October 26, 2016 - Christopher Browning: Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps
Publication Date
10-26-2016
Abstract
Speaker: Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Dr. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ,and the author of serveral landmark works in the field of Holocaust istory, including Ordinalry Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Harper Collins, 1992); and Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp (W.W. Norton, 2010). His talk will examine the history of the Starachowice labor camp in central Poland, where between 1942 and 1944 thousands of Jews were forced to work under brutal conditions to produce munitions for the German war effort. The Testimonies of the nearly three hundred camp survivors comprise some of the only evidence of the camp's existence, and Professor Browning's lecture will pay particular attention to the methodological challenges historians face when using survivor testimony to document the crimes of the Nazi regime.
This lecture was made possible through the generous support of Clark University alumni Judi and Lawrence Bohn. Co-sponsored by the W. Arthur Garrity Sr. Professorship in Human Nature, Ethics and Society at the College of the Holy Cross, the Philosophy Department at Worcester State University, and the Departments of History and Political Science at Clark University.
Recommended Citation
Clark University, "October 26, 2016 - Christopher Browning: Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps" (2016). Clark University Video Archive. 240.
https://commons.clarku.edu/videoarchive/240
