Commemoration
Annual Scholar Lecture & Commemorative Programs
Each year, the Holocaust Resource and Education 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 November Pogrom (Kristallnacht). The HREC also hosts various programs with Kean University’s Human Rights Institute; communities with a history of genocide, including Cambodians and Sudanese; and organizations such as Facing History and Ourselves and Echoes & Reflections. We are also interested in partnering with religious communities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
About the Murray Pantirer Annual Scholars Lecture Series
Named for the late Holocaust survivor and HREC 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
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:
