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SUMMARY:25 Years of Asking Questions: Can We Stop Hate?
DESCRIPTION:Antisemitism\, racism\, and political violence raise difficult questions about how individuals and communities respond to hate. What are the conditions that allow hate to take hold? How can communities resist it without amplifying it? And what can history teach us about confronting mass harm? \nThis program explores the social and cultural roots of hate\, the choices individuals make in the face of violence and injustice\, and the ways communities can respond. Drawing on the history of the Nuremberg Trials and Robert H. Jackson’s work pursuing accountability after the Holocaust\, the conversation considers what the past can teach us about resisting hate and protecting the values of a democratic society today. \nAbout the Speaker\nAliza Luft is an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA whose research examines how ordinary people make decisions during war and genocide and mass violence.\, why some participate in violence\, why others resist\, and why many look away. Her work explores how identity\, social relationships\, cultural classifications\, and moral decision-making shape behavior under extreme conditions. \nLuft is the author of Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews during the Holocaust (Harvard University Press\, 2026)\, which examines how French Catholic bishops shifted from condemning Nazism to offering Jewish communities assurances of protection they ultimately failed to provide. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals and in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She serves as Interim Director of UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute and has previously worked with organizations including USAID\, the United Nations\, and Facing History & Ourselves.
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SUMMARY:The Al & Marge Brown WWII Lecture: The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück with Lynne Olson
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling historian and author Lynne Olson for a conversation about her latest book\, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp. \nAbout the Book\nDuring World War II\, more than 100\,000 women from Nazi-occupied Europe\, many of them members of their countries’ resistance movements\, were sent to Ravensbrück\, the only German concentration camp designed specifically for women. Among them was an extraordinary group of French women that included Germaine Tillion\, a brilliant anthropologist; Jacqueline d’Alincourt\, an elegant young countess; Anise Girard\, an exuberant college student\, and Genevieve de Gaulle\, the quiet\, reserved niece of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. \nIn the midst of the camp’s terror and brutality\, these four\, along with dozens of their countrywomen\, refused to behave like victims. Instead\, they formed a sisterhood\, joining forces not only to keep each other alive but to continue their battle to resist the Nazis\, this time by defying their orders to work in the German war effort. “It was our way of taunting our captors\, to prove that we were not defeated\,” one of them later said. Knowing full well they risked death if they were discovered\, they went even further\, creating a satirical musical revue making fun of their SS tormentors. \nAfter the war\, when many in France wanted nothing more than to focus on the future and forget about those who’d resisted the enemy\, the surviving members of the sisterhood refused to allow their achievements\, needs\, and sacrifices to be erased. They banded together once more\, first to support one another in healing their bodies and minds\, and then to continue their crusade for freedom and justice—an effort that would have major repercussions for their country and the world into the twenty-first century. \nAbout the Author\nLynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of ten books of history\, most of which focus on World War II. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called her “our era’s foremost chronicler of World War II politics and diplomacy.” \nHer latest book\, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp\, will be published by Random House on June 3\, 2025. It follows Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Woman Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Extinction\, which came out in 2023. \nThree of Lynne’s earlier books were immediate New York Times bestsellers\, among them Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against the Nazis and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest\, Finest Hour. \nBorn in Hawaii\, Lynne graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona. Before becoming a full-time author\, she worked as a journalist for ten years\, first with the Associated Press as a national feature writer in New York\, a foreign correspondent in AP’s Moscow bureau\, and a political reporter in Washington. She left the AP to join the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun\, where she covered national politics and eventually the White House. \nLynne lives in Washington\, DC with her husband\, Stanley Cloud\, with whom she co-authored two books. \n  \n  \nThe Sisterhood of Ravensbrück is available now for purchase through The Robert H. Jackson Center's partnership with Good Neighbor Bookstore at this special link (If you order now\, you can get a signed copy!): \nPurchase your book here!\nThe Al & Marge Brown WWII Lecture Series explores the people\, events\, and enduring lessons of the Second World War through conversations with historians\, authors\, and scholars. \n  \nThis is a Virtual Only event. Click here to register for the Zoom Webinar.
URL:https://www.roberthjackson.org/event/wwii-olson/
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Al & Marge Brown Speaker Series
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