The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory book launch event

A Contrarian’s Tale: Reflecting on Henry Greenspan’s REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors

Sunday, 30 November 2025

Opening Remarks:
Prof. Debórah Dwork

Guest Author:
Prof. Henry Greenspan

You are warmly invited to a special Talking Memory webinar marking the launch of Henry Greenspan’s new book, REMNANTS and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors. The programme will begin with opening remarks by Prof. Debórah Dwork, followed by a conversation with Prof. Greenspan about his decades of work and his reflections on Holocaust testimony as sustained, evolving dialogues. Greenspan will also present a short live performance of an excerpt from REMNANTS.

This event opens the new series, Conversations that Endure: In the Footsteps of Henry Greenspan and Dori Laub.

For more than fifty years, Henry Greenspan—psychologist, playwright, and pioneering oral historian—has been listening to, learning from, and engaging in deep conversation with Holocaust survivors. His work has reshaped understandings of survivor accounts, highlighting how testimony emerges through collaboration, trust, and survivors’ own active choices shaped by the contexts in which they speak.

In REMNANTS and What Remains, Greenspan brings together powerful moments from a lifetime of encounters, illuminating both survivors’ lived experiences and the complex ethical and emotional questions that arise in the work of remembrance. The book also explores the question of what remains after profound loss: survivors’ loss of a world; Greenspan’s loss of his survivor-partners; and, as survivors near the end of their lives, their own diverse and often unexpected views of their “legacies”.

This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from Henry Greenspan as he reflects on the evolution of his work, the individuals who shaped it, and the continued relevance of these conversations in a world marked by both past and present catastrophes.

You are invited to watch REMNANTS (45-minute performance video) prior to the event:
https://youtu.be/Vty8b_euk-k

Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZlO3XmsJTCyFH79Jj4PNNQ

Time:
2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM Israel Time

This programme is co-sponsored by the Jean and Shimuel Frankel Centre for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.