A somber, hushed silence enveloped the Clark Fox Forum as professor Caroline Sturdy Colls took to the stage to share her research on archeological evidence found at the sites of the Treblinka I and II Nazi labor and extermination camps. 

Ari Joskowicz, author and Chair of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, reflected on Roma and Jewish history at an event titled “Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust,” the 2023 edition of the annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture in Umrath Lounge, Nov. 15.

David Kertzer, a prominent professor of Italian and Vatican history, delivered remarks about his new book, “The Pope at War,” which details the behavior of Pope Pius XII during World War II, at an event held by the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and various community partners, March 27.

The Sam Fox Art School and the Kemper Art Museum jointly hosted the opening of the Holocaust memorial exhibition “Lest We Forget” by Italian-German photographer Luigi Toscano, Oct. 20.

Holocaust survivor Rachel Miller urged Washington University students to keep stories of the Holocaust alive at a Hillel event commemorating Kristallnacht Nov. 9.

Dr. Eugen Schoenfeld, Washington University alumnus and Holocaust survivor, will discuss religious tolerance and the sociopolitical factors that led to the Holocaust in a lecture sponsored by the Chabad Student Association in Tisch Commons Monday at 5 p.m.

Niki Caro’s new film “The Zookeeper’s Wife” came out over the weekend. Based on the bestselling book by Diane Ackerman, the film tells the true story of Antonina Zabinska (Jessica Chastain), who sheltered Jewish people in her Warsaw, Poland zoo during World War 2.

Anne Frank’s stepsister spoke about her time in hiding during the Holocaust, her year in Auschwitz and the current state of politics in America in College Hall Thursday.

Holocaust refugee and former professor of nutritional biochemistry at Rutgers University Hans Fisher spoke Tuesday night about his experience escaping the Third Reich by boat in 1939.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Chabad on Campus brought in Holocaust survivor Eugen Schoenfeld, who attended Washington University after being released from the concentration camp.