This event is in person and streaming via Zoom.

Please join the Program in Jewish Studies for our annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program public lecture, by Dr. Brown-Fleming.

Ernst von Weizsäcker, Albert Kesselring, Alfried Krupp, Oswald Pohl, to name only some infamous names of the Third Reich and its crimes, all had a common champion: Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli, 1939-1958). This lecture concerns the extensive clemency campaign on behalf of convicted German war criminals waged by Pius XII and his closest officers in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. With access to the recently released Vatican archives, opened in March 2020, it is now possible to study this campaign in detail, including both public and private interventions. It is also possible to study the correspondence revealing the motives and private exchanges between these men and their papal representatives in Germany and the United States.

Dr. Brown-Fleming joined the USHMM in 2001 and directs special projects, particularly in the international realm, of large-scale, cross-office Museum projects that originate in the Mandel Center. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Catholic News Service, Catholic News Agency, La Stampa, and Vatican News, the official news portal of the Vatican Holy See. She has appeared on CNN, EWTN Global Catholic Television Network, and in several documentaries, including Holy Silence (PBS, 2020). Dr. Brown-Fleming co-leads the Museum's Vatican Archives Initiative.