Fellow at US Holocaust Memorial to speak at YSU

Fellow at US Holocaust Memorial to speak at YSU

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Monika Flaschka, visiting assistant professor at the College of Wooster, presents “International Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Purpose and Politics of Memory” at noon Friday in the Gallery of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.

Flaschka, who works in Wooster’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, has served as a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Her research has focused on sexual assaults during the Holocaust and the precipitating factors behind those assaults.

The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact

the YSU Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at 330-941-1604 or

judaic@ysu.edu.

The presentation is in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. on Friday and marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.