The Charlotte Jewish News - May 2012 - Page 14
Davidson Students to Discuss Research
Trip to Holocaust Sites
Davidson College professors
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
(Department of History and author
of The Language of Nazi
Genocide) and Dr. Seott Denham
(Department of German Studies
and editor of the book series
Interdisciplinary German Cultural
Studies) reeently led a group of
Davidson College students to
Poland and Germany. They eon-
dueted researeh and had full
aeeess to the arehives at a variety
of institutions, ineluding the
Ausehwitz-Birkenau Memorial,
the Memorial Site of the
House of the Wannsee
Conferenee, and the
Volkswagen Corporation in
Wolfsburg. The students pre
sented their preliminary find
ings at the prestigious
Friedrieh Meineeke Institute at
the Free University in Berlin
and at the Sosnowiee eampus
of Silesian University; they
also met with Polish and
German seholars, students,
members of the Jewish eom-
munity, politieians, a former
Hitler Youth member, and a
reseuer and Righteous Among
the Nations.
The students, ineluding sev
eral Hillel members, are looking
forward to presenting their reeent-
ly-eoneluded work at Shalom
Park. The presentations inelude
new work on the Ausehwitz
orehestras, female slave labor at
the City of the KdF Car, and the
Jewish exhibitions at the
Saehsenhausen Coneentration
Camp Memorial in the GDR and
the united Germany. Please join us
on Monday, May 7 at 7 PM in
Goreliek Hall for a panel diseus-
sion on various topies relating to
the students’ researeh. Please note
that this event is not suitable for
ehildren. The panel diseussion
will be followed by refreshments.
This event is open to the entire
Charlotte eommunity. ^
The Floreuce Meltou
Adult Miui School of
Charlotte Graduates Its
First Class
Tommy Bell and Beau Clark present
research findings at the Memorial House
of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin.
After two years of studying
together, the members of the 1 st
elass of Charlottes’ Florenee
Melton Adult Mini-Sehool at the
Levine-Skint Judaie Library
gathered together on May 31 to
eelebrate their learning aeeom-
plishments.
Congratulations to the Melton
Students who will reeeive a
Certifieate of Jewish Studies
from the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem. (See list below)
And thank you to the dedieat-
ed teaehers whose dedieation to
Jewish edueation is at the Core
of the sueeess of the Melton
Program. Thank you Rabbi Yossi
Groner and Rabbi David
Powers.
We are eurrently registering
for elasses with morning and
evening, weekday and weekend
options.
For further information on
how to sign up for elasses,
please eontaet Talli Dippold,
Melton Direetor, at 704-944-
6780 or email melton@ shalom-
eharlotte.org. ^
Shirley Akrasih, who researches Polish
rescuers, meets Stefania Wilkosz-Filo in
Krakow. During the German occupation,
Ms. Wilkosz-Filo helped to hide a Jewish
familyfor 18 months and saved them from
deportation to a death camp.
Part of the group during the visit to the
Ausehwitz-Birkenau memorial (in the
background the ruins of gas
chamber/crematory II and the remains of
the Women s Camp).
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