Holocaust Speaker Discusses French Concentration Camp
KEENE, N.H. 4/4/06 - Professor Thomas Durnford of the Keene State College modern languages department will speak on the history of a French-operated concentration camp at the 9th Annual Charles Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Awards ceremony on Monday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in KSC’s Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond. The event is sponsored by the College’s Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies; it is free and open to the public.
The ceremony will honor winners of this year’s Hildebrandt Awards, awarded for outstanding scholarly and creative work on the Holocaust by KSC students and other regional students and community members. The event is scheduled to observe Yom HaShoah, the international day of remembrance for the Holocaust, observed this year on April 25.
The subject of Dr. Durnford’s talk will be Gurs, a crucial if little-known World War II concentration camp in southern France.
The awards honor the work of Dr. Charles Hildebrandt, KSC professor emeritus of sociology, who founded the Cohen Center.
