Entrance to the Church of the Sacred Heart with Volksdeutsche settlers guarded by members of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service), Turek in German-occupied Poland, March 1942. Muzeum Miasta Turku im. Józefa Mehoffera, MRZTT/HA/1073, 05-192, 195
2024 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
When National Socialist Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it sought to destroy the Polish nation and national consciousness. The Roman Catholic Church, regarded as a locus of Polish national identity and resistance, was an immediate target. Join us for this important program exploring the severity of Nazi policy in Poland, Catholic responses to German persecution and annihilation of Jews, and the treatment of the church within the regime’s programs of racial and cultural Germanization.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Speaker
Dr. Jonathan Huener, Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
Moderator
Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Senior Project Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
The program will be followed by a dessert reception in the Hall of Witness.
For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org.
The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, endowed by the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Mandel Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research about the Holocaust and disseminate this work to the public. The scholar in residence also leads seminars, lectures at universities in the United States, and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the general public.
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.