Resilience, Resistance, and Defiance during the Holocaust
Group portrait of Soviet partisans who are members of the third unit of the Shish partisan detachment in the Molotov brigade, operating in the Leninsky district in the Pinsk region. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Zoom Link
Questions: 609-652-4699
1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH) for NJ Educators
The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center Presents “Resilience, Resistance, and Defiance during the Holocaust,” a virtual presentation via Zoom by Dr. Michael Berenbaum
This free and open to the public Zoom presentation with a question and answer session will focus on aspects of the Holocaust often not discussed and studied: reslience, resistance and defiance. Dr. Berenbaum will share information about the partisans who hid in the forests and resisted the forces who wanted to destroy them during WWII. The partisans saved many lives, both Jews and non-Jews.
About Dr. Michael Berenbaum:
Consultant for the film Four Winters, Stockton’s Ida E King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies - 1990-2000, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at American Jewish University, and internationally renowned scholar of the Holocaust.
