Presentation: Anna Pizzuti, curator of the database and historical portal on foreign Jews in Italy during World War II, presents her work. Film screening: E42 by Cynthia Madansky, produced during her fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. The film is centered on the story of Katja Tenenbaum, who was born in a town South of Rome where her parents were…
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Speakers: Monica Dugot Senior Vice President/International Director of Restitution, Christie’s; formerly Deputy Director, Holocaust Claims Processing Office, NY State Banking Department Jasmin Hartmann Department for Provenance Research, City of Düsseldorf “Non signalés par les Anglais.” Provenance research on French drawings acquired in France in 1944 Ilaria Pavan Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Italian Academy Fellow 2017 Jewish persecution and looted…
This event is part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click here for the complete program. Click here for information about the morning session open only to students and faculty. The program will explore a specific aspect of European efforts to foster the shaping of a shared historical landscape: museums of memory and history. Speakers will take into consideration various museums, analyzing…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Leo Baeck Institute present a lecture by Lilly Maier on “The History of the Kindertransport and Its Long-Term Effects.” The Kindertransport (“children’s transports”) is a remarkable story to arise out of the horrors of the Holocaust. Over 10,000 mostly Jewish children could be rescued, because their parents were willing to separate from them. From Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and…