Feb 10, 2022 By: pglassman
Hear Professor of English Emerita Joan Gluckauf Haahr discuss her book Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany with William Stenhouse, Professor in the Robert M. Beren Department of History.
Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that plagued many of those who had made it out alive. In Prisoners of Memory, Haahr realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about the pre-war lives, deportations, and deaths of her grandparents and other close family members. Devoting herself fully to this project after retiring from her academic career, Haahr delves into troves of family letters, takes part in numerous conversations with those directly and indirectly affected by World War II, and gathers information from contacts in Germany, archives, and other historical research. In doing so, she seeks to understand the enduring legacy of tragedy as well as of perseverance and hope in the generations that followed the Holocaust.
The program is co-sponsored by the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program.
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET
Online: Event URL will be sent via registration email. Registration is required.
