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10:00–10:15 a.m. Introduction Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) 10:15 a.m.–Noon Session I: World War II and The Final Solution Chair—Robert M. Ehrenreich, Director, University Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Volhynian Jews under Polish Rule and Triple Occupation, 1939–1944—Timothy Snyder, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Regional Features of the Holocaust in Ukraine: A Case Study of the Generalbezirk Zhytomyr, 1941–44—Wendy Lower, Director,Visiting Scholars Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM On the Front Lines: Soviet Jewish Photojournalists Confront World War II and the Holocaust—David Shneer, Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of History, University of Denver, Colorado, and 2004 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Noon–1 p.m. Lunch Break 1 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Session II: Ghettos Chair—Geoffrey Megargee, Research Scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Ghettos in the Occupied Soviet Union: The Nazi "System" and the Jewish Perspective as Recorded in the Yizkor Bikher—Martin Dean, Research Scholar, and Andrew Koss, Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Ghettos in Gomel Oblast, Belorussia: Commonalities and Unique Features—Leonid Smilovitsky, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of the Humanities,Tel Aviv University, Israel Jews and Belorussians against the German Occupation:The Minsk Ghetto Underground, 1943—Barbara Epstein, Professor of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz 2:45–3 p.m. Break 1 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Session III: The Fate of Jewish and Gentile Soviet Soldiers Chair—Vadim Altskan, Program Coordinator, International Archival Program, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Memory Confronts “History”: Oral Histories of Soviet Jewish War Veterans—Zvi Y. Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R.Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor The Fate of Soviet POWs—Reinhard Otto, Director of the Memorial at Former Soviet Prisoner-of-War Camp 326 (Dokumentationsstätte Stalag 326), Senne, Germany The Soviet Union Postwar: The Impact of the Holocaust and the Fate of Survivors—Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 4:45 p.m. Concluding Remarks Robert E.Weinberg, Professor of History, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania This symposium is made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. |
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