Analyzing the Holocaust
Downstate educator to visit Northern Michigan University to present ‘Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust’
Selection of Hungarian Jews is pictured on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland around May 1944. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the “Auschwitz Album,” the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Courtesy public domain photo)
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- Selection of Hungarian Jews is pictured on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland around May 1944. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the “Auschwitz Album,” the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Courtesy public domain photo)
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- Andrew I. Port is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit. He previously taught as a lecturer at Harvard and at Yale and also worked as a project coordinator at the Office of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany. He received a Ph.D. in modern European history from Harvard, a B.A. in history from Yale and a degree in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Port is a former editor of the journal Central European History and previously served as the review editor of the German Studies Review. He is the recipient of the 2013 DAAD Prize in German and European Studies. Port’s research focuses on modern Germany and Europe, communism and state socialism, social protest, popular resistance under autocratic regimes, and comparative genocide. His first book, “Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic” (Cambridge UP, 2007; pb 2008), appeared in German translation as “Die Rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR” (Ch. Links, 2010; Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2011) and received a great deal of positive media attention in Germany. The author of numerous articles, he is also the co-editor with Mary Fulbrook (University College, London) of “Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler.” (Berghahn, 2013). Andrew Port grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in Ann Arbor.
He will discuss how the Holocaust shaped German responses to modern-day genocides in other countries after 1945, and how these foreign atrocities recast Germany’s understanding of its horrific history. NMU professors will also be present to contribute their expertise on the topic.
The talk is scheduled from 4-5:30 p.m. in Lydia M. Olson Library. It is free and open to the public.
Port is the author of “Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic” and former editor of the flagship journal Central European History.
He has won numerous prizes and fellowships, including the DAAD Prize for distinguished scholarship in German and European Studies.
Andrew I. Port is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit. He previously taught as a lecturer at Harvard and at Yale and also worked as a project coordinator at the Office of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany. He received a Ph.D. in modern European history from Harvard, a B.A. in history from Yale and a degree in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Port is a former editor of the journal Central European History and previously served as the review editor of the German Studies Review. He is the recipient of the 2013 DAAD Prize in German and European Studies. Port’s research focuses on modern Germany and Europe, communism and state socialism, social protest, popular resistance under autocratic regimes, and comparative genocide. His first book, “Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic” (Cambridge UP, 2007; pb 2008), appeared in German translation as “Die Rätselhafte Stabilität der DDR” (Ch. Links, 2010; Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2011) and received a great deal of positive media attention in Germany. The author of numerous articles, he is also the co-editor with Mary Fulbrook (University College, London) of “Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler.” (Berghahn, 2013). Andrew Port grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in Ann Arbor.
NMU participating faculty members are: Robbie Goodrich, history professor; Petra Hendrickson, assistant professor of political science; and Anna Zimmer, associate professor of German.
This event is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association, with co-sponsorships by NMU’s Departments of History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Languages, Literatures and International Studies.
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