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Events for Fall 2013

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a play by Marianna Salzmann
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
8:00 p.m.
Shiffman Rm. 219

New Findings from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

 
featuring Dr. Martin Dean
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Mandel Center for the Humanities
Reading Room, 3rd Floor

Dr. Martin Dean of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies will discuss recent findings of the Museum's massive "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos" Project. Volume 2, covering Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, published in 2012, documented more than 300 ghetto sites not previously described in English. Dr. Dean will outline some of the research methods and sources used and give a survey of the wide variety of forced labor camps and police-run camps to be covered in the forthcoming Volumes 5 and 6, devoted mainly to more than 30,000 forced labor sites across Europe.

About the speaker

Martin Dean, born 1962 in London, is an Applied Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in History from Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1989, for his thesis entitled “Austrian Policy during the French Revolutionary Wars, 1796-1799.” Subsequently he worked as a Historical Researcher for the British Home Office War Crimes Inquiry (1988-1989), for the Cambridge University History Faculty’s Project on Berlin during the First World War (1989-1991), and for the Australian Special Investigations Unit (War Crimes) (1989-1992). From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Dean worked as the Senior Historian for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London. His publications include: Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44, Robbing the Jews: the Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945, and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, vol. 2 Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. He has also written many book chapters and articles on the Holocaust focused mainly on the issues of Ghettos, Collaboration, War Crimes, and the Confiscation of Jewish Property.

Germany Voted - Now What?

presentation by Carina Schmitt
Monday, September 24th, 2013
12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Faculty Club Lounge

Join political scientist Carina Schmitt (CES Harvard) for a presentation and discussion about the outcomes of the recent elections in Germany and their implications for the future. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to cgees@brandeis.edu in order to attend the event, as space is limited.

Luncheon and Reading with German-Jewish poet Esther Dischereit

Monday, September 16th, 2013
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Faculty Club Lounge