The Holocaust Living History Workshop presents:

Sam Horowitz: Hiding from the Nazis

Nazi Soldiers Discovering Jews Hiding in a Cellar

Sam Horowitz was born in Lopatyn, Poland, today Ukraine. When the Nazis came, he was among the many Jews herded into ghettos. About to be deported to a concentration camp, the family managed to escape. In the dead of night, they trekked back to their village where a Ukrainian farmer took them in. They remained in hiding until the end of the war. After several years in Vienna and Munich, Horowitz immigrated to the US.

Horowitz will share the story of his incredible escape. He will be introduced by UCSD history professor Deborah Hertz, a specialist in modern Jewish and German history.

When: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5 – 7 pm

Where: UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Who: Free and Open to the Public – Refreshments Provided!

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Susanne Hillman at hlhw@ucsd.edu or 858-534-7661.

Join us for

MELANESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY: ARCHIVAL PERSPECTIVES

a Symposium celebrating the renaming of the Melanesian Archive

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 from 1-4 pm

Seuss Room, Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Refreshments will be served.

Donald Tuzin with Arapesh people of Ilahita Village during his first fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in the early 1970s.

Celebrating the 30^th anniversary and renaming of the Melanesian Archive:

The Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology

Panelists include:

Polly Wiessner (University of Utah)

Integrating Tradition and Transition: The Enga Take Anda, Papua New Guinea

Nancy Lutkehaus (University of Southern California)

“Anthropology in the Archives”:  Past, Present, Future

David Akin (Comparative Studies in Society and History)

Kwaio Piracy as Moral Instruction: Lessons from Archival and Oral History.

Related Exhibit In Geisel Library, May 1 – June 30

Island Arts: Images from the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology

Sky of Red Poppies

by Zohreh Gharemani

Join us for an author talk

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

3:00 – 4:00 pm

Seuss Room, Geisel Library

Refreshments will be served!

One of the 2012 One Book, One San Diego selections, this book is set against the backdrop of a politically divided 1960′s Iran under rule of the Shah.  Sky of Red Poppies is a novel about culture, politics and the redeeming power of friendships. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen. But Shireen has secrets of her own. Together, Roya and Shireen contend with becoming the women they want to be and, in doing so, make decisions that will cause their tragic undoing.

Dr. Zohreh Ghahremani is a lifelong writer. She grew up in Iran, the daughter of a tribal man from Khorasan, Rafi Khan Khazai. She came to the United States with her husband, Gary Ghahremani, settling in Chicago. Ghahremani had a successful career in children’s dentistry and also taught at Northwestern University. Ghahremani, her husband and three children moved to San Diego when she decided to pursue her lifelong passion of writing. She publishes widely on the topics of bicultural identity, immigrant life, and modern parenthood. Ghahremani serves on the board of San Diego Writers Ink and is a member of the Association of Iranian-American Writers (AIAW). Sky of Red Poppies, based on a true story, is her first novel.

In a recent interview, One Book’s Linda Salem asked Zoe Ghahremani to talk about her characters and about her thoughts on poetry and writing. Via KPBS

One Book, One San Diego Discussion Guide

Sponsored by the Librarians Association of UCSD’s Committee on Diversity

The Holocaust Living History Workshop presents:

Tal Golan:  The Politics of Memory

Tal Golan is a professor of history and son of a Holocaust survivor from Poland.  Yuzhek Goldberg (later Joseph Golan) grew up in the Polish town of Nowe Miastro and spent time in the Warsaw ghetto before going into hiding and later joining the partisans.  At war’s end, he immigrated to Palestine.  Goldberg was one of many Holocaust survivors who kept silent about their ordeal until late in life when he decided to commit his memories to paper.  In this talk, Tal Golan reflects on the politics of memory and the struggle common to many survivors to build a new, Israeli identity.

When: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 5 – 7 pm

Where: UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Who: Free and Open to the Public – Refreshments Provided!

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Susanne Hillman at hlhw@ucsd.edu or 858-534-7661.

The Holocaust Living History Workshop presents:

Michael Bart: The Partisans of Vilna

Until Our Last Breath

To honor this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha-Shoah), Michael Bart shares the incredible story of his parents Zenia Lewinson and Leizer Bart who were both members of the Lithuanian partisan group “The Avengers.” Under the leadership of the Zionist Abba Kovner, they vowed to resist the Nazis “until our last breath” – the title of Bart’s award-winning book about the Vilna partisans. At this special event Bart relates the struggle of his parents and talks about his own ten-year-long journey to recover their history.

Where: UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Who: Free and Open to the Public – Refreshments Provided!

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Susanne Hillman at hlhw@ucsd.edu or 858-534-7661.

Los Peregrinos: A photography exhibit

Photographer Ricardo Garcia-Trejo describes his exhibit:

On March 31st, 1994, approximately 85 United Farm Workers and their supporters gathered together at a site known as “Forty Acres,” just two miles west of Delano, CA. They christened themselves “Peregrinos” and donned wooden crosses with black ribbons around their necks. Then they began an arduous 330 mile pilgrimage over a twenty four day period, recreating the historic 1966 UFW march from Delano to Sacramento inaugurated by their recently deceased leader Cesar Chavez.

April 2 – 30
Geisel Library, 1st Floor, West Wing,  Collaborative Study Space (map)

For a recommended list of films related to Cesar Chavez, see libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/_files/pdf/chavez film list.pdf.

For more 2012 César E. Chávez events: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/chavez
Additional photographs on display at the Cross-cultural Center Art Gallery (2nd Floor, Price Center East)

Sponsors: UCSD Chicano/Latino Staff Association, César E. Chávez Planning Committee, and the Librarians’ Association of UCSD Committee on Diversity

The Holocaust Living History Workshop presents:

Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund and the Ghosts of Nuremberg

The Nuremberg Legacy

San Diego Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund is a witness to history in two senses. After graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism, Ehrenfreund joined the U.S. Army and took part in the Allied reconquest of Western Europe under General Patton. After the war, he covered the Nuremberg war crimes trials as a reporter for Stars and Stripes, the army newspaper. His experiences in Nuremberg ultimately resulted in Ehrenfreund’s extraordinary 2007 book, The Nuremberg Legacy, written from his dual perspectives as an eyewitness to history and a Superior Court judge. Ehrenfreund will be introduced by UC San Diego historian Patrick Patterson, who teaches a course on international law, war crimes, and genocide.

Where: UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Who: Free and Open to the Public – Refreshments Provided!

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Susanne Hillman at hlhw@ucsd.edu or 858-534-7661.

The Holocaust Living History Workshop presents:

Bloodlands

Bloodlands

Join us for a talk by Timothy Snyder, the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the book Bloodlands:  Europe between Hitler and Stalin.  Since its appearance in 2010 the best-selling book has created a sensation both in the US and abroad.  Snyder will discuss the implications of his unified approach to twentieth-century European history for our understanding of Nazism and Stalinism.  He will be introduced by Amelia Glaser, the Director of the Russian and Soviet Studies program at UC San Diego.

Where: UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Who: Free and Open to the Public – Refreshments Provided!

Cosponsored by the UCSD Judaic Studies program, the Holocaust Living History Workshpo and the Burke Lectureship.

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Susanne Hillman at hlhw@ucsd.edu or 858-534-7661.

February 4, 2012
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Seuss Room, Geisel Library Building

Join us for a lecture and book signing by Murray K. Lee, author of recently published book, In Search of Gold Mountain, A History of the Chinese in San Diego, California. No one knows San Diego’s Chinese community like Curator of Chinese American History Murray K. Lee. His new book provides a comprehensive look at the history of the Chinese in San Diego: It begins with the earliest fishermen to settle on San Diego Bay, covers the emergence of Chinatown amidst the brothels and saloons of downtown’s Stingaree district, explores the sacrifices and contributions made during World War II, examines the decline of Chinatown after the war, and discusses the persistence of community organizations and holiday celebrations that still unite a dispersed community. Historic photographs and original research fill this 352-page tome that carefully traces the untold story of how one community of Chinese immigrants became Chinese Americans.It answers the question of how the Chinese eventually found Gold Mountain after so many years of search and struggle.

Murray K. Lee is the Curator of Chinese American History at the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. He has made presentations to local schools, colleges, and organizations and given papers at national conferences. He is the coordinator of the San Diego Chinese American Oral History Project. He did his undergraduate and graduate work in Geography at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has extensive professional experience in the supervision of geographic and cartographic research, and graphics design in the production of maps, atlases, publications, visual presentation, and exhibits.

The author will sign books after the event. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

Event is open to all.
Refreshments will be served.

Event sponsored by the Librarians Association of UC San Diego’s Committee on Diversity