Concentration camp survivor Martin Weiss will speak during the 2009 Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University, which is built around the theme “Barriers & Boundaries” for its 32nd year.
Weiss, who was liberated by U.S. troops at the Gunskirchen camp in May 1945, will speak at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, in the auditorium at Vanderbilt Law School.
All events of the Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University, the longest continuous Holocaust lecture series at an American university, are free and open to the public.
The rest of the schedule:
7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at Sarratt Cinema: Photographers Norman Gershman and Stuart Huck will speak about their exhibition of photographs of Albanian and Kosovar Muslims who risked their lives to save the lives of Jews during World War II. They will be joined by Johanna Neumann, a German Jew who survived the holocaust in Albania with assistance from Muslims. An exhibition reception will precede the lecture in the Sarratt Student Center Promenade. The exhibit runs Oct. 6-22 in the promenade. This lecture will be recorded for video podcast at www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Sarratt Cinema: Bloodlines, a film that follows the meeting of a daughter of Holocaust survivors with the grand-niece of prominent Nazi Hermann Goering, will be screened, followed by a discussion led by Sara Figal, assistant professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies.
7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Multipurpose Room at The Commons: Ellen Wright Clayton, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, will lecture on “Avoiding the Evils of Eugenics in a Genomic Age.” This lecture will be recorded for video podcast at www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Sarratt Student Center Gallery: An exhibit reception will be held for an exhibition of drawings by Gyorgy Kadar commemorating Hungarian Jews murdered by Nazis. The exhibit, “The Haunted Imagination,” runs Nov. 5-30 in the gallery.
For more information, see http://www.vanderbilt.edu/religiouslife/hls/index.html.
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