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  • Sciences: preferably physics, chemistry, and biology; at least two semester-long courses. Social Sciences: psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and education. At least six semesters, including at least one semester of psychology. Foreign Languages – one or more of the following: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French. Students who anticipate post- graduate studies are urged to undertake these disciplines as early as possible (at least four semesters). Religion: a thorough knowledge of

  • March 1, 2014 Danish Resistance and Rescue Scandinavian Cultural Center During the Powell-Heller Holocaust Conference, a educational display about the Danish Resistance and rescue will be available or public viewing. Prepared by the Danish Resistance Museum in Copenhagen, the exhibit tells the story of the effort by Danes to rescue Jews from the threat of German deportation. In October 1943, word leaked that Germany was planning to round up and deport the Jews of Denmark. Approximately 8,000 of

  • , the most trying time of all. [1]   Words. Words are the heart of the Humanities. Whether they are in English, Spanish, Latin, or Greek. Italian, French, German, Norwegian, Chinese. Words are like images. Words are images. Words become music to the attentive ear. So there is a natural affection between the Humanities and the Creative Arts. Both biblical testaments attest that, “In the beginning was the Word.” Both reveal the divinely creative power of words. For the Gospel of John in the New

  • before his Monday, Oct. 29 lecture. Bob Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies, at Pacific Lutheran University. (Photo by John Froschauer) He and his host then nervously watched news reports as Hurricane Sandy headed up the coast. The hurricane arrived on the same evening as the lecture, meaning that the campus was closed and the lecture had to be canceled. This lecture, “German Churches and the Holocaust: Assessing the Argument for Complicity,” now rescheduled for April 22, will then be

  • that makes PLU an ideal place to prepare for work in the medical field. One of the things that makes PLU such an exceptional place is our foundation in the Lutheran tradition, which challenges us to explore the vocation of healing — rather than the profession of it — and to think about healing the whole person in the context of their own community. Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-ScholarExpanding the Mind in German Studies Read Previous Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar Read Next

  • “Jewish Life in Poland: Before, During and After the Holocaust” The conference is free and open to the public. ScheduleWednesday, October 26Glenn KurtzRobert P. EricksenGlenn KurtzPost-film discussion: “Three Minutes: A Lengthening” Who: Glenn Kurtz, Ph.D. Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature Bio: Glenn Kurtz is the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2014), which was selected as a “Best Book of

  • Antonio Ruiz-CamachoAntonio Ruiz-Camacho’s debut collection Barefoot Dogs won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction and was a Kirkus Reviews and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015, and a best Texas book of the decade by Texas Observer. It was published and adapted for radio in German, and in Spanish translation made by himself. Ruiz-Camacho’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Toluca, Mexico, he

  • Holocaust and Genocide Studies Courses, 2023-2024 The German Entry into Nabeul, Tunisia, December 1942 by Rafael Uzan, 1988. HGST Courses Summer 2023 Course Number and TitleClass time ENGL 216: Holocaust Memoir6/05-6/30 asynchronous online RELI 236: Native American Religious Traditions6/05-6/30 asynchronous online HGST Courses Fall 2023 Course Number and TitleClass time ENGL 217: Refugee LiteraturesTR 1:45-3:30 ENGL 217: Native American LiteraturesTR 11:50-1:35 ENGL 397: The Holocaust in the

  • Moyer``The Indoctrination of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany``Nicole Query`` 'We owe it to our children and to their children': International Discrimination and Roma Holocaust Memorialization``May 13, 2021Kenzie BurgessGreyson HoyeGaven MeyerJames SecorKenzie Burgess``Polish Complicity in the Holocaust: Denial and Modern Impact: Government, Militias, Employees, and Citizens``Greyson Hoye``Classroom Walls: State Education and the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic``Gaven Meyer

  • success with his own business successes. Joseph Mayer worked during the war as a welder in a shipyard. Emmy gave up the thought of returning to live in her birthplace of Mainz when she learned that her sister, Hermine Wertheimer, and her mother, were deported in 1942 and murdered in Sobibor and Belzec. Still, the headstone for Emmy and Joseph Mayer includes the following line: “Born in Mainz am Rhein.” (from: Blick auf Mainzer Frauengeschichte 2003)Excerpt translated by Associate Professor of German