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Woman at the Frontline of Mass Violence and Genocide: An Exhibit by Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum | Opening & Panel Discussion

Page5aWoman at the Frontline of Mass Violence Worldwide: Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion with Yahad-In Unum. August 28th, 2016 at 1:00pm. Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture.

Lecturers: Patrice Bensimon, Dr. Rochelle Saidel, and Dr. Amy Traver. After more than 12 years of field investigation on the Holocaust by Bullets and contemporary mass crimes, Yahad-In Unum’s exhibit aims to give voice to women who were victims of mass violence perpetrated in various countries and continents from WWII until today. The exhibit presents the fates of: Jewish female survivors of the Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe, Roma female survivors of the Porajmos – the genocide of Roma during WWII, Indigenous women from Guatemala – victims during the internal armed conflict in the 1980s, and Yazidi female survivors – victims of ISIS in Iraq today.

This panel discussion includes: Patrice Bensimon, Director of Yahad-In Unum Research Center; Dr. Rochelle Saidel, founder and Executive Director of the Remember the Women Institute; and Dr. Amy Traver, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College.

Exhibition on view through September 15, 2016.

To register for this event, please visit here.











When: Sun., Aug. 28, 2016 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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Page5aWoman at the Frontline of Mass Violence Worldwide: Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion with Yahad-In Unum. August 28th, 2016 at 1:00pm. Drs. Bebe and Owen Bernstein Lecture.

Lecturers: Patrice Bensimon, Dr. Rochelle Saidel, and Dr. Amy Traver. After more than 12 years of field investigation on the Holocaust by Bullets and contemporary mass crimes, Yahad-In Unum’s exhibit aims to give voice to women who were victims of mass violence perpetrated in various countries and continents from WWII until today. The exhibit presents the fates of: Jewish female survivors of the Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe, Roma female survivors of the Porajmos – the genocide of Roma during WWII, Indigenous women from Guatemala – victims during the internal armed conflict in the 1980s, and Yazidi female survivors – victims of ISIS in Iraq today.

This panel discussion includes: Patrice Bensimon, Director of Yahad-In Unum Research Center; Dr. Rochelle Saidel, founder and Executive Director of the Remember the Women Institute; and Dr. Amy Traver, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College.

Exhibition on view through September 15, 2016.

To register for this event, please visit here.

Buy tickets/get more info now