Author: lcohen

  • Image of a performance using Social Presencing Theater, town square, Izamal, Yucatan.
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    Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 1

    Friday, March 12, 2021 at 10:30am ESTClick here to register Social Presencing Theater (SPT) decolonizes learning by reclaiming the body as an equitable way of…

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  • Image of Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, New York City, 2018.
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    Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 2

    Saturday, April 24, 2021, 10:30am to 12:00pm EDTClick here to register Social Presencing Theater (SPT) decolonizes learning by reclaiming the body as an equitable way…

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  • Image of iron faces from the Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) by Menashe Kadishman at the Jewish Museum Berlin
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    Incarceration, Transformation & Liberation

    The 2021-22 colloquium explored the gradual and subtle processes of liberty and loss, the processes that constitute transformation from the state of incarceration to one…

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  • Image of barbed wire at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2019
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    Internment & Resistance

    The 2020-21 colloquium focused on global constructions of concentration camp systems and the challenges that they present while highlighting acts of resistance. Click here to…

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  • Image of Ellen Bottner, Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: Ellen Bottner

    Ellen Bottner, a Holocaust survivor, grew up in Germany under the Third Reich. She describes her experiences on the Kindertransport, life under refuge with a…

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  • Image of Rosette Teitel, Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: Rosette

    Rosette, a Holocaust survivor, was born in France, and hidden by Catholic farmers while her mother was a part of the French Underground. Unaware of…

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  • Image of Manford and Gerd Korman, Holocaust survivors
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    Testimony: Manfred & Gerd Korman

    Brothers Gerd and Manfred Korman, Holocaust survivors, describe their family’s deportation from Germany, their last-minute rescue on the Kindertransport, and the fate of their parents…

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  • Image of George Schiffman, Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: George Schiffman

    George Schiffman, a Holocaust survivor, was born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1926 to a family of bakers. The oldest of his siblings, George describes…

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  • Image of Felice Katz, second generation Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: Felice Katz

    Felice Katz, a 2nd generation Holocaust survivor, talks about her mother Ethel who was the sole survivor of her family of six. Born in Buczacz,…

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    Testimony: Judith Gross

    Judith (Judy) Gross was an infant when her family was protected in one of the safehouse apartments in Budapest, Hungary organized by Swedish diplomat, Raoul…

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  • Image of Kurt Goldschmidt, Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: Kurt Goldschmidt

    Kurt Goldschmidt, a Holocaust survivor from Hamburg, Germany, discusses his experiences in as a teenager who was half-Jewish during the war. His memories include interactions…

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  • Image of Renée Kahn Silver, Holocaust survivor
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    Testimony: Renée Kann Silver

    Renée Kann Silver, a Holocaust survivor who was born in the German state of Saarland in 1931, recalls her experiences living as a Jewish child…

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