Program

Sunday, April 3rd

Stewart Center, Room 214, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Conference Opening Session

12:30 PM	Registration
1:00 PM	Welcome: Conference Chair Susan Prohofsky Mayors' Proclamation: Mayor of West Lafayette, John Dennis and Mayor of Lafayette, Tony Roswarski Color Guard "I Had a Dream": by Yitzhak Katzenelaon read by Sonia Barash, Sons of Abraham synagogue Candle Lighting: accompanied by "Ani Ma'amim – The Anthem of the Victims," Candle of Remembrance: Holocaust Survivors Candle of Hope: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Memorial Prayer: Rabbi Audrey Pollack, Temple Israel
1:40 PM	Opening Remarks and Tribute to Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, Mayor Sonya Margerum
2:00 PM	The Fifth Annual Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecture Prof. Steven Jacobs: Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies University of Alabama "Genocides Are Not All 'Accidents' in History": Introduced by Sarah Powley, Head of the English Department, McCutcheon High School, Lafayette
3:00 PM	Prof. Randall Bytwerk Communication Arts and Sciences (department co-chair), Calvin College "The Propaganda of the Holocaust" Introduced by Prof. Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Jewish Studies and History, Purdue University
4:00 PM	"Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto with 'The Pianist': Concert Commemorating the Holocaust Remembrance Day Through the Musical Legacy of Wladyslaw Szpilman" From Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University— Prof. Edward Auer, piano Prof. Halina Goldberg, narrator Introduced by Gregory Kostraba, Program Director, WBAA Fowler Hall, Stewart Center Commemorative Concert
6:00 PM	Kosher dairy dinner: RSVP required: sue@glhrc.org by Wednesday, March 30 Pay by check to GLHRC at door or mail check to GLHRC, PO Box 3763, W, Lafayette 47996 $20, adults; $3 students. Purdue Memorial Union, Anniversary Drawing Room
7:30 PM	Liberators and Survivors Survivors Robert Melson and Anatole Kurdsjuk Liberator LeRoy Carson Moderated by Arne Kvaalen, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University Krannert Auditorium, Purdue University

Monday, April 4

9:00 AM	University Religious Leaders Breakfast and Conversation with Prof. Steven Jacobs, Prof. Randall Bytwerk and Anatole Kurdsjuk Moderated by Joseph Haberer, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University Hillel Foundation, 912 State Street, West Lafayette
7:30 PM	"Comparing Nazi Propaganda Methods to Today's Media Coverage of Islamophobia": Session Chair: Robin Clair, Prof. Communications, Purdue Prof. Randall Bytwerk, Communication Arts and Sciences, Calvin College Prof. Erik C. Nisbet, Communication, Ohio State University Krannert Auditorium, Purdue University

Tuesday, April 5

Photo Exhibit opening: "Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman"

2:00 PM	Tour of Photo Exhibit West Lafayette Public Library, 208 West Columbia Street, West Lafayette
4:00 PM - 8:00pm	"Teaching 'Defiance'": Workshop for Middle School Educators. Engage students in critical thinking about history, leadership, ethics, and Jewish values. Bruce R. Bramlett, The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation RSVP to spowley@tsc.k12.in.us by Saturday, April 2; Subway dinner provided; no fee.
7:00 PM	Showing of "A Film Unfinished" 2010 88 min. Portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the Nazis' cinematic manipulation in characterizing the Jewish people. Hillel Foundation, 208 West State Street, West Lafayette

Wednesday, April 6

12:30 PM	"Demonization of the Jew in German Popular Plays of the Late Middle Ages." Fritz Cohen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue Univ. Beering Hall, Room 1222, Purdue University
6:00 PM	Showing of A Film Unfinished," 2010. 88 min. Portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the Nazis' cinematic manipulation in characterizing the Jewish people. West Lafayette Public Library, 208 West Columbia Street, West Lafayette

Thursday, April 7

7:00 PM

"Fear of the 'Other' in Tippecanoe County" Panel Discussion with:
Dewayne A. Moffitt – Executive Director, Hanna Community Center Ashley Smith, President, Pride Lafayette Ivan Hernandez, Director of Admissions, Ivy Tech Community College Lisa Hanasono – Graduate Student, Communications, Purdue University Moderated by
Krannert Auditorium, Purdue University

Saturday, April 9

5:00 PM

Showing of "Defiance," 2008. 135 min.
An account of the Bielski partisans, a Jewish armed resistance group led by four Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Poland (now Belarus) during the Second World War. Holocaust survivor Meyer Bronicki from Indianapolis speaks after the film about his experiences in the Bielski brigade.
West Lafayette Public Library, 208 West Columbia Street, West Lafayette

Wednesday, April 13