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    Concentration Camps–The Limits of Representing History

    Thursday, November 02, 2017

    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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    11/02/2017 07:00 PM 11/02/2017 08:30 PM America/Anguilla Concentration Camps–The Limits of Representing History 2017 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture “It was clear to each and every one of us that the things we had seen needed to be told,” wrote the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi; but how should historians tell the story of Auschwitz and other Nazi camps? How should they write about crimes that seem to defy explanation and defeat language? In this lecture, Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann reflects on these questions, discussing the challenges of capturing the voices of Nazi victims, perpetrators, and onlookers.SpeakerDr. Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor of Modern European History, Birkbeck College, University of London Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/washington-dc/events/united-states-holocaust-memorial-museum/concentration-campsthe-limits-of-representing-history-32217?ref=uceaddevent United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl SW, Washington, DC, 20024

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    2017 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture “It was clear to each and every one of us that the things we had seen needed to be told,” wrote the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi; but how should historians tell the story of Auschwitz and other Nazi camps? How should they write about crimes that seem to defy explanation and defeat language? In this lecture, Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann reflects on these questions, discussing the challenges of capturing the voices of Nazi victims, perpetrators, and onlookers.

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    Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor of Modern European History, Birkbeck College, University of London

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