“Voice of the Victims: Challenges of an Integrated History of the Holocaust” March 16, 2009

Brandeis University
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Center for German and European Studies
Near Eastern and Judaci Studies Department
46th Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture

Monday, March 16
“Voice of the Victims: Challenges of an Integrated History of the Holocaust”
Saul Friedländer will deliver the 46th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture entitled, “Voice of the Victims: Challenges of an Integrated History of the Holocaust.” A professor of history at UCLA and a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, Friedländer has written many critically acclaimed studies of Nazi Germany and World War II, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. A Holocaust survivor himself, Friedländer wrote about his childhood in German-occupied France in an extraordinary memoir entitled, When Memory Comes. The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall, located at Brandeis University, 415 South St., Waltham, Mass. Admission is free. For more information, call (781) 736-2125, or visit www.brandeis.edu/tauberinstitute.

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