On 29 November 2018, more than 60 students and guests attended a talk with Auschwitz-survivor Stanisław Zalewski from Warsaw. The 94-year-old Zalewski was arrested by Gestapo in Warsaw in 1943 and, after torture in the Pawiak prison, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After one month at this extermination camp he was transported first to Mauthausen and later [...]
It has become a nice tradition: a visit by 11th graders from “Jüdisches Gymnasium Moses Mendelssohn” in Berlin-Mitte to help clarify their study options after finishing high school. After being welcomed by Office Manager Momme Wachsen and given a short campus tour including the two libraries, the students were invited to attend two classes for [...]
"In 2001, Sara Nachama was first introduced to Dr. Bernard Lander, of blessed memory, in New York. He was about to relinquish one of his most treasured projects. He had dreamt of establishing a Touro campus in Berlin, the capital of Germany since its reunifcation. But due to German bureaucracy and the lack of on-site [...]
Touro College Berlin is hosting the YOUNG SCHOLARS NETWORK on Culture, media uses, and media effects. The network comprises 16 international scholars that have a special interest in research at the interstices of culture and the media. The network will be directed by Professor of Psychology Özen Odag who is the main initiator of the [...]
IM ANGESICHT DER VERNICHTUNG. ARBEIT UND WIDERSTAND IN DEN GHETTOS, 1941-1944 Eine Ausstellung von Student*innen des Touro College Berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand Hier klicken für mehr Informationen auf Deutsch IN THE FACE OF ANNIHILATION. WORK AND RESISTANCE IN THE GHETTOS, 1941-1944 An exhibition by students of Touro College Berlin [...]
In the last Monday's issue (March 13, 2017) of the journal "Welt" our Professor Stephan Lehnstaedt talked about "Aktion Reinhardt" and his latest book. Find the article (in German) here: Sprachloses Erschrecken, was Menschen anderen Menschen antun
Please be informed about the following scholarship opportunity for German-speaking students: Mit der Böckler-Aktion-Bildung vergibt die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Stipendien an junge Menschen, die sich ein Studium anders nicht leisten könnten. Wichtig ist uns dabei, dass die Bewerberinnen und Bewerber nicht nur gute schulische Leistungen erbracht haben, sondern sich während ihrer Schulzeit bereits ehrenamtlich engagiert haben und [...]
This year's first Mitteilungsblatt/Bulletin (01/2017) includes: 1. The constitution of Touro College Berlin (Grundordnung des Touro College Berlin) 2. The latest study and examination regulations for Undergraduate Program Psychology (Studien-, Prüfungs- und Zulassungsordnung = SPZO Psychologie) 3. The latest study and examination regulations for Undergraduate Program Management (SPZO Management) Mitteilungsblatt/Bulletin (01/2017) (updated March 13, 2017)
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, Professor Peter Klein, Dean of the M.A. program in Holocaust Communication and Tolerance at Touro College Berlin, presented a public lecture on the controversies and interpretations of the event in its historical context. More than forty listeners – Touro students, professors and guests [...]
Prof. Stephan Lehnstaedt, Professor of Holocaust Communication and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin, published his new book on the 'Aktion Reinhardt'. During 'Aktion Reinhardt' Jews from the Ghettos in Poland were deported to the death camps Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka. By November 1943, nearly two million people were murdered, less than 150 people survived. [...]