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  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry

  • Speaker: David Treuer, Ph.D. Time: 7 p.m. Date: Thursday, April 13 Place: Regency room (AUC) Free and open to the public.

    The 2023 Natalie Mayer Lecture Adrift Between Two AmericasThursday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Anderson University Center Regency roomSpeaker: David Treuer, Ph.D., University of Southern CaliforniaThe Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program invites you to join us for the 2023 Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture. The speaker will be David Treuer, who grew up on the Leech Lake reservation, the son of an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor father, and an Ojibwe Indian tribal court

  • Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust…

    January 1, 2013 Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in April of 2012 after winning second place in the Raphael Lemkin essay contest in March of the same year for my paper “Letters Written in Blood: the Holocaust in Poetry”. The fellowship application was for the

  • Memoir chronicles the life of Nazi Germany refugee and successful Tacoma entrepreneur – Kurt Mayer Tacoma businessman, philanthropist and community leader, Kurt Mayer, has written a rags to riches story of his life and times. “My Personal Brush with History,” written with Joe Peterson, is…

    many believe has been an incredible journey,” Mayer said. “It can also be a study for those who are interested in the Holocaust and an inspiration for those who wish to prosper financially in business.”(This March, Mayer will be presenting and signing copies of his book at the Fourth Annual Powell and Heller Family Conference on Holocaust Education) Mayer, now 80, came to America with his parents as a 10 year old Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany on one of the last ships to leave Europe. Many of his

  • Commuter Advocate | Commuter Life | Hi! My name is Mattie! I am a double majoring in Religion with a individualized major in German, Holocaust, and Genocide studies.

    Mattie Tupper Commuter Advocate she/they Biography Biography Hi! My name is Mattie! I am a double majoring in Religion with a individualized major in German, Holocaust, and Genocide studies. I am minoring in Pre-Law and Sociology. A fun fact about me is that I love board games. My partner and I have over 15 board games. My favorite is definitely Dune. I am also a plant fanatic and I have 17 house plants!

  • Associate Professor of Art and Design | Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs | hmathews@plu.edu | 253-535-7574 | Heather joined the Department of Art and Design in 2007.

    Heather Mathews Associate Professor of Art and Design Phone: 253-535-7574 Email: hmathews@plu.edu Of

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