 Moderator: Judith Goldstein, FPC Board Member and Executive Director of Humanity in Action, New York City |
 Keynote: Bat-Ami Zucker, Historian and Professor Emerita, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
 Keynote: Manli Ho, Journalist and biographer, San Francisco |
KEYNOTES
2021 Frances Perkins Center Steadfast Award Recipients
Bat-Ami Zucker
Author of In Search of Refuge: Jews and United States Consuls in Nazi Germany 1933-1941, in which she documents Frances Perkins’ courageous and creative advocacy against strong opposition to aid entry to the U.S. of Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust. |
Manli Ho
Daughter of Feng Shan Ho (1901-1997), a diplomat for the Republic of China and consul-general in Vienna during World War II. Her father, often hailed as “the Chinese Schindler,” issued thousands of visas to Shanghai to help Jews emigrate. |
MODERATOR
Dr. Goldstein
Leading an interactive conversation with the speakers following Keynotes,
and audience Q & A.
PROGRAM CO-PRESENTERS
Humanity in Action ♦ Bates Jewish Student Union ♦ Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships ♦ Bowdoin Hillel ♦ McKeen Center for the Common Good at Bowdoin College ♦ Colby Hillel ♦ Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine ♦ The Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine ♦ Maine Jewish Museum ♦ Southern Maine Hillel