MARGATE - The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University will present “From Darkness to Light,” a weekly lecture series at the Marjorie and Lewis Katz Jewish Community Center, 501 N. Jerome Ave., starting on Oct. 15.
Resource Center Director Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez kicks off the series with “Introduction to the Holocaust and Holocaust Education in New Jersey.” The lectures will be held on five consecutive Wednesdays and begin at noon.
On Oct. 22, Stockton History Professor Michael Hayse will present “Beware the Beginnings: The Role of Antisemitism in the Nazi Rise to Power.” Hayse holds the Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton and is one of the project leaders of the Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey project.
Dienke Hondius, assistant professor of Contemporary History at VU University in Amsterdam and an advisor and staff member at the Anne Frank House, is the featured speaker on Oct. 29. She has conducted extensive research on contemporary antisemitism, Holocaust studies and racism in the Netherlands. Her lecture is titled “Hiding Places in Europe: The Role of Rescue and Bystanders during the Holocaust.”
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 on 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 on Nov. 12 as Doug Cervi, the 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.”
Each lecture will last an hour. 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.
For more information, contact Stockton’s Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699.
