Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 3:30 pm PST - 5:00 pm PST
The University of Washington Department of History and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies are proud to present a lecture by Visiting Scholar, Prof. Christopher Browning.
Christopher R. Browning is the Giovanni Costigan Visiting Professor of History at the University of Washington and the Frank Porter Graham Professor History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously he taught at the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. He is the author of eight books, including Ordinary Men, The Origins of the Final Solution, and Remembering Survival, all three of which received the National Jewish Book Award – Holocaust Category. He has served as an expert witness in “war crimes” trials in Australia, Canada, and Great Britain as well as in two “Holocaust denial” cases: the second Zundel trail in Toronto in 1988 and in David Irving’s libel suit against Deborah Lipstadt in London in 2000.