Panel discussions on Holocaust slated
Davidson College is currently engaged in panel discussions on the Holocaust across the area and has invited the community to attend one organized by the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library at Gorelick Hall, 5007 Providence Rd., on May 7 at 7 p.m.
This comes in the aftermath of a research trip to various memorials in Germany and Poland during Spring break. Students researchers are facilitating the discussion panels as part of their coursework.
Dr.Thomas Pegelow Kaplan from the Department of History and author of “The Language of Nazi Genocide” and Dr. Scott Denham from the Department of German Studies and editor of the book series “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” led the European trip. Full access to the archives at various institution were made available to the students. This included the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, the Memorial Site of the House of the Wannsee Conference and the Volkswagen Corporation in Wolfsburg.
The students presented their preliminary findings at the prestigious Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin and at the Sosnowiec campus of Silesian University. They also had the opportunity to met with Polish and German scholars, students, members of the Jewish community, politicians, a former Hitler Youth member and a rescuer, as well as Righteous Among the Nations.
The presentations include new work on the Auschwitz orchestras, female slave labor at the city of the KdF (“Kraft durch Freude” or Strength through Joy, now known as the Volkswagen Beetle) car (Wolfsburg) and the Jewish exhibitions at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial in the German Democratic Republic and the united Germany.
To learn more about the trip, visit www.davidsonian.com/news/holocaust-seminar-spends-spring-break-abroad-1.2718798.
Talli Dippold, library director, and Rachael Levine, director of community relations and Israeli affairs of the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte are acting as liaisons between the school and Shalom Park.
Although attendance is free, it is suggested that material presented may not be suitable for children.
For more information, contact Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan at 704-894-2284.