Holocaust remembrance day lecture at WSU Tri-Cities

RICHLAND – The internationally recognized Holocaust remembrance day will be commemorated at noon Monday, April 12, with a free public lecture at WSU Tri-Cities.

“Holocaust by Bullets” will be presented by Brigit Farley, associate professor of history, in the East Building Auditorium. The lecture is part of the Liberal Arts Season of Events, sponsored by the Richland Arts Commission.

According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the National Days of Remembrance mark the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1942-1943. Jewish underground fighters organized a rebellion against the German authorities, who already had deported more than 265,000 ghetto residents to the Treblinka killing center.

A faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts since 1995, Farley teaches 20th century Russian and eastern European history, including World War I, World War II and the Cold War. In addition to terrorism, peacemaking and conflict resolution, her research interests focus on the return of history in former Soviet bloc nations – especially Russia and Hungary.

Farley was among 22 faculty members from North American colleges and universities who attended the 2010 Jack and Anita Hess faculty seminar in January at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The seminar focused on the fate of Jews living in Soviet territories during the Holocaust.