2007 Calendar of Events* Film: “A Love to Hide”
Directed by Christian Faure
Thursday, February 15 ▪ 6 pm
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130)
This film stars Jérémie Renier and Louise Monot. It tells the story of a young Jewish girl, Sara, who is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich and finds herself sheltered by an old friend, Jean, whose status as a member of the "third" sex soon leads the Gestapo pounding on his door. Though safe for the moment thanks to Jean's quick-thinking plan, Sara watches in horror as her homosexual protector is forced into a Nazi labor camp as a tragic result of a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques.
The Hushed Witness: Discovering the James G. McDonald Diaries
Featuring Stephen Mize, archivist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Thursday, March 1 ▪ 6:30 pm
Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A/B)
Archivist Stephen Mize tells of the search and acquisition of the James G. McDonald diaries. McDonald was a key diplomat and the United States' first ambassador to Israel. His meetings with world leaders during the 1930s and '40s were kept "hushed" until the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired his diaries in 2004!
Film: “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days”
Directed by Marc Rothemund
Wednesday, March 14 ▪ 6 pm
Flynn Campus Center Forum (3-130)
In 1943, a group of college students, called the White Rose, mount an underground resistance movement against Hitler and the Third Reich in Munich. Its only female member, Sophie Scholl, is captured during a mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills. The true story re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's life: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.
Book Discussion: “Suite Française” by Irène Némirovsky
Monday, March 19 ▪ Noon
LeRoy V. Good Library, Room 2-440 (Faculty Study Room)
Suite Française is “a brilliant novel of wartime and an extraordinary historical document” (BookClubs.ca). The novel tells the story of the exodus from Paris after the German invasion of 1940, and life under the Nazi occupation. Esteemed French novelist Némirovsky wrote the book as events unfolded around her. This haunting masterpiece has been hailed by critics as the “War and Peace” for World War II.
Rwandan Genocide Commemoration
Monday, April 2 ▪ Activities to begin at noon
Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A/B)
Monroe Community College and the Town of Brighton will remember the 800,000 lives lost in 100 days in 1994 through a special commemorative event, featuring guest speakers, musical performances and a visual time line chronicling Rwanda’s progression to genocide.
Annual United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Trip
April 10 – 12 (spring break)
Washington, D.C. (student scholarships available)
Visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—America’s national institution for the documentation, study and interpretation of Holocaust history—with members of the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project at MCC. Participants take advantage of private lecture and discussion opportunities with museum experts. This year’s trip will cost approximately $350-400 per person and includes air transportation to Washington, D.C, hotel accommodations, admission to the museum and a ticket to a theatrical performance. Please call Linda Ingraham at 292.3321 if you are interested in the trip.
17th annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Tuesday, April 24 ▪ 10 am – 2 pm
Flynn Campus Center
From the reading of Holocaust survivor names to candle lighting, the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project will once again fill the Flynn Campus Center with opportunities to learn and reflect on the many lessons of the Holocaust. Local survivors will be onsite throughout the day to share their stories with students, faculty and staff. Community leaders will return to MCC’s Brighton Campus to take part and remember.
Non-Governmental Organization Fair
Tuesday, May 8
Flynn Campus Center Atrium
When Lt. General (retired) Romeo Dallaire visited MCC in 2005, he noted that becoming active in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is one way to impact human rights and prevent future genocides. An NGO is an organization that is not directly part of the structure of government, such as the International Red Cross, Human Rights Watch and EarthTrust. The United States has an estimated 2 million NGOs, most of them formed in the past 30 years. This fair will bring representatives of NGOs to campus to share information and involvement opportunities with MCC students.
Weekly Project Meetings
Holocaust Genocide Studies Project meetings for the Spring 2007 semester will be held weekly on Tuesdays at 3:30 pm in the Flynn Campus Center Brighton Room (3-217). The Rwandan Genocide Committee will meet independently on Mondays at 3:00 pm in room 3-136.
