Conference Agenda

7:00 p.m.

Dr. Rafael Medoff, David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C.

Jews and Zionism in the Mind of Franklin D.
Roosevelt: New Research, New Controversies

8:30-9:30

Professor Stephen Norwood, University of Oklahoma

American Responses to the Cold Pogrom

9:30-9:45

Break

9:45-10:45

Professor Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nazi Antisemitism and its Consequences During World War II

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Professor Monty Noam Penkower, Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies

The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust – 30 Years Later

12:00-1:30

Lunch Break

1:30-2:30

Greetings: H.E. Mathew Gould, Ambassador of the United Kingdom
Robert Singer, CEO, World Jewish Congress
Professor Michael Fleming, Polish University Abroad, London

The Holocaust: The Politics of Response in Britain

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:45

Greetings: H.E. Jacek Chodorowicz, Ambasador of the Repubic of Poland

Professor Dariusz Stola, Polin Museum

More Than Reactions to the Holocaust: the Polish Government-In-Exile Policy in Jewish Matters

3:45-4:00

Break

4:00-5:00

Observations and Panel Discussion

Chaired by Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Israel Council on Foreign Relations/Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Panelists: Professor Bauer, Mr. Hansen, Professor Penkower, Dr. Rappak

8:30-9:00

Tony Tanke, LL.M., Santa Clara University School of Law

Historical Fallacies and the Potential Disruption of the Holocaust

9:00-9:50

Professor Laurel Leff, Northeastern University

Explanation or Excuse: Assessing Fears of an Antisemitic Backlash in the American Response to the Holocaust

9:50-10:00

Break

10:00-10:50

Professor Bat-Ami Zucker, Bar-Ilan University

Immigration and Refugee Policy of the U.S. on the Eve of World War II

10:50-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Dr. Wojtek Rappak, University College London

Rescue and the Polish Wartime State: Karski Brings the Dire News to Roosevelt

12:00-1:30

Lunch Break

1:30-2:30

Professor Kenneth Werrell, Radford University

Distant, Difficult, but Doable? Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz?

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:45

Professor Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Could the US Have Rescued the Jews of Europe During the Holocaust?

3:45-4:00

Break

4:00-5:00

Observations and Panel Discussion

Chaired by Professor Alexander Groth

Panelists: Dr. Medoff, Mr. Tanke, Professor Xu Xin, Professor Fleming, others

5:00-7:00

Break

7:00-8:30

Film by Claude Lanzmann: Jan Karski Report

Introduced by Claude Lanzmann

Chaired by Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Israel Council on Foreign Relations/Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

8:30-9:30

Professor Xu Xin, Nanjing University

Response from Afar – Chinese Responses to the Holocaust

9:30-9:45

Break

9:45-10:45

Professor Alexander Groth, University of California-Davis

Denial: Some Themes of Holocaust Literature Revisited

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Tony Tanke, L.L.M, University of Santa Clara Law School and Professor Edward Rabin, University of California-Davis School of Law

Jewish Legal Rights in The League of Nations: The British White Paper of 1939 and the Palestine Mandate

12:00-1:30

Lunch Break

1:30-2:30

Peter Hansen, L.L.M., Principal International Law Counsel, Law Offices of Peter C. Hansen, Washington D.C.

A Positivist Legal Framework for Confronting Genocide

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:45

Observations and Panel Discussion

Chaired by Professor Norwood

Panelists: Professor Dariusz Stola, Professor Bat-Ami Zucker, Professor Laurel Leff, Professor Alexander Groth

3:45-4:00

Break

4:00-5:00

Closing Program Chaired by Dr. Eunice Pollack

Perspectives On the Allied Powers’ Holocaust Response: Contributions and New Frontiers

Panelists: All Participants