We are delighted to announce that Ruth will have the opportunity to speak at UWM this next month. The event will be held at the UWM Golda Meir Library Conference Center, located at 2311 E Hartford Avenue, in Milwaukee (map and directions here). The event will start at 7 PM. If you’d like to attend but can’t make it in person, you can register or a Zoom link at bit.ly/Stutthof.
Here’s the information from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee invitation:
Prof. Ruth Schwertfeger’s most recent book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof, a concentration camp largely unknown outside of Poland. In this lecture, Prof. Schwertfeger will share her groundbreaking research into this little-known camp, where 120,000 people were interned and at least 65,000 perished.
Ruth Schwertfeger is Professor Emerita of German at UWM. She is the author of In Transit: Narratives of German Jews in Exile, Flight, and Internment During ‘The Dark Years’ of France; The Wee Wild One: Stories of Belfast and Beyond, and Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp.
This event is made possible by a generous gift from the Baye Foundation. Cosponsored by the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and UWM’s Golda Meir Libraries. Also supported by UWM’s Departments of Ancient & Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Global Studies; and History; and by the German Program and the Program in Russian & East European Studies.
This event will be held in person in the Golda Meir Library’s Fourth Floor Conference Center and via Zoom
We hope you can join, either in person or over Zoom, to hear Dr. Schwertfeger talk about her new book!