"The Dream of My Life was Realized"; Mordecai Anielewicz in History and Memory: Between Command and Leadership Featuring Dr. Havi Dreyfuss
"The Dream of My Life was Realized"; Mordecai Anielewicz in History and Memory: Between Command and Leadership Featuring Dr. Havi Dreyfuss
Co-Sponsored with The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
Mordecai Anielewicz, the commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is one of the most renowned Jewish heroes of the Holocaust. Yet based on numerous war-time accounts as well as later testimonies, there are some questions regarding when and why he was appointed commander of the ZOB (the Jewish Fighting Organization) that may shed light on hitherto unknown aspects of the Uprising, as well as its commemoration in Israel and throughout the world.
Dr. Havi Dreifuss is an associate professor at the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and heads the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Currently she is a fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, working on “Religious Life during the Holocaust: The Beginning of the End.”
Lunch will be provided (RSVP by 3pm, March 3rd)
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