Christopher Browning, “Collected Memories 03, Survivor Testimony from Starachowice: The Final Days”
3 April 2002, 16:30 CST
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Fluno Center
Howard Auditorium
601 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53715
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
This lecture series was published as Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Post-War Testimony (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003).
Announcement: Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Professor of Modern German History at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will give the first George L. Mosse Distinguished Lectures on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lectures, scheduled for the spring of 2001, will take place in the Howard Auditorium located in the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave. The series of three lectures will be given on April 1-3, 2002 at 4:30 PM. The George L. Mosse Program in History, a collaborative program between the Department of History UW-Madison, and the Department of History at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem sponsor the Mosse Memorial Lecture Series. The lecture series will alternate between the two universities, with the next series scheduled for 2004 in Jerusalem.
Christopher R. Browning received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975. He wrote his thesis under the direction of Professor Robert Koehl (1922-2015). Browning joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1999. His publications include Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); The Path to Genocide (1992); and The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978). In the spring of 1999, he gave the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, which recently have been published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Labor, German Killers (2000). He is currently writing a two-volume study of Nazi Jewish policy during the Second World War, as part of the Yad Vashem multi-volume comprehensive history of the Holocaust. He is also working on a case study of the Jewish slave labor camp in Starachowice in central Poland, based on the nearly 170 survivor testimonies.
