The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Sunday March 16 th Conference Schedule 12:00-12:30 REGISTRATION [Cohen Center, 2nd Floor] 12:30-1:00 Introduction, Welcome, and Official Opening of Conference Introduction: Dr. Paul Bartrop, Director, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University Welcome: Dr. Ronald Toll, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Florida Gulf Coast University Official Opening: Dr. Stephen Gergatz, Honorary Consul for Hungary, Sarasota, Florida 1:00-2:00 Room CC 213 Pre-war Antisemitic Discrimination Chair: Dr. Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University Susan Papp, The Hungarian Theatrical Arts and Film Arts Chamber Maria Kovacs, Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apologia and Legends The Transformation of Hungarian Film David Frey, The Near Death Experience of Hungarian Film. The Impact of Hungary s First and Second Anti-Jewish Laws on the Hungarian Film 2:00-3:30 Resistance and Rescue Industry, 1938-40 Catherine Portuges, Cinematic Representations of the Holocaust in Hungary: Three Generations Chair: Dr. Julia Creet, York University, Toronto, Canada Paul R. Bartrop, The Dilemmas of Helping: Goodness on Trial in Hungary during the Shoah Gellert Kovacs, Dark Skies over Budapest: Rescue and Resistance
Room CC 213 Representations, From Kertesz to Szabo Chair: Mr. Michael Dickerman, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Siegrun Bubser Wildner, Auctorial Authenticity and Fictional Representation 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Room CC 213 Plenary Session of the Holocaust: Imre Kertész Novel Fatelessness and its Film Adaptation Sean Swenson, Reclaiming the Recipe Book: István Szabó s Sunshine and the Hungarian Identity Ann Weiss, The Auschwitz Album and The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Study in Contrasts 5:00-6:00 Room CC 213 Film and Discussion Dragan Kujundžić, Frozen Time, Liquid Memories Monday March 17 th 9:00-10:30 Room CC 213 Women: Victims, Resisters, Sexual Objects Chair: Dr. Frances Davey, Florida Gulf Coast University Doreen Eschinger, No Common Bond? Jewish Women from Hungary in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück Concentration Camps Katalin Pécsi-Pollner, Interviews in Israel with Surviving Women from the Hungarian Zionist Resistance Movement, 1944-45 Anita Kurimay, The Hungarian Far Right and Sexuality Issues Relating to Identity Chair: Dr. Terence Leary, Florida Gulf Coast University Alice Freifeld, Displaced Hungarian Jewish Identity Istvan Muranyi, National identity and the Holocaust Perception among Young People the Case of Hungary Josette Turro, Jewish Identity in the Pre- and Post-War Period 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11:00-12:00 Room CC 213 The Kasztner Affair Anna Porter, Rezso Kasztner s Rescue Train and the Strasshof Jews on Ice Steven Leonard Jacobs, Re-reading, Re-visiting, and Re-thinking L Affaire Kasztner: Contemporary Implications
The Psychological Legacy of the Holocaust Chair: Dr. Martin Bourgeois, Florida Gulf Coast University György Csepeli and Gergő Prazsák, External attribution as a means of reduction of cognitive dissonance stemming from the inability to cope with the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary Hungarian public opinion 12:00-1:00 Eichmann in Jerusalem Chair: Dr. Ronit Fisher, University of Haifa, Israel Fabien Théofilakis, The Holocaust in Hungary during the Eichmann Trial: 1:00-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:00 Room CC 213 Surviving the Shoah When the Defendant Tried to Rewrite the History (1960-1962) Jason O Connor, Arendt s Eichmann in Jerusalem Reconsidered: Eichmann in Hungary in 1944 Chair: Dr. Nicola Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University Ferenc Laczó, The Variety of Experiences and the Abundance of Knowledge: Hungarian Jewish Survivors of Major Nazi Camps and Key Components of the Extermination of European Jewry in 1945-46 Music and Musicians Chair: Dr. Debra Hess, Florida Gulf Coast University George Lazar, Orthodox Holocaust Survivors in the Hungarian Countryside Susan M. Filler, Musicological Research among Hungarian Jews in the Context of Musical Nationalism James A. Grymes, Ernst von Dohnányi: A Forgotten Hero of the Holocaust Resistance 3:00-4:00 Room CC 213 The Church in Action: Two Expressions Chair: Dr. Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University Michael Dickerman, Comparing and Assessing the Statements of Cardinal Justinian Seredi and Papal Nuncio Angelo Rotta Regarding the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust. Regional Studies (1) Chair: Dr. Ronit Fisher, University of Haifa, Israel George Csicsery, Angel of Mercy: The Story of Sister Margaret Slachta Gabriel Mayer, What Happened to the Jews of Koloszvar in the Spring of 1944 Viktoria Tafferner-Gulyas, Talking Headstones in the Cemetery of the Reformed Jewish Congregation in Szombathely, West Hungary 4:00-4:30 BREAK 4:30-5:30 Plenary Session
Film and Discussion: Julia Creet, MUM Tuesday March 18 th 9:00-10:30 Resistance, Leadership, and the Grey Zone 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:00 Paul Sanders, Grey zones, dirty hands and Legitimacy: A New Approach to Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust in Hungary Mario Fenyo, Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust Julia Bock, Working and Dying as Doctors during the Holocaust BREAK Assimilation, Integration, Rejection? Chair: Mr. Michael Dickerman, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Peter Kenez, The Peculiarities of the Acculturation of the 19th Century Hungarian Jewry Tamas Stark, The Ostjuden Question in Hungary during World War I and the Interwar Period: How Galician Jewish Refugees became Hungary's Number One Enemies 12:00-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:30 Room CC 213 The Value of Personal Testimony Laura Kidd, Sometimes God closes His eyes, but sometimes at the last moment He opens them... Sarah Valente, After the Danube Ran Red: An Interview with Holocaust Survivor and Renowned Scholar Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Jeanette Friedman, How Do We Teach the Holocaust When the Witnesses are Gone? How to Use Survivor Memoirs/First Person Stories to Engage Students Anti-Jewish Persecution from Ideology to Action Chair: Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of Alabama Csaba Fazekas, The Christian Ideology of the Early Extreme Right Movements in the 1920s Sara Gottwalles, Himmler in Hungary: Ideological Warfare Tamás Kovács, Hungarian Implementers, German Officers and Advisers 2:30-3:00 BREAK 3:00-4:00 Room CC 213 Regional Studies (2) Chair: Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of Alabama George Eisen, The Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust: the Summer 1941 Deportation Ronit Fisher, The Fate of Transylvanian Jewry: Between the Romanian and Hungarian Holocaust
The Struggle for Memory Chair: Dr. Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University Richard Esbenshade, Uncovering Holocaust Memory in Socialist Hungary, 1948-70 Éva Kovács, Timing History A Hungarian Historikerstreit in 2012 4:00-5:00 Room CC 213 Memorialization and Museums Chair: Dr. Melodie Eichbauer, FGCU Julia Creet, The House of Terror and the Holocaust Memorial Center: Resentment and Melancholia in Post-89 Hungary András Gerő, Hungarian Holocaust Representations The Law and Justice Chair: Ms. Eve Grimm, Florida Gulf Coast University Mary Maudsley, Rabbi v. Historian: Challenging History through Libel Litigation Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe, Extraordinary Justice, Extraordinary Challenges: Punishing Nazi War Criminals in 21st Century Hungary 5:00-5:30 Conclusion, Expressions of Thanks, and Farewell