February 6
Sparrow in Gun Barrel of Tank – Prokhorovka (Battle of Kursk) – Russia
Photograph by Adam Jones
Visiting scholar Dr. Eric C. Steinhart From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)
Lecture and discussion:
“Soviet Collaborators and the Holocaust in Ukraine”
March 22
Participated in teacher-training workshop organized by the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Memorial at the National University of Rwanda, Butare
March 29
Lecture by Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, Temple Beth-El, Charlotte
Dr. Browning is a History professor at UNC Chapel Hill, and is widely known for his book ‘Ordinary Men.’ Other major works by Browning include ‘The Path to Genocide’ and ‘The Origins of the Final Solution.’ Three of his books have won the National Jewish Book Award—Holocaust Category. Dr. Browning has been an expert witness at trials of accused Nazi criminals in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. His latest book, ‘Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp,’ is a study of factory slave laborers in Poland.
April 18
Participated in Courage and Compassion: A Panel Discussion with the Bielski Family, Levine Museum of the New South
In conjunction with the Courage and Compassion exhibit at Levine Museum of the New South, Assaela Weinstein, daughter of one of the Bielski brothers who established and led the partisan community in the forests of Belarus, along with other descendants of the Bielski family, take part in a panel discussion on the history of the Bielski partisans. Part of the “Violins of Hope” series of events.
July 2012
Participated in the 11th Annual Martin & Doris Rosen Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust: A Summer Symposium for Educators and the Community,” Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
