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International Conference – The Jewish Family in the Soviet Union: Under German Occupation and in the Soviet Rear

20 November 2017

Public at the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Participants of the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Staff members of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

Dr. Zeev Levin lecturing during the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Prof. Eliyana R. Adler lecturing during the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Pessia Farsi lecturing during the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Shlomit Shulhani lecturing during the conference. Yad Vashem, 20 November 2017

Program of the conference

09:30-10:00	Gathering
10:00-10:15	Opening Remarks Arkadi Zeltser, Director of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
10:15-11:45	Session 1
	Chair: Dalia Ofer, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto “I Go Away from My Mother’s Grave”: Soviet Jewish Orphans during World War II Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, New York Family Networks and Surviving the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia Lea Prais, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem "Sterilized" Family: The Lithuanian Jewish Family as Reflected in the Diaries Discussion
11:45-12:45	Lunch Break
12:45-14:15	Session 2
	Chair: Dina Porat, Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York "Mama Tried Her Best": Gender, Generation, Trauma, and Adventure in the History and Memory of Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust Zeev Levin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Beck's Family Journey, From Poland to Siberia, Central Asia and Back: A Survival Guide Eliyana R. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, USA Packages as a Means of Family Contact and Mutual Relief within the USSR and across Borders Discussion
14:15-14:30	Break
14:30-16:00	Session 3
	Chair: Naama Shik, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Inna Gerasimova, Independent Scholar, Wiesbaden West-Belarusian Jewish Families under German Rule: The Price of Survival Pessia Farsi, Tel Aviv University Issues in Jewish Matrimony Laws After World War II: Marriage, Divorce and Agunoth in Wetzlar DP Camp Shlomit Shulhani, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Jew Against Their Will: Descendants of Mix-marriage Families during the Holocaust