MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will host Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and professor of history at the University of Southern California, at noon on Monday, Nov. 10, via webinar. The title of his talk is "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany."
The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required: Click here to register.
Gruner has been a professor at at the University of Southern California since 2008 and is the founding director of the university’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, established in 2014. He is also a member of the academic committee at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
He is the author of 11 books, including “Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims,” and “The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses.” His most recent book, “Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Hitler’s Persecution,” published in 2023, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize.
For more information, contact chjs@psu.edu.