A talk about the East European Context of the Holocaust by Professor Timothy Snyder, author of a 2010 best-selling, award-winning book by the same name about the mass killings that took place on the lands between Moscow and Berlin between 1930 and 1945. A reception will follow. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
A New York Times bestseller Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010) was cited as “book of the year” by a dozen publications including The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, The Economist, History Today, the Seattle Times and the New Statesman.