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--------------------------------------------------------- Debórah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt The Holocaust: A History Monday, 27 January 2003, 8 p.m. The John Adams Institute De Rode Hoed Keizersgracht 102 Amsterdam - The Netherlands The John Adams Institute is proud to bring you the renowned historians Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt on 27 January 2003, exactly 58 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Dwork and van Pelt are the authors of the recently published book The Holocaust: A History, De Holocaust. Een geschiedenis, (published by Uitgeverij Boom). Professor Johannes Houwink ten Cate, director of the recently founded Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands, will introduce our guests and moderate the evening. They will all exchange views and share their thoughts on the most recent ideas on the holocaust. The audience will be invited to take part in the discussion. The Holocaust: A History is an important book. It describes the greatest human tragedy of the twentieth century: the history of the murder of 6 million people. Jews were stigmatised, imprisoned and murdered because their existence was seen as a blemish on the civilisation to which they had contributed so much. Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt unravel the often- paradoxical developments that led to the murder of the Jews. This integrated history of the holocaust discusses many of the questions that are still asked regarding these incomprehensible events. Why did millions of Germans and many other Europeans accept the Nazi's ideas of Jews as a 'lesser race'? Who knew about the fate of the deported Jews? Why did higher percentages of the Jewish population survive in one country than another? Debórah Dwork works at Yale University and has written "Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe" (1993). Robert Jan van Pelt, who was born in the Netherlands, is professor of cultural history at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They jointly authored the book "Auschwitz: 1270 to Present" (1997), for wich they won the National Book Award. With special thanks to Uitgeverij Boom & Nilsson & Lamm & Canadian Embassyand Institute for Holocaust and Genocide studies and Meredith Perkerow. For more informations see: http://www.john-adams.nl/ --- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museum Professionals E -Mail: h-museum@h-net.msu.edu WWW: http://www.h-museum.net
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