Jewish Orphans After the Holocaust
Debórah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History and director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She is a leading authority on university education in this field, as well as in her area of scholarship, the Holocaust. Her award-winning books include Children With A Star, Auschwitz, and Flight from the Reich. The recipient of many prestigious fellowships, Dwork is a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Dwork is currently engaged in two projects. Saints and Liars focuses on Americans — Quakers, Unitarians, secular people, Jews — who traveled to Europe to aid and, step by step, engaged in rescuing people targeted by Nazi Germany and its allies.
In her Athenaeum talk, Dwork asks: To whom did hidden Jewish children belong at war’s end? Who made that decision? And how did the children experience the paths others determined for them?
Professor Dwork’s Athenaeum presentation is sponsored by the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights.