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Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

For TeachersStudy Guide to the MTV film, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust Created by Facing History and Ourselves Study Guides and Other Educational Materials on I’m Still Here and Salvaged Pages: Young Writers` Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder Beyond Anne Frank: Other Holocaust-Era Diaries Lesson Plans created by the Houston Holocaust Museum

Mainz-Wiesbaden area of Germany on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, with Natalie and Pamela Mayer, daughter and wife of Kurt Mayer, a holocaust survivor, who lived here with his family before escaping the Nazi's . (Photo/John Froschauer) Kurt Mayer's PLU ConnectionKurt Mayer (b. January 1930; d. November, 2012) First introduced to PLU when he was invited to speak to Professor Christopher Browning’s Holocaust class. In his personal Memoir he wrote, “The fact that a university founded by Norwegian

ANNUAL RAPHAEL LEMKIN LECTUREBosnian Genocide: Denial, Glorification, and Triumphalism, 30-years onPresented by Ehlimana Memišević, a legal historian and genocide scholar. April 20, 11 a.m. | Virtual This event is free and open to the public.Ehlimana Memišević will present “Bosnian Genocide: Denial, Glorification and Triumphalism: 30-years on” virtually from Sarajevo, Bosnia. In her lecture, she will highlight the genocide and subsequent denial of it during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alumni StoriesStudying the Holocaust and related themes is often a hallmark of the PLU learning experience. These alumni updates describe the long-term impact of attending the Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference, taking classes with HGST themes, and traveling to Europe to learn Holocaust history first hand.Ian McMichael, ’13 German Languages & Literature Major, Religion and Hispanic Studies MinorsIan is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine

For TeachersStudy Guide to the MTV film, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust Created by Facing History and Ourselves Study Guides and Other Educational Materials on I’m Still Here and Salvaged Pages: Young Writers` Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder Beyond Anne Frank: Other Holocaust-Era Diaries Lesson Plans created by the Houston Holocaust Museum

Mainz-Wiesbaden area of Germany on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, with Natalie and Pamela Mayer, daughter and wife of Kurt Mayer, a holocaust survivor, who lived here with his family before escaping the Nazi's . (Photo/John Froschauer) Kurt Mayer's PLU ConnectionKurt Mayer (b. January 1930; d. November, 2012) First introduced to PLU when he was invited to speak to Professor Christopher Browning’s Holocaust class. In his personal Memoir he wrote, “The fact that a university founded by Norwegian

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The Book in SocietyThe Book in Society surveys the history of print culture and discusses such issues as censorship, bestsellers, and the future of the book in the digital age. The course asks such questions as what exactly is a “book”? Who produces it, who reads it, and why? Students examine the ways in which books have been central to modern society—how they have informed, entertained, inspired, irritated, liberated, and challenged readers. They also look at the processes by which books are