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City Art Institute and the University of Missouri Kansas City. At these institutions she has developed and taught courses on Gendering the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Antisemitism, and Modern Europe. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication.Pauline Shanks KaurinTitle: Respondent, Women as Perpetrators panel Who: Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Holocaust and Genocide Studies faculty, PLUBio: Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from

broader Tacoma area. The significance of “Lavender” Lavender Graduation Ceremonies are held across the country every year. The origin of the term “lavender” has many variations. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), lavender is a combination of the pink triangle that gay men were forced to wear in concentration camps and the black triangle designating lesbians as political prisoners in Nazi Germany. The LGBTQ civil rights movement took these symbols of hatred and combined them to make symbols

structure of the German dictatorship, the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, the mechanics of the Final Solution, the nature of the perpetrators, the experience and response of the victims, the reaction of the outside world, and the post-war attempt to deal with an unparalleled crime through traditional judicial procedures. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or consent of instructor. (4) HIST 362 : Christians in Nazi Germany This course will study the response of Christians in Germany to Hitler and the

from 1933 to 1945. Robert Oelbermann was a Lutheran naturalist; his imprisonment, torture, and death at the hands of the Nazi regime signifies the brutal repression of a sexual minority that once enjoyed considerable freedom throughout Germany. The lecture is free and open to the public.“Luther, Seven Scenes for Brass Quintet”Sunday, April 23 – 3 p.m. – Lagerquist Concert Hall in MBRThe Lyric Brass Quintet will perform “Luther, Seven Scenes for Brass Quintet” composed by PLU music professor

and Cambodia. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.More Information Conference ScheduleRobert P. EricksenConvener: Robert P. Ericksen, Mayer Chair of Holocaust History, Emeritus, PLU Bio: Robert P. Ericksen is the author of Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2012) and Theologians under Hitler (Yale, 1985), which appeared in German, Dutch, and Japanese translation and was turned into a documentary film of the same name (Vitalvisuals.com, 2005). He is co-editor

PLU, spend time with students in their classrooms and to have some sort of community event,” Mayer said. “I would like the community to know what we’re doing at Pacific Lutheran University. This is a way to connect the past genocides to the bigotry and hatred of today’s world, to bridge the past with the present.” First, a little backstory. The late Kurt Mayer, Natalie’s father, escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1940 on one of the last ships to transport Jewish refugees to America. In his

conversation. She turned out to be Helmut’s cousin’s wife!” Mainz Apartment and Butcher Shop Owned by Mayer’s Grandmother “The evening of my return to Wiesbaden is one of the most memorable of my early childhood. My grandmother talked about having been forced to sell her meat market and house, located at 8 Betzelsgasse, to a Nazi who had secured favorable government financing. My father said we must emigrate but my grandmother said she wanted to die in Germany and my grandfather said he was too old to

conversation. She turned out to be Helmut’s cousin’s wife!” Mainz Apartment and Butcher Shop Owned by Mayer’s Grandmother “The evening of my return to Wiesbaden is one of the most memorable of my early childhood. My grandmother talked about having been forced to sell her meat market and house, located at 8 Betzelsgasse, to a Nazi who had secured favorable government financing. My father said we must emigrate but my grandmother said she wanted to die in Germany and my grandfather said he was too old to