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Events

The Rabb Center holds several events during the year, including:

Memorial lecture in honor of the donor family, which focuses on the events
leading to the Holocaust, the Holocaust years, and their aftermath.
Recent memorial lectures include:              
Aleksandra Boroń, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland: The Holocaust in Polish Memory (2009)                             
Dan Michman, Bar-Ilan Univ.: A New Explanation for the Formation of Ghettoes in the Holocaust (2008)                                                    
Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew Univ.: Recent Studies on the Holocaust  (2007)
Hagit Lavsky, Hebrew Univ.: Children and Family Rehabilitation after the Holocaust (2006)  
Deborah Dwork, Clark Univ., US: Children under Nazi Occupation and in the Holocaust (2005)

 Vigil Night Event, which is held around the Holocaust Memorial Day (in the month of Nissan, April)
every year and which hosts several experts addressing issues related to the Holocaust and contemporary Israeli society and culture.
Recent Vigil Night Events: 
Holocaust Testimonies: Memory or History? (2007)
The Holocaust Memory of Ladino-Speaking Communities (co-organized with the Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture at BGU) (2006)
The Holocaust of North-African Jewish Communities (2005)
The Holocaust in the Works of Second-Generation Israeli Artists (2004)

In addition to regular events, the Rabb Center has hosted a shared conference with Amcha at Beer Sheva about the voices of Holocaust survivors (2005), a memorial event for Raoul Wallenberg (2004), and guest lectures by Maciej Kozlowski (former Ambassador of Poland in Israel) (2004), Jacek Leociak (Poland) (2004), and Lawrence Baron (US) (2006).


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