Elmhurst College
15th Annual Holocaust Guestship


Week of Activities

Sunday, April 10, 2005
7:00pm
Frick Center, Founders Lounge

Service of Remembrance

7:30pm
Frick Center, Founders Lounge

Holocaust Guestship Lecture
Gerda Weissmann Klein, "All But My Life"

Holocaust survivor whose story inspired an Oscar-winning documentary film. Klein spent three years in a concentration camp before being liberated (May 1945) by U.S. Army Lieutenant Kurt Klein, whom she later married. Her memoir became an Emmy and Academy Award winning documentary titled “One Survivor Remembers.” She is also the author of several books, including:
- All But My Life
- A Boring Evening at Home
- Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War's Aftermath
- Promise of a New Spring: the Holocaust and Renewal


Free, with donations encouraged to support the Holocaust Education project. Reception to follow.


The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation

Gerda's Biography

Personal Histories: Gerda and Kurt Klein - from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museu
Related Links

Holocaust Books

 

Videos & Media

 

Library Research

Websites

The Gerda Luner Memorial Prize
for Social Justice
and the Holocaust

Elmhurst College Holocaust Guestship ~
A Twelfth Year Anniversary History
by Dr. Michael Lindberg and Dr. Carole Hillman


Monday, April 11, 2005

9:15-10:20am
Frick Center, North and South Prospect Rooms

Classroom session with Gerda Weissmann Klein

4:00pm
Frick Center, President's Dining Room

"The Catholic Church and the Holocaust: Tarnished Past, Glimmering Future?"

Presentation and discussion with Kevin O'Donnell, Catholic co-chaplain

For the month of April,

Holocaust Art Exhibit

"The Book of Fire," by renowned lithographer Murray Zimiles,

In display case, lower level,
A.C. Buehler Library.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

11:30am-12:45pm
Schaible Science Center, Illinois Hall

"One Survivor Remembers"
Showing of the documentary on Gerda Weissmann Klein produced by HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum


Wednesday, April 13, 2005

7:00-9:00pm
Frick Center, North and South Prospect Rooms

Teacher Education session led by Dr. Brian Kahn, Education department

  

Thursday, April 14, 2005

2:30-3:30pm
Schaible Science Center, Illinois Hall

7:00-8:00pm
Frick Center, Blume Board Room


"The Gate"

Showing of a documentary about the recent trip of an ethnically and religiously diverse group to the Nazi concentration camps. Issues of prejudice, racism and discrimination in today's society are addressed. The producers, Li Yeh and Esther Garfin, will be there to discuss their experiences and answer questions about the project.

  

 Page last updated 6 April 2005.

All Holocaust programs are free and open to the public.

For additional Information please call: (630) 617-3025

Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3296
main number (630) 617-3500, admission (630) 617-3400,
admission toll-free (800) 697-1871, admit@elmhurst.edu