THE JOSEPH AND REBECCA MEYERHOFF ANNUAL LECTURE honors excellence in Holocaust research and fosters the dissemination of important new scholarship on the Holocaust. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff of Baltimore, Maryland, were active philanthropists in the United States and abroad, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, music, the arts, and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, a member and Chairman Emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, have endowed this lecture.
SAUL P. FRIEDLANDER, one of the most renowned Holocaust historians in the world, is the 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. A Holocaust survivor who was hidden by a Catholic family during World War II, he is the author of Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination (vol. 2, 2007); Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 (vol. 1, 1997); Reflections of Nazism (1984); Kurt Gerstein (1970); and Pius XII and the Third Reich (English edition, 1965), which launched the scholarly debate on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. In his lecture, he will revisit this subject based on the research, reading, and reflection he has undertaken within the last several years.
A reception follows the lecture.
Reservations are requested; please call 202.488.6161 or e-mail reservations only to hshapiro@ushmm.org.
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