UVM Center for Holocaust Studies Events Calendar

Wed Sep 18 2024

  • "Children Considered 'Unworthy of Life' and Nazi 'Racial Hygiene'" Annette Eberle, Katholische Stiftungshochschule Munich-Benediktbeuern and Lutz Kaelber, Department of Sociology, University of Vermont
    5:00pm - 7:00pm
    John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill 325, University of Vermont

    Lutz Kaelber, “Children’s Euthanasia”: Murder, Scientific Utilization, Persecution, Remembrance

    Annette Eberle, “Children in the Focus of Biopolitics and Social Work : Nazi Collaboration and Post-War Stigmatisation”

    The Nazi regime’s stigmatizing of certain children as being "unworthy of life" and "alien to the community " caused severe injustice, repression in welfare institutions, forced sterilization, transfer to youth concentration camps, or even murder. After liberation, the stigma imposed during the Nazi years had lifelong effects on surviving children, who generally were not recognized as victims of Nazi injustice. Two leading scholars of this history will share their insights in this mini-symposium.

    Annette Eberle is an historian and professor of education at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich, Germany. Her main areas of research are social and medical policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, human rights abuses in the field of social welfare, and the memory culture surrounding Nazi medical policy and eugenics.

    Lutz Kaelber is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He studies collective memory and children with disabilities in Nazi Germany.

    Free and open to the public.

Mon Oct 14 2024

  • Lecture in Memory of Professor Emeritus Francis R. Nicosia - "Jewish Refugees Fleeing Europe: An Emotional History" Marion Kaplan, New York University
    7:00pm - 8:30pm
    Memorial Lounge, Waterman 338, University of Vermont

    Description to be announced. All events are free and open to the public.

Mon Nov 11 2024

  • The Annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture - "Auschwitz: A New History" Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck College, University of London
    7:00pm - 8:30pm
    Jack & Shirley Silver Pavilion, 31 Summit St. University of Vermont

    Description to be announced. All events are free and open to the public.

Mon Feb 24 2025

  • "Primo Levi and Poetry: Teaching Survival, in Auschwitz and Beyond" Antonello Borra, Faculty Fellow in Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
    7:00pm - 8:30pm
    Waterman 338, Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont

    Description to be announced. All events are free and open to the public.

Tue Mar 18 2025

  • "Dueling Diasporas: Latvians and Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust" Harry Merritt, Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
    7:00pm - 8:30pm
    Waterman 338, Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont

    Description to be announced. All events are free and open to the public.

Tue Apr 08 2025

  • The Annual Holocaust Commemoration Lecture - "The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust" Lisa Leff, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    4:00pm - 5:30pm
    Waterman 338, Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont

    Description to be announced. All events are free and open to the public.