Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution
Welcome to The Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution.
The Center is dedicated to fostering the study of the historical, political, social, economic, cultural and military aspects of the World War II era up through the Korean War. The Center will educate the community about the era and its impact on world history and help future generations avoid armed conflict in the resolution of global problems. It will stimulate the examination of the key events of the time; the political and military leaders who waged the wars, provided the leadership, made the peace; and those who served on the battlefield and home front. The ultimate goal of The Center is to utilize the lessons learned from the World War II era to prevent the recurrence of global armed conflict in a world of sovereign states with divergent interests, wants and needs. The Center is a resource open to all.
Center News You Can Use
- CENTER NEWSLETTER: Click here to download our Spring 2012 Newsletter.
- TED J. NAROZANICK CWW2SCONRES RESOURCE CENTER: This WW II resource center is located in Brookdale’s Bankier Library. Its operational hours are 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday when the College is in session. The Center provides all interested in World War II and its impact multiple sources to read, review, and research and several globally linked computers that enable one to access information on the war world wide. Material in the Center is for room use only. Click here for information about the Resource Center's new Family Research Service.
Phone number: (732) 224-2086.
- THE AL MESERLIN WORLD WAR II PHOTO GALLERY: Brookdale Community College and its Center for World War II Studies and onflict cordially invites you to visit the gallery located in the lobby outside the Bankier Library.
- TRIUMPHANT SPIRIT: AMERICA'S WORLD WAR II GENERATION SPEAKS: The Center’s television series featuring memorable interviews of World War II veterans of the battlefield as well as the home front can now be viewed via your computer. Click here to view the acclaimed shows.
- LATEST WAR MEMOIR POSTED: When she asked her mother on Sunday morning, September 3rd, 1939, “What’s the matter?” her mother replied in tears “We are at war; we have declared war on Germany” so wrote Elise Singer in her memoirs titled English Wartime Memories. Donated to the Center by her son Andrew Bolognini, they are read in part by Rutgers student intern Brittany N. Turi who interviewed Mr. Bolognini about his mother’s amazing and insightful wartime memoirs. Mrs. Singer later became the very first English War Bride to step foot on American soil. Click here to access the memoir.
- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REPORT: Recently completed for the U.S. National Park Service at Sandy Hook is an in depth research report on the development of radar at Fort Hancock between 1933 to 1942. Authored by Georgian Court University student Michael Eberhardt interning at the Narozanick Center as part of the Rutgers University History Department Internship program, Mike worked diligently with Sandy Hook Park historian Tom Hoffman, Fort Monmouth Museum authorities, and associates in Honolulu, Hawaii, to complete an informative account of radar development at Fort Hancock that sheds light on an important scientific event that helped the U.S. win World War II. Click here to read this original research accompanied by captioned photos, many being published for the first time.
