The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center

A Message About Gail Hirsch Rosenthal


Gail, who was the director of the Holocaust Resource Center since 1991, passed away on Oct. 13, 2023.

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The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University preserves and shares the history of the Holocaust and life stories of Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey.

 

 

We will be temporarily relocating to L-Wing and will be reopening full operations at our L-Wing location by September 5, 2024.
The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center is open Monday through Friday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Questions? Please contact us at 609-652-4699.


Featured Events

Questions/Registration: 609-652-4699 

 

Click on an event to see details on Location, Registration, and other additional info.

March
26
Anne Frank The Exhibition
Day Trip with the Marjorie & Lewis Katz JCC
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: 501 N Jerome Ave., Margate, NJ, 08402

Join the Katz JCC and Stockton University’s Holocaust Resource Center for an enriching day trip to the Center for Jewish History in New York City to explore Anne Frank The Exhibition. Anne Frank The Exhibition gives visitors of all ages the chance to learn about Anne Frank, not as a victim but through the multifaceted lens of her life—as a girl, a writer, and a symbol of resilience and strength. More than 100 original collection items from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, including several never-before-exhibited artifacts, help to convey the context that shaped Anne’s life, death and posthumous fame

Tickets include transportation to and from New York City and entrance to the Center for Jewish History Exhibit.
Bus departs the Katz JCC at 8:00 am and returns at approximately 7:00 pm.

$125 JCC Members | $140 Guest

Visit jccatlantic.org to register or learn more.

March
20
Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
Annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Program
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 6 p.m.
Location: L-112 | Stockton University Galloway | 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205
Please join us for our annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day program with Dr. Elyse Semerdjian. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. These tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones.

EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED

609-652-4699 or HRC@stockton.edu

For NJ Educators: 2.0 PDH (Professional Development Hours)

March
19
Dr. Samuel Kassow Warsaw Testament
Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic & Cape May County Speaker Series
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: L-112 | Stockton University Galloway | 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205

Please join us for a book lecuture and discussion with Dr. Samuel Kassow on his new book Warsaw Testament which paints a vivid portrait of the city's prewar Yiddish literary and artistic community and of its destruction at the hands of the Nazis.

EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED
A limited number of books will be available for purchase after the event.

Please RSVP online at www.bjeatlantic.org
You may also register by emailing BJEjosh@aol.com or by calling 609-822-4404 x124

 

March
12
R. Derek Black | The Klansman's Son
Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic & Cape May County Speaker Series
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Beth Israel | 2501 Shore Road, Northfield, NJ

Please join us for a book lecture and discussion with R. Derek Black as they ralk about their new book The Klansman's Son: My Journey From White Nationalism to Antiracism. 

This event is free and open to the public.
A limited number of books will be available to purchase after the event.

Please RSVP online at www.bjeatlantic.org , by emailing BJEJosh@aol.com or by calling 609-822-4404 x124.

March
11
Love Stories as Resistance During the Holocaust
First Annual Gail Hirsch Rosenthal Memorial Program
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | 5 - 7 p.m.
Location: Stockton University Atlantic City Campus - John F. Scarpa Academic Center - Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room
From Yad Vashem to Stockton University, we welcome Sheryl Ochayon, scholar, renown author, and Echoes and Reflections Project Director at the International Institute for Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem. Sheryl will discuss how love was an act of resistance during the Shoah as well as how these stories can be used to teach the Holocaust. Join us for an evening of learning dedicated to the memory of Gail Hirsch Rosenthal, former director of the Stockton’s Holocaust Resource Center, and the importance of Holocaust education.

EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED

609-652-4699 or HRC@stockton.edu

Hors d'oeuvres will be served

For NJ Educators 2.0 PDH (Professional Development Hours)
March
5
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
New Jersey Premier Screening
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 6 p.m.
Location: L-112 | Stockton University Galloway | 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205

The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center would like to invite you to New Jersey’s premier screening of Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse. Legendary artist Art Spiegelman rocked the world when he transposed his parents into mice to tell their Holocaust survival story in his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, Maus. We encourage you to join as we watch this insightful documentary that chronicles Spiegelman’s irreverent life and work, including his extraordinary partnership with wife Françoise Mouly and his checkered evolution through the world of underground comics.

EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED

609-652-4699 or HRC@stockton.edu

For NJ Educators: 2.0 PDH (Professional Development Hours)

Feb
24
Holocaust Ashes on the Move
Incinerated Human Remains as Objects of Global Institutional Exchange
Monday, February 24, 2025 | 3:35 p.m.
Location: B-004 or via Zoom

Please join us for an in-person and digital lecture and discussion by Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University and Kyushu University in Japan.

From the 1950s, Polish state museums sent hundreds of urns containing ashes of Holocaust victims to mostly non-Jewish museums and organizations worldwide. This talk traces six of these urns that reached Japan, revealing the complex politics of transnational commemoration of World War II and the changing status and uses of the Holocaust’s dead in Japan, Poland, and beyond.

Join us in-person or online via Zoom


For more information or for the link to the Zoom discussion, please call the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699 or HRC@stockton.edu 

Feb
5
Victim Activists In Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances
Book discussion with Dr. Mathhew Hone and Dr. Yael Siman
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | 3:15 p.m.
Location: Main Camus B-004

Please join us for an in-person and digital lecture and discussion by Dr. Matthew Hone and Dr. Yael Siman on their recent book "Victim Activists In Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances" (Lexington Books, 2024).

Join us in-person or online via Zoom


For more information or for the link to the Zoom discussion, please call the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699 or HRC@stockton.edu 

Feb
4
Sweet Home Sweet: A Story of Survival, Memory, and Returns
Exhibit Opening
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 6 p.m.
Location: L-112 | Stockton University Galloway | 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205
Please join us for the opening of an exhibit based on the life story of Richard Ores. Ores, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Kraków, Poland, and was the only person in his immediate family to survive.

The event will feature a keynote from Dr. Adrian Chrobot, Political Counsellor in the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C.

EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED
609.652.4699 or HRC@stockton.edu
For NJ Educators: 2.0 PDH (professional development hours) 

Tours of the exhibit are also available upon request.
Jan
27
Faculty-Led Study Tour to the United Nations
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony in New York City
Monday, January 27, 2025 | 6:45 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Departs from Stockton University Galloway | 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205

Please join us for a faculty-led study tour to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony.

Cost for round trip chartered motor coach transport and tour:
Students (ages 18+): $15
Educators (grades k-12 & higher education): $30
Guests of Educators/Community Members: $60

Space is Limited. Your reservation is only confirmed once payment is received. Acceptable payments include cash, check or money order. 

For questions about reservations, please call the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699 or email Irvin.Moreno-Rodriguez@stockton.edu

4 Professional Development Hours (PDH) for New Jersey Educators


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The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center is a Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) Holocaust Center of Excellence. The JFR Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program was established to honor centers who have made an extraordinary commitment to teach the Holocaust in their communities. The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center faculty, staff, and supporters were honored to be chosen as a JFR Holocaust Center of Excellence.

 

For more information about the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, please visit: JFR.org