Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to host Wolf Gruner webinar Nov. 10

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.

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