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LECTURE & ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
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| Leading Holocaust historian Debórah Dwork (Clark University) and Cathy A. Frierson (University of New Hampshire) presented their research on the devastating impact of the Holocaust and Soviet Terror on children. A discussion followed, moderated by Jonathan Brent (YIVO Executive Director). Included in the evening was a short, riveting film on child survival produced by Centropa and introduced by Centropa's director, Edward Serotta (www.centropa.org).
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| Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Prof. Dwork’s books include Children With A Star, Auschwitz (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), Holocaust: A History (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), Terezin Album of Mariánka Zadikow, Flight from the Reich: Jewish Refugees, 1933-1946 (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), and most recently, A Boy in Terezín: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner. She has been, inter alia, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. A member of the U.S. delegation to the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, Dwork serves on many advisory boards and works with non-profit organizations and foundations concerned with Holocaust education.
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Cathy A. Frierson has held the Class of 1941 and Arthur K. Whitcomb Research Professorships at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author or editor of a number of books about Russia, including Peasant Icons: Representations of Rural People in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia, All Russian is Buring! A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia, and Children of the Gulag, co-authored with Semyon S. Vilensky.
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