Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies

This Tuesday, April 14, Yom HaShoah, we will hold a public reading of the names of Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The reading will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the atrium of the Belk Library and Information Commons.

We are seeking volunteers to read names during the event. Those interested can sign up for fifteen‑minute slots (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19BEhSaDLCzJeebyjS-q-OYO2JfvDoUKa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110104816935355729428&rtpof=true&sd=true).

The program is free and open to the public, and seating will be available. For disability accommodations, visit odr.appstate.edu.

Questions may be directed to CJHPS Director Dr. Davis Hankins at [email protected].

🔗: https://cas.appstate.edu/news/center-judaic-holocaust-and-peace-studies-seeking-name-readers-yom-hashoah-event-april-14

Teacher registration is now open for the 24th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Symposium, taking place July 9–15 in Boone!

For more than two decades, the Rosen Symposium has brought educators from across North Carolina and the United States together to learn about the Holocaust and how to teach it effectively. Participants will learn from renowned scholars, pedagogy experts, and survivors through workshops, lectures, and discussions.

Educators receive classroom‑ready tools and resources and benefit from access to survivor testimony, year‑round expert guidance, and ongoing support from a network of scholars and educators. At the conclusion of the symposium, participants earn four continuing education credits (CEUs) and a certificate of completion.

Learn more and register: https://cjhps.appstate.edu/events/rosen-summer-symposium

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When 15 donors support CJHPS, Molle Grad will donate $2,500.

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We were honored to host writer Timothy Boyce yesterday for a presentation on “The Secret WWII Concentration Camp Diary of Odd Nansen.”

Missed the presentation? Watch it below!

“The Secret WWII Concentration Camp Diary of Odd Nansen” with Timothy Boyce Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (CJHPS) hosted writer Timothy Boyce for a public lecture titled “The Secret WW...

Join us for a free lecture by writer Timothy Boyce on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. EST in TCVA 1102 and via Zoom!

Hailed by The New Yorker as “among the most compelling documents to come out of the war,” From Day to Day is a World War II concentration camp diary — one of only a handful ever translated into English — secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian. This inspiring diary brilliantly illuminates Nansen’s daily struggle, not only to survive, but to preserve his sanity and maintain his humanity. After having been out of print for over 60 years, Boyce rescued the diary from oblivion after reading the memoir of another Holocaust survivor, whose life, as a 10-year-old boy, was saved by Nansen while both were prisoners in Sachsenhausen.

Through selected readings, Boyce will explain who Nansen was, why he was arrested, why he wrote the diary, how he preserved it, and why this diary is as important today as it was when first written.

For more information, visit the link in the comments. ⬇️

James Luke Barber ’18 is contributing to the preservation of Holocaust histories through his work with the Center.

Barber earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Appalachian State University and went on to write for several local newspapers. One of his earliest articles covered a lecture by historian Dr. Christopher Browning at a past Martin and Doris Rosen Symposium.

As a local journalist, Barber stayed in touch with the Center, reaching out following the passing of its co-founder, Dr. Rennie Brantz. That conversation led him to another story — an in‑depth profile of the Center’s other co-founder, Dr. Zohara Boyd, a child survivor of the Holocaust.

Barber filmed a powerful interview with Dr. Boyd to help preserve her testimony. Watch it below:

Child Survivor of the Holocaust, Dr. Zohara Boyd shares family history, establishing holocaust edu Dr. Zohara Boyd was born in Poland in 1942 during the height of the Holocaust when the “ghettos and gas ovens were at their busiest.” She grew up in post-Wor...

81 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops.

The Germans established the Auschwitz camp complex in the spring of 1940 in German-occupied Poland. In just over four years, about 1.1 million people were killed there—including about one million Jews.

Each year on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we remember the victims of the Holocaust and carry forward the messages of its survivors.

Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography

In the Spring, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, in collaboration with Appalachian State University Hillel, hosted an exhibit featuring four works by Druze-Israeli artist Bothaina Halabi.

Fifteen years ago, Halabi decided to dedicate her art to the commemoration of the Holocaust after reading Holocaust testimonies that affected her deeply. "Even though the Holocaust is not the story of the Druze people, it is the story of humanity, and people should learn from it the important lessons of peace and eradicating hate," she explained.

We're excited to offer the exhibit again next Monday, November 10! As we remember Kristallnacht, stop by Anne Belk Hall to view several of Halabi's works, as well as works from the "Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated" exhibition.

📸: Victoria Braynin

Join us for a free lecture by Dr. Yaakov Lipsker, Assistant Professor of Practice in Humanities and Jewish Studies at Davidson College!

Dr. Lipsker will present “Zionism & Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective” next Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m. in Turchin Center for the Visual Arts 1102 or online via Zoom.

In his lecture, Lipsker will discuss key junctures in the history of Zionism and opposition to it among both Jews and Palestinians.

For details, visit holocaust.appstate.edu/events/dr-yaakov-lipsker.