Nemzetközi konferencia Auschwitzról és a magyar holokausztról 2011. március 3. csütörtök 9:08 Forrás: AN

New York – Nemzetközi konferenciát rendeznek április 6-7-én New Yorkban, a New York City University Proshansky Auditóriumában a The Rosenthal Institute for Holcaust Studies és a Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute rendezésében. Az esemény fő szervezője és moderátora Randolph Braham professzor, a Magyar Holocaust I-II. és más tudományos alapmunkák szerzője. A konferencia fő témája Auschwitz és a magyar holokauszt. Az alábbiakban a szervezők sajtóközleménye olvasható.

The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute have announced their joint sponsorship of an International Conference on the Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary to be held on April 6-7, 2011.

Randolph Braham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at CUNY, will act as chair and moderator of the sessions. The conference, according to Professor Braham and Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, the Chair Emeritus of the Roosevelt Institute, will enable an evaluation of the Auschwitz Reports in the context of the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry in 1944-45.  It will also provide an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the Reports, which was co-authored by Rudi Vrba, one of the escapees from Auschwitz.  The organizers concurred that Vrba’s story is not only an epic of personal heroism but also a historically invaluable account of the operations of the death camp.  Rudi’s widow, Robin Vrba, who will attend the conference, has announced the gift of her late husband’s papers to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York. In donating Rudi’s archival holdings to the Roosevelt Library, Mrs. Vrba expressed her hope that these papers will enable both scholars and laypersons to further their understanding of the Holocaust era.

In addition to Professor Braham, the following distinguished representatives of the academic world will participate:  Professor Ruth Linn, University of Haifa; Professor István Deák, Columbia University, New York; Professor Richard Breitman, American University, Washington; Dr. Zoltán Tibori-Szabó, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; Professor Robert Jan van Pelt, University of Waterloo; Dr. Eli Reichenthal, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva; and Dr. George Klein, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Attendance at the conference is free and the public is invited.  The conference will be held in the Proshansky Auditorium at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34^th Street), New York 10016, beginning on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at 9:30a.m.