2018
Agnes Grunwald-Spier: Women Heroes of the Holocaust (03/27/2019) Student Life Center Board of Trust Room at 5 PM
Dec. 21, 2018—Location: Student Life Center Board of Trust Room 310 25th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37240 Time: 5:00 PM Agnes Grunwald-Spier was born in Budapest in July 1944. She and her mother were sent to the ghetto there in November 1944 and were liberated in January 1945. A former civil servant, she holds degrees in History...
Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto (10/30/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Who Will Write Our History: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto Tuesday, October 30 2018 at 7:00 PM Belcourt Theatre 2012 Belcourt Avenue Imagine if Anne Frank’s diary had never been published. Millions fewer people would know about the Holocaust or see the individual faces of its victims. In fact, the world would be a...
Estelle Laughlin: Warsaw Ghetto Survivor (9/13/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Estelle Laughlin, Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Thursday, September 13 2018 at 7:00 PM The Schulman Center for Jewish Life—Vanderbilt Hillel 2421 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN Estelle Laughlin is a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Uprising, and concentration camps. She immigrated to America at eighteen with only three years of public school education. Estelle was...
[HLS Keynote] Coexistence and Violence: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians on Poland’s Eastern Borderlands (9/4/18)
Aug. 30, 2018—Holocaust Lecture Series Keynote: “Coexistence and Violence: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians on Poland’s Eastern Borderlands “ Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:00 PM Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School This lecture will discuss the triangular relationship between Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia, with a particular emphasis on the town of Buczacz, between the rise...