Millersville University's annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide will celebrate its 41st year with two free events centered on the theme "Translating Trauma Into Literature and Performing Arts."

The conference's first event, "Translating Zuzanna Ginczanka," will be a panel discussion and poetry reading at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, in Myers Auditorium at McComsey Hall. Sponsored in part by the Jewish Community Alliance of Lancaster, the event will feature the poetry of Zuzanna Ginczanka, a Polish-Jewish poet who was executed by the Nazis at the age of 27 in 1944.

Translators Joanna Trzeciak Huss, Mira Rosenthal, and Alex Braslavsky will share English versions of her poems and discuss the challenges of bringing this unique voice to American audiences.

Ginczanka was born in Kiev in 1917, and she and her family fled shortly after the Russian Revolution to a border town in present-day Ukraine. Ginczanka later moved to Warsaw, where she published her only collection of poetry, "On Centaurs."

Before the panel, Huss will lead a teachers' workshop about teaching Holocaust poetry in translation. Huss is an acclaimed scholar and translator.

The second event will be the P. Alan and Linda Loss Keynote Lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in Biemesderfer Concert Hall at the Winter Center. Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright Moises Kaufman will discuss his award-winning play "Here There Are Blueberries" as a form of translation of Holocaust history.

During the keynote presentation, which will be a dialogue with Kaufman, there will be dramatic readings excerpted from the play and performed by Millersville University students. Those scenes will include the projection of photographic images accompanying the text.

Kaufman is a Venezuelan-Jewish American theater director, playwright, filmmaker, founder of Tectonic Theater Project based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre. He was awarded the 2016 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama, and his work was represented earlier this year at Millersville with its production of "The Laramie Project."