The eleventh national conference of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies will focus on the 75th anniversary of the voyage of the St. Louis and its implications for our own era.
Sessions will include:
“Answering Revisionist Attacks on the St. Louis” (with historian Rafael Medoff) …
“Voices of the Survivors” (with St. Louis passengers Mrs. Ronnie Breslow & Mrs. Sonja Geismar, and longtime National Public Radio host Martin Goldsmith, author of a new book about the St. Louis) …
“The Relevance of the St. Louis in Today’s World” (with Rwanda survivor Jacqueline Murekatete; Armenian representative Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian, and Prof. Thane Rosenbaum).
Plus: a special screening of the short Disney film, “Voyage of the Doomed.”
It will be held on Sunday, June 1, 2014, from 1:00 to 5:30 pm, at the Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62 St., New York City (right behind Lincoln Center). Admission is free, and there is no need to register in advance; seating is first come, first served. The conference is cosponsored by the Combat Genocide Association. For more information, call the Wyman Institute at 202-434-8994 or write to: info@wymaninstitute.org
The conference chair is Andrew M. Kluger; emcee is Prof. Thane Rosenbaum.
— at Fordham Law School, 160 West 62nd Street, NY, NY.
Some Pictures Taken At The Conference:
