Holocaust (Audio)
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 45 ratingsScholars and witnesses present evidence documenting the mass atrocities that took place from 1933 through to the end of World War II in 1945, giving voice to the memories of the 6 million Jews and 5 million other victims who were murdered throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories under the command of Adolf Hitler.
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The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII Mussolini and Hitler
February 02, 2024 21:00 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBWhen Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. In 2020, the archives were finally opened. Based on thousands of never-before-seen documents, Brown University Professor Emeritus David Kertzer’s book “The Pope at War” paints a dramatic portrait of what the Pope did and did not do as war enveloped Rome and the continent, and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Euro...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
January 05, 2024 21:00 - 59 minutes - 28.1 MBBetween 1918 and 1921, Ukrainian peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution murdered over a 100,000 Jews. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. In his new book “In the Midst of Civilized Europe,” acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Veidlinger...
German Big Business and the Holocaust
July 10, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBAmong the most striking exhibits at the Auschwitz museum are undoubtedly the mountains of loot stolen from Jews murdered upon arrival. Shoes, suitcases, spectacles, and more fill entire rooms in the former barracks of the main camp. Surviving the Shoah when their owners did not, they constitute a potent proof of the Nazis’ abiding concern with material gain. In this talk, author and historian Peter Hayes traces the ways by which the German corporate world became deeply implicated in—and in ma...
What’s Fascism Got to Do With It? The Ideological Origins of the Holocaust
March 12, 2023 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.6 MBTwentieth-century fascism was a political ideology encompassing totalitarianism, state terrorism, imperialism, racism, and, in Germany’s case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the Holocaust. Historians of the Holocaust tend to reject the notion of fascism as a causal explanation for its origins. Conversely, scholars of fascism present the Shoah as a particular event that is not central to fascist historiography. In this lecture Federico Finchelstein examines the challenge the Ho...
Death and Survival in Holocaust Landscapes
July 11, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes - 26.2 MBHow does the concept of space enhance our understanding of the Holocaust? In this talk, British historian Tim Cole tells the story of the Shoah through an exploration of landscapes victims moved—and were moved—through across Europe. His exploration of the “Holocaust landscapes” shines a powerful light on the geographic dimensions of the Shoah. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37452]
Hugo Marcus: A Muslim Jew Under the Swastika
April 25, 2022 21:00 - 51 minutes - 23.9 MBHugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. Renamed Israel by the Nazis, he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. In exile, he fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus. Marc David Baer discusses his new book “German, Jew, Muslim, Gay” in which h...
The Moral Triangle: Germans Israelis Palestinians with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
March 30, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.5 MBWhen the Second World War came to an end, Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, lay in ruins. Few contemporaries, if any, could have anticipated that 70 years later, Berlin would boast large diaspora communities of Palestinians and Israelis who have made a home among Germans. In “The Moral Triangle,” Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians and Germans in Berlin to explore the fraught relationship between the three groups i...
Franci’s War – with Helen Epstein - Holocaust Living History Workshop
November 02, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.1 MBHelen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis’ “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Li...
Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death with David Marwell
June 15, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.5 MBWho was Josef Mengele? After the end of the Holocaust, the German physician has been increasingly viewed as the personification of supreme evil both in the minds of survivors and the public at large. In this lecture based on his highly acclaimed book “Mengele,” David Marwell untangles history and myth surrounding the man known variously as the Angel of Death and the good uncle, suggesting that Mengele was not so much a uniquely monstrous perpetrator, but more a willing part of a monstrous mac...
Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death with David Marwell - Holocaust Living History Workshop
June 15, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.5 MBWho was Josef Mengele? After the end of the Holocaust, the German physician has been increasingly viewed as the personification of supreme evil both in the minds of survivors and the public at large. In this lecture based on his highly acclaimed book “Mengele,” David Marwell untangles history and myth surrounding the man known variously as the Angel of Death and the good uncle, suggesting that Mengele was not so much a uniquely monstrous perpetrator, but more a willing part of a monstrous mac...
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Reflections on Sexual Violence Agency and Sex Work with Anna Hajkova
March 18, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 22.6 MBWhat is everyday life, and how is it experienced under extreme stress? This is the broader question that animates the research of Anna Hájková, an associate professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick. In her talk, Hájková examines sex work, sexual violence, and coercion of Jewish women and men in concentration camps, ghettos, and in hiding. She is the author of many journal articles and books, including her current project, “Boundaries of the Narratable: Tra...
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Reflections on Sexual Violence Agency and Sex Work with Anna Hajkova- Holocaust Living History Workshop
March 18, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 22.6 MBWhat is everyday life, and how is it experienced under extreme stress? This is the broader question that animates the research of Anna Hájková, an associate professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick. In her talk, Hájková examines sex work, sexual violence, and coercion of Jewish women and men in concentration camps, ghettos, and in hiding. She is the author of many journal articles and books, including her current project, “Boundaries of the Narratable: Tra...
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko - Holocaust Living History Workshop
February 01, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBAt the height of World War II, a team of Soviet scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to collect recently written songs dealing with the Holocaust. Lost until the early 1990's, these songs were rediscovered and recorded with an ensemble of recognized soloists. Thanks to the painstaking labor of Anna Shternshis and the talent of Psoy Korolenko, audiences worldwide can now enjoy and reflect upon this treasure trove of songs that offer a precious glimpse into an unfolding tragedy and the artist...
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko
February 01, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBAt the height of World War II, a team of Soviet scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to collect recently written songs dealing with the Holocaust. Lost until the early 1990s, these songs were rediscovered and recorded with an ensemble of recognized soloists. Thanks to the painstaking labor of Anna Shternshis and the talent of Psoy Korolenko, audiences worldwide can now enjoy and reflect upon this treasure trove of songs that offer a precious glimpse into an unfolding tragedy and the artisti...
Trauma Memory and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin - Holocaust Living History Workshop
June 24, 2020 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.8 MBAs a child, Gabriella Karin was separated from her parents and placed in a Slovakian convent for three years. Although physically safe, she did not emerge unscathed. Suppressed memories of her past came flooding back once she began to fashion sculptures related to the Holocaust later in life. Her journey offers important insight into trauma and how creativity can be used as a tool to process memories of oppression, persecution, and loss. Karin is a docent at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holo...
Trauma Memory and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin
June 24, 2020 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.8 MBAs a child, Gabriella Karin was separated from her parents and placed in a Slovakian convent for three years. Although physically safe, she did not emerge unscathed. Suppressed memories of her past came flooding back once she began to fashion sculptures related to the Holocaust later in life. Her journey offers important insight into trauma and how creativity can be used as a tool to process memories of oppression, persecution, and loss. Karin is a docent at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holo...
Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma with Amit Pinchevski - Holocaust Living History Workshop
June 23, 2020 21:00 - 57 minutes - 27.1 MBIn his new book, Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Drawing on a number of case studies such as radio broadcasts of the Eichmann trial, videotapes of Holocaust survivor testimonies, and the recent use of digital platforms for holographic witnessing, he demonstrates how the technological mediation of trauma feeds the traumatic condition itself. His insights have crucial implications fo...
Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
November 11, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBYale University professor and filmmaker Charles Musser explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of race relations in German and American cinema from the 1920s by examining The Ancient Law (1923) and The Jazz Singer (1927). He evaluates how each film addresses anti-Semitism as well as the burning question of the history of blackface as a theatrical convention. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 35016]
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil with Susan Neiman - Holocaust Living History Workshop
October 19, 2019 21:00 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBAs an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past. In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on ho...
Shoah: Four Sisters
June 25, 2019 21:00 - 43 minutes - 20.2 MBArchivist Regina Longo (Brown University) joins UCSB’s Harold Marcuse (Department of History) for a discussion of Claude Lanzmann’s final film Shoah: Four Sisters (2018), a four-part miniseries that was screened over two days at the Pollock Theater. Longo’s work includes extensive restoration of Claude Lanzmann’s landmark documentary footage of testimonials from the Holocaust, and in conversation with Marcuse she offers deeper insight into the history of the film and the women it concerns. Lo...
When Biology Became Destiny: How Historians Interpret Gender in the Holocaust - Holocaust Living History Workshop
May 01, 2019 21:00 - 45 minutes - 21 MBDespite the explosive growth of Holocaust studies, scholars of Nazi Germany and the Shoah long neglected gender as an analytical category. It wasn’t until 1984 when the essay collection When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany raised awareness of women’s experiences under fascism. It explored women’s double jeopardy as females and as Jews. In this lecture, Marion Kaplan, one of the editors the publication, takes the audience on a historical tour of her research, from the ...
Inventing Genocide - The Contingent Origins of a Concept During World War II - Holocaust Living History Workshop
April 25, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 35.7 MBThe suite of international conventions and declarations about genocide, human rights, and refugees after the WWII is known as the “human rights revolution.” It is regarded as humanizing international affairs by implementing the lessons of the Holocaust. In this presentation, Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney, questions this rosy picture by investigating how persecuted peoples have invoked the Holocaust and made analogies with Jews to gain recognition as genoc...
Against All Odds: Born in Mauthausen with Eva Clarke -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
July 02, 2018 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBWhat does it mean to be born in a concentration camp, arguably one of the most inhospitable places on earth? Eva Clarke was one of three “miracle babies” who saw the light of day in KZ Mauthausen in Austria. Nine days after her birth, the Second World War ended. As a newborn, Eva’s chances of survival were extremely slim; against all odds, she lived, making her and her mother Anka the only survivors of their extended family. In 1948, they emigrated from Prague to the UK and settled in Cardiff...
Rising from the Rubble: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
June 14, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the creation of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto and its multimedia narrative exhibition honoring the lives of those who have passed. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor emerita at New York University, is also the chief curator of the Core Exhibition at the POLIN Museum. She is presented here by the Jewish Studies Program and the Library at UC San Diego. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show I...
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity with Philippe Sands -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
March 19, 2018 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.7 MBIn describing his new book, “East West Street” author Philippe Sands looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university in a now-obscure city that had once been known as “the little Paris of Ukraine,” a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as Sands traces the mysterious stor...
The Nazis Next Door with Eric Lichtblau -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
June 26, 2017 21:00 - 52 minutes - 24.5 MBIn his highly-acclaimed book, The Nazis Next Door, Eric Lichtblau tells the shocking and shameful story of how America became a safe haven for Hitler's men. Lichtblau explains here how it was possible for thousands of Nazis -- from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich -- to move to the U.S. after WWII, and quietly settle into new lives as Americans. Some of them gained entry as self-styled refugees, while others enjoyed the help and protection of the CIA, the FB...
Archiving Atrocity: The International Tracing Service and Holocaust Research with Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
May 08, 2017 21:00 - 54 minutes - 25.5 MBThe International Tracing Service, one of the world’s largest Holocaust-related archival repositories, holds millions of documents detailing the many forms of persecution that transpired during the Nazi era and their continuing repercussions. Based on her recently published book, "Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions: The International Tracing Service Archive and Holocaust Research," Suzanne Brown-Fleming provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factor...
The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: The Murder of a Town in Eastern Galicia with Omer Bartov: Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
March 13, 2017 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.4 MBOmer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and German Studies at Brown University, explores the dynamics of the horrifying genocidal violence which took place in the East Galician town of Buczacz— following the German conquest of the region in 1941— and its subsequent erasure from local memory. For centuries, Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews coexisted in the region, but tragically, by the time the town was liberated in 1944, the entire Jewish population had been...
Eva Kor: Surviving the Angel of Death
July 25, 2016 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.4 MBEva Kor was 10 when she and her family stepped off the train in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. Minutes later an SS officer took her and her twin sister, Miriam, away from their mother, father and two older sisters. The twins never saw the others again. Awaiting the girls was Josef Mengele, "the Angel of Death" who performed unspeakably sadistic experiments on roughly 1,500 sets of twins. When the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, Eva and Miriam were among the fewer than 200 su...
Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals with Joel Dimsdale -- The Library Channel
July 18, 2016 21:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBIn his book, Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals, author Joel Dimsdale draws on decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience since the Nuremberg Trials to take a fresh look at four Nazi war criminals: Robert Ley, Hermann Goring, Julius Streicher and Rudolf Hess. Dimsdale, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, is presented by the UC San Diego Library. Series: "Writers" [Public Affairs] [Huma...
Living with the Holocaust with Tom Segev -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- Library Channel
July 11, 2016 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBBorn in Jerusalem to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Israeli journalist Tom Segev is a leading figure among the so-called New Historians, who have challenged many of Israel’s traditional narratives or “founding myths.” His books include, “The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust” (2000); “One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate” (2000); “1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East” (2006); and “Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Lege...
Charlotte Salomon’s Interventions with Darcy Buerkle -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
April 19, 2016 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.6 MBWriter and artist Charlotte Salomon, the daughter of a highly cultivated Jewish family in Berlin, was deported to Auschwitz and murdered at the age of 26. In her final work “Life? or Theatre?” Salomon envisioned the circumstances surrounding the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. Darcy C. Buerkle, an Associate Professor of History at Smith College, explores Salomon’s tragic life as she discusses her remarkable book, “Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of ...
The Holocaust Litigations: Is Holding Corporate Evil Accountable an Impossible Dream? William S. Lerach -- A Life In the Law
April 18, 2016 21:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBVeteran trial attorney William L. Lerach recounts his successful class action law suits against companies that prospered by taking advantage of Holocaust victims. Series: "A Life in the Law: Illusions Lost & Lessons Learned " [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30396]
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men
November 16, 2015 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.1 MBIn his book “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men,” Eric Lichtblau investigates a trove of newly discovered documents which bring to light an unknown era post WWII. He discusses how Nazis were protected by the U.S. government to become spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29505]
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
October 05, 2015 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBGlenn Kurtz discusses his book, “Three Minutes in Poland,“ inspired by a three minute film that his grandfather had made in a predominantly Jewish town in Poland one year before WWII broke out. The book consists of interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts that tell the stories of seven survivors that lived in this town. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29614]
Whatever Happened to Klimt’s Golden Lady? with E. Randol Schoenberg -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- UC San Diego Library Channel
June 15, 2015 21:00 - 58 minutes - 27.2 MBE. Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of the composer Arnold Schoenberg, is an expert in handling cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazi authorities during the Holocaust. He tells the story here of his most prominent case, “Republic of Austria v. Altmann” which resulted in the successful return of six paintings by Gustav Klimt, including the “Golden Lady,” to their rightful owners. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Sho...
Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
May 18, 2015 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBSince the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Germans have been forced to confront their “unmasterable past.” What was it like to grow up in a divided country burdened with the legacy of genocide? How does one deal with the knowledge of one’s people’s complicity in mass murder, and how does this knowledge affect one’s identity? Primary witnesses of both German and Jewish backgrounds explore answers to these questions. Panelists include Frank Biess, Deborah Hertz, Margrit Frolich and Brian Schottlaen...
Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
May 18, 2015 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBSince the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Germans have been forced to confront their “unmasterable past.” What was it like to grow up in a divided country burdened with the legacy of genocide? How does one deal with the knowledge of one’s people’s complicity in mass murder, and how does this knowledge affect one’s identity? Primary witnesses of both German and Jewish backgrounds explore answers to these questions. Panelists include Frank Biess, Deborah Hertz, Margrit Frolich and Brian Schottlaen...
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
March 09, 2015 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBHerman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, discusses her book "The Great Escape" where she followed the lives of nine Holocaust survivors over many decades as they fled fascism by traveling to England and America. They went on to fulfill their professional destinies and change the course of 20th-century history. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29236]
Hitler’s Furies: Ordinary Women? Featuring Wendy Lower - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
December 08, 2014 21:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBAward-winning historian Wendy Lower discusses the lives and experience of German women in the Nazi killing fields. Her study chillingly debunks the age-old myth of the German woman as mother and breeder, removed from the big world of politics and war. The women Lower labels “furies” humiliated their victims, plundered their goods, and often killed them, and like many of their male counterparts, they got away with murder. Lower is the John K. Roth professor of history at Claremont McKenna Coll...
Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
June 17, 2014 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBThe Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives, a tragedy the Romani people and Sinti refer to as the Porrajmos, or “the Devouring.” Notwithstanding the scope of the catastrophe, the Romani genocide was often ignored or minimized until Ian Hancock and others exposed this misfortune. A Romani-born British citizen, activist, and scholar, Hancock has done more than anyone to raise awareness about the Romani people during World War II. Now a professor at the Universit...
The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings
June 16, 2014 21:00 - 1 hour - 38.7 MBLos Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg presents an illustrated talk focusing upon five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen by the Nazis from the Viennese family of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer in 1938. As a result of a landmark case that Schoenberg argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Klimt paintings, valued at over $325 million, were returned by Austria to their rightful heir in 2006. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28044]
The Anatomy of Malice: Rorschach Results from Nuremberg War Criminals
June 10, 2013 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBForty years ago, Dr. Joel Dimsdale started researching concentration camp survivors. Little did he know where his journey of discovery would lead him. After a visit from a Nuremberg executioner, he switched from studying victims to perpetrators. His latest research is based on an analysis of Rorschach inkblot tests administered at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. Using extensive archival data, Dimsdale reviews what the Nuremberg Rorschachs can (and cannot) tell us about the Nazi mass murderers...
Holocaust and Genocide
October 08, 2012 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBWhat do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy in the history of genocides? Yehuda Bauer, Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores the essential similarities and differences between the Holocaust and other genocides, particularly ones that have occurred during the last hundred y...
Deborah Lipstadt: The Eichmann Trial
August 09, 2011 21:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBAward-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world in which victims of genocide confront their perpetrators. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 22435]
The Life and Work of Simon Wiesenthal with Tom Segev (Conversations with History)
February 14, 2011 21:00 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBConversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Tom Segev for a discussion of his new book, The Life and Legends of Simon Wiesenthal. The conversation focuses on the roots of Wiesenthal's passionate commitment to justice and explores his lifelong quest to convict perpetrators of genocide. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 20515]
Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood
July 12, 2010 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBProfessor Mahlendorf discusses some unexpected reader responses to her recently acclaimed memoir, “The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood”, and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 19388]
Who Determines What Becomes History? A Witness' Reflections
December 28, 2009 21:00 - 59 minutes - 25.4 MBGeorge J. Wittenstein, a surviving member of the White Rose, a Hitler resistance organization, discusses how history is created and defined depending on the author. He also recounts his experiences during WWII. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 17610]
Claudia Koonz - Hitler's Assault on the Golden Rule
August 04, 2008 21:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBUsing examples from visual and print media from the 1930s, Claudia Koonz explores the moral culture that normalized state-sanctioned persecution, theft, and murder under the Nazis. Series: "Humanitas" [Humanities] [Show ID: 14963]
Osher UCSD: Leon Leyson
May 05, 2008 21:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBHolocaust survivor Leon Leyson reflects on his incredible luck that put him on the infamous “Schindler’s List,” sparing him from a disastrous fate in Nazi Germany. Series: "Osher UC San Diego Distinguished Lecture Series" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 14221]