The Eighth Miller Symposium

Poland under German Occupation, 1939-45

Free and open to the public

Coffee and refreshments will be served, and lunch will be provided for all attendees

Schedule

9:00-9:15 am: Welcoming Remarks

9:15-10:30 am: “The Ghettos: Jewish Sources on the Struggle for Survival in Warsaw and Łódź,” Andrea Löw, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

10:45 a.m.-12:00 pm: “Pyrrhic Victories?: Warsaw’s Two Uprisings in the Second World War,” Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30-2:45 pm: “Uneasy Bonds: Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families,” Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College

3:00-4:15 pm: “Stories of Power: Sexual Contacts between Occupiers and Locals in German-Occupied Poland,” Maren Röger, University of Augsburg

4:30-5:45 pm: “Polish Debates on the Holocaust from the 1940s to the Present,” Dariusz Stola, Polin-Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw

5:45-6:30: Closing Discussion

Sponsored by the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Endowment for Holocaust Studies at UVM and the Center for Holocaust Studies of the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin

Two performances, starting at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm respectively.

There is an entry fee for these concerts, which are being presented as part of the UVM Lane Series. For information about tickets, please visit the Lane Series website: https://www.uvm.edu/laneseries

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, with their immersive and edgy performance style, live up to their reputation as "radical Yiddish borderland bandistas with punk attitude.” Dedicated to the great political and personal themes of our time, they play revolutionary anthems for the apocalypse. The music is part Klezmer, part jazz, and part Weimar Cabaret, with homages to Brecht, Tom Waits, and folk ballads. Kahn and his band are originals who do not shy away from subversive themes. Daniel was supposed to be a part of the Semer Ensemble music tour last season but had a prior commitment, and so we’re excited to present him this season, with his own band, in the atmospheric black box theater of the FlynnSpace.

Co-sponsored by the UVM Lane Series, Vermont Public Radio, Jewish Communities of Vermont, and the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies at UVM.

Annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture
The Klaus Barbie Trial and the Jews of France
Speaker: Norman Goda, University of Florida

The trial of Klaus Barbie (the so-called “Butcher of Lyon”) in 1987 was France’s most notable Holocaust trial. The desire by French Jewish leaders to emphasie Jewish Holocaust testimonies pitted them against powerful forces in France that favored opposing narratives, from former members of the French resistance to post-colonial thinkers, who especially opposed Israel and sought to equate the Jewish State with Nazi Germany. The trial helps to explain underlying antisemitic forces in France today.
Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War and The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945.

The Annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture is supported by Jerold D. Jacobson, Esquire, of New York City, UVM Class of 1962, and his wife Gertraude Holle-Suppa

Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

Lecture by James Waller, Keene State College

Details TBA

Sponsored by the Kinsler Endowment for Holocaust Studies at UVM

Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture

Remembering the Shoah through Muslim Eyes

Speaker: Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College

Further details TBA

Sponsored by the Richard Ader and Paul Konigsberg Endowment for Holocaust Studies at UVM