• Book Talk with Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer: “Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust”

    Higgins Lounge, 2nd Floor, Dana Commons Clark University

    This book is the culmination of Charlie Scheidt’s decade-long journey to uncover his family’s hidden past during the Holocaust. With filmmaker Kat Rohrer, the granddaughter of a Nazi officer, he embarked on a quest to trace his family’s harrowing efforts to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.

  • Betrayal or Salvation? Religious Conversion during the Holocaust

    Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons – 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    Albert M. Tapper Annual Lecture Reception at 5:00pm Speaker: Doris Bergen (Professor; Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto) Religious conversion during the Holocaust, specifically conversion from Judaism to Christianity, is an uncomfortable topic that has received little scholarly attention. Two widespread assumptions are that conversion was rare (at least […]