U.S. Holocaust Museum Historian to Speak April 30

The Jewish Studies Initiative at the University of Arkansas is pleased to present United States Holocaust Memorial Museum historian Ann Millin, who will speak on the response of American Jewish groups and individuals to the Nazi genocide against the Jews during the 1930s and '40s.

Her lecture will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in Hillside Auditorium 206.

Millin's presentation is part of the national observance of Holocaust Days of Remembrance, April 27 to May 3, and will feature recently discovered images and information from the USHMM archives. The lecture is made possible in part by a nationally competitive Legacy Heritage Fund Jewish Studies project grant, awarded for a second year to the University of Arkansas, and by the Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee. The Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee is a locally based non-profit that has organized an extremely successful Holocaust conference each November since the early 1990s for middle school, high school, and university students and instructors from Arkansas and the surrounding states.

Also in observance of the Days of Remembrance, the U of A German Club, working with students from the department of art, present the "Pomegranate Tree Project." From April 27 to May 3, the art project pomegranate tree will stand on the fourth floor of the Arkansas Union; students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to write their hope for the future on the pomegranates and add them to the tree. Together, the university community helps the pomegranate tree grow and blossom. Seed paper will be used, so that we may all literally plant seeds of hope and wisdom for the future. You can follow the construction of the tree and the week of remembrance around it on the Pomegranate Tree Project tumblr: http://uapomegranateproject.tumblr.com/

Millin's presentation caps off a month of diverse Jewish Studies events that began April 6th with a Klezmer concert and continued on April 9 with a workshop on women in Israeli society hosted by Israel scout Yael Nemni. Fall 2015 promises roundtable workshops on media and diversity, and film events.

For more information regarding the lecture, Jewish Studies, the Arkansas Holocaust Education Committee, or the German Club, please contact Jennifer Hoyer at jhoyer@uark.edu.