With genocide continuing to exist all over the world some 70 years after the Holocaust, renowned scholar, accomplished filmmaker and award-winning author Dr. Michael Berenbaum offers "Perspectives on the Holocaust in the 21st Century" on Tuesday, April 8 at 4 p.m. in Warren Auditorium in a free public lecture.
A reception follows from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Congregation Ner Shalom located at 85 La Plaza in Cotati.
Berenbaum is the director of the Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics at American Jewish University. An acclaimed and prolific author, he is also the executive editor of the 22-volume Encyclopedia Judaica.
His extensive background includes overseeing the development of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and serving at the museum as Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute.
He was also a member of The President's Commission on the Holocaust and President of Stephen Spielberg's The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which collected 50,000 testimonies from survivors in 32 countries and 57 languages.
Berenbaum will be delivering the Robert L. Harris Memorial Lecture as part of Sonoma State University's Holocaust Lecture Series which is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The annual Robert L. Harris Memorial Lecture honors the educator and community activist who founded and headed the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust at Sonoma State, a community partner of the University's in sponsoring the annual lecture series.
For further information, contact the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Dr. Myrna Goodman, (707) 664-4076.
Information about the lecture series is available at http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/center.htm.
