Babi Yar: Site of Mass Murder, Ravine of Oblivion
Lecture by Author and Scholar Karel Berkhoff
Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM EST
Johnson Center, Dewberry Hall South
Karel Berkhoff, author of Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (2004) and a forthcoming monograph on Soviet home front propaganda during World War II, will give a talk hosted by the Center for Eurasian Studies on "Babi Yar: Site of Mass Murder, Ravine of Oblivion."
He will speak about his current research on the mass murders near Kiev, in particular Babi Yar - site of the largest single Nazi shootings of Jews in the entire Soviet Union. His research analyzes not only the murders, but also the reactions of local populations and the ways in which Babi Yar have been remembered from the time of the murders to the present day.
Karel Berkhoff
Berkhoff, Associate Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, is currently a senior scholar in residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Faculty, staff, students and the general public are all welcome at this event.
Sponsored by the Center for Eurasian Studies.
