Past Events: Summer 2006

Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium
"Remembering the Holocaust" June 19-June 23

Speakers:

Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
http://www.holocaust-trc.org

Michael Berenbaum
http://www.berenbaumgroup.com

Dr. Stephen Feinstein
http://www.chgs.umn.edu

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Teaching the Holocaust

Educators, please take note of this wonderful opportunity!

Yad Vashem is sponsoring a teaching conference in Israel this summer. Our office is currently examining group fares for this event which follows our Summer Symposium. The dates of our symposium are June 19-June 23, 2006.

The Yad Vashem conference dates are June 26-June 29, 2006.

For more information about the conference and to register:

http://www.teachingholocaust.com

For information about Yad Vashem visit:

http://www.yadvashem.org

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Appalachian Summer Festival

July 1-29, 2006

An Appalachian Summer Festival, presented annually by Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, is emerging as one of the nation's most innovative and highly regarded regional, multidisciplinary arts festivals.

Now entering it's twenty-second season, the festival is committed to showcasing American talent, commissioning new works, and building new audiences for the fine arts. Offering world-class entertainment in a picturesque mountain setting, An Appalachian Summer Festival presents art at a higher altitude! For more information, visit our website at: http://www.appsummer.org/.

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Lees-McRae College Programs on Christianity and the Holocaust July 26-27, 2006

Wednesday, July 26, 7 p.m., Evans Auditorium, Cannon Student Center: "The Bonhoeffer Phenomenon: Portraits of a Protestant Saint" Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pacifist theologian, who attempted to assassinate Hitler, was imprisoned and executed.

Thursday, July 27, 7 p.m., Evans Auditorium, Cannon Student Center: "Jewish-Christian Relations in the Twenty-First Century"

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Kristallnacht - Night of the Crystal Death

July 7 - September 30, 2006

Mezzanine Gallery, Turchin Center

Kristallnacht - Night of the Crystal Death is a portfolio of ten works that confront the horror of a nationwide pogrom against German Jews that took place on the night of November 9, 1938.

For more information visit: Kristallnacht - Night of the Crystal Death

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