2013 Lichtman-Behm Genocide Lecture Series Guest, Anna Rosmus. September 16-18, 2013
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Anna Rosmus, from Passau, Germany, who as a teenager discovered her hometown’s hidden Nazi past, is the real-life heroine of the film The Nasty Girl. She has dedicated her life to uncovering anti-Semitism and the Nazi past of her native homeland and to combatting the extreme right in Germany. Anna Rosmus has located and published the stories and the artwork of Jews who once lived in the Passau area and were exiled from their hometown. Her struggle led to threats against her life. She now lives near the Chesapeake Bay.
As a free lance writer, Anna Rosmus has contributed numerous essays to various magazines and newspapers, such as La Pensée et les Hommes, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The New York Times, The European and Aufbau.
Professor Robert Herzstein writes in “The Journal of The Historical Society II": “Anna Rosmus’ remarkable studies of the Passau region in Bavaria stand out as the rare exception. Despite the opposition of her teachers and of the people who ran Bavaria’s educational establishment in the late 1970s, Rosmus decided to examine the history of the town of Passau during the years of the Third Reich. She has never stopped, and in the process has found the bodies and identified living culprits.”
Anna Rosmus sponsored 50th and 60th anniversary commemorations in Germany and Austria, bringing Jewish survivors and American liberators together to preserve this memory. She made certain that effaced memorials in the region and the defaced names to the monument in Kirchham be restored. Her recent work is the subject of Felix Kuballa’s documentary, The Nasty Girl in America. Twice, she was featured in a 60 Minutes profile by Morley Safer.
(from Anna Rosmus's LinkedIN page)
2013 Guest Speaker: Anna Rosmus, September 16-18
starred events (*) are open to the public
all events are free
Monday, September 16
7pm
Film showing of Nasty Girl at 7pm in the University Commons*
Tuesday, September 17
11am
"Leading a Life of Purpose: My Experience as an Activist and Historian of the Holocaust"
An AimHEI conversation with Anna Rosmus
Rickley Chapel
1230pm
"Connecting Holocaust Research with the Contemporary World"
Select classes meeting with Anna Rosmus
Gundlach Theatre
2pm
"A Tribute to Jimmy Lichtman" *
Herbster Chapel
7pm
"Community Responses to the Holocaust in Hitler's Hometown: Passau in the Third Reich and Today" *
Wickham Great Hall
Wednesday, September 18
9am
Mini-sessions about the Holocaust and Germany with Heidelberg Faculty
Session 1: 9:00-9:20 am
Ellen Nagy: "Sieg Heil: Why Children Joined the Hitler Youth" - Herbster Chapel
Carol Dusdieker: "Long Live the Reich: Nazi Art as Propaganda" - Beeghly AV Room
Marc O'Reilly: "Victors' Justice and the Nazi Legacy" - Gilmor Atrium
Kylee Spencer: "Experimentation on Human Subjects in Nazi Germany" - Campus Center 120
Courtney DeMayo: "Nazi Ideology and the Origins of the Holocaust" - Campus Center 220
Paul Stark: "Meditation and Reflection" - Wickham Great Hall
Session 2: 9:30-9:50 am
Ellen Nagy: "Sieg Heil: Why Children Joined the Hitler Youth" - Beeghly AV Room
Carol Dusdieker: "Long Live the Reich: Nazi Art as Propaganda" - Herbster Chapel
Marc O'Reilly: "Victors' Justice and the Nazi Legacy" - Gilmor Atrium
Kylee Spencer: "Experimentation on Human Subjects in Nazi Germany" - Campus Center 120
Courtney DeMayo: "Nazi Ideology and the Origins of the Holocaust" - Campus Center 220
Paul Stark: "Meditation and Reflection" - Wickham Great Hall
10am
Keynote with Jill Rembrandt and Betty Gold for Area Schools
Seiberling Gymnasium
7pm
"entartete Kunst: The Nazi Regime's Persecution of the Arts" *
Dr. Carol Dusdieker
Gundlach Theatre
The following list was generated by search for "Holocaust" at Netflix, they may be available through your local public or school library. We neither vouch for nor endorse any of the films. Please be sure to screen these films yourself before showing them to your class.
Holocaust (1978, 3 disks) TV miniseries
Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz (2005) Documentary with graphic footage (dvd)
Holocaust: Theresienstadt (2005) Documentary with potentially graphic footage (dvd)
Holocaust: Dachau and Sachsenhausen (2005) Documentary with graphic footage (dvd)
Holocaust: Ravensbruck and Buchenwald (2005) Documentary with graphic footage (dvd)
Holocaust: The Liberation of Majdanek (2006) Documentary with graphic footage (dvd)
America and the Holocaust: American Experience (1994) Documentary (dvd)
Imaginary Witness (2004) Documentary about Hollywood's depiction of the Holocaust (Watch Instantly)
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005) Documentary (Watch Instantly)
Paper Clips (2004) Documentary (Watch Instantly)
More films will be added soon.