This book provides a staggering and profound reassessment of the relationship between knowing and not knowing, and asks us to confront the timely warning that we in our modern, interconnected world, can all become witnesses.

This new book argues that race was central to the development of queer movements in the aftermath of gay liberation.

Professor Tracey Owens Patton of the University of Wyoming shares the story of her mother and aunt, two of thousands of children born to white German women and Black American men after WWII.

The program will start at 10:00 am, with brunch served at 9:00 am.

Online – registration required.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, please join the Charleston Jewish Film Festival and the Zucker/Goldberg Center for a Screening and discussion of the film Four Winters.

Dr. Sarah Cushman is Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation and Senlor Lecturer in History at Northwestern University. Her current research project Women in Auschwitz is under contract with Indiana University Press.

Professor Kira Thurman, University of Michigan. Singing like Germans reveals how listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial categories are constantly made and unmade. Comment: Professor Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University

Chair: Professor Chad S.A. Gibbs,
College of Charleston, Zucker/Goldberg
Center for Holocaust Studies

Father Patrick Desbois is one of the premier voices for human rights, Holocaust remembrance, and genocide prevention in our times. For years, he and his group Yahad-In Unum have crisscrossed Eastern Europe mapping more than 2,000 sites of Nazi mass shootings and more recently documented ISIS crimes against the Yazidi people in Iraq. The Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies is honored to host his visit to the College of Charleston.

Today’s news is awash in reports of atrocities committed by Russia’s Army in Ukraine. Since February 2021, coverage of targeted killings, rape, and the deliberate destruction of civilian homes has come to dominate our front pages. West Point Professor David Frey will discuss why Putin’s armed forces are prone to the commission of such crimes and how atrocity became the Russian way of war. This event is a first co-sponsorship of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies and the Citadel History Department.

In the book "An Imperial Homeland" author Adam Blackler (University of Wyoming) explores the creation of German identity in what is today Namibia while Matthew Unangst’s (SUNY-Oneonta) book Colonial Geography takes on the issues of race and territory in today’s Tanzania. This MZG New Books Series discussion broadens our considerations of recent German history to cover imperialist projects before the Third Reich and beyond Europe.

Jake Newsome tells the inspiring history of the LGBTQ+ community's original pride symbol by tracing the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi camp badge into an emblem of queer liberation. Drawing from unexplored archival sources and original interviews, his talk showcases the voices of LGBTQ+ Holocaust victims and a rich tapestry of queer people who found meaning in the pink triangle in a post-Holocaust world.