The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education Presents New Perspectives on the Holocaust
Series of Lectures and Events for 2021-22
Books and Authors
70 Years after the Holocaust: Memory Matters
Father Patrick Desbois Speaks at Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance
April 12 | 7 PM | Chapman Auditorium, Memorial Hall
A Hero Who Dares to Hope
No matter how hard I try, I can’t imagine the horror that Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire has seen. In Samantha
Never To Be Forgotten: Thomas Blatt, April 15, 1927
October 31, 2015 – Fighter for Memory and Justice
A Troubling Portrait: German Women and the Third Reich
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Bettina Stangneth\’s book Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer had transformed our understanding of the perpetrator Adolf Eichmann. So too has Wendy Lower\’s book Hitler\’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields expanded our knowledge of German women in the Third Reich, offering a much more nuanced, complex, and indeed, troubling portrait of the young German women who chose to go to \”the wild east.\”
A Boy’s Unanswered Question: Father Patrick Desbois’ Journey into History and Memory
If you are reading this blog, then you undoubtedly already have an interest in the history of the Holocaust. How
Holocaust By Bullets: The Untold Story with Father Patrick Desbois
November 17 | 7 p.m. Chapman Auditorium | Memorial Hall Father Patrick Desbois President, Yahad-In Unum Author of
Yom Kippur in Auschwitz: 70 Years Ago
Seventy years ago, on Yom Kippur, September 27, 1944, the Jews of Auschwitz debated whether or not to fast. They were, after all, starving, each of them near death. Among the prisoners was a teenager just three days shy of his 16th birthday.
Eichmann Unmasked
Bettina Stangneth’s Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer From time to time, I want to
Recent Books on Kristallnacht
Photo: Burning of the synagogue in Hanover, Germany, night of 9 November 1938 As historians Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan
"Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List" (David Crowe)
The first scenes of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) show a man lay out his fine clothing, carefully select a