Holocaust Lecture Series

Vanderbilt University hosts the longest-running, university-based lecture series on the Holocaust. For more on this year’s theme of “Holocaust Remains” see the HLS website: Holocaust Lecture Series

From the Holocaust Lecture Series Web Site:

Seventy years ago, the Final Solution to the Jewish Question became official policy in the killing fields of Eastern Europe. Today, forgotten mass graves continue to be discovered. These burial sites are not all that remains of the Holocaust—nor are these reminders limited geographically or historically.

This year Vanderbilt University’s Annual Holocaust Lecture Series entitled “Holocaust Remains,” travels into the past, present, and future. We will focus upon remnants of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide perpetuated on the world stage. Genocide was not—and is not—limited to the West-East Axis that connects Amsterdam to Auschwitz and beyond. The Jewish populations along the Mediterranean, the Sephardim, were not spared from the murderous onslaught as Professor Aron Rodrigue will detail and Greek Holocaust survivor Isaac Nehama will recount.

Echoes of genocide persist with jarring regularity in our own time. The film, The Last Survivor documents the lives of four survivors from four different genocides: the Congo, Rwanda, Darfur and the Holocaust. Following the screening, Jacqueline Murekatete from Rwanda and Justin Semahoro Kimenyerwa from Congo, both featured in the film, will engage the audience in dialogue. The Series will also present a glimpse of Darfur as revealed by powerful photographs from the Darfur/Darfur project. Jen Marlowe, author, filmmaker and social activist, will take us beyond the legacy of Darfur with a talk about the current and critical state of affairs in Sudan.

Finally we must ask what we are to do with the remains of humanity’s genocidal past and present. Former speaker of the Israeli parliament and son of a Holocaust survivor, Avraham Burg addresses this issue with a critical and uncommon message on “The Future of the Holocaust.”

We cordially invite you to attend the 34th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University.

Veta Greenstone (‘13 ) Student Chair
Shaiya Baer, Chair