Tuesday, April 2, 2019 5pm to 6:30pm
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1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder, CO 80309
https://boulderjewishnews.org/2019/cu-boulder-hillel-announces-holocaust-remembrance-week-programs/Dr. David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Professor of History and Jewish Studies, CU-Boulder, will present a talk, "The Holocaust Through Soviet Eyes."
In January 1942, a photojournalist working for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiia came upon a scene like none he had ever documented. That day, Soviet press photographers took pictures of the first liberation of a German mass atrocity, where an estimated 7,000 Jews and others were executed. The images this particular photographer, Dmitri Baltermants, took that day would have a long life in shaping the image of Nazi genocide in and against the Soviet Union. Presenting never before seen photographs, David Shneer's forthcoming book, Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph, shows how Baltermants used the image of a grieving woman to render this gruesome mass atrocity into a transcendentally human tragedy.
Event sponsored by CU Boulder Hillel.
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