Lessons for Humanity – Union's series of Holocaust
remembrance events – continues with a talk by historian and author Judy Goldstein
titled “Resistance: Then and Now” on Sunday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in the Nott
Memorial.
Goldstein, founder and executive director of Humanity in Action —
Resistance and Human Rights, will focus her talk on the Danish resistance to Nazi
occupation after the April 9, 1940 invasion.
Historian and author Michael Marrus will give a talk titled “Vichy
France and the Jews” on Wednesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. in the Nott Memorial. Marrus,
author of the book Vichy France and the Jews and dean of graduate studies and
professor of history at the University of Toronto, will provide a look at how historians
have considered the role of Vichy in the European-wide persecution and murder of Jews in
World War II.
Photographer Judith Ellis Glickman, whose photographs comprise the
exhibit Of Light Amidst the Darkness – The Danish Rescue in the Nott Memorial,
will give a talk on Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in the Nott Memorial. In 1988, Glickman
photographed sites where millions of Jews were exterminated. In 1992, the Thanks to
Scandinavia Foundation commissioned her to photograph Danish resistance leaders, rescuers,
survivors, and sites relating to the Danish resistance.
Meanwhile, the April 15 convocation and discussion with Nazi-hunters
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld is to be broadcast by WMHT – Channel 17 on April 23 at 8
p.m. It will be repeated May 6 at 8 p.m. on Channel 45, and May 16 at 4 p.m. on Channel
17. C-SPAN, which also taped the event, is expected to air the program in about a month.
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