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Lemkin Lecture and Essay ContestTuesday, April 4, 2017, 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU This year Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus, was the featured speaker. His talk was titled “On Luther, Jews, and Lutherans in Nazi Germany.” Along with the lecture, each year, PLU offers students a chance to participate in a Lemkin essay contest. Students are asked to write a 7-10 page essay on the topic “Genocide: What does it mean to you?” A panel of
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Jewish Diaspora in UruguaySince 2019, a team of PLU researchers–Dr. Rona Kaufman, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain, and students Riley Dolan (2019), Kiyomi Kishaba (2021), Ellie Dieringer (2023), and Parker Brocker-Knapp (2023)–have been collecting, recording, translating, and sharing the testimonies of Uruguayan Jews who have experienced the Holocaust, migration, and the diaspora. Our research began at the Hogar Israelita in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was founded in 1937 as an orphanage for Jewish
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manipulated the city to portray an image of what Germany “should be.” While at PLU, Loberg worked with Holocaust historian and Professor Christopher Browning, studying the roots of the Third Reich. She cites his influence on her current work and success, along with that of History Professor Beth Kraig and former History Professor Phillip Nordquist. “Christopher Browning’s Holocaust course was truly life-changing,” Loberg said. “It determined my career path. Furthermore, his course taught all of us the
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Eva Nathan Testimonial Eva Nathan, 59, describes growing up in Uruguay as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her mother did not talk about the Holocaust for decades, but Eva says it was always “implicit.” Read English Transcript Read Spanish Transcript January 29, 2023
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throughout the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference this week. “There were Holocaust survivors who talked, and those who didn’t,” said Sauvage, who will talk about his film and the Huguenot community that saved his family and thousands of others. Sauvage’s parents were definitely of the second category, but once he knew his story, Sauvage, who switched from a journalism career to filmmaking in France, pursued his passion of finding the unknown stories of the Holocaust. “I knew I was born in Le
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broader Puget Sound Community. Come join us as we consider questions and confront the challenges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Previous symposia have been on China: Bridges for a New Century, Norway’s Pathways to Peace, Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations, Understanding the World though Sports and Recreation and Our Thirsty Planet – A look at Earth’s most precious resource. In recognition of four decades of Holocaust studies at PLU, in commemoration of
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March 22, 2010 Survivor accounts paint picture, provide lessons By Chris Albert, Barbara Clements, Loren Liden ’11 The silence of the ghetto in 1940s Holland is broken by whistling, shouting and the thud of doors being kicked in by the S.S. The teenage Philip Wagenaar, lays in his bed waiting for the horror. He knows the Nazi soldiers are there to take Jews away to concentration camps. Holocaust survivor Philip Wagenaar shares his story at PLU’s third annual Powell and Heller Holocaust
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. Nelson Mandela University Victoria Woodards Sista Circle Retreat PLU’s Production of “Fences” August Wilsons: Fences Randal Pinkett “Competing in the Modern Era” Lecture Maj. Margaret Witt “Find Your Mission” Lecture Rajesh Parameswaran Lecture and Book Reading Brad Tilden Alaska Airlines’ CEO Ilana Kennedy Lecture Holocaust Lecture National Lutheran Choir West Coast Tour at PLU Harstad Family Reunion A PLU Family Philip Nordquist PLU Historian Shandong Provincial Education Department Representatives
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Links to past events focusing on genocides other than the Holocaust or themes that cross genocides.
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