Event held in cooperation with The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College (CUNY).
Hitler and the Nazis looked to the US’s eugenics movement, Jim Crow laws, and culture of white supremacy in their quest to racialize European Jews, a policy that was first enshrined in the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws. Join us for a conversation about the legal and political influences of America’s racial terrorism upon the Nazi’s genocidal policies featuring Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College.
The videos below are from The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) were part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.”
Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention and How People Resist
This lecture took place on November 12, 2020 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, "The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide" - http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/
The development of the German concentration camp system reveals how ruling parties engineer mass detention of civilians without trial. While the horrors of Nazi extermination camps remain unique in history, the first several years of German concentration camps parallel how governments in other places and times have adopted mass detention for similar political purposes. Andrea Pitzer, author and journalist, discusses what gives rise to camps, including why their use expanded exponentially in the last decade, and what strategies have been successful in opposing them. Presented in partnership with the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center.
This lecture took place on March 10, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization. ” This colloquium is aligned with KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” - http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/ This event features two faculty members from Queensborough Community College’s English Department in conversation about the internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during WWII. John Yi, Lecturer, discusses QCC’s 2020-21 Common Read text, George Takei’s graphic novel, “They Called Us Enemy,” while Dr. Aliza Atik, Associate Professor, reviews Mine Okubo’s “Prisoner 13660.” Co-sponsored by Queensborough Community College’s Art & Design Department and the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL).
This lecture took place on February 24, 2021 and was part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” This colloquium is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” - http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/ Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of US citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Dr. Gary Okihiro, Professor Emeritus of international and public affairs at Columbia University and a Visiting Professor of American studies at Yale University, discusses the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts. Presented in partnership with the Asian American / Asian Research Institute-CUNY and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, Cincinnati.