By Lisa Di Venuta Suzanne Giller Federman was born in France in 1941, right as World War II was beginning to turn her family’s life upside down. She joked to the audience, “I always asked my mother why she thought that was a good idea.” Federman and her husband Henri […]
Holocaust
“There will always remain the reality of the Holocaust, and with that, the task of explaining it,” said Gerald Sorin, director of Jewish studies at SUNY New Paltz, addressing a packed room in the Lecture Center Wednesday evening. This past week marked the official 2012 Days of Remembrance, an annual […]