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| FDR was the Best: The Best of His Generation in dealing with the Holocaust, the Best of His Successors in Dealing with Genocide; but That is No Compliment! Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Free Admission – Seating Limited RSVP required: specialevents.wayne.edu/guystern-2016 WHEN 3 p.m., Sunday, May 15, 2016 WHERE Holocaust Memorial Center MORE INFO This talk will reevaluate the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in years leading up to the Holocaust and in the years when Germany was perpetrating the War Against the Jews. It will consider his actions in relationship to the other issues that were pressing on the Presidential agenda and in relationship to the political, economic and war agenda. It will also consider FDR’s role in relationship to other contemporary world leaders and in dialogue with the actions of American Presidents in the face of genocide. Among the issues to be addressed are the Bombing of Auschwitz question about which the lecturer has edited a book, Zionism and antisemitism as well as the scope of the economic crisis, the events leading up to the war, the war itself and the Presidential election season. It will be a timely and provocative consideration and reconsideration of FDR. SPONSORS Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ABOUT THE SPEAKER Through his career, Michael Berenbaum has worked to ensure the world never forgets the Holocaust or the lessons learned from it. |
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