| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM | External Event, Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, 750 Spadina Avenue |
The Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Lecture in Holocaust Studies
Up until World War II, the Galician town of Buczacz had a mixed population of Poles, Jews and Ukrainians. During the German occupation, Nazi units assisted by Ukrainian police murdered the Jewish inhabitants, while Ukrainian nationalists carried out ethnic cleansing of the Poles. Now part of independent Ukraine, Buczacz is inhabited predominantly by Ukrainians. Professor Bartov traces the complexity of interethnic relations in the town, their impact on the events of 1941-44, and how these events have been remembered and commemorated in the postwar period and following the collapse of communist rule.
Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and Oxford, Professor Omer Bartov is one of the world’s leading authorities on the Holocaust, modern European history and genocide. He made his reputation when he showed the German Army to be a deeply Nazified institution that played a key role in the Holocaust, particularly in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union. His subsequent research focused on links between the extreme violence of World War I and the German war of annihilation in World War II, and on 20th-century genocides. Currently he is investigating interethnic violence in eastern Galicia during World War II. Professor Bartov is the author of seven books including: Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, Germany’s War and the Holocaust and Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity.
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