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"January 29, 2012 General Meeting": Four
interesting presentations on the topics "Unit 731",
"Jewish-Chinese Connection During WWII", "Japan's Slave
Labor During WWII," and "Slide/Video Show of 2011 China
Study Tour". The event will be
held at East Brunswick's Public Library, 1:30-4:30 PM.
For more information, click
here.
- April 17, 2012 "The Doolittle Air Raid":
Featuring Paul J. Frisco,
WWII Navy Veteran, feature
writer, coordinator of Center for World War II Studies
and Conflict Resolution’s Veterans History Project.
Co-sponsored with Brookdale Community College (BCC)'s
Center for WWII Studies and Conflict Resolution,
7:30 PM at BCC's Student Life Center. $12 for
adults, $5 for students, and free for NJ-ALPHA members.
- 2012 China Study Tour: Tentatively scheduled
for 7/6-21/2012, with tentative itinerary:
Shanghai, Nanjing, Harbin, Seoul, and Hong Kong.
- Implementing Five Year (2011-2015) Strategic Plan:
Recognizing that we have made significant progress along
the direction of NJ-ALPHA's objective, we have recently
formulated a five-year (2011-2015) strategic plan to
expand our program. To implement this expanded program,
NJ-ALPHA needs about $160,000 over these five years,
with about 55% of that to support the China Study Tour
Program. We plan to establish several China Study Tour
Education Fellowships. The first one we have
established is called the "Chang Chu-Yeh Education
Fellowship for China Study Tour" in honor of Mr. Chang
Chu-Yeh, who is a Nanking Massacre survivor and
eyewitness who has given many
talks about his personal experiences during the
Nanking Massacre. Although each time giving such talk
brings back extremely painful memory of the events that
he and his family experienced, he nevertheless has
continued to do so, because he believes that it is
important not to forget that part of history. Another is
called the "Iris Chang Education Fellowship for China
Study Tour," in honor of the famous late Iris Chang,
author of the best-selling book The Rape of
Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII.
A third one is the "Sigma Investment Group Education
Fellowship for China Study Tour," named after the Sigma
Management Company who donated the fellowship.
- Fundraising Campaign: We have started a major
fundraising campaign soliciting contributions from
individuals, foundations, and companies (for the
Executive Summary of the Fundraising Campaign, click
here). Anyone or organization who contributes $3,000 (or
$15,000) can name a fellowship in honor of a loved one,
a company, or a foundation for one year (or five
years). NJ-ALPHA is an established non-profit
educational 501(c)(3) organization duly registered with
the U.S. federal government (Federal Tax I.D. # is
73-1734843). Your contributions are fully tax
deductible. Checks should be made payable to NJ-ALPHA,
and mailed to NJ-ALPHA, P. O. Box 1121, Piscataway, NJ
08854.
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December 6, 2011: "The American Volunteer
Group: The Flying Tigers,", an event endorsed
by NJ-ALPHA and sponsored by Brookdale Community College's Center for WWII
Studies and Conflict Resolution, at the Student Life
Center.
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September 17-18, 2011: NJ-ALPHA, together with the
Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) of New
York and bout 20 other community organizations, sponsored a
"918 - 80th Anniversary Commemorative Event" in New York
City on 9/17-18/2011 at the CCBA Building. This two-day
event included a 200+ photo exhibit, a brief memorial
ceremony, classic WWII songs performed by well-known
singers, talks by two invited speakers (from Taiwan and
Mainland China), and several excellent films about the
14-year War of Resistance. The program attracted more
than 300 people.
- August 2011: We have just received the largest contribution
commitment to date
to NJ-ALPHA: A $15,000 donation over five years to set up a "Berkeley
Chinese Center Education Fellowship for China Study Tour,"
which will support one teacher/educator per year for each of
the next five years to participate in the China Study Tour.
The donor wants to remain anonymous, but agreed that we can
refer to him by his nickname "Sai Chung." Click
here for additional information on Sai Chung and the
Berkeley Chinese Center.
- July 13-28, 2011:
We just completed the 2011 China Study Tour. Two teachers/educators and two NJ-ALPHA
staffs participated (a third teacher/educator was unable to
go due to an accident a couple of months before the trip). This
year's tour visited Beijing, Harbin, Nanjing,
Shanghai, and Seoul, South Korea. It was the
first visit to the infamous Unit 731, Japan's massive
biological and chemical weapon research laboratory and
factory in Harbin.
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently broadcasted
to the world the complete Chinese talk of our own eyewitness
and survivor of the Nanking Massacre, Mr. Chu-Yeh Chang.
Click
here to hear the broadcast. Mr. Chang is an
88-year-old resident of Middletown, NJ, and was a
14-year-old boy living with his family in Nanking during the
Nanking Massacre.
- May 21, 2011, 2:00 PM: Talk/book signing
event by Dr. Ying-Ying Chang, mother of Iris Chang, on her
newly published memoir em>The Woman Who Could Not
Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of
Nanking. This was a very successful
event held at
Rutgers University's Alexander Library in East Brunswick,
NJ. This event was jointly
sponsored with Rutgers University's East Asian Library, and
was endorsed by nine other organizations.
For more information, click
here.
This book has already received many rave
reviews.
You learn not only about
Iris' courageous life and untimely death, but also about the
love and pain of a mother, and about life in general.
The 100+ seat of the auditorium was almost full; there was a
long and lively Q&A after Ying-Ying's talk, and about 50
autographed books were sold. The audience came away
remembering how Iris Chang lived, and not how she died.
To see the video recording of this event, click
here. The
video file is an extremely large file (241 MB), and it may take
many, many minutes to open or download. So be patient.
The video is 96 minutes long. The first 21:40 minutes
are overall information about the event and various introductions.
The introduction of Dr. Ying-Ying Chang begins at 21:41 minutes, and Ying-Ying's talk is from 26 minutes to 67 minutes, and the
last 29 minutes from 67 minutes to 96 minutes is the Q&A.
Note: You may not be able to fast forward to the spot
that you want to see until that part of the video has been
downloaded to your computer.
- Second Edition of "A Curriculum Guide for
Secondary Teachers - The Nanking Massacre and Other Japanese
Military Atrocities, The Asia-Pacific War: 1931-1945" was
published in October 2010 and distributed at the 2010
International Educational Conference. Copies have also
been distributed to all the high schools in NJ by the NJ
Commission on Holocaust Education.
This Curriculum Guide can be downloaded from
this link in the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education's
website.
- 2010
International Educational Conference:
October 8-10, 2010 at Oakcrest High School in Mays Landing,
NJ. Several of the world's premier experts on this part of
history spoke at this conference. The conference was
sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History
of WWII in Asia (GA), the NJ Commission on Holocaust
Education, and NJ-ALPHA. It was also co-sponsored by
Brookdale Community College (BCC)'s Center for WWII Studies
and Conflict Resolution and BCC's Holocaust, Genocide, and
Human Rights Education Center, Richard Stockton College of
NJ's Holocaust Resource Center, and Oakcrest High School.
The theme of the conference was "Change: Acknowledge,
Apologize, Reconcile."
Part of the program presented at this Conference was a talk by
Mr. Chu-Yeh Chang, who is a Nanking Massacre eyewitness and
survivor. He was a 14-year-old boy at that time, and is
currently living in Middletown, New Jersey. He recollected
the horrifying and tragic experiences that his family and he
endured during the Nanking Massacre. Although whenever he
gives a talk like this, he has to relive that extremely painful
experience which puts him in a depressed mode for some time
afterward, nevertheless, for the purpose of preserving this
part of history, he graciously agreed to give this talk. We
want to express our sincere appreciation for the personal
sacrifice that Mr. Chang is willing to endure in order to
educate the public about this often neglected part of history.
Click
here for the video interview.
The video file is a very large file; so it may take several
to many
minutes to open the file.
Click
here for the audio-only version of the interview.
Click here for
the transcript
of a similar talk Mr. Chang gave at Brookdale Community College
in Lincroft, New Jersey in December 2007 at the 70th Anniversary
Commemoration of the Nanking Massacre.
For more information about the conference, please click on "Conference Program."
- Commemorative Event in Memory of
Iris Chang on December 12, 2009 in East Brunswick, NJ: The
film "Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking" was shown, together
with a photo exhibition of the atrocities that occurred
during the Nanking Massacre. This event was sponsored by
NJ-ALPHA, together with the following co-sponsors: Chinese
American Librarian Association Northeast Chapter, Huaguang
Cultural Association, New Jersey Chinese American Book Club,
New York Cory Graphics Publisher, and Rutgers University
East Asian Library. The Chinese-American media company
icepn.com covered the event.
- September 18, 2010,
1:00-5:00 PM, at the E. Brunswick
Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center, East Brunswick,
NJ 08816. The movie "Nanjing Nanjing" was shown, together
with making plans for the October 8-10, 2010 International
Educational Conference.
- 2009 China
Study Tour: June 30 - July 15, 2009. One NJ middle school
teacher and one NY college professor were educators sent by
NJ-ALPHA. For the first time, the China Study Tour
visited Yunnan Province, site of many historical and
critical battles where the U.S. military played a critical
role in winning this part of the war. The U.S. role is
widely recognized and appreciated by the Chinese, especially
in Yunnan Province. We also interviewed several
eyewitnesses and survivors of the massive
biological/chemical warfare that the Japanese military
inflicted on the Chinese in Yunnan, Besides Yunnan, the tour
also visited Shanghai interviewing former sex slaves and
Nanking interviewing eyewitnesses and survivors of the
Nanking Massacre. A representative of NJ-ALPHA also
participated in this tour.
- Program on "Violence Against Women: Sex Slaves in Asia during WWII" - April 27, 2009, 7:30 PM
at Brookdale Community College (BCC) in Lincroft, NJ.
- "Sex Slaves - Almost Forgotten History of WWII":
- Talk by Frances Flannery - Social Studies and History Teacher at South Plainfield High School in South Plainfield, NJ, and 2008 China Study Tour participant
- Talk by Rosemarie Wilkinson - Social Studies Teacher at Raritan High School in Hazlet, NJ and Adjunct Professor at Kean University in Union, NJ, and 2008 China Study Tour Participant
- Show new and historical video clips on the "Sex Slaves" issue
- Photo Exhibit of Atrocities in Asia during WWII
- Program co-sponsored by BCC's "Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center," BCC's "Center for WWII Studies & Conflict Resolution," and NJ-ALPHA
- Global Alliance and ALPHA Biennial Conference: October 31 - November 2, 2008 In Toronto, Canada.
Among many other very educational presentations was the
presentation by Maryann McLoughlin and Rosemarie Wilkinson
(two of the NJ participants in the 2008 China Study Tour),
who gave an excellent summary of the history of the NJ
Commission on Holocaust Education, Brookdale Community
College's "Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education
Center" and Richard Stockton College of NJ's "Holocaust
Resource Center." Their presentation can be
found via the following link:
McLoughlin-Wilkinson_Toronto_Presentation.
Because this is a large (almost 5 MB) Adobe Acrobat PDF file, it may take several
minutes to access the whole presentation. This presentation can also be found in the "Reference_Information"
page of this website.
- NJ
Participant Readouts of 2008 China Study Tour:
September 6, 2008 in Holmdel, NJ.
All the participants gave an extremely enthusiastic
assessment of the China Study Tour. All said that they
have already started using the knowledge and experience
gained in their teachings, and all recommend highly the
China Study Tour to other teachers and educators (see the "Study Tour" page of this website for some of their testimonials)
- 2008
China Study Tour: July 1-14, 2008 in China (see the
"Study Tour" page for the 2008 participants' testimonials)
- Nanking
Massacre 70th Anniversary Commemorative Event: December 18, 2007 at Brookdale Community College (BCC), co-sponsored by BCC's "Center for WWII Studies & Conflict Resolution" and NJ-ALPHA.
Program included (1) a talk by Nanking Massacre eyewitness Mr. Chu-Yeh
Chang (his
talk can be found in the "Reference Information" page of this website),
(2) a talk by Mr. Doug Cervi (2006 China Study Tour
participant and coauthor of "Curriculum Guide" (see next
item), and (3) the premier showing in NJ of the newly
released full-length documentary film "Iris Chang - The Rape
of Nanking". The program attracted a
full-house audience and received extremely positive
feedbacks.
- Publication of "A Curriculum Guide for Secondary Teachers: The Nanking Massacre and Other Japanese Atrocities Committed During the Asia-Pacific War - 1931-1945": November 2007, a joint-project between
NJ-ALPHA and the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education.
The latter has distributed copies of this Curriculum Guide
to all high schools in NJ, and many schools have started to
use this Guide and include this part of history in their
social studies and history courses.
- Special Session on "The
Nanking Massacre" at the NJ Education Association's Annual
Convention: November 8, 2007 at Atlantic City, NJ.
Speakers included Mr. Doug Cervi, Mr. Bob Holden, and Mr.
Chu-Yeh Chang. The first two were NJ participants of
the 2006 China Study Tour and coauthors of the Curriculum
Guide (see previous item). The third person is an
eyewitness of the Nanking Massacre (see two items before
this item). Copies of the Curriculum Guide were also
distributed to the teachers attending this session.
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