When: 7 November 2024, 16:00 – 17:00 (CEST)
Where: online.
You are invited to a virtual discussion on Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Belgium.
There was a wide range of acts of resistance, rescue and aid organized through or by the Jewish community in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Panelists will consider the courage and compassion of those who defied the Nazis and their collaborators, despite the grave risk.
The discussion is part of the events organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme to mark the November Pogrom of 1938.
Panelists:
- Dr. Janiv Stamberger obtained his PhD in history at the University of Antwerpen and Université Libre de Bruxelles, for which he received the Mgr. Charles de Clerck and Pro Civitate price from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Janiv is affiliated with the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and is coordinator of the Peace Centre of the city of Antwerp. His research focuses on Jewish life in Belgium at the end of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. He authored numerous articles and chapters on the subject.
- Ms. Dorien Styven obtained a master’s degree in History at the KULeuven and an advanced Master in Archival Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Dorien is affiliated with Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Research Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights in Mechelen, Belgium, since 2010. As of 2019 she manages all aspects of archival curation as well as the Give Them a Face commemoration project. Dorien represents Kazerne Dossin within the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and the Archive and Contemporary Records board of the Flemish Association for Library, Archive and Documentation (VVBAD), and co-chairs the Working Group on Sustainable Publishing of Metadata within the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). Her research focuses on hiding in Belgium and on the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Holocaust remembrance.
- Dr. Noémi Perelman Mattis is a retired psychologist in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was a hidden child in Brussels during the Holocaust, while her parents Chaim and Fela Perelman founded and led the Jewish Resistance there. She earned a JD from the University of Brussels and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University. She specializes in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood trauma. She has been a member of the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women and a Co-Chair of the Utah State Task Force on Ritual Abuse. Dr. Mattis lectures widely and gave an invited address at the international gathering in Jerusalem in 2007 of the hidden children of Belgium.
This discussion is moderated by Ms. Sherri Aldis, Director, United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels, managing UN communications for 22 countries and 13 languages in Western Europe.
- Ms. Sherri Aldis has more than 30 years of experience in communications in both the private sector and the United Nations, including managing multinational teams and leading strategic communications, as well as creative outreach to a variety of global audiences. Her extensive experience includes building high-level partnerships with Member States, civil society, the private sector, academia, and international institutions such as the European Union. Sherri served as Chief of the Sales and Marketing Section in the Department of Global Communications and as Acting Deputy Director of the Outreach Division in New York before taking up her role in Brussels. Prior to joining the United Nations, Sherri held senior positions in international publishing and marketing.
