Annual Scholars’ Conference: 2014 Conference
The 44th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Remembering for the Future: Armenia, Auschwitz and Beyond
March 8-11, 2014
Los Angeles, California
Scholars’ Conference Group – Prof. Richard Hovannisian, UCLA with Prof. Richard Dekmejian, USC (center) (Back) Dennis Klein, Kean University; Edward Gaffney, Valparaiso University School of Law; Marc Mamigonian, Nat’l Assoc. for Armenian Studies & Research; Stefan Ionescu, Chapman University (Front) Ishkhan Chifjian, Hamburg University; Lillian Hussong, Richard Stockton College; Arda Melkonian, UCLA; Rubina Peroomian, UCLA; Hovanissian, Dekmejian; Doris Melkonian, UCLA; Khachtur Gasparyan, Yereven State Medical University; Ludmilla Leibman, Boston University + Educational Bridge Project; Sona Haroutyunian, University of Venice; Mariam Frangulyan.
Sunday Evening Public Program – “Sexual Abuse of Women in the Holocaust”
Speakers included: Lois Hecht Oppenheim, AJU; Rochelle Saidel, Remember the Women Institute; Sonja Hedgepeth, Middle Tennessee State University.
Plenary Speakers – David Patterson, University of Texas, Dallas; Michael Berenbaum, Host Chairman, Annual Scholars’ Conference & Professor, AJU & Sigi Ziering Institute; Richard L. Rubenstein, University of Bridgeport.
2014 Eternal Flame Award Recipient, Dr. Stephen D. Smith
Dr. Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education (right) with Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell, VP, Annual Scholars’ Conference.
Henry B. Morgenthau, IV – Great Grandson of Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who was a lawyer, investor & leader in the Reform Jewish community in New York + US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1913-1916); he resigned due to his opposition of the Armenian Genocide.
Henry Knight, President, Annual Scholars’ Conference.
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA, speaks at the conference.
Renee Firestone, Public Speaker & Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz).