The Fred Marcus Memorial Holocaust Lecture is under the auspices of the Holocaust Awareness Institute of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver.

The lecture was created in 2003 in memory of Fred Marcus, a beloved Jewish educator and a survivor of the Shanghai ghetto. For many years, Fred served as a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Holocaust Awareness Institute, teaching students and members of churches and synagogues about the Holocaust.

For more information about Fred Marcus, visit survivalinshanghai.com.

In 2012, we moved our lecture to the fall to help provide more Holocaust educational programming to our community during the Kristallnacht season. We are also pleased to have our event featured in cooperation with the MACC's JAAMM Festival.

11th Annual Fred Marcus Memorial Holocaust Lecture

Presented by The Holocaust Awareness Institute at The University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies in cooperation with the MACC at the JCC's JAAMM Festival.

Testimony & Technology: The Shoah Foundation
Presented by Dr. Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation

October 27, 2013 | 4:00 pm
Elaine Wolf Theater
350 South Dahlia Street
Denver, CO 80246

Dr. Smith will speak on the use of emerging technologies by the Shoah Foundation to help optimize testimonies as an educational resource. Dr. Smith writes in the Summer 2012 PastForward digest: "[There] are as many programmers, network specialists, and education technologists working within the Institute as there are historians, social scientists, or experts in the humanities. But technology is not an end itself. What's really interesting is how the content of the testimonies is being optimized, through emerging technologies and new media, to become the worldwide educational resource it was always intended to be."
A theologian by training, Dr. Smith has a particular interest in the impact of the Holocaust on religious and philosophical thought and practice. He wrote his dissertation on the "Trajectory of Memory," examining how Holocaust survivor narrative—and in particular, visual history—has developed over time and shapes the way in which the implications of the Holocaust are understood. He founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England and cofounded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. He was also the inaugural Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which runs the National Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Smith is involved in memorial projects around the world. He was the project director responsible for the creation of the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda and provided consultation for the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, where he still serves as a trustee. He is also a member of the National Advisory Panel for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting's American Archive Content Inventory Project, whose goal is to establish a digital repository to preserve and distribute both public television and public radio content after it has been broadcast.

USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, a compelling voice for education and action. The Institute's current collection of 51,696 eyewitness testimonies contained within its Visual History Archive preserves history as told by the people who lived it, and lived through it. Housed at the University of Southern California, within the Dana and DavidDornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the Institute works with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies for educational purposes.

Tickets will go on sale in August, 2013. For information on how to become a cosponsor of this lecture, please email meaghan.burns@du.edu