International Symposium
Elie Wiesel Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania
June 30-July 1, 2011
Bucharest, Romania
A column of young Jewish men conscripted by Romanian military authorities for forced labor, possibly to dig mass graves in the Jewish cemetery, Iaşi, June 1941. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Serviciul Român de Informaţii
The Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Yahad-In Unum, and the Elie Wiesel Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, are co-organizing this international scholarly conference on Holocaust-era mass graves on the anniversary of the 1941 Iaşi pogrom. The conference will bring together scholars of mass killings in Russia, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, and elsewhere in Europe to discuss the discovery of such sites, the examination of the spectrum of victims in these massacres, and the legal, social, and ethical implications of the investigation of mass graves. Father Patrick Desbois, president of Yahad-In Unum and director of the Episcopal Committee for Relations with Judaism, which is connected with the French Conference of Bishops, will present the keynote lecture, The Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe.
This program has been made possible through the generosity of the Yetta and Jacob Gelman Endowment.
To view the conference program, please click here.
For further information, please contact Krista Hegburg, Program Officer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at khegburg@ushmm.org.
