Join the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel for the Annual Rabin/Brill Lecture,  “The Holocaust Diaries, Holocaust Histories” by Alexandra Garbarini on Tuesday, April 16, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Kellogg Center in the Lincoln Room.

Across Europe, in ghettos, hiding places, concentration and transit camps — even in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jews kept diaries. In her lecture, Garbarini will consider a phenomenon which, under particular and varying conditions, developed among Jewish adults, youth, and children during the Holocaust. Her talk will connect the phenomenon of diary writing to the cultural, social, and even political history of the Holocaust.

Alexandra Garbarini is a historian of 20th century Europe and European Jewish history. Her work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Program, the DAAD, the Mellon Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Philosophical Society, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Garbarini teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts, and serves on the Academic Council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.