Holocaust Lecture Series

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas welcomes Professor Wendy Lower to campus Feb. 15 and 16, where she will deliver two lectures about Nazi perpetrators and the Holocaust in Ukraine.

         Lower's Sunday, Feb. 15 lecture, "Babi Yar and the Holocaust:  New Sources, New Perspectives," will explore the shootings of nearly 34,000 Jews over the course of two days in the fall of 1941.  This lecture is preceded by a reception and book signing of Lower's works, Nazi Empire- Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (University of North Carolina Press, 2005, paperback, 2007) and Shoah in Ukraine ­ History, Testimony and Memorialization (Indiana University Press, 2008).

Her second talk, "Holocaust Perpetrators in Ukraine, Not So Ordinary Men and Women," will begin at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 16. Lower will consider the circumstances of this unprecedented mass murder as well as analyze the motifs and radical decisions of the perpetrators.