The Powell and Heller families are committed to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust to people of all races and religious beliefs in the Pacific Northwest to prevent its recurrence and foster mutual understanding and respect. The conference honors the millions who lost their lives in the Holocaust and survivors John and Georgette Heller, parents of Harry Heller and Carol Powell Heller.
Date: November 2, 2007
Location: Scandinavian Studies Center, University Center
Program Brochure(1.24MB .pdf)
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View Now (40:07) Archival InfoThis session will be presented by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center (WSHERC), Seattle
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View Now (1:11:00) Archival Info| The story of a young boy who went into hiding and was saved by the kindness of two non-Jews and by the resourcefulness of his mother. Mr. Metzelaar was born in Amsterdam in 1935. In 1942, the Nazis seized his entire family, except for Mr. Metzelaar and his mother. Mr. Metzelaar's mother then contacted the Dutch Underground and through it found Klaas and Roefina Post who sheltered Mr. Metzelaar and his mother on their small farm in the northern Netherlands, thus putting their own lives at risk. Yad Vashem, Israel's leading Holocaust Museum, posthumously awarded the Posts the Righteous Among the Nations title.
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View Now (49:31) Archival InfoModerator: Judith Kay, Associate Professor of Ethics, University of Puget Sound Panel members:
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View Now (1:11:00) Archival InfoModerator: Kirsten Christensen, Assistant Professor of German, PLU
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MAGDA SCHALOUM, born in 1922 in Hungary, arrived at Auschwitz on June 21, 1944, is the only one of her family of four to survive the Holocaust. Her experience included slave labor at Krakow/Plaszow digging rocks and slave labor in Germany making small airplane parts, as well as the experience of Auschwitz itself. She and her husband Isak, a fellow survivor, immigrated to the United States in 1951 and raised their family in Seattle. She now is part of the Survivor Speakers group organized by WSHERC.
DORIS L BERGEN, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, is the author of Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (UNC Press, 1996) and War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). She is the editor of The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-first Centuries (2004) and Lessons and Legacies VIII (2008). She has held grants from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, among others; she has taught at the Universities of Warsaw, Pristina, Tuzla, Notre Dame, and Vermont; and she is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
ROBERT P ERICKSEN, Kurtis R Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, is the author of Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch (Yale, 1985), which has been made into a documentary film by Steven Martin (Vitalvisuals.com, 2005). He is the co-editor with Susannah Heschel of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Fortress, 1999), editor of Christian Teachings about Jews: National Comparisons in the Shadow of the Holocaust (vol. 16/1 of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 2003), and co-editor with Michael J Halvorson of A Lutheran Vocation: Philip A Nordquist and the Study of History at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU, 2005). He has been awarded fellowships by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He delivered the Kaplan Holocaust Lectures at Cape Town University in 2004 and will give the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov 8, 2007.
HARTMUT LEHMANN, Visiting Professor of History at UC Berkeley, is the Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen and the founding Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He has been a professor of history at the Universities of Kiel and Göttingen and held visiting professorships at UCLA, Chicago, Princeton, Harvard, and Canberra. He established his reputation as an authority on German pietism for the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, but he has also written extensively on German churches in the Nazi period. This includes two edited volumes on Nationalsozialismus in den Kulturwissenschaften (National Socialism and the Humanities, 2004) and another on Nationalprotestantische Mentalitäten in Deutschland 1870-1970 (National Protestant Mentalities, 1870-1970, 2005). Other publications include Many are Chosen: Divine Election and Western Nationalism (1994), In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany (2002), and An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933 (2002).
HUBERT G LOCKE, Dean Emeritus of the Daniel J Evans Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, also served as the Marguirite Corbally Professor of Public Service at that institution. He served as Executive Director of the Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity in Detroit (1962-65) and as Administrative Assistant to the Detroit Commissioner of Police (1965-67). He then held academic positions at Wayne State University and University of Nebraska at Omaha, before being named Professor of Public Affairs and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington in 1976. He became Vice Provost for Academic Affairs in 1977 and Dean of the Evans School in 1982. In 1970 Hubert Locke and Franklin Littell hosted the first Scholars Conference on Churches and the Holocaust, the oldest Holocaust conference still meeting annually in the United States. He has also written and edited books on this topic, including The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust (co-edited with Franklin Littell, 1974), The Church confronts the Nazis: Barmen Then and Now (1984), Learning from History: A Black Christian’s Perspective on the Holocaust (2000), and Searching for God in God-forsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death (2003)
The Powell and Heller families are committed to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and honoring survivors as well as the millions who died. The first annual Powell and Heller Family Conference will take place Friday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center of the University Center. It is intended for educators interested in teaching the Holocaust at the high school, community college or university level. It is also free and open to the public.
For information, please contact Robert Ericksen at ericksrp@plu.edu.
