09:15h Welcome Address for the Berlin Campus by Rector Sara Nachama

09:25h Welcome note and biographical intro of President Kadish: Prof. Simcha Fishbane, PhD.

09:30–10:00h
Introduction: President Alan Kadish, MD
The Holocaust: A Jewish perspective

10:00–12:00h Panel I: Jewish Reactions in the Face of the Holocaust

1. Dr. Adam Sitarek, U Lodz: The Litzmannstadt Getto administration
2. Dr. Michał Trębacz, U Lodz & POLIN Museum Warsaw, Shmuel Zygielbojm and the Polish government in exile. A history of disappointment
3. Ayelet Eva Herbst M.A., U München, The Flight of Polish Jews to Eastern Ukraine
Chair: Prof. Dr. Peter Klein, Touro University Berlin

12:00–13:00h Lunch Break

13:00–15:00h Panel II: Polish Reactions in the Face of the Holocaust

1. Dr. Joanna Ostrowska, Krakow: The Queer Support in the Face of the Holocaust. Chmielewski’s Circle of Friends in Warsaw
2. Prof. Dr. Joanna Beata Michlic, UC London: Rescue acts and rescue dynamics through the lenses of older Jewish child survivors from Poland: the first accounts 1945–1949
3. Dr. Zofia Wóycicka, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Righteous’ museums in Europa
4. Prof. Dr. Israel Singer, Vice-President of Touro University New York: After Survival. Denied compensation of Polish Holocaust Victims
Chair: Prof. Simcha Fishbane, PhD, Touro University New York

15:00–15:30h Coffee and Tea Break

15:30–17:30h Roundtable: Contemporary narratives in Poland

1. Prof. Dr. Paweł Machcewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
2. Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
3. Dr. Florian Peters, U Jena
Chair: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, Touro Berlin