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New gifts in 2010 in support of the Kurt Mayer Professorship in Holocaust Studies have pushed that endowment total beyond $2 million, making it the third endowed chair at PLU.
honor the memory of their family and friends who were murdered in the Holocaust and to ensure that the painful lessons learned from the Holocaust will be taught to future generations of students.Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust StudiesBeth A. Griech-PolelleWelcome to our new Chair of Holocaust Studies!The donors were Kurt and Pam Mayer, Natalie Mayer, Joe and Gloria Mayer, Nancy Powell, Carol Powell Heller and Harry Heller. Together they committed both to giving $1 million and to help raise another $1
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New gifts in 2010 in support of the Kurt Mayer Professorship in Holocaust Studies have pushed that endowment total beyond $2 million, making it the third endowed chair at PLU.
honor the memory of their family and friends who were murdered in the Holocaust and to ensure that the painful lessons learned from the Holocaust will be taught to future generations of students.Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust StudiesBeth A. Griech-PolelleThe donors were Kurt and Pam Mayer, Natalie Mayer, Joe and Gloria Mayer, Nancy Powell, Carol Powell Heller and Harry Heller. Together they committed both to giving $1 million and to help raise another $1 million to eventually fund a $2 million
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The 14th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will occur on October 26-28, 2022 at Pacific Lutheran University. This year the conference theme is “Jewish Life in Poland: Before, During and After the Holocaust.” The keynote speaker is professor of history Jan Grabowski from the…
, Canada. Grabowski’s research includes the issues surrounding the extermination of the Polish Jews as well as the history of Jewish-Polish relations during the 1939-1945 period. This year’s conference will also include a screening of “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a film based on the book by Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film. “This year’s conference explores the rich and varied history of Jews in Poland,” Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of
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Lisa Woods ’92 leads initiatives to help improve systems and services as the City of Tacoma’s chief equity officer. She says her approach to this work starts with listening and continuously thinking about how best to center community voices, experiences and needs. How can centering…
Asking Historic Questions: Beth Griech-Polelle, PLU Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Read Next Camp Songs: PLU music majors produce free music camp for Parkland students COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS “Creative freedom” guides Guillermo Baltazar-Munoz ’25 through art and life May 5, 2025 With her son by her side, Zoneice Grose ’25 charts a path of
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PLU will host the 16th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education from November 6-8, 2024. This year’s conference, titled Sephardic Jewish Voices and Experiences in the Holocaust, focuses on the lesser-known stories of Sephardic Jews during World War II. The conference brings together scholars and…
, Associate Professor of History Beth Griech-Polelle. “We also wanted to honor the contributions of the Mayer family, particularly the close relationship between Christopher Browning, Robert Ericksen and Kurt Mayer. Though I never had the pleasure of meeting Kurt, we hope the final event of this year’s conference serves as a way of thanking all our PLU students, faculty, and community members for their continued support.” This year’s Powell-Heller Conference is part of PLU’s ongoing commitment to
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What are you doing next summer? If you’re interested in history, innovation studies, or a range of allied topics, you may want to consider a Benson Student-Faculty Summer Research fellowship, which
Raphael Lemkin Essay Contest page, or contact Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle at griechba@plu.edu.S. Erving Severtson Research Fellowship Forest Foundation Undergraduate Research ProgramIn May 2000, a grant was awarded to the Division of Social Sciences for a student-faculty research program to honor PLU faculty member and alumnus (1955) Dr. S. Erving (Erv) Severtson. Endowed by the Forest Foundation, the Severtson funding supports joint student and faculty research by providing financial assistance. For
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The challenges of our lifetime are complicated — and so are the people surrounding them. We bring our whole, imperfect selves to the table every day, dedicating our passions and skills to finding
from what was done in the past.”— Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies VIEW STORY LUTES MAKE IT HAPPEN From the classroom to the workforce, we’re doers who investigate, teach, create, serve, and play — with and for our neighbors down the street and those around the globe. “PLU faculty strive to engage, inspire, motivate and prepare our students for a world that truly needs their care, compassion and competence. We meet students where they are in their lives, their careers and
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Leaders from Pacific Lutheran University and Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement. Among the first of its kind between Yad Vashem and an American university, the agreement pledges that the two organizations will work collaboratively towards…
recognized Holocaust scholarship. PLU’s role in the partnership with Yad Vashem will be led by faculty members from the university’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs. “This partnership is absolutely thrilling,” said Beth A. Griech-Polelle, PLU’s Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies. “It opens up a wealth of opportunities for PLU faculty and students to work with internationally-acclaimed scholars and educators both on PLU’s campus and virtually on the campus of Yad Vashem’s facilities.” “Through
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Thinking about graduate study in history? Pacific Lutheran University history majors have an excellent track record when it comes to earning an M.A. or a Ph.D. (or both) in history. I recently touched base with Carli Snyder, ’17, about her first year in grad school.…
introduced to Beth Griech-Polelle’s doctoral advisor (Omer Bartov) by her own doctoral advisor (Dagmar Herzog). Carli also managed to return all thirty library books after completing her first semester exam (which she passed). And how thrilling it was to find a single letter in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archive that changed the entire course of her research. Written in 1993 by Holocaust survivor Charlene Schiff to the museum’s director, the letter complimented Joan Ringelheim on her skillful way
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Screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, a film based on Glenn Kurtz’s acclaimed book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Three minutes of footage are the only
history and memorialization of the former “Kibbutz Grochow” in Warsaw Grochow, today a neighborhood in Warsaw, was the place of the essential Zionistic training farm of the HeChalutz movement. In my presentation, I will introduce the Kibbutz Grochow project, run by the Anski Association in Warsaw, commemorating the former kibbutz. Cieśla will present the history of Grochow and address how to commemorate such sites. Convener: Beth Griech-Polelle, Associate Professor of Holocaust History and Kurt Mayer
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