Holocaust Commemoration
Annual Scholar Lecture & Commemorative Programs
Each year, the Holocaust Resource Foundation and the Holocaust Resource Center delivers two hallmark events – the Murray Pantirer Scholars’ Lecture and Yom HaShoah memorial service – as well as commemorative programs for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Kristallnacht/November Pogrom, and Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Month (April). The HRC also hosts various programs with Kean University colleges and departments; communities with a history of genocide, including Rwandese and Armenian speakers; and organizations such as Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, American Society for Yad Vashem, Echoes & Reflections, Yahad-In Unum, the Holocaust Council of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, Facing History and Ourselves, and more. We also partner with religious communities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Click the links below for more information about past Murray Pantirer Annual Scholars Lecture and upcoming events:
About the Murray Pantirer Annual Scholars Lecture Series:
Named for the late Holocaust survivor and HRF founder Murray Pantirer, the dynamic annual lecture series has attracted thousands of visitors to the Kean University campus. Among the noted guest scholars, theologians, survivors, and dignitaries are:
- Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel z”l
- Chief Rabbi of Israel Israel M. Lau
- Deborah Dwork (Clark University)
- Sir Martin Gilbert z”l
- Christopher Browning (UNC-Chapel Hill)
- Gerda Weissman Klein
Recordings of all lectures are available online.
We are pleased to share with you part of the 1986 Murray Pantirer Memorial Scholar Lecture with honored guest Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Author and Activist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner: