Summer Symposium on the Holocaust Presents USHMM's Senior Historain Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice on Gentile Children in Nazi Germany (Mon., July 19)

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to an online presentation by Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, the Senior Historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Heberer Rice, an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar with especially noteworthy studies of the Nazi state's eugenic policies and euthanasia killings, will speak on "Children in the Nazi State and Party Organizations." Her talk will shed light on how the Nazi movement and subsequently the Hitler state aimed to capture the imagination and loyalty of the gentile German youth. Also discussing nonconformity among young Germans, Dr. Heberer Rice's talk demonstrates that the history of gentile children in the Third Reich was hardly mainly a "story of uniformity," but one of "divergence and contradiction." Her lecture will take place on Mon., July 19, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST. The event is part of the 19th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium organized and hosted by Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies.

The presentation is free and open to the public. To register for this lecture, please click here.

Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice is the Senior Historian and director of the Office of the Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. An historian with the Museum’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies since 1994, she serves as the Museum specialist on eugenic policies in the Nazi era and the persecution of persons with disabilities during the Holocaust. Dr. Heberer Rice earned a baccalaureate degree in history and German literature and a masters degree in history, both from Southern Illinois University; she pursued doctoral studies in European history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland, receiving her Ph.D. from the latter institution.

In addition to contributions to several USHMM publications, she is the author of Children during the Holocaust, a volume in the Center’s series, Documenting Life and Destruction (Altamira Press, 2011) and the editor of Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective (Nebraska UP, 2008, co-edited with Juergen Matthäus). She is currently the co-editor of Nazi Sites for Racial Persecution, Detention, Murder, and Resettlement of Non-Jews. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. V (Indiana UP, with co-editor Jan Lambertz, in progress). She is a member of the consortium, ”Brain Research at the Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Illegitimate Activities: Brain Specimens at the Institutes of the Max Planck Society and the Identification of the Victims.”

For more information about the talk or the symposium, please contact the Center at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu.