Summer Symposium on Remembering the Holocaust held July 11-17 at Appalachian

Posted June 30, 2015 at 4:02 p.m.

BOONE—The 14th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on Remembering the Holocaust will be held July 11-17 at Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union. The event is named for the symposiums benefactors, the late Doris and Martin Rosen.

Key speakers include representatives from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Holocaust survivors.

A viewing of a film, “Raise the Roof,” opens the symposium Saturday, July 11, beginning at 7 p.m. in I.G. Greer Auditorium. Admission is free and the public is invited.

The free symposium provides public and private school teachers, university faculty, students and community members information and insights about the victims, perpetrators and consequences of the Nazi Holocaust.

Teachers can receive continuing education units for attending the lectures, workshops, discussions, films and demonstrations.

Speakers scheduled to participate are:

Dr. Michael Berenbaum, founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, author, film consultant and professor of religion at the University of Judaism
Dr. Ann Millin, historian for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Zev Harel, Holocaust survivor
Dr. John Cox, associate professor at UNC Charlotte whose research focuses on the Holocaust, modern genocide and resistance
Dr. Gabriel Finder, the Ida and Nathan Kolodiz director of Jewish studies at the University of Virginia
Kathy Kacer, author of children’s books about real people living through the Holocaust
Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, director of the Holocaust Teachers’ Institute at the University of Miami
Suzanne Lasky Gerard, screenwriter and producer
Lynda Moss, former teacher for the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Lee Holder, chair of the social studies department at North Lenoir High School
Dr. Simon P. Sibelman, former director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and Leon Levine Distinguished Professor
Dr. Rennie Brantz, professor of history at Appalachian
Dr. Rosemary Horowitz, professor of English at Appalachian

The symposium is sponsored by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the Community Advisory Board and Friends of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences and University Bookstore, the Boone Jewish Community/Temple of the High Country, Havurah of the High Country, the Margolis Family, the Ruth and Stan Etkin Symposium Scholars’ Fund, the Leon Levine Foundation and the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust.

For a schedule of events, visit http://holocaust.appstate.edu/symposium/schedule. To register for continuing education units (CEUs), visit http://holocaust.appstate.edu/events/summer-symposium/symposium-form.

About Appalachian State University

As a premier public institution, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives. App State is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System, with a national reputation for innovative teaching and opening access to a high-quality, cost-effective education. The university enrolls more than 21,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and 80 graduate majors at its Boone and Hickory campuses and through App State Online. Learn more at https://www.appstate.edu.