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Children in Crisis VIII

Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam, Germany 2024

Potsdam 2024

Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam, Germany 2024

Monday 12 February 2024

Prof. Carmit Katz, Senior Director at the Haruv Institute, Jerusalem, Israel When Innocence was Stolen: Children Held Hostage by Hamas

Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev, CEO of Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel Child Hostages after their Release

Dr. Ada Gebel, Senior lecturer at the Sha’anan College of Education, Haifa, Israel Building a School for Children evacuated from Southern Israel after 7 October

Moderator: Dr. Olaf Glöcker, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam, Germany

 

Tuesday 13 February 2024

SESSION I

Prof. Dr. Andrea Löw, Center for Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

Deported German Jewish Children and Adolescents on the Last Phase of the War and shortly after Liberation

 

Mr. Jakob Weil, Zentrum Ueberleben Berlin Reception of Child Survivors at the Center Ueberleben, Berlin

 

Ms. Nehama Grenimann-Bauch, IsrAid Germany, Berlin

Co-creating safe spaces: Ukrainian mothers and their children creating together, a glimpse into research about Art therapy with refugees/ asylum seeker children and parents.

Chair: Dr. Martina Bitunjac, Moses Mendelssohn Center & University of Potsdam

 

SESSION II Dr. Martijn Lak, Amsterdam University

Rehabilitation of Jewish Children in the postwar Netherlands  

Chair: Dr. Olaf Glöcker, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam, Germany

 

SESSION III:

Dr. Daniela Ozacky Stern, Western Galilee College, Holocaust Studies Program

Child Rehabilitation Through Arts and Crafts Workshops in Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947-1948

 

Chair: Dr. Martijn Lak, Amsterdam University