Tag: Holocaust
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Susan Suleiman reflects on resilience, girlhood, and identity in memoir
Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”
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Gift given, one left behind
Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher gave the talk “The Pope against Nuremberg: Nazi War Crime Trials, the Vatican, and the Question of Postwar Justice” on Thursday at Harvard Divinity School.
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Lessons in hate from the Holocaust to Buffalo
The event featured cast members from the documentary “Undeniable: The Truth to Remember,” which follows the lives of Holocaust survivors as they share their stories with Texas high school students.
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My grandfather, a national hero in Lithuania — and a war criminal
A conversation between Silvia Foti, author of the book “The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered my Grandfather Was a War Criminal,” and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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Fathers, killers, God, and ‘Maus’
“Maus” author Art Spiegelman discussed art, existence, and Jewish identity during a visit to Harvard.
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Retracing a path of destruction
Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale, talks about his new book, “Black Earth.”
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Evil in the making
Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan spoke with the Gazette about his new book, “The Killing Compartments,” ahead of a lecture at the Center for European Studies.
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A class open to the world
Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations
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Filmmaker who bore witness to Holocaust
A cinema legend’s advice on making films about unspeakable war crimes: “Go to see the killers.”
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Evolution of ‘final solution’
Child victim of Nazi medical experiments recounts the horrors, in opening an exhibit that explores how physicians embraced the thinking and practices that became the Holocaust.
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A rippling effect of the Holocaust
Areas of Russia whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages in the decades since, according to a new analysis.
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Witnesses to history
Andover-Harvard Theological Library nears completion of major project to digitize Holocaust-related archives.
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Passionate advocate of human rights
Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.
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A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM NAMES SULEIMAN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has named Susan Rubin Suleiman to be the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the museum for 2009-10.
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Oldest living Holocaust survivor speaks at Harvard
Aided by a wheel chair, his slight frame bent in part by a curvature of the spine since birth, in part by the passage of time, a man who endured unspeakable cruelty 70 years ago told his story of survival to a Harvard audience.
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Where the intellectual and spiritual intersect
Kevin Madigan wishes he could have saved Anne Frank. Today, he repeatedly saves her memory. Madigan, professor of the history of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), teaches the College freshman seminar “The Holocaust, History and Reaction,” which addresses the Jewish genocide through the study of a variety of texts, literature, and film. The course…
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Rehding finds ‘monumental’ works key to German political history
In December 1989, a few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein ’39 raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work — “all men will be brothers” — captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter…
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Scholar addresses question, ‘Who won World War II in Europe?’
There’s no easy answer, said Norman Davies, an Oxford-educated British historian and Poland specialist who has written widely on the 1939-1945 conflict.