Jerusalem Working Group
for Recognition of Major Jewish Rescuers during the Shoah
POB 23718 Jerusalem 91236
[email protected]
Fifteenth International Conference in Jerusalem, Israel
RESCUE AND RESCUERS: DIFFERENT FORMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Wednesday, December 27
Belgium House (Beit Belgia), Hebrew University - Givat Ram
Campus
Jerusalem, Israel
Contacts:
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Belgium House
011-972 2 5660192
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY in New York
(718) 368 – 5417 Fax - (718) 368 –
4654
[email protected]
www.kbcc.cuny.edu/KCC_Holocaust_center
Jerusalem Working Group
(054) 726-7681 and
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/jerusalem_working_group
PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM - Registration and Coffee
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Morning Session
Chair: Professor Bernard Klein, Kingsborough Community
College, CUNY
OPENING REMARKS
- Larry Pfeffer, JJerusalem Working Group
TWO IMPORTANT RESCUERS SPEAK:
(Recorded video)
STATEMENT
- Ms. Louise von DDardel, Raoul Wallenberg’s niece (Sent
by mail)
COURAGE TO CARE, RESCUERS AND
EDUCATIONAL DILEMMAS
Professor Nitza Druyan, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY
[email protected]
PRESENTING THE JEWS WHO
RESCUED JEWS COMMITTEE
Chaim Roet, Chairman -
Association of Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust
[email protected]
Also
Chana Arnon - Association of Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust
[email protected]
RESISTANCE AND RESCUE BY JEWISH YOUTH IN BUDAPEST
David Gur, Society for the Research of the History of Zionist youth movement in
Hungary
Accompanied by his wife, Naomi, rescued by Raoul Wallenberg at the Danube's shore
[email protected]
RESCUE ACTIONS BY WILFRED ISRAEL
Elissa Dvir, Director of Wilfred Israel Museum of
Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
[email protected]
RESCUE ACTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH FROM GERMANY,
AUSTRIA AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Esther Golan, International lecturer and author
Yad Vashem School of Holocaust Studies
[email protected]
ANNE FRANK: A PARADIGM OF DUTCH RESCUE, A
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
[email protected]
DIPLOMAT RESCUERS: RAOUL WALLENBERG, SOUSA MENDES
Dr. Yoav Tenenbaum, International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
(Could not arrive due to unforeseen circumstances)
[email protected]
WALLENBERG’S FATE
Abigail Tenembaum, International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
(Could not arrive due to unforeseen circumstances)
[email protected]
* * *
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Afternoon Session
Chair: Nitza Druyan, Long Island Center for Jewish Studies
BLOCKING THE RESCUE: WHO AND WHY REVISITED
Professor Gilbert Kahn, Kean University, NJ
[email protected]
GERMAN RESCUERS IN BERLIN
Professor Robert John Auman, Center for Rationality
Hebrew University, Nobel Prize winner in Economics 2005
PROFILE OF THREE JEWISH RESCUERS
Dr. David Kranzler, Historian, writer, lecturer (Recorded video)
[email protected]
RAOUL WALLENBERG IN 1944/1945 AND TODAY:
HISTORY AND CURRENT IMPLICATIONS
Eli Yosef, Activist on behalf of Raoul Wallenberg
[email protected]
Easier to reach via mobile phone (054) 4402-308
RESCUE IN THE CAMPS BY JOSEPH AND RIVKA BAU
Hadassah and Clila Bau (daughters)
[email protected]
MAJOR JEWISH RESCUERS DURING THE HOLOCAUST AND
AIMS OF THE JERUSALEM WORKING GROUP
Larry Pfeffer, Jerusalem Working Group
[email protected]
RESCUE IN AUSCHWITZ
Dr. Rose Bilbool, Sister of Dr. Gisella Pearl who saved about 1,000 women in
Auschwitz
UNSUNG HEROES AND HEROINES: YOUTH ALIYAH AND THE
RESCUE OF JEWISH CHILDREN FROM EUROPE DURING THE HOLOCAUST
Dr. Sara Kadosh, JDC Archives, Jerusalem
[email protected]
* * *
5:30 PM - Evening Session
Chair: Professor Gilbert Kahn, Kean University, NJ
MUSIC - SONGS ABOUT RESCUERS
Written and performed by David Ben Reuven (Herman)
[email protected]
KASZTNER: HERO OR VILLAIN
Dr. Bernard Klein, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
[email protected]
(Scheduled to talk, was ill)
Professor Ehud Duchovni, Weitzmann Institute
[email protected]
RESCUE ISSUES TODAY
William Mehlman, AFSI and Jerusalem Working Group
[email protected]
DISCUSSION
Click on hyperlinks above for text of talks and
to contact speakers.
Photos of some participants and the event
To be posted after the event
Art Exhibit at the Conference
Click on either picture to see larger image
and explanation
The Jerusalem Working Group White Paper
provides additional historic background
Paintings created for International Rescuer Day 2006
Hanalisa Omer
Rechov HaNerd 32a, Jerusalem 96626
Tel: (02) 643-2120 and (052) 305-6505
[email protected]
hanalisa.cjb.net
Two paintings about Raoul Wallenberg by Yehuda
Vardi
www.yvardi.com
Contact: Susie Vardi
Calligraphic art by Elyakim Bruck
(052) 256-8985 in Israel
Dec 31, 2006
