
[Dr. Simon P. Sibelman]
Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in European
History and Culture: Why the Jews? What
Difference Did Gender Make?
[Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan]
By Invitation Only: Symposium Banquet
Monday, July 25
Opening Session/Agenda Overview/
Questions [Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan,
Lee Holder]
The Rise of the Nazi Party
[Dr. Rennie Brantz]
10:45 – 12:30 The Concentration Camp System: The
Struggles of Male and Female Prisoners
[Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan]
2:15 – 4:00
In the Mind of the Male and Female
Perpetrator [Dr. Michael Berenbaum]
7:00 – 9:00
Keynote Address: How Much More Do We
Know About the Holocaust? What are We
Still Likely to Learn? [Dr. Michael Berenbaum]
8:30 – 8:45
9:00 – 10:45
Tuesday, July 26
Review/Reflections/Questions [Lee Holder]
Immigration and the American Response to
the Holocaust [Dr. Ann Millin]
11:00 – 12:45 “Indonesian Lullaby”: Muslim Holocaust
Rescue [Dr. Racelle Weiman]
2:15 – 4:00
Teacher Workshop I: Holocaust Pedagogies
[Lee Holder, Dr. Lynda Moss]
7:00 – 9:00
Keynote Address: Women in the Holocaust
[Dr. Pamela S. Nadell]
8:30 – 8:45
8:45 – 10:30
Wednesday, July 27
Review/Reflections/Questions [Lee Holder]
Teacher Workshop II: Using Survivor
Testimony and Interviews from the Shoah
Foundation in the Classroom
[Dr. Rosemary Horowitz, Dr. Joan Benbasat]
10:45 – 12:30 Women in Holocaust Literature
[Kathy Kacer]
2:15 – 4:00
Teacher Workshop III: Holocaust Literature
[Lee Holder, Dr. Rosemary Horowitz, Kathy
Kacer, Dr. Lynda Moss]
7:00 – 9:00
Keynote Address: The Voice and Struggles
of a Female Survivor [Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz]
8:30 – 8:45
8:45 – 10:30
Thursday, July 28
Review/Reflections/Questions [Lee Holder]
Did They Fight Back?: Women and Men in
the Jewish Resistance [Dr. John Cox]
10:45 – 12:30 Modern Genocide and Gendercide
[Dr. John Cox]
2:00 – 2:30
Continuing Your Holocaust Education
[Lee Holder]
2:30 – 3:00
Closure and Graduation