"Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality"
Doris Bergen, the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto - Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Read German literature and Jewish studies scholar Erin McGlothlin's related article: "The Holocaust and the 'Whew' Effect."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
DORIS BERGEN is the author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich and numerous articles on issues of religion, gender and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II. Bergen earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1991, and has taught at the universities of Notre Dame and Vermont. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.