UC hosts International Holocaust Day commemorative lecture Jan. 30
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According to a recent study by the Pew Research Institute, nearly half of Americans don’t know how many Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. The answer: approximately 6 million.
Thus, on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. in the Taft Research Center, Edwards I, the Judaic Studies Department at the University of Cincinnati will host an International Holocaust Day Commemorative Lecture, in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was observed Feb. 27.
The lecture, “Holocaust History in Black and White: On Documentary and Complicity in A German Life (2016),” focuses on the film “A German Life,” a documentary based on actual interviews with a woman who worked with Josef Goebbels, who served as minister of propaganda for the Nazi German government of the Third Reich.
Brad Prager, a professor of Film Studies and German at the University of Missouri, will lead the presentation. Prager positions the original film in terms of how Germans and Austrians remember the Holocaust.
Gary Weissman, associate professor of English at UC, will provide commentary in the context of new trends in film and Holocaust studies.
The lecture is sponsored with support from The Taft Research Center, UC’s Film and Media Studies program and the German Studies Department.
Photo: Still from the film "A German Life".
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