Talk to center on German-Jewish Holocaust survivors in the aftermath of World War II
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — APR. 11, 2024 — The Dutchess Community College Foundation will host Vanderbilt University Professor of History and 2023/24 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) scholar Dr. Helmut Walser Smith on April 18. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on the College’s main campus.
Smith is the author of several books, which together have appeared in six languages. The most recent, Germany: A Nation in its Time: Before, During and After Nationalism, 1500-2000, was named by the German politics journal Internationale Politik as a book of the year in 2020. As an NEH Scholar in Residence at the Center for Jewish History in New York, he is currently writing a book tentatively titled “Local Truth: How Jews and Germans Made the Memory Culture of the Federal Republic.”
The upcoming lecture, “Last Gathering in Haigerloch: German-Jewish Survivors in their Hometowns, 1945-1949” is made possible by the Handel Family Foundation-Greenspan Trust Endowed Chair in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. It will be facilitated by DCC Professor of History Dr. Werner Steger.
Call (845) 431-8407 for more information.
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