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attended by over 200 people, leaving standing room only. “I speak from my heart,” she said, in some of her first words Thursday afternoon. “I will speak from my heart until I die.” Weissberger is a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp known as Terezin. She was one of 15,000 children who passed through the camp. During her time at the camp, she performed 55 times in the children’s opera Brundibar. Weissberger shared that Terezin has been described as “the Juilliard for the Jews” — the camp was
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Heather Mathews Associate Professor in Art History Biography Biography Mathews will present The Past is Present: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary German Art. In Germany, art plays a major role in the public narrative of the Holocaust. Stories of victims, perpetrators, survivors, and their descendants that might otherwise have been forgotten or ignored are coaxed out of local histories by public artworks and monuments. The imagery of these artworks deals with the Holocaust on both
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from 1992 to 1995. The violence resulted in more than 100,000 deaths, some 2.5 million displaced, 800,000 destroyed homes, and widespread human rights abuse. Denial of the crimes took place during the genocide and continued immediately after. Memišević is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo.Lemkin Lecture Registration Ehlimana Memišević About Raphael LemkinLearn more about the Polish-born Jew who escaped from Nazi
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Thursday, September 24, 2015 Tikkun Olam: The Legacy and Future of Jewish – Christian RelationsFifth Annual Lutheran Studies Conference at PLU – Thursday, September 24, 2015 The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the execution of German and other European Lutherans who resisted the National Socialist regime. Such an anniversary invites the university and larger community to consider a relationship marked by polemic, persecution, tolerance
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about the Empowerment conference 2012 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education ConferenceThe fifth annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference at PLU focused on the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables, along with belated efforts at restitution. There was also session on German churches and universities, with speakers discussing Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Catholic Church, and postwar denazification.Learn more about the Nazi plunder of Jewish valuables 2011 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust
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About Kurt's Life Mayer was born January 14, 1930 in Mainz, Germany to Joe and Emmy Mayer. By the time Kurt was school age, Hitler had come to power, and laws which stripped Jews of their civil rights had been implemented. Forbidden to attend public school, Kurt went to a school which had been created in the synagogue near the family home. In 1938, the Mayers moved to Wiesbaden and Kurt was enrolled in a boarding school at Bad Nauheim. On the morning of November 9, at the age of 8, Kurt and his
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About Kurt's Life Mayer was born January 14, 1930 in Mainz, Germany to Joe and Emmy Mayer. By the time Kurt was school age, Hitler had come to power, and laws which stripped Jews of their civil rights had been implemented. Forbidden to attend public school, Kurt went to a school which had been created in the synagogue near the family home. In 1938, the Mayers moved to Wiesbaden and Kurt was enrolled in a boarding school at Bad Nauheim. On the morning of November 9, at the age of 8, Kurt and his
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About Kurt's Life Mayer was born January 14, 1930 in Mainz, Germany to Joe and Emmy Mayer. By the time Kurt was school age, Hitler had come to power, and laws which stripped Jews of their civil rights had been implemented. Forbidden to attend public school, Kurt went to a school which had been created in the synagogue near the family home. In 1938, the Mayers moved to Wiesbaden and Kurt was enrolled in a boarding school at Bad Nauheim. On the morning of November 9, at the age of 8, Kurt and his
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About Kurt's Life Kurt Mayer was born January 14, 1930 in Mainz, Germany to Joe and Emmy Mayer. By the time Kurt was school age, Hitler had come to power, and laws which stripped Jews of their civil rights had been implemented. Forbidden to attend public school, Kurt went to a school which had been created in the synagogue near the family home. In 1938, the Mayers moved to Wiesbaden and Kurt was enrolled in a boarding school at Bad Nauheim. On the morning of November 9, at the age of 8, Kurt
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