Friday November 8, 2:00 pm, 208B CL Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration

The University of Pittsburgh

Department of German
Jewish Studies Program

Department of Theatre Arts

 

Present

The Annual Commemoration of
Kristallnacht

(The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938)

 

Friday, November 8, 2013

2-3:30 pm

Cathedral of Learning 208B

 

 

Testimonies of Kristallnacht read by Pitt Students

and

Lecture by Professor Robert Skloot (University of Wisconsin)

 

“Kristallnacht as Early Warning: Signs of Genocide”

 

Related Events:

The University of Pittsburgh is joining with the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh to present a series of events related to Kristallnacht on campus on November 9-10, including a staged reading of Professor Skloot’s play about Raphael Lemkin and a day-long conference on “The Cultural Arts of the Holocaust.”  For more information, see http://holocaustcenterpgh.org/NovConf2013.aspx