Lunch Hour Lecture: Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

Date: Tuesday 30 January 2020 Speaker: Mary Fulbrook Professor of German History in UCL’s School of European Languages, Culture and Society About the lecture: Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War, the Holocaust continues to challenge us with complex questions and legacies that reach across generations and continents. Focussing on perpetrators as well as victims and survivors, Professor Mary Fulbrook will discuss approaches taken by post-war states, societies and individuals to the persecution of European Jews and other victim groups. The lecture explores the extent to which those responsible were able to evade justice, the reverberations at a personal level within families and communities, and the challenges of memorialisation today. The lecture is based on her book Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, which won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize in 2019. UCL's popular public Lunch Hour Lecture series has been running at UCL since 1942, and showcases the exceptional research work being undertaken across UCL. Free to attend, live stream or watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLeZ5yrSSJE More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at UCLEvents