Commemoration

Each year, the Holocaust Resource Center delivers two hallmark events - the Murray Pantirer Scholars Lecture and Yom HaShoah memorial service - as well as commemorative programs for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). The HRC also hosts various programs with Kean University’s Human Rights Institute; communities with a history of genocide, including Cambodians and Sudanese; and organizations such as Facing History and Ourselves and Echoes & Reflections. We are also interested in partnering with religious communities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.

Named for the late Holocaust survivor and HRC founder Murray Pantirer, the dynamic annual lecture series has attracted thousands of visitors to the Kean University campus. Among the noted guest scholars, theologians, survivors, and dignitaries are: 

• Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel z”l
• Chief Rabbi of Israel Israel M. Lau
• Deborah Dwork (Clark University)
• Sir Martin Gilbert z”l
• Christopher Browning (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Gerda Weissman Klein

We are pleased to share with you part of the 1986 Murray Pantirer Memorial Scholar Lecture with honored guest Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Author and Activist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner: 

2024 Murray Pantirer Memorial Lecture keynote speakers, Dr. Joanna Sliwa and Dr. Elizabeth B. White, authors of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust, with Kean University leadership and students from the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Teaching the Holocaust and Prejudice Reduction. 

Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration: Quarantining Hate. As a society, we have gone through eras of hate and over the past decade, we have seen hate crimes increase each year. After finding out her grandfather was a wanted WWII war criminal from Lithuania directly involved in over 14,000 Jewish people’s deaths, Kerrie Taber embarked on a project to use her family’s history and research to show what can happen when society pushes back on hate. 

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Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Co-presented by the Holocaust Council at Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and Saint Elizabeth University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education. 

This year's program is a film screening of Monument followed by a talkback with the filmmaker, Michael Turner. Turner is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors. 

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