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record these stories, which is why I think our project is really important,” Kishaba said.Through their research, Kishaba and Professor Kaufman were able to piece together a timeline of migratory patterns and policies in Uruguay, discovering that a Jewish population had been present in the country well before World War II. Kishaba’s biggest takeaway is that there is value in paying attention to history. “I think this project made me realize how much of history isn’t recorded yet, and how much of that

Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial to stopping them in the future.PLU was the first university in the Pacific Northwest to offer a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies, beginning in 2014. It also hosts the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. For many PLU students, exploration and

in Le Chambon sur Lignon during World War II. Photo credit: Yad Vashem. Why did it succeed? They had a sense of identity which was derived largely from their collective memory of events that had shaped their community. The Huguenot history of oppression and resistance as a religious minority was kept alive though hymns and other folklore which appeared on a regular basis in sermons, the church newspaper and through folk songs and stories which came to have meaning both as a remembrance of the

virtual exhibit. If you’re ready to begin planning for your own study away experience and want to join the 40-50% of PLU students who study away at least once during their undergraduate education, please contact the Wang Center for Global Education. Wang Center | www.plu.edu/wang-center/ | wang.center@plu.edu | 253-535-7577 And the winners are . . . Libby Woods Category: Global Classroom Title: Granada Guided Through History “This photo was taken during a program excursion where we travelled to the

social service groups, Quakers and UK-based Jewish groups coalesced in a desperate, and successful attempt to rescue Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. And it was this rescue of 10,000 children between 1938 and 1940 that caught Laura Brade’s ’08, interest and imagination as she pondered the focus of her master’s thesis at Chapel Hill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2e2JHw8K2c Specifically, Brade, who is studying under Professor Chris Browning – a former history

. It was a time and experience that has come to symbolize great courage and cruelty, she said. “What you are today matters profoundly,” Killen told the crowd. Re-learning history is very important, Herschkowitz said, and conferences like this keep it in the world’s consciousness. “(Genocide) still happens,” he said. “That’s the problem.” “If we learn one thing from history it’s we don’t learn anything,” he added. No one knows for sure, but it is estimated that 1.5 million children were killed

September 11, 2009 Historical context Growing up Troy Storfjell held a certain admiration for the scholars he saw in the documentaries he watched. Now the PLU associate professor is one of those scholars. He’ll appear on the History Channel’s “Clash of the Gods” Series. (Storfjell’s episodes were previously scheduled for Sept. 14 and 21, but the episodes have been moved; keep visiting the PLU doorways for an update on when his episodes will air). “It was exciting to be that person,” Storfjell

Venice Jakowchuk ’23 travels through time, a dancer’s journey toward archaeology Posted by: mhines / May 23, 2023 Image: Venice Jakowchuk ’23 is a history and anthropology double major and a dance minor. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) May 23, 2023 By Emily Holt, MFA ’16PLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterFor Venice Jakowchuk ’23, a single general education class sparked a passion that has since taken her—literally and/or metaphorically—from Herefordshire, England and Aberdeen, Scotland to the

. In the Spring of 2020, Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen  was teaching two classes of Early Christian History. When the pandemic struck, Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen took her sixty students and moved them all to a distanced format immediately. Her main goals were to be in contact with students and to be extremely transparent during the entire process. This meant she took seriously the university’s concerns about what the pandemic would mean for classes, and gave her students plenty of warning before moving forward in

Baker Russell Music Center. They will also travel to Congregational Church on Mercer Island to perform at 6:30 p.m on October 2.   This program features masterworks by composers associated with Hungary, celebrating the history of the string quartet with pieces from Franz Joseph Haydn, Ernő Dohnányi and Miklós Rózsa.October 5, 8pmHungary and the String QuartetPurchase TicketsThe concert is part of a year-long commemoration by the Seattle-Péc Sister City Association of the October 1956, Hungarian