1:30-3:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 200 Court Yard Building
Art, Film and Letters of the Holocaust
Ann Kirschner - "The Last New Voices: A Case Study of A Survivor's Inheritance"
Professor Gila Naveh - "Film and Fiction About the Holocaust"
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun - " The film The Pianist: On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War"
Professor Andrea Liss - "Art of the Shoah as Documentation and Post-Witnessing"
Leah Ollman, L.A. Times Art Critic - "Reckoning With the Past (and Future) Through Art"

Director of the "Letters to Sala" Project

Dr. Ann Kirschner is the Director of the "Letters to Sala" project, which is creating educational projects and public programs based on an important collection of more than 300 letters that her mother, Sala Garncarz Kirschner, received while she was imprisoned in Nazi labor camps. Dr. Kirschner brings to this project her roots as a scholar, activist, and writer, as well as her entrepreneurial experience in media, marketing, and technology. "Letters to Sala" is being developed in collaboration with the French Children of the Holocaust Foundation.

Dr. Kirschner received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and also worked at the New York Public Library and the Modern Language Association. From academics, she went into business, where she brought five start-ups from concept to execution. Most recently, she created Fathom, the first online knowledge network, in association with Columbia University, the London School of Economics, the New York Publish Library, the National History Museum, Cambridge University Press, the British Museum, and other distinguished institutions. Kirschner's previous start-ups included NFL SUNDAY TICKET, nfl.com, superbowl.com; where she built alliances with NBC, Fox, Microsoft, IBM, and DirecTV. In addition to her activities on the "Letters to Sala" project, Dr. Kirschner is the president of Comma International, a consulting group that advises universities for for-profit education companies on projects and strategies that integrate education, media, and technology.