The Beaumont Medical Club of Connecticut
GEORGE ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Flight from the Reich: Life as a Refuge
FRIDAY, March 25, 2011, 5:00—6:00 PM
Safe and, at the same time, beset by challenges, Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe sought valiantly to gain a foothold in their new homes. In this lecture, Holocaust historian and founding director of the renowned Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Clark University) Debórah Dwork will drill down on the precarious situation of refugee Jews, offering a fresh perspective on a history with which many, including the Rosen family, have a personal connection.
Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her now classic Children With A Star gave voice to the silenced children of the Holocaust; it was the first history of the daily lives of young people caught in the net of Nazism. Children With A Star received international critical acclaim and was translated into German, Italian, Dutch and Japanese. It was the subject of a documentary, also called “Children With A Star,” by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Auschwitz, co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, established the context in which historians now view that annihilation camp. Dwork and van Pelt argued that Germany sought to reconstruct Central Europe in its own image, and the Germans’ program at Auschwitz was key to that ambition. They drew the critically important connection between industrial killing and the daily functions of a society that believed it was involved in constructive activity. The BBC and PBS recognized Auschwitz as a remarkable project, and produced the Horizon/Nova television documentary “Blueprints of Genocide” (BBC) / “Nazi Designers of Death” (PBS) based upon it. Auschwitz also provided the core of a seven-part series “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State,” which was aired in January 2005 in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Auschwitz received the National Jewish Book Award and the Spiro Kostof Award, given every other year to the best book on the physical environment. It has been translated into German, Dutch, and Czech, to much critical acclaim.
For more information see http://www.clarku.edu/departments/history/facultybio.cfm?id=394&progid=17
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