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FIU will host author and filmmaker
Joshua Greene for a special presentation Sunday, Oct. 26 on the
Dachau concentration camp trials
as part of Holocaust Education Week.
Greene’s presentation, “Justice at Dachau: The Trials
of an American Prosecutor” features film clips and interviews.
It begins at 7:30 p.m. at FIU-Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe Center
Room 244A and is free and open to the public. Greene is an award-winning author
whose books and documentaries have been translated and broadcast
in more than 20 countries.
His presentation is based on his book, Justice at Dachau, published
in April and slated to be aired as a PBS documentary in April
2004.
The program explores the Dachau trials,
a critical yet largely unknown event in the post-Holocaust period
where 1,600 war criminals
stood trial for conducting acts of starvation, torture and extermination
inside camps Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenburg and Buchenwald.
It tells the story of William Denson, the chief prosecutor who
led
the trials and pursued judgments against Nazis including Dr.
Karl Schilling, who used prisoners as guinea pigs in malaria
testing;
August Eigruber, overseer of the Mauthausen death camp and Ilse
Koch, who had prisoners killed and their skins stripped and cured
for her collection.
“It’s a very compelling
story, not just because there’s
an American angle, but because it’s a forgotten chapter
in bringing Nazi perpetrators to justice,’’ said
Oren Stier, associate director of Judaic Studies at FIU. “It’s
interesting for everyone who wants to understand the implications
of genocide for international law and the process of bringing
perpetrators to justice and coming to terms with the past.”
FIU’s Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies is sponsoring
the event, along with the Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach and the
Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami-Dade College. Greene’s
FIU presentation kicks off Holocaust Education Week, which brings
together academic and community organizations for an intensive
week memorializing the Holocaust.
“We’re thrilled to be
part of this, particularly to be sponsoring this particular lecture
at FIU,” Stier said. “It’s
really going to be a fantastic presentation.”
Greene will give two more presentations
at FIU-University Park on Monday, Oct. 27. He will discuss his
other seminal work, Witness:
Voices from the Holocaust, at 12:30 p.m. in DM 110.
At 5 p.m., the FIU Cardozo Jewish
Law Student Association will host Greene for an open discussion
of Justice at Dachau in
GL 166. The discussion will be of particular interest to
law students
and
faculty concerned with human rights and international law.
Those interested in attending at 5 p.m. should RSVP to cardozo@fiu.edu.
All of the events are free and open
to the public.
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