Ordinary Jews - Un-ordinary Resistance
An online event organized by Western Galilee College Holocaust Studies Program
Featuring:
Opening Remarks
Dr. Verena Buser (Western Galilee College)
Opening Lecture
Wolf Gruner (Founding Director, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, and Professor of History, University of Southern California)
"Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany"
Panel: Forms of Resistance
Dr. Tanja von Fransecky (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))
"Flight from Deportation Trains in Western Europe"
Jonathan Lanz (Indiana University Bloomington)
"Education as Resistance: The Case of Children in Auschwitz-Birkenau"
Moderator: Katarzyna Grzybowska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)