Sonntag, 30. November 2025, 20:00 - 21:30

Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZlO3XmsJTCyFH79Jj4PNNQ

The Ghetto Fighters’ House Invites You to a Special Talking Memory Book Launch Event

Opening Remarks: Debórah Dwork

Guest Author: Prof. Henry Greenspan

Join us for a special Talking Memory webinar marking the launch of Henry Greenspan’s new book, REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors. The event will open with brief remarks by Prof. Debórah Dwork, followed by a conversation with Greenspan about his decades of work and reflection on Holocaust testimony as sustained conversations. Greenspan will also perform an excerpt from REMNANTS.

This is the first program in the series: Conversations that Endure: In the Footsteps of Henry Greenspan and Dori Laub.

For over fifty years, Henry Greenspan—psychologist, playwright, and pioneering oral historian—has been listening to, learning from, and dialoguing with Holocaust survivors. His work has transformed how we understand survivor accounts, emphasizing their emergence within ongoing and genuine collaborations, shaped by multiple contexts including survivors' active choices.

In REMNANTS and What Remains, Greenspan brings together powerful moments from a lifetime of encounters—illuminating both the survivors’ lived experiences and the profound ethical and emotional questions that emerge in the process of remembrance. Much of the book explores what remains after multiple losses--survivors’ loss of a world; Greenspan’s loss of his survivor-partners; and, as they approach their deaths, survivors’ own perceptions of their “legacies”--which often vary from what we assume.

This webinar will offer an opportunity to hear directly from Henry Greenspan as he reflects on the evolution of his work, the people who have shaped it, and the continuing relevance of these dialogues amidst present as well as past catastrophes.

This program is co-sponsored by the Jean and Shimuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, and Classrooms Without Borders.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZlO3XmsJTCyFH79Jj4PNNQ