Harrisburg's Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to host two virtual speakers

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Penn State Harrisburg's Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will host two speaker presentations via webinars in the coming weeks.

April 15: Raymond Polak

The center, in collaboration with the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, will welcome Raymond Polak at noon on Wednesday, April 15. The discussion will center on his experiences as a child Holocaust survivor. This event is free and open to the public, and registration is requested. Click here to register for Raymond Polak's talk.

Polak was born in France in 1943, in the middle of World War II. His mother and grandmother had been transported to Gurs, a concentration camp in the south of France. There his mother met his father, Arthur "Turl" Schnierer, an Austrian Jew who had been captured in Belgium by the Nazis.

May 1: Pamela Nadell

The second presentation will feature Pamela Nadell discussing her most recent book, "Antisemitism: An American Tradition," at noon on Friday, May 1. This event is free and open to the public. Register online for Pamela Nadell's talk here.

Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History at American University. Her book "America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today" won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award's Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year. A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she is a consultant to Pittsburgh's Tree of Life museum, has testified multiple times before Congress, and lectures widely.

For additional information on the talks, contact [email protected].