DeLand, FL – Stetson University is holding the 10th anniversary Bernard Weiner Holocaust Memorial Lecture, The Architecture of the Holocaust by Paul Jaksot.
The free event is on Thursday, April 6, at 7 PM at the Rinker Auditorium inside the Lynn Business Center at Stetson University, 345 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
The speaker, Paul Jaksot, Ph.D., is a professor at Chicago’s DePaul University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. His lecture is based on his own research and survivors’ stories on how Nazis forced laborers to build concentration camps.
This lecture is part of a series at Stetson created by DeLand resident Dr. Sy Weiner to honor his late brother, Bernard Weiner. Bernard Weiner was a founder of the Holocaust Museum and Study Center, in Spring Valley, New York and created the curriculum for teaching the Holocaust in New York as well.
Jaksot has written books, such as The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy and has devoted his research to understanding how Nazi Germany influenced art and architecture. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in the area of Art History.
(Image courtesy DePaul University and Jeff Carrion)
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