Tel Aviv University
The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
School of History
Institute for German History

Opposing Oppression,
Occupation and Persecution -
The Resistance against the Nazi Regime

May 13 and 14, 2002
Drachlis Hall (496), Gilman Building, Tel Aviv University

Monday, May 13, 2002
16:00 - 19:00

Greetings
Avi Primor, Vice President, Tel Aviv University

Introduction
Moshe Zuckermann, Director, Institute for German History

Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv
Patterns of Resistance from a New Perspective -
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland

Matitiahu Mayzel, Tel Aviv
Soviet Partisans: Resistance from Below -
Directives from Above

Manuela Consonni, Jerusalem
The Italian Resistenza - Remembrance and Suppression

Tuesday, May 14, 2002
9:00 - 12:00

Avihu Ronen, Tel-Hai/Haifa
A Historian's Fight -
Emanuel Ringelblum's Struggle Against the Obliteration of Memory

Sara Bender, Haifa
The Ghetto Uprisings - Reality or Myth?

Raya Cohen, Tel Aviv
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -
Motives, Objectives, and Historical Context

Lunch Break

14:00 - 16:00

Hans Mommsen, Bochum
The German Resistance as an Alternative to the Hitler Regime -
Plans for a New Germany

Marianne Meyer-Krahmer, Heidelberg
The Abandoned Conspirators

16:30 - 18:30

"The Restless Conscience"(1991)
Documentary by Hava Kohav Beller, New York
(in English)
In the presence of Ms. Beller followed by a discussion

Proceedings will be held in Hebrew and German (with simultaneous translation)

Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv

The public is invited