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\nJanuary 27th is the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the v ictims of the Holocaust.
\nDespite much public and academic attention to the Holocaust\, many people still find comprehending how it could happen\, quite difficult. Professor Hayes will provide historically grounded answers to two central\, continuously troubling questions about t he subject: Why were Jews attacked and killed? Why didn&rsquo\;t any entit y or organization prevent or lessen the murders? \; At a time when man ifestations of antisemitism are resurgent at home and violent persecution is multiplying for refugees and victims of state-sponsored violence abroad \, the answers could not be more relevant to Americans today.
\nPres enter: Peter Hayes holds degrees from Bowdoin\, Oxford\, and Yale and was from 1980 to 2016 Professor of History and German and from 2000 to 2016 Th eodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwester n University. His publications have won several prizes and been translated into Chinese\, French\, German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Polish\, Slovak\, a nd Spanish. His works on the Holocaust include not only "Why? Explaining t he Holocaust" (2017)\, but also "How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader" (2015)\, "The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies" (2010) that he edited with John K. Roth\; and "German Railroads\, Jewish Souls" (2020)\, a study of deportation trains that he and Christopher Browning assembled around t wo path-breaking essays by the late Raul Hilberg. From 2014 to 2019\, Haye s chaired the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial M useum\, on which he served for a total of twenty years. Also an award-winn ing teacher\, he lectures widely on German and Holocaust history in the Un ited States and abroad. \;
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