For the eighth year, Chapman University gathers as an interfaith community to commemorate Kristallnacht. We remember the violence and destruction that swept across Germany on November 9-10, 1938, and the terror, arrests, and deportations that followed.

We also remember the courageous people from many walks of life who dared to defy Nazi authority to become resisters and rescuers. Among them was Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party, who in the latter days of the war risked his own life to save the lives of some 1,200 Jews working in his enamelware and munitions factories, first in Krakow, Poland, and later in Brűnnlitz in the Protectorate of Moravia.

Guest speaker: Dr. David Crowe
"Oskar Schindler: A Different Choice"

Special Guest Artist
Rachel Joselson, DMA
Associate Professor, School of Music, University of Iowa

Dr. David Crowe is Presidential Fellow at Chapman University and Professor of Legal History at Elon Law and Professor of History Emeritus at Elon University. He is the author of Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List, the definitive biography of Oskar Schindler, and many other books, including War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History. He is currently at work on a biography of Rafael Lemkin. Dr. Crowe was a member of the Education Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1999 - 2004 and is president emeritus of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) at Columbia University.

Dr. Rachel Joselson is a guest artist in the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, College of Performing Arts, Chapman University. She is an associate professor in the School of Music at the University of Iowa. Dr. Joselson has performed with the Hamburg State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, among others. Her most recent recording is Songs of the Holocaust (June 2016).