Signs of Life and Humanity in the Lodz Ghetto
In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us on Sunday, January 26, at 1:00 PM ET for an enlightening discussion led by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro of Brooklyn College exploring the resilience and humanity of nearly 200,000 Jews who lived in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Through fragile yet enduring messages in clandestine diaries, poetry, songs, humor, drawings, and photographs, we will uncover the remarkable ways the Jews of Lodz sought to preserve their humanity in the face of unimaginable evil. The event will also explore artifacts like clothing, toys, greeting cards, and baskets, which stand as testaments to their creativity and resilience.
Let us come together to remember, reflect, and honor the lives lived in the Lodz Ghetto.
This event is free but a contribution is welcomed to strengthen our Yiddish program.
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Professor Shapiro's teaching and research have focused on JEWISH COMMUNAL AUTONOMY, Yiddish language and literature, the Holocaust and Polish Jewry, especially in the cities of Warsaw and Lodz in Poland. HE served as the Summer Institute Scholar and Teacher in Residence at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. He has collaborated with the Lodz University Center for Jewish Research and has lectured in Poland and Israel in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew. Prof. Shapiro has also taught at the former Baltimore Hebrew University, the University of Maryland, Yeshiva College, and Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. Most recently he has also taught online classes in Yiddish history and literature at the Workers Circle.
Professor Shapiro has edited, translated, and published several books, including Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts (1999: Yeshiva University Press); Why Didn't the Press Shout? American and International Journalism During the Holocaust (2003: Yeshiva University Press); Isaiah Trunk, Lodz Ghetto: A History (2006: Indiana U. Press with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum); Yehiel Yeshaya Trunk, Poyln: My Life Within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images, vol. 1 (2007: U. of Toronto Press); Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide (2009: Indiana U. Press, US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw); and Encyclopedia of the Ghetto: The Unfinished Project of the Lodz Ghetto Archivists (2016: The State Archive in Lodz).