Join Holocaust remembrance events this week

Editor's note: The location of Laurence Salzmann lecture, "In Search of Turkey's Jews," was changed to the University Club. 

Holocaust remembrance events are taking place on campus and at Hillel of Colorado this week, most of which are open to the public.

On April 17, watch the documentary film Escape from Room 18 at Hillel of Colorado. This film covers the journey of John Daly from his experience in a Skinhead group in his youth to his visits to the concentration camps of Terezin and Auschwitz 25 years after he fled to Israel when his gang tried to kill him for being Jewish. A dinner will be held before the screening at 6:30 p.m.

On April 18, the CU Department of History will present a panel on "The Meaning of the Holocaust Today."

The keynote lecture, "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields," will take place April 19. This lecture by Wendy Lower, award-winning author and professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, focuses on the roles young German women played in the Holocaust. Contrary to popular opinion, these young women did not hold down the homefront in Germany during the Holocaust. Instead, about 500,000 of these young women played an active part in the genocide of Jews in eastern Europe. 

A second lecture by Laurence Salzmann, "In Search of Turkey's Jews," will take place April 19 in the Chancellor's Silver and Gold Room in the University Club, and the week will conclude with a student Shabbat dinner at Hillel of Colorado on April 20.

For more information, please contact Professor Paul Shankman at shankman@colorado.edu.