Join the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre on January 28 for the 2018 IHRD Lecture . Prof. Gideon Greif, will discuss his internationally acclaimed book "We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz." The publication was the result of Dr. Greif's groundbreaking research on the complex role of the Sonderkommando. The book inspired Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes to create the 2016 Academy Awarding winning “Son of Saul.”
After the lecture, he will be joined by Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt an internationally recognized authority on the history of Auschwitz. Professor van Pelt was one of the project principals on The Evidence Room, a powerful installation which reconstructs key objects used in the forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. Historian Robert Jan van Pelt introduced the objects as evidence in a court case to demonstrate that Auschwitz was purposefully designed as a death camp. The Evidence Room is at the ROM until January 20, 2018.
Professors Greif and van Pelt will then contextualise the role of the Sonderkommando, how Auschwitz functioned, and its role in understanding the Holocaust.
Both authors will be available for book signing following the presentation.
Sponsor: The Bem/Yakubowicz Memorial Fund