The "1939" Club's Leopold Page Memorial Righteous Rescuers Lecture Series

Dedicated to telling the stories of those who refused to be bystanders to evil and courageously chose to become rescuers of the persecuted, this lecture series was inaugurated in fall 2001. It honors the memory of Leopold Page, number 173 on Schindler’s List, a founding member and former president of The “1939” Club, whose steadfast determination assured that Oskar Schindler’s name and deeds would become known throughout the world.

Lieutenant-General
The Honorable Romeó A. Dallaire
O.C., C.M.M., G.O.Q., M.S.C., C.D., (Retired), Senator
Former commander of the United Nations Observer Mission --
Uganda and Rwanda and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
Author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention
Bearing Witnees: One Man's Story of Courage and Conviction

Paul Rusesabagina
Inspirational hero of the Rwandan genocide
Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet To Be Learned

Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard
Holocaust rescuer
Honored be Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations
Rescue and Resistance: One Woman's Story

Mark E. Talisman
President, Project Judaica Foundation
Founding Vice-Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council
Remember the Children: From Terezin and Beyond

Sir Martin Gilbert
Author of The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors and The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Dr. Nechama Tec
Member of the Council, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust survivor
Author of Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood and When Light Pierced the Darknes: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Resisting Oppression: Rescuers of the Holocaust

Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Executive producer and writer of Desperate Hours
Director, Sigi Ziering Institute for the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism
Is Neutrality Always Neutral? Turkey and the Holocaust

Peter Engelmann
Retired staff member, World Bank
German refugee in Turkey, 1936-1945
Is Neutrality Always Neutral? Turkey and the Holocaust

Dr. Justus Rosenberg
Youngest member of the Varian Fry rescue team
Memories of a Righteous Rescuer: Varian Fry in France

Dr. David Crowe
Author of the forthcoming book Oskar Schindler: A Life
The Search for Oskar Schindler: One Historian’s Journey

The “1939” Club’s Leopold Page Memorial Righteous Rescuers Lecture Series is made possible by a generous grant from Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation.

“As co-chairman of a foundation devoted to honoring the memory of Varian Fry, who, along with his organization, saved some 2,000 endangered individuals from the clutches of the Gestapo in France, I have lectured at many universities around the world. While all these conferences and seminars had great merit, few equaled the intellectual and emotional impact of the Chapman University event in which I participated. Even more impressive was the active involvement of middle and high school students and the community at large.”