On September 21, the writer Anika Walke will present her book Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia.
The book is published by the Oxford University Press in 2015. This is a story about the terrible human destinies and the study of how the first generation of Soviet Jews experienced the National Socialist genocide. Survivors of this terrible tragedy remember this in a new social context, making readers think about how important is to preserve today the memory of the World War II and the Holocaust and to pass it to future generations.
The author will tells how she worked on the book, collecting and organizing a wealth of factual material and for many years conducting interviews with those who survived. She also will answer questions of guests.
Anika Walke is a historian and Assistant Professor from Washington University in St. Louis (USA). Her research interests is the history and the memory of the Second World War, the Holocaust and the Nazi genocide, gender and age aspects of survival in an extreme situation, migration, and oral history methodology. The event organizers are the National Library of Belarus and the United States Embassy in the Republic of Belarus.
The event starts at 17.00 in the Education technology hall (room 346 on the 3rd floor).
For more info, please, call: (+375 17) 293 27 56, 293 28 33.
Е-mail: pr@nlb.by
