“Privileged” Victims: Intermarried Families in Nazi Central Europe March 21 at 4:15 p.m. Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University, Holocaust Education Foundation In the Nazi hierarchy of persecution, intermarried Jews and their children formed a separate category of victims. Jews who had married Gentiles or converted to Christianity were subject to antisemitic persecution, expropriation, and the threat of…

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The Act of Killing: A film by Joshua Oppenheimer3 March 2016 | Jefferson 218 | 7:30 p.m. In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant Indonesian death squad leaders to dramatize their roles in genocide. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations…

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The Long Reach of Genocide March 3 at 4 p.m. Rose Library, Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Bradley Simpson, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, examines the ongoing struggle for truth and accountability for the Indonesian genocide of 1965-1966, during which the Indonesian Army killed 500,000 to 1,000,000 civilians. He will…

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Feb. 2: Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies presents ‘Hitler’s Furies’ 2 February 2015 | 4:15 p.m. Rose Library, Cohen-Lasry House Wendy Lower (Claremont-McKenna College) will speak about her groundbreaking work on the enthusiastic involvement of German women in anti-Jewish atrocities in Eastern Europe. Lower’s research explores women’s participation in the Holocaust beyond their roles…

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Strassler Center Co-Sponsors Multidisciplinary Conference – Manufacturing Denial: the Assault on Scholarship and TruthSocial scientists, natural scientists, political theorists, and historians will discuss different forms of denial and why they persist in the face of facts. They will consider the ways in which scholarship has become the battleground in this struggle — which resonates far…

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