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Title: |
Africa to Auschwitz: Germany Genocide and Denial Educational Panel Discussion |
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at Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Long Island New York |
Date: |
May 22, 2016 |
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2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Admission: | $10.00 |
Location: |
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (Welwyn Preserve) |
Street Address: |
100 Crescent Beach Road |
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Glen Cove, NY 11542 |
Description: |
Africa to Auschwitz: Germany Genocide and Denial Educational Panel Discussion at Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, Long Island New York.
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County presents "Africa to Auschwitz: Germany, Genocide and Denial," a panel discussion about the first genocide of the 20th century and its impact on Nazism. From 1904 to 1908, Imperial Germany murdered at least 80,000 Ovaherero and approximately 10,000 Nama during Germany's colonialization of southwest Africa, in the region known today as Namibia. This will be the first time this topic has been presented in the United States, publicly and with an international panel of experts.
In many ways, this genocide became a proving ground for the Holocaust. Many of the perpetrators became prominent in Nazi Germany, such as Dr. Eugen Fischer, an anatomist who conducted "experiments" at the Shark Island concentration camp and later ran the teaching institute for Nazi eugenics and SS physicians.
Panel participants include scholars, activists and a descendant of an Herero Resistance leader during the genocide.
Today, descendants of the genocide continue to fight for official recognition, restitution, and the return of all victims' remains from Germany to Namibia. |
Contact: |
516-571-8040 |
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