[Cz-L] Conference in Chernivtsi, Oct 8

Dear friends, I'm writing to let you know that Florence Heymann,
Leo Spitzer and I will be in Chernivtsi next week for the conference
described below. We will check on the various concerns of our group.
        Unfortunately, the trip is very short due to our teaching
obligations, so we will not have a free weekday to attempt to meet
with city officials, but as you can see below, we will have a
chance to talk to members of the university and the Jewish community
about the character of the 600 anniversary celebrations and the
renovations taking place in the Jewish Quarter. We'll take photos and
upload them as well. If you have specific suggestions of what we can
do on a weekend, please send them along.


All best, Marianne Hirsch



International conference

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

"Elie Wiesel" National Institute for Holocaust Research in Romania

The Fate of the Jews in Bukovina and Transnistria 1940-1944

8 October 2007

Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

The main purpose of the conference is to focus on the fate of the
Jews in Bukovina and Transnistria as well as the life of Jews who
remained in the Czernowitz (Cernauiti) ghetto during the war, the
relationship between the local populations, including local Jews and
Romanian Jews in Transnistria, and the impact of the Holocaust on
Romanian and Ukrainian Jews.

Subjects for the panel presentations:

Jewish life before the Holocaust in Bukovina
The history of the Romanian Holocaust and its documentary sources
The 1940 retreat of the Romanian Army from Bukovina
The role of the Romanian authorities in the persecution of Jews in
Bukovina and Transnistria
The History of the Czernowitz (Cernauti) ghetto, daily life and
deportations to Transnistria
Daily life in the ghettos of Transnistria
The literature of the Romanian Holocaust
The memory of the Holocaust in Bukovina
Greetings:

Michael, Krays, Head of the Jewish Community of Chernivtsi

Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM
PANEL 1: Jews of Bukovina on the eve of the Holocaust.

Moderator: Vadim Altskan, USHMM

1. Florence Heymann (Israel)-Jewish Life in Bukovina before the Holocaust.


2. Alexandru Florian (Romania)- 1940 Retreat of the Romanian
Army from Northern Bukovina.

3. Marianne Hirsch , Leo Spitzer (USA)-- Czernowitz Jews in
1941: Life under the Soviet occupation and Jewish flight into the
Soviet Union.

PANEL 2: Romanian occupation and ghettoization of the Jewish
population of Bukovina

Moderator: Mikhail Tyaglyy, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies

4. Radu Ioanid (USA) - The Romanian Holocaust- a general overview.

5. Vladimir Solonari ( USA) - The treatment of the Bukovinian
Jews by the Soviet and Romanian administrations, 1940-1944.

6. Oleg Surovtsev ( Ukraine) - The life of the Jews of
Czernowitz, 1941-1944.

7. Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine (France): Czernowitz's Mayor
Traian Popovici and his role in the rescue of the Bukovinian Jews.

PANEL 3: Deportations to Transnistria. The Holocaust in the German
language poetry of Bukovina

Moderator: Anatoliy Podolskiy, , Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies

8. Tamara Marusik (Ukraine)-Deportations of Jews from Bukovina.

9. Diana Dumitru (Moldova) - The attitude of the local
population from Transnistria toward the Romanian Jews.

10. Petro Rykhlo (Ukraine)-The Holocaust in the German language poetry of

Bukovina

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm lunch
Round table, Q&A
7: 00 pm Reception, location TBA
Received on 2007-09-28 13:38:29