Upcoming Annual Lectures

Tuesday, October 28, 7 p.m.

20th Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture

Communist Collaborators and German Occupation in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust, 1941–43
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater
 

Thursday, November 13, 7 p.m.

2014 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture

“Lisbon Is Sold Out!”: The Daily Lives of Jewish Refugees in Portugal during World War II
Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
 

20TH JOSEPH AND REBECCA MEYERHOFF ANNUAL LECTURE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 7 p.m.

Communist Collaborators and German Occupation in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust, 1941–43

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Dr. Jeffrey Burds, associate professor of history at Northeastern University, reveals newly discovered archival sources that challenge long-held assumptions about Nazi Germany’s policy toward Communists captured in the Soviet Union. Far from annihilating them as part of a “Jewish-Communist” threat, German authorities instead recruited many of them to help administer occupied Soviet zones.

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture honors excellence in research on the Holocaust and fosters dissemination of important, new Holocaust scholarship. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff of Baltimore, Maryland, were active philanthropists in the United States and abroad, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, music, the arts, and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, member and Chairman Emeritus, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, have endowed this lecture.

A reception follows the lecture. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. RSVP at ushmm.org/events/meyerhofflecture2014.

2014 J. B. AND MAURICE C. SHAPIRO ANNUAL LECTURE

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 7–8:30 p.m.

“Lisbon Is Sold Out!”: The Daily Lives of Jewish Refugees in Portugal during World War II

Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University and a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her books The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991); Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998); and Gender and Jewish History, co-edited with Deborah Dash Moore (2011). In her lecture, Dr. Kaplan will explore how Jewish refugees in Portugal coped during World War II, as well as the involvement of Jewish philanthropies and Portuguese officials and citizens. She also will analyze the conditions that allowed Portugal to open (and sometimes close) its doors to tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing war-torn Europe and Nazi persecution.

The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, endowed by the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust, enables the Mandel Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research about the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the public. The scholar-in-residence also leads seminars, lectures at universities in the United States, and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the general public.

A reception follows the lecture. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. RSVP at ushmm.org/events/shapirolecture2014.

Featured Image: Jewish refugees arrive in Lisbon by train in September 1941. Copyright 2014, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Koch

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