Witnessing, Remembering, and Writing the Holocaust

December 6, 2016 at 5:30 PM

A public lecture by Liliane Weissberg (Christopher H. Brown Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania)
2015-2016 Rutman Fellow for Research and Teaching

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

University of Pennsylvania
The Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
3420 Walnut Street, 6th Floor

Please join Professor Liliane Weissberg (Christopher H. Brown Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and Recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching) for a talk that draws on Professor Weissberg’s own family history and the partnership between Penn and USC Shoah Foundation. Through the Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania became the first institution in Pennsylvania to provide access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, a collection of over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.

This program is supported by Lori Rutman Fife, in memory of her parents Sherry and Henry Rutman, and the Penn Libraries.