By Max Dickstein

The Wagner College Holocaust Center is approaching its 10th anniversary with a packed slate of events for the community. Led by founding director Lori Weintrob since June 2014, the center empowers future generations in empathy, courage, and ethical decision-making in order to combat antisemitism, racism and all forms of prejudice.

Art Produced by Women Prisoners in Auschwitz
October 16, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
Remote via Zoom.
Bozena Karwowska, professor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies and chair of Modern European Studies, the University of British Columbia will discuss the official and “forbidden” art created in Auschwitz with a special focus on women as both artists and subjects, their roles, and how these are relayed through their painted, drawn and written testimonies.

Rescue in Rwanda
October 17, 2023, 1 p.m.
Manzulli Boardroom, Foundation
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology
Hybrid via Zoom.
Jennie E. Burnett, director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University presents in person research from her new book, “To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide” (Cornell University Press, 2023). Joining Burnett is Providence Umugwaneza, survivor of the genocide against the Tuts and author of a 2022 memoir, “Next Couple Hours.”

Art, Exhibition And Erasure In Nazi Vienna
November 1, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
Kingsborough Community College Holocaust Center
Zoom register online.
Laura Morowitz, professor of Art History at Wagner College discusses her newly published book, Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna (Routledge 2023). Her book examines three exhibitions of contemporary art held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus during National Socialist rule.

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