Tigermedia - The Nazi Camp Universe, 1933-1945: Landscapes of Suffering and Paths of Persecution
The Nazi Camp Universe, 1933-1945: Landscapes of Suffering and Paths of Persecution
Date: February 9th, 2022
Duration:
1h:1m:22s
Join Dr. Alexandra Lohse for a brief overview of the Nazi concentration camp universe consisting of more than 40,000 sites operated by the Nazi regime and its allies, an almost incomprehensible number that challenges our understanding of the nature, ubiquity, and visibility of Nazi persecution. Using perpetrator documentation as well as survivor and eyewitness testimonies and memoirs, her talk illuminates the dynamic nature and function of some of these sites while illustrating paths of persecution that many victims suffered there between 1933 and 1945. Dr. Lohse is the Applied Research Scholar Team Lead at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This event is part of the 2021-22 KHC and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Incarceration, Transformation & Paths to Liberation during the Holocaust and Beyond” and is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, "The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide" (https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/). ?The event was organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) at Queensborough Community College and was co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center. For more information about the KHC, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu