The Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences Presents
The 8th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of
Night by Elie Wiesel

Birss Contest Winners

1st: Danika Bishop '08
2nd: Kathleen Day '09
3rd: Robert D'Angelo '08

A Bibliography of Library Collections and Web Sites

Books:
Select your area of interest to link to that author or subject area in the HELIN Catalog
• Author:
• Wiesel, Elie 1928-
  
• Subject:
• Antisemitism
• Auschwitz Concentration Camp
• Children of Holocaust survivors
• Germany - History - 1933-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jews - Persecutions
• Jews - Segregation
• National socialism
• Political atrocities
• Wiesel, Elie, 1928-
• World War, 1939-1945

Websites:


Live from Germany: The Jewish Service Heard Round the World
The American Jewish Committee docmumentary on the first Jewish service broadcast during the rise of Hitler.






USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, with an archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world.
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/

New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.nehm.org/


The Holocaust Center Boston North Inc.
Part of the Peabody Institute Library's Center for the Study of Human Rights in Peabody , Massachusetts.
http://www.holocaustcenterbn.org/


The Holocaust Education & Resource Center of Rhode Island
An educational institution that bears witness to the Holocaust, educates the public about it, and memorializes those who perished.
http://www.hercri.org/


The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
A collection of over 4,300 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University 's department of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library.
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/


Facing History
Since 1976, Facing History has been engaging students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives.
"If one by one, hundreds of children learn the evils of hatred in history, then learn to face and change that hatred in their own world - through art, language, and service - and to begin to build communities of educated, committed citizens, who is to say that Facing History cannot be the catalyst for an end to prejudice, violence, and injustice?" - A Facing History student
http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/reslib.nsf


Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City
http://www.mjhnyc.org/museum_.htm


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Online resources represent a cross section of information related to the Holocaust available on the World Wide Web.


Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/judaicstudies


The National Yiddish Book Center
A non-profit organization working to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain. Supported by 30,000 members, we are now the largest and fastest-growing Jewish cultural organization in America.
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

EVENTS

HITLER'S TREATMENT OF THE JEWS
Dr. Joshua Stein
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 3:00 p.m. - CAS 157

Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences
Sponsored by the Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences



BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Dr. Joshua Stein, Professor of History
Dr. James Tackach, Professor of English
Roger Williams University
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008
5 p.m. - Mary Tefft White Cultural Center

Roger Williams University Library
Co-sponsors: University Honors Program and RWU Library



KEYNOTE ADDRESS
50 YEARS OF NIGHT: BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY
Dr. James E. Young
Professor of English and Judaic Studies
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008
3:00 p.m. - CAS 157

Feinstein College of Arts and Sciences
Sponsored by The Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture Fund



LIBRARY EXHIBITION

Elie Wiesel, Night, and the Holocaust
Feb. 1-March 15
Prepared by Professor Christine Fagan
Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian



Roger Williams University Sponsored by The Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Fund