UNIVERSITY NEWS - NOVEMBER 2003

MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971; ssmith@fau.edu

CALENDAR INFORMATION

CATEGORY: Lecture

EVENT: Florida Atlantic University's Holocaust and Judaic Studies program presents
Dr. Simon Carmel with the lecture: "Deaf Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies"

WHEN: Sunday, November 23, 2003
4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Performing Arts Building, Room 101
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL

COST: Free

INFORMATION: For more information, call 562-297-2979.

DESCRIPTION: Carmel was a program coordinator and moderator at the panel discussion with two deaf survivors under the special program on the "Nazi Persecution of Deaf People" at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, held during the week of the Jewish Deaf Congress Conference in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2001.

The Holocaust and Judaic Lectures are sponsored by Dr. Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar and Chair of Holocaust Studies at FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.