The Hugo Valentin Lecture 2005: Professor Debórah Dwork

The fourth lecture in memory of Hugo Valentin takes place 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. This is noted by this year's lecturer, Professor Debórah Dwork. Dwork is director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, and a prominent scholar of Auschwitz history.

Several of Dwork’s publications deal with this extermination camp, for example the noted Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present (1996). Professor Dwork has also published on the tragic conditions of children during the Holocaust; the book Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (1991) is a pioneering work in its field. Her later publications include Holocaust: A History (2002).

In this year's lecture, Professor Dwork highlights the choices and positions of ordinary people during the annihilation of the Jewish population in Germany and Eastern Europe.

Debóra Dwork

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