Founded in 1970 by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke, the ASC provides an invaluable forum for scholars to discuss and advance Holocaust research, ensuring the valuable lessons of the Holocaust remain relevant for today’s world.
This March, we hosted Holocaust scholars from across the globe at UT Dallas, the new and permanent home for the Annual Scholars’ Conference. This year’s theme was “The History and Future of the Holocaust and its Memory.” There was an opening dinner on Saturday evening for presenters and invited guests as well as two full days of programming on both Sunday and Monday and a half-day on Tuesday.
Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture
Sunday, March 8, 2020 | 9:00 am
Dr. Wolf Gruner, “Defiance and Protest: Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany”
Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Founding Director, USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is largely understood as rare armed group activities in the Nazi-occupied East. Dr. Gruner’s lecture, however, will focus on forgotten individual acts of resistance. Based on a new approach and using new sources, he demonstrated how Jewish women and men performed countless acts of resistance in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Reception | 6:30 pm
Lecture | 7:15pm
Eva and Robert Ratonyi, “Holocaust Childhood: Wounds that Never Heal”
Eva, a 1976 alumna of UT Dallas, introduced her husband, Robert, to share his story as a survivor of the Holocaust as a child in Hungary.
Information from the 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference, March 2-4, 2019:
2019 Final Program
Thank you to our generous sponsors
Information from the 48th Annual Scholars’ Conference, March 3-5, 2018:
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For questions about the Conference, please contact Cynthia Seton-Rogers at 972-883-2724 or email [email protected].
For questions about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Holly Hull Miori at 972-883-4119 or email [email protected].
