Alan Rosen: Killing Time, Saving Time

Defying the Holocaust by Counting the Days

Date of Lecture: March 2, 2011

Alan RosenAbout the Speaker: Alan Rosen is a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature. He lectures at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. He is the author of "The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder," published in 2010 and has edited a number of collections on reflecting on Elie Wiesel's life and work. He has held fellowships at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and at Yad Vashem.

About the Talk: Rosen explains how and why Holocaust victims in hiding and in ghettos would use both Gregorian and Jewish calendars to keep track of time.

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