At conference, scholars will discuss Holocaust

The conference will address the Holocaust victims and their experiences.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Scholars from around the world will offer lectures and papers at "Beyond Numbers, Beyond Names: The Experience of Holocaust Victims" on April 2, 3 and 4 at Youngstown State University.
The conference, hosted by the YSU Judaic and Holocaust Studies program, will also feature a performance of "Remnants," a play about Holocaust survivors, at 3 p.m. April 2 in the DeBartolo Auditorium and a screening of "Diamonds in the Snow," a documentary about hidden children and a discussion with the director, who survived as a child, at 8 p.m. April 3 in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center.
This conference addresses victims and their experiences of the Holocaust.
Panel discussions
Panels will discuss ghetto life, life and death inside the concentration camps, life outside the walls of the camps and ghettos, children and the Holocaust, the experience of Jewish displaced people and Jewish life in post-war Germany, the use of victim testimony as a means of telling their story, and the way in which victims have memorialized their own experiences.
There will be two keynote addresses.
Tim Cole of the University of Bristol in Great Britain, author of "Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler, How History is Bought, Packaged and Sold" and "Holocaust City: The Making of the Jewish Ghetto," will speak at 1:30 p.m. April 2 in DeBartolo Auditorium.
Dalia Ofer, chairwoman of Holocaust Studies at Hebrew University in Israel and the author of "Escaping the Holocaust, Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel 1939-1944," will speak at 2 p.m. April 3 in the Chestnut Room in Kilcawley Center.
Other scholars making presentations at the conference include: Boaz Cohen of Western Galilee College and Bar Ilan University; Gunnar S. Paulsson, author of "Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945;" Stephen Feinstein, director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota; Martin Dean, research scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Robert Moses Shapiro of Brooklyn College; and Daniel Magilow, Resnick Scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.