Community Book Event

Students in Facing History and Ourselves classes will host an event for the community to discuss the book Night, a Holocaust survivor memoir by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel. For details about the event, contact the class instructor, David Cohen.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Discussion topics

There are eight topics that will be discussed on the presentation night, led by two or three students who have prepared a discussion outline. Topics include the Armenian genocide, other groups targeted by the Nazis, Holocaust denial, and music produced during the Holocaust. The question of how the Holocaust is remembered across generations, the Nuremberg Trials, resistance against the Nazis, and the art of a survivor will be discussed as well, with supporting paintings and videos. There will be two rounds of discussions, and the audience is encouraged to listen to and participate in the topics that interest them the most.
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  1. Dr. DavisMarch 18, 2011 at 8:09 PM

    I wonder what you mean by the art of a survivor. Are you talking about the art it takes to be a survivor? Or are you talking about the art created by a person who is/was a survivor?

    When I was younger, a brother and sister died in the town where Iived. They had always been very private and not very many people knew them. After they died, people came into their house and discovered that every wall was painted with a scene from their experience in the concentration camp(s) in Germany.

    It was a very scary experience and brought home to many who were too young to remember the war that it had happened fairly recently.

    I think the art of surviving, though, might be a good topic to go with the rest of your studies.

    I think this TED talk might be pertinent to the art of surviving, if that is what the topic is.
    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

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