Placing the Holocaust: Observations from the Janowska Camp, Ukraine

We at the University of Glasgow  invite you to join us for the 24th Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Placing the Holocaust: Observations from the Janowska Camp, Ukraine. The lecture will be given by Dr Waitman Wade Beorn, Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University.

Lecture Overview

The Holocaust was a profoundly spatial event; it took place in specific locations and under specific circumstances, rather than in a theoretical realm.  Yet, we often take the places of the Holocaust for granted or as mere backdrops to the event itself.  By examining details of the Janowska camp, located outside of Lviv in what is now Ukraine, this lecture will show how looking at the space  of destruction — both metaphorically and literally — can further our understandings of some of the universal elements of the Holocaust. – Dr Waitman Wade Beorn.

This lecture will take place in the Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, and will also be streamed live for those wishing to view online.

Doors Open: 6.30pm

Book here.