March 2021

March 02

Life and Resistance in the Camp

As the nature of the camp changed so too did the type of prisoners and the harshness of life within the camp. This session will look at the experience of those who lived and died in the Auschwitz complex.

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March 09

Liberation and Aftermath

This session will look at the days leading up to liberation, the death marches out of it and who was left behind. It will unpack these now famous scenes of liberation and look at how this camp became so central to Holocaust memory.

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March 16

Smoke Over Birkenau

In this session we will discussion the memoir by Holocaust survivor Liana Millu and relate her experience to what we have learned in the course so far.

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April 2021

April 08 - 09

Yom HaShoah

April 15

Common Book – Spring 2021

Zoom

Announcing MCHE’s Spring 2021 common book, the community is encouraged to read Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu. Liana Millu was a Jewish Italian Partisan who was arrested in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the ...

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