Confronting the Challenging Landscape of Holocaust Research in Poland

Please join the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College and the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean Univeristy in welcoming Dr. Monika Rice (Gratz College) and Dr. Joanna Sliwa (Claims Conference) for a virtual discussion on the charges facing historians of the Holocaust in Poland, the ramifications of these attacks on their own research, and public understanding of this history moving forward.

Monika Rice, Ph.D., is the Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the former Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program (2018-2021) at Gratz College. She is the author of What! Still Alive?! Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming (Syracuse University Press 2017; Choice Outstanding Academic Title).

Joanna Sliwa, Ph.D., is Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). Her own research focuses on the Holocaust in Poland and on Polish Jewish history. Joanna has taught at Kean University and Rutgers University, and served as an educator in teacher training programs on the Holocaust. Joanna’s book, Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust will be published in fall 2021 (Rutgers University press; recipient of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library).

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This program is being co-presented by the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University and the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Raritan Valley Community College. Co-sponsors include The Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon & Warren Counties, The Shimon & Sara Birnbaum JCC, & The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.