Wendy Lower on Confronting the History and the Reality of The Holocaust

In this episode of "Keen On". Andrew is joined by Wendy Lower, the author of "The Ravine" to dive into some of the stories of the millions of individuals who were exterminated during the Holocaust, as well as to critique the actions and morals of those responsible for genocide.

Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her research and teaching focus on the history of genocide, the Holocaust and human rights. Lower is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton, 2013) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been translated into 23 languages. She wrote Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (UNC Press, published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005), and edited The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (Routledge, published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011). She served as the Acting Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (2016-2018). Prior to that she taught at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Germany (2007-2012) where she was a German Research Foundation grant recipient.