Liberation Remembered: A Conversation
"The Holocaust did not end with liberation," says Liz Igra. "We need a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, liberation and what's happened since, not as spectators but by seeing ourselves along the continuum." CVHEN (Central Valley Holocaust Educators' Network), founded by Igra, will present a community discussion to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps.
Two Holocaust scholars will use their combined expertise in history and literature, as well as their personal perspectives, in a conversation open to everyone in the Sacramento community. Dr. Murray Baumgarten, a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of Jewish Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz , and Dr. Peter Kenez, a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European History and Professor Emeritus of History at UCSC have nearly a century of teaching between them. Both colleagues and comrades, the pair has been teaching the Holocaust for more than 30 years.
Kenez grew up under Nazism and Communism in Hungary and Baumgarten was conceived in Vienna and born en route to Panama after his family fled Austria. Among other things, their conversation will be a discussion of Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertesz and the recently published Diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a Jewish teenage girl who wrote her diary while in the Lodz Ghetto.
Liberation Remembered: A Conversation is sponsored by CVHEN and will be held Saturday, January 17 beginning at 7:00pm at the KOH Library and Cultural Center, 2300 Sierra Blvd. in Sacramento. There is no cost to attend and refreshments will be served.
Location:
KOH Library, 2300 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95825
Contact & Additional Information:
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Liz Igra at Liz@cvhen.com.
(Portions of this announcement were printed with permission from an article by Elissa Provance in the December issue of the VOICE, a publication of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region, entitled CVHEN Features Liberation Remembered: A Conversation.)
