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A Shayna Maidel presented in partnership with VU Theatre

Jul. 27, 2016— A SHAYNA MAIDEL, by Barbara Lebow Presented in partnership with VU Theater Neely Auditorium | Purchase tickets here Directed by Santiago Sosa, Guest Faculty Director November 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 @ 8pm, November 6 @ 2pm Two sisters are suddenly reunited after a 20-year separation. The distance between them has been more than simply geographic,...

38th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series

Sep. 22, 2015—The 38th Annual Holocuast Lecture Series will explore the mulitfaceted entanglments of gender and genocide.

Etty, A One-Woman Theatrical Play by Susan Stein

Sep. 22, 2015—Etty is a one-woman play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, adapted and performed by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton.

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Sep. 22, 2015—"The role of German women in Hitler’s war can no longer be understood as their mobilization and victimization on the home front..."

Ida, Film Screening

Sep. 22, 2015—Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ida is a Polish feature film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Lecture by Inge Auerbacher, Child Survivor of the Holocaust

Sep. 22, 2015—Inge Auerbacher was born in Germany in 1935 and spent three years between seven and ten years of age in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

Genocide and Sexual Violence, A Panel Discussion

Sep. 22, 2015—Shame-filled and stigma-fearing silences, sexism, and the nonrecognition of sexual violence as more and other than violent sex have contributed to the marginalization if not outright omission of the occurrences and functions of sexual violence in genocides from Nazi-occupied Europe to 1990s Bosnia