April 16 , 2008
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Invited lecture presented at the
Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Psychological Impact of Injustice
March, 2008
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Invited lecture presented at the
Roberta Buffett Center for International Comparative Studies
Memory Transmission and Transformation
May, 2007
Invited lecture presented at the
FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG GOETHE-INSTITUT WASHINGTON
The Shoah and the Second Generation
Reflections on Remembrance and Forgiveness
Prof. Mona Sue Weissmark, Northwestern University, Chicago, Department of Psychology
Dr. Almut Wieland-Karimi, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel, Humboldt University, Berlin
Fellow at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
The short film “Seeing the Other Side – 60 years after Buchenwald” features the story of Mona Weissmark, the child of a Holocaust survivor, through her personal reckoning with history. The legacy of the Holocaust is both personal and collective. The second generation has inherited the duty to remember as well as the choice to forgive. The film presents dilemmas of personal identity, collective guilt, forgiveness and remembrance that will be explored in a discussion with Mona Weissmark and Kiran Klaus Patel after the presentation.
March, 2007
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Invited lecture presented at the
The German Interdisciplinary Group at Northwestern University
Justice Matters
March, 2006
Invited lecture presented at the
CONSULATE GENERAL OF ISRAEL, CHICAGO
Remembering the Holocaust
March, 2006
Invited lecture presented at the
ST JOHN'S NORWAY ANGLICAN CHURCH
Toronto, Canada
Holocaust Education Week
Helping the Helpless
March, 2005
Invited lecture presented at the
OLD STATE CAPITOL
Cosponsored by the Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois and Jewish Federations of Illinois
Springfield, Illinois
Why Remember the Holocaust?
  
Mona Sure Weissmark addressing civic and religious leaders and government officials in Illinois May 11, 2005 in the Old State Capital Building in Springfield. Note on the upper middle, on the government bench, Governor Rod Blagojevich.
Mona S. Weissmark, daughter of Holocaust survivors and author of "Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and WWII", addressed the 25th annual Yom Hashoah Memorial Service, sponsored by Governor Rod Blagojevich and the Jewish Federations in Illinois May 11, 2005 in the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield. Weissmark is a visiting associate professor in psychology at Northwestern University. Blagojevich and Representative Sara Feigenholtz also spoke. The event, moderated by JCRC Chairman Senator Howard W. Carroll, was attended by religious and civic leaders and government officials including State Senators Ira Silverstein, Carol Ronen and Jeffrey Schoenberg and Representatives Louis Lang, Sidney Mathias, Julie Hamos, Elaine Nekritz and Karen May.
February, 2005
Invited lecture presented at the
THE GOETHE INSTITUT COSPONSORED BY
THE ISRAELI CONSULATE OF ISRAEL
Chicago, Illinois
Helping the Helpless-Surving the Nazi Era
Sr. Renate Seebass and Mona Weissmark
 
Stephan Seebass, Sr. Renate Seebass,
Mona Weissmark, and Brittany Weissmark Giacomo
When will we help someone? What are the circumstances that prompt people to help or not? Sister Renate Seebass will shed light on the story of why one German family risked their lives to help strangers. In April 1945, Adolf Weissmark and his friend had fled the concentration camp of Lagenstein-Zwieberge, and managed to reach the nearby village of Bornecke. There, starving, covered in lice and ill with typhus and dysentery, they collapsed on the doorstep of pastor Julius Seebass.
The pastor's wife and daughters, Renate and Ricarda, bathed and clothed the two young men and nursed them back to health, and the two men were welcomed into the family. They remained with the Seebass family for several months until they could emigrate to America. Ricarda, who had contracted typhus, probably while tending to the two men, died shortly after they left, and Renate moved to England a few years later, where she became an Anglican nun.
Nearly sixty years have passed, but Sister Renate says she was so moved by the young men's rescue that it has affected her whole life. Sister Renate will discuss her experience and help us understand why some people retain their human compassion even as others have let theirs go.
Mona Sue Weissmark received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She headed the Harvard Holocaust Conference Research project and was on the faculty of the Harvard University Medical School. She is a visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University.
February, 2004
Invited lecture presented at the
EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Evanston, Illinois
Justice Matters - Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
November, 2004
Invited lecture presented at the
CENTENNIAL COLLEGE
TORONTO, CANADA
Justice Matters - Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
TORONTO, Nov. 1 /CNW/ - As part of Holocaust Education Week, Centennial College is presenting guest speaker Mona Sue Weissmark at the Centennial HP Science and Technology Centre on Thursday, November 4 at 7:30 pm. Stemming from an unprecedented study of the children of Holocaust survivors and the children of Third Reich members, professor Weissmark's recently published book, Justice Matters, illustrates how the psychology of hatred and resentment is passed from generation to generation through storytelling. Weissmark will present an inspiring recipe for reconciliation.
February, 2004
Invited lecture presented at the
THE GOETHE INSTITUT & THE SPERTUS INSTITUTE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Justice Matters - Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
   
October, 2003
Invited lecture presented at the
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Hillel, Chicago
The Pscyhological Impact of Injustice
April, 2003
Invited lecture presented at the
THE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Sponsored by the FRIEDRICH EBERT FOUNDATION
Washington, DC
Justice Matters: A German-American Dialogue on
the Legacy of the Holocaust and the
Politics and Culture of Memory
 
Mona Sue Weissmark
Dr. Dieter Dettke, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Weissmark, Dr. Loewy and
Dr. Peck
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