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Producing a 'Usable' Past: Holocaust Distortion and New Threats to the Memory of the Holocaust
The UNO Department of History welcomes Dr. Jan Grabowski as this year's Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer on "Producing a 'Usable' Past: Holocaust Distortion and New Threats to the Memory of the Holocaust."
From the University of Ottawa, Dr. Grabowski specializes in Jewish-Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Unlike holocaust deniers, people, institutions, and states engaging in Holocaust distortion do not deny the factuality of the Jewish catastrophe. They simply deny that their people, their ethnic group, or their nation, had anything to do with the event. Using the massive resources of the state, they falsify the historical narrative in order to make it compatible with various national myths. This talk will focus on Poland, a place where a great majority of the victims of the Holocaust were put to death and a place where Holocaust distortion has become a quasi-official policy of the state.
This event is co-sponsored by UNO's Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy.
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