Rutgers University – Douglass Student Center

America has long been criticized for failing to give safe harbor to the Jews of Europe during World War II. Join Dr. Rebecca Erbelding as she discusses her groundbreaking new book on the War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt late in the war to save the Jews that remained. A historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Erbelding served as a historian for the Museum's newest exhibition, "Americans and the Holocaust."

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding will deliver a lecture, “The War Refugee Board and America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe,” on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. Erbelding, a historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, uncovered new archival materials that tell the story of the War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt late in the war. Free and open to the public, the talk is…

A concert and lecture program, “Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews during World War II,” will be offered at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers University’s Douglass Student Center, New Brunswick. The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program of Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for Jewish Studies will feature Psoy Korolenko, singer-songwriter; and Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto. In the early 1940s, a group of Soviet Jewish scholars began…

During the Holocaust, Jews from across the Soviet Union told their personal stories through Yiddish songs that are now part of a Grammy-nominated recording in the world music category. Preeminent Yiddish singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko teams up with Professor Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) to bring these long lost songs to life in an all-new concert and lecture program.