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About Powell-HellerThroughout 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. Nancy was impressed by the students’ work, their passion and commitment to further study, and the professors and their work in the field. She recognized that the university was uniquely positioned to do more. Inspired by the life work of her father, Nancy, with the help of her sister Carol

2023 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education Day 1Wednesday, October 25th2023 Powell-Heller

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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