Left: Jewish children being deported from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center, September 1942. Jacob Igra/UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM #50365 Right: Portrait of Nechama Bawnik taken in the Lublin Ghetto, 1942. Nechama Bawnik Tec/UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM #43998

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Introduction Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) 10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Keynote Address Nechama Tec, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut-Stamford; Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council and its Academic Committee; and 1997 Senior Research Fellow, Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, USHMM 11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Emigration and “Mischlinge” Moderator: Severin Hochberg, Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Jewish Emigration and International Refugee Policy: The Situation of Children — Susanne Heim, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Berlin, and 2003 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Heroic Acts and Missed Opportunities: The Rescue of Youth Aliyah Groups from Europe During World War II — Sara Kadosh, Director,American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives, Jerusalem, and former Research Affiliate, International Institute for Holocaust Research,Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Plight of German Children from Jewish-Christian ‘Mixed Marriages:’ Often-Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust — Cynthia A. Crane, Assistant Professor of English, University of Cincinnati 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. Ghettoization, Hiding, and the Camp Experience Moderator: Ann Mann Millin, Assistant to the Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto — Barbara Engelking-Boni, Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw “Unbekannte Kinder:” The Unknown Children of Westerbork — Daphne L. Meijer, author and journalist, Amsterdam, and former Writer-in-Residence, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Transformation and Resistance: Schooling Efforts for Jewish Children and Youth in Hiding, in Ghettos, and in Camps — Lisa Anne Plante, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, California State University–San Marcos 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. The “Surviving Remnant” and Reconstruction Radu Ioanid at podium; from left to right, Menachem Rosensaft; Henryk Grynberg; Hagit Lavsky UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Moderator: Menachem Z. Rosensaft, Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Founding Chairman, International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors The Destruction and Rescue of Jewish Children in Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transnistria — Radu Ioanid, Director, International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Coming to Terms with Memory Through Fiction and Poetry — Henryk Grynberg, novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and essayist,Washington, D.C.; nominee, the Nike Literary Prize, and winner, the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Tadeus Borowski Prize, the Koscielski Foundation Prize, the Stanislaw Vincenz Prize, the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, and the Jan Karski–Pola Nirenska Prize The Role of Children in the Rehabilitation Process of Survivors: The Case of Bergen-Belsen — Hagit Lavsky, Professor at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair of Post-Holocaust Studies, and Director of the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem This symposium is made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.