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Holocaust Memorial Lecture

2023 Memorial Lecture

In the Haunted Present: Jews in a Non-Jewish World with Dara Horn

Author and podcaster Dara Horn explored a pointed question in this lecture: Why do far too many people seem to love dead Jews, but ignore the living ones? Her talk was based in part off her best-selling book, People Love Dead Jews.

2022 Memorial Lecture

The U.S. and the Holocaust: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein

This lecture featured filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, who discussed their new three-part documentary film, The U.S. and the Holocaust. The film had debuted on PBS that same week in September 2022.

2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture

MEMENTO MORI: Preserving Archives & Memory with Rodney Obien, associate professor and Head of Special Collections and Archives, Mason Library

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust remembrance Day. On this day of commemoration, the UN urges every member of state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent further genocides.

2021 Memorial Lecture

Growing up German: My Father, The Wehrmacht, and “Ordinary” Antisemitism with Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer

2020 Memorial Lecture

Is the Rule of Law Still Important? with Ben Ferencz

Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials in a pre-recorded interview. His work has focused on issues of international criminal justice and world peace.


Previous Holocaust Memorial Lectures

Lecture # Year Guest
22nd 2019 Ronald Leopold
21st 2018 Debórah Dwork
20th 2017 Jennifer Teege
19th 2016 “Voices of Terezin: Music and Witness”
18th 2015 Wendy Lower
17th 2014 Eva Hoffman
16th 2013 Professor Daniel Mendelsohn
15th 2012 Dr. Timothy Snyder
14th 2011 Father Patrick Desbois
13th 2010 Dr. Samson Munn
12th 2009 Gerda Weissmann Klein
11th 2008 Professor Christopher Browning
10th 2007 Ernest W. Michel and Hubert Locke
9th 2006 Wolf Kahn
8th 2005 Dr. Peter F. Hayes
7th 2004 Nechama Tec
6th 2003 John Roth
5th 2002 Lore Segal
4th 2001 Theodore “Zev” Weiss
3rd 2000 Yaffa Eliach
2nd 1999 Dr. Richard Breitman
1st 1998 David Faber

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