Barbara Glück: THE MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM AND PRESENT-DAY MEMORIALIZATION OF ITS VICTIMS
Department: Jewish Studies
Date and Time: May 7, 2014 | 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1010
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Barbara Glück
Director, Mauthausen Memorial (Austria)
Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
THE MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM AND PRESENT-DAY MEMORIALIZATION OF ITS VICTIMS
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 5pm
Humanities Gateway 1010
Dr. Barbara Glück is Director, Mauthausen Memorial (Austria). She earned PhDs in both History and Political Science from the University of Vienna in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Glück speaks both English and French fluently. As director of the Mauthausen Memorial, she is part of the Department Head Memorials and War Graves Commission of Austria’s Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for all war memorials, war graves, and war cemeteries in Austria. Dr. Glück has several published works to her credit. Books co-authored or edited include: Ungarn in Mauthausen. Ungarische Häftinge in SS—Lagern auf dem Territorium Österreichs (2006); Vernichtungslager Gusen. Übersetzung von Joanna Ziemska (Vienna: BMI, 2007); Das KZ-Aussenlager St. Valentin (Vienna: BMI, 2009); and Francisco Boix, der Fotograf von Mauthausen (Vienna: BMI, 2007). Dr. Glück also authored the article “The Redesign of the Mauthausen Memorial” which was published in Die Dachauer Hefte by Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel (Munich: 2009).
Sponsored by the Teller Chair in Jewish History at UC Irvine, Orange County Hillel, and the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity of Alan Solomon, MD.