Annual Kristallnacht Lecture
Galloway, N.J. 鈥 The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at 番茄社区app will hold its Annual Kristallnacht Lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 at its Galloway campus.
Dienke Hondius, associate professor of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Dienke Hondius, an associate professor of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, will speak in a program titled 鈥淜ristallnacht: History and Relevance for Today鈥 in lecture hall L-112.
Hondius is also a staff member for international educational projects at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Among her publications are 鈥淩eturn: Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Antisemitism.鈥 Her research projects, teaching and publications are about modern European history, the history and memory of World War II and the Holocaust, the history and memory of slavery and about oral history.
She has spent the last several weeks at Stockton talking to Holocaust and Genocide Studies classes and at area high schools as part of Stockton鈥檚 dual credit enrollment program.
Kristallnacht, also known as the November Pogrom, was an organized two days of violence and destruction targeting Jews in Germany and previously annexed Austria on Nov. 9-10, 1938. During this pogrom, 1,408 synagogues and places of worship were destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested. The government, instead of protecting the Jews, encouraged citizens to commit this violence and vandalism.
Kristallnacht sent shockwaves through Germany, Austria and elsewhere. Many Jewish families, including the Frank family who fled to Amsterdam, had already begun their desperate search for safety.
This essential program will analyze the critical early warning signs of rising Nazism and fascism across Europe and new research about the Frank family and their helpers in Amsterdam. Hondius will also explore the vital importance of early awareness, resilience and education as fundamental lessons from the Holocaust.
This program is free and open to the public. It is especially relevant to students, educators and anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust and the experiences of German Jews.
New Jersey educators can receive 2.0 professional development hours. For more information, call the Holocaust Resource Center at 609-652-4699 or email hrc@stockton.edu.
