Memory and Truth: How Holocaust Deniers Distort History and Endanger Us All

The lecture will focus on the activities of the United States Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad, including the advancement of Holocaust remembrance and the monitoring of how Eastern European governments are confronting their historical past.

 

The speaker, Mr. Warren L. Miller, is Chairman of the U. S. Commission. He was first appointed to this position in 1992 by President George Bush, and reappointed by Presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.  Mr. Miller initiated and completed several important Holocaust-related projects in Poland and elsewhere.

7459 - Wednesday, February 20 6:15pm Free

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Eyes of the Holocaust

A 60-minute documentary film produced by Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Directed by János Szász, the son of Holocaust survivors, the documentary focuses on the experiences of survivors who were children during the Holocaust.

7460 - Wednesday, March 19 6:15pm Free

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The Holocaust in Greece

The lecture will focus of the tragedy that befell the Jewish community of Greece during the Nazi era. Based on recent archival revelations, the lecture will also cover a variety of hitherto undocumented historical accounts relating to the Holocaust in Greece, including the participation of Greek Jews in the anti-Nazi resistance movement

Dr. Steven B. Bowman is Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati. He is the author of several monographs, including Jews in Byzantium, 1204-1453 (1985). His The Agony of Greek Jewry during World War II is forthcoming.

7461 - Wednesday, April 23 6pm Free

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Individualizing the Holocaust:Diaries from the Lodz Ghetto

The lecture will offer an examination of diaries clandestinely kept by Jews in the Lodz ghetto between 1940 and 1945. The diaries and eyewitness accounts by ghetto dwellers enable the world to understand how individual Jews responded to and understood the circumstances of the six-year German occupation of Poland’s second largest city.

 

Professor Robert Shapiro is associated with the Department of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College/CUNY. He wrote and/or edited several volumes, including Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts (1999), and Why Didn’t the Press Shout: American and International Journalism During the Holocaust (2006).

7462 - Wednesday, May 21 6:15pm Free

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