Holocaust Memory in the Post-War Period

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The Holocaust has been remembered in countless ways – from museums and memorial sites to books and films – but much of this memorialization has occurred in recent decades. What did Holocaust memory look like in the immediate aftermath of liberation? Join Dr. Beth Cohen, Lecturer in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at California State University Northridge, and Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History at The Cooper Union, for a conversation about postwar Holocaust memory in the United States and Germany.

This program is part of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Permanent Exhibition Highlight Series. Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used.

About the Speakers
Dr. Beth Cohen is a Lecturer in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at California State University Northridge. Her focuses include the Holocaust and its aftermath, including the intersection of the Holocaust and American Jewry and the appearance of the Holocaust in public consciousness and memory from post-war until today. Her current research focuses on child survivors’ post-war experiences. She is the author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America and has served as a consultant for The March of the Living, PBS Frontline's “Memory of the Camps," the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and other film and educational projects.

Dr. Atina Grossmann is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union in New York City. She has numerous publications, including Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, which was awarded the George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association and the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library, London. She is working, together with Dorota Glowacka, on a brief summary volume on Women and the Holocaust: Rewriting Gender in History and Memory, and her current research focuses on “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in the Soviet Union, Iran, and India,” as well as the entanglements of family memoir and historical scholarship.

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