Across Europe, in ghettos, hiding places, concentration, and transit camps — even in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jews kept diaries. In her lecture, Alexandra 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 twentieth-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.

Co-Sponsors: The Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, College of Arts & Letters, College of Social Science, International Studies & Programs, James Madison College, History Department, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and Residential College in the Arts & Humanities.