October 12, 2010, Hans Heilbronner Lecture: Prof. Christopher Browning
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Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Camps
The annual Heilbronner Lecture
Christopher Browning
Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor
Department of History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
October 12, 2010
4-5:30 p.m., MUB Theater II
Professor Browning joined the UNC-CH faculty in the Fall of 1999. His publications include: Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004); Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); The Path to Genocide (1992); Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution (1985); and The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978). In the Spring of 1999, he gave the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, which have been published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000). In the spring of 2002, he delivered the first George Mosse Lectures at the University of Wisconsin, which have been published as Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony. His newest book, a study of the Jewish factory slave labor camps in Starachowice in central Poland, based on nearly 265 survivor testimonies, has just been published by Norton as Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp.
The annual Hans Heilbronner lecture honors Emeritus Hans Heilbronner, who served the University of New Hampshire and the History Department with distinction from 1954 until 1991.
Free and open to the public
Roundtable Discussion
Crossing a Line: Why do Ordinary People become Murderers or Bystanders
October 12, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Richards Auditorium
Murkland Hall
The roundtable will feature: Professor Christopher Browning, and UNH Professors John T. Kirkpatrick, David Hiley, Vicki Banyard, and Ben Harris
Free and open to the public