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Podcast Lecture Series
►Dr.
David Silberklang-
The Allies and the Holocaust
►Professor Walter Zwi Bacharach-
-The Holocaust Reflected Through Personal
Experience
-The Protocols-Fueling Antisemitic Myths
►Dr.
Robert Rozett-
Contemporary Antisemitism
►Prof.
Michael J. Bazyler-
Holocaust Denial Laws and Other Legislation Criminalizing Promotion of
Nazism
From Recent Symposium: “Holocaust
Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide” Denial: Paving the Way to Genocide:
►Prof.
Yehuda Bauer-
Some Thoughts on Radical Islam
►Yigal
Carmon-
The Role of Holocaust Denial in the Ideology and Strategy
of the Iranian Regime
From Recent Conference: 60 Years
Marking the Nuremberg Trials:
►Michael
Marrus-
Different Perspectives: Lawyers and Historians Looking at the
Holocaust
►Lisa
Yavnai-
Vengeance or Justice? Trials of Kapos
►Hanna
Yablonka-
The Eichmann Trial: The Jewish Nuremberg?
►Serge
Klarsfeld-
The Primary Role of the Trials: Informing the French People About the Fate
of the Jews in France
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Yad Vashem’s International Institute for
Holocaust Research recently held a conference marking the 60th anniversary
of the Nuremberg Trials. Four of the lectures that were delivered are
offered here:
Michael Marrus: Different Perspectives:
Lawyers and Historians Looking at the Holocaust
Michael Marrus is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust
Studies at the University of Toronto. Having worked on many
Holocaust-related subjects over the years, he has been turning, of late,
to the post-Holocaust period. He is particularly interested in postwar
Holocaust-related trials, and Vatican-Jewish relations. He is the author
of The Holocaust in History, (1987) Vichy France and the Jews, coauthored
with Robert Paxton (1982); The Unwanted: European Refugees in the
Twentieth Century (1985); The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial: A Documentary
History (1945-46) (1997); "The Holocaust at Nuremberg," Yad Vashem
Studies, 26 (1998); "History and the Holocaust in the Courtroom," in
Ronald Smelser, ed., Lessons and Legacies IV: The Holocaust and Justice
(2002); "Killing Time: Jewish Perceptions during the Holocaust," in Shmuel
Almog et al, eds., The Holocaust: History and Memory: Essays in Honor of
Israel Gutman (2001); “A Plea Unanswered: Jacques Maritain, Pope Pius XII,
and the Holocaust,” (2005).
Lisa Yavnai Vengeance or Justice? Trials of
Kapos
Lisa Yavnai is director of the Visiting Scholar Programs at the Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, DC. She received a J.D. from Northeastern University, a B.A.
from Brandeis University, and her Ph.D. in History from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. Her dissertation was entitled Military
Justice: The U.S. Army Trials of War Criminals in Germany, 1944-1947. Dr.
Yavnai has written and presented papers on topics including Nazi-looted
Jewish property, war crimes trials and the post-war fate of concentration
camp Kapos. Her most recent publication is “The US Army War Crimes Trials
in Germany, 1945-1947” in Jürgen Matthäus and Patricia Heberer, eds.
Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical
Perspective (2006). The publication of her PhD is forthcoming.
Hanna Yablonka The Eichmann Trial: The
Jewish Nuremberg?
Hanna Yablonka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish
History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she also serves as
head of the Rabb Center for Holocaust and Redemption Studies. Yablonka is
a member of the Public Council of Yad Vashem and currently serves as
academic advisor of Yad Vashem’s research project: “Survivors of the
Holocaust in Israel.” Yablonka served as the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting
Professor in Human Rights at Rutgers University during the 1998-1999
academic year. In 2002, Yablonka was awarded Yad Vashem's Buchman Memorial
Prize for her book, State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (2001). Her other
books include Foreign Brethren: Holocaust Survivors in the State of
Israel, 1948-1952 [Hebrew] (1994); Survivors of the Holocaust, Israel
1948-1952 [Hebrew] (1999); and The History of the Organization of Disabled
Veterans, and Partisans of the Struggle against Nazis 1945-1995 [Hebrew]
(2000). She is currently working on a manuscript on Oriental Jews and the
Holocaust in Israel.
Serge Klarsfeld The Primary Role of the
Trials: Informing the French People About the Fate of the Jews in France
Serge Klarsfeld, born in Bucharest, graduated from the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques – Paris. He also obtained a PhD in History from the Sorbonne
and a Doctor of Letters. As a lawyer, he is a member of the Paris Bar
Association. Klarsfeld is President of the Association of the Sons and
Daughters of the Jews Deported form France. He has been active as a lawyer
and as an activist to obtain the judgment of those responsible for the
deportation of the Jews from France. Among his numerous awards and honors
that he has received over the years are Award of the Memory Foundation in
1989, the Raoul Wallenberg Award, the Hias Liberty Award, and a Doctorate
Honoris Causa of the Hebrew Union College. He is also an Officer of the
Legion of Honor. His publications include Memorial to the Jews Deported
From France, 1942-1944: Documentation of the Deportation of the Victims of
the Final Solution in France (1983); The Children of Izieu: A Human
Tragedy (1985); French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial (1996);
Vichy-Auschwitz : le role de Vichy dans la solution finale de la question
juive en France (1983); Le Calendrier de la Persécution des Juifs en
France, 1940-1944 (1993) and The Auschwitz Album (1980).
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