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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.
Theologians Under Hitler (1985), Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (2012), and co-editor of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (1999).
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PLU graduate studies the Kindertransport By Barbara Clements Their faces stare out from yellowed passport photos. Some are smiling. Some scared. Some of carrying suitcases. Many are only holding their younger siblings or nothing at all. This photo is of the first transport from Berlin…
the outbreak of violence by the Nazi party began in German and Austria against the Jewish community. The transports of the children, without their parents, continued until late 1939, when England entered WWII. In her research, she found, for example, that all male children from Austria and Germany, even though they were Jewish, were considered enemy aliens. Some were even deported back to the countries from where they had just fled. Whereas many of the Czech children returned home to their
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)- Writer and director Steven Pressman screened his Emmy-nominated documentary film, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus , on March 4 as part of PLU’s Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Several hundred people gathered in…
March 4 as part of PLU’s Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education.Several hundred people gathered in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to watch the film, which tells the story of an American couple, Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, who dared to venture into Nazi Germany in 1939 to save the lives of 50 children. Pressman happened to stumble upon the incredible story when he met his future wife and granddaughter of the Kraus’, Liz Perle, on the streets of San
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Maria Altmann worked for decades to reclaim five family owned portraits painted by Gustav Klimt for her family, including this portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting had been shown in an Austrian art museum for years. Nazis had stolen the painting after Altmann…
south of Paris, creeping its way ahead of the Nazi advance in 1939, and sharing the road with refugees, horse-drawn carts and embassy cars. Yet the ambulance occupant was not an injured soldier heading to a hospital. The passenger was smiling and wrapped in velvet. Da Vinci’s the Mona Lisa was the vehicle’s only occupant, aside from the curator assigned to protect the masterpiece for the duration of the upcoming war. When the ambulance was opened at a country villa, the curator had fainted from lack
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Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Holocaust studies through taking a class on Christians in Nazi Germany, but what I got from this class and the many others I took after was more than a history lesson. I learned about dehumanization and oppression, bystanders and perpetrators, and the daily struggles that Jews and other subordinate groups went through. I had my real awakening to social justice issues in this program. There are names of people and atrocities which I can never forget. Even in the smallest examples of discrimination today
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Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Holocaust studies through taking a class on Christians in Nazi Germany, but what I got from this class and the many others I took after was more than a history lesson. I learned about dehumanization and oppression, bystanders and perpetrators, and the daily struggles that Jews and other subordinate groups went through. I had my real awakening to social justice issues in this program. There are names of people and atrocities which I can never forget. Even in the smallest examples of discrimination today
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Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Holocaust studies through taking a class on Christians in Nazi Germany, but what I got from this class and the many others I took after was more than a history lesson. I learned about dehumanization and oppression, bystanders and perpetrators, and the daily struggles that Jews and other subordinate groups went through. I had my real awakening to social justice issues in this program. There are names of people and atrocities which I can never forget. Even in the smallest examples of discrimination today
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Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Holocaust studies through taking a class on Christians in Nazi Germany, but what I got from this class and the many others I took after was more than a history lesson. I learned about dehumanization and oppression, bystanders and perpetrators, and the daily struggles that Jews and other subordinate groups went through. I had my real awakening to social justice issues in this program. There are names of people and atrocities which I can never forget. Even in the smallest examples of discrimination today
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Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Holocaust studies through taking a class on Christians in Nazi Germany, but what I got from this class and the many others I took after was more than a history lesson. I learned about dehumanization and oppression, bystanders and perpetrators, and the daily struggles that Jews and other subordinate groups went through. I had my real awakening to social justice issues in this program. There are names of people and atrocities which I can never forget. Even in the smallest examples of discrimination today
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- Professor of Religion and Chair of Lutheran Studies Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus…
present his final lecture, titled “Hitler’s Pink Victims: Robert Oelbermann and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany,” April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. The inspiration for the lecture started in 1996, when Torvend visited the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. As a part of the permanent exhibit, visitors receive an identity card of someone killed during the Holocaust and Torvend got Oelbermann. “He was a naturalist, a filmmaker and was a director of a youth group
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