Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education
“Sephardic Jewish Voices and Experiences in the Holocaust”
Schedule
Free and Open to the Public - Registration Required
All Times Posted are Pacific Standard (PST)
7:00 p.m. – Opening Keynote Address: “From the Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust”, AUC Regency Room
Professor Devin Naar, Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington-Seattle and Sephardic Studies Program Chair
Convener: Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History, PLU
8:15 p.m. – AUC Gray Area
Please join us for a dessert reception following the keynote.
9:30 a.m. – AUC Gray Area
Registration & Coffee
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. – ``Learning about Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust,`` AUC Regency Room
Lauren Granite, US Education Director, Centropa, “PreWar Sephardic Jewry”
Lori Gerson, Yad Vashem, “Tunisia’s Jewish Boxer: Teaching the Holocaust Through the Human Story”
Convener: Bruce Kadden, PLU
11:30 - 12:00 p.m. – Performance by Kesselgarden of Ladino music, AUC Regency Room
Kesslegarden performers: Carl Shutoff and Laurie Andres
Convener: Carl Shutoff
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. – Lunch, AUC Chris Knutzen
Lemkin 1st Place Essay Contest Winner: Anna Marko
Mayer Summer Research Fellows:
Austyn Blair, “The Bosnian Genocide (1992-Present Day): How the Use of Rape as a Weapon of War Has Led to the Ongoing Genocide Against Bosniaks”
Eden Standley, “Nazi Influence on Contemporary Understandings of Autism”
Convener: Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History, PLU
1:30 - 1:45 p.m. – Break
1:45 - 3:30 p.m. – ``Stories of Survival,`` AUC Regency Room
Deno Seder, Writer and Media Producer, “Miracle at Zakynthos” Zoom presentation
Cynthia Flash Hemphill, Seattle-area journalist and publicist, “The Sephardic Anne Frank: How a 9-year old Girl from Rhodes Saved her Family from the Holocaust”
Convener: Heather Mathews, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Media, and Design Arts
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. – Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. – ``Exploring the experiences of Ladino speakers,`` AUC Regency Room
Canan Bolel, Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures, Literature, and Languages of the Eastern Mediterranean, University of Washington-Seattle, “Voicing Ladino, Translating into Ladino: The Sephardic Holocaust on Paper”
Michael Frank, Award-winning author, ““Co-witnessing: Six years and a Hundred-plus Saturdays with Stella Levi and the Juderia of Rhodes—and beyond”
Convener: Bridget Yaden, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs; Professor, Hispanic and Latino Studies, PLU
5:15 - 7:00 p.m. – Dinner Break
7:00 p.m. – Lemkin Lecture Keynote Address: “The Destruction of a Small Sephardi Community in Northern Greece: Demotica in 1943”, AUC Regency Room
Professor Aron Rodrigue, Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History, Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program, John Henry Samter Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University
Conveners: Ms. Nancy Powell and Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at University of North Carolina
8:15 p.m. – AUC Gray Area
Please join us for a dessert reception following the keynote.
8:30 a.m. – AUC Gray Area
Registration & Coffee
9:15 - 10:25 a.m. – “Sephardic Jews: Turkey and Argentina,`` AUC Regency Room
Professor Adriana M. Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, “‘En Memoria de Nuestros Hermanos.’: Argentine Sephardim and the Holocaust.”
Joana Bürger, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington-Seattle, “Sephardic, Turkish, German, Stateless: A Mixed Family’s Story of Surviving Nazi Germany”
Convener: Giovanna Urdangarain, Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, PLU
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. – Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. – “Survivors’ Voices,” AUC Regency Room
Andreas Algava, Survivor, “600 Days in Hiding” Zoom presentation
Jack Schaloum and Steve Altchech, “A Conversation between Two Sons of Holocaust Survivors”
Convener: Lexi Jason, Education Program Manager, Holocaust Center for Humanity, Seattle
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. – Lunch, AUC Chris Knutzen
Celebration of Teaching Holocaust and Genocide Studies at PLU: 50th Anniversary
Featuring remarks from Professor Christopher Browning, Robert Ericksen, Natalie Mayer and Joe Mayer
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. – AUC Regency Room - Celebration Continues: PLU Alumni Return to Speak
Professor Laura Brade ’08, “Czechoslovak Humanitarians under Nazi Occupation, 1938-1939”
Professor Molly Loberg ’98, California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo, “Antisemitism in the Streets of Interwar Berlin”