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Lecture will explore gender during Holocaust, WWII

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Dr. Pascale Bos

Dr. Pascale Bos of the University of Texas at Austin will present the annual Rose and Louis Van Thyn Lecture on April 13 at 7 p.m. in the Whited Room at Centenary College. The event is free and open to the public.

Bos, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies will discuss Gender of the Genocide: Women, Men, and the Holocaust.

Her lecture will explore whether gender mattered in the Holocaust and WWII, what men and women's experiences were like, how they remember these experiences, and how they recount them. Bos will discuss what can be learned from these experiences and how it applies to current and future genocides and other human rights abuses.

Bos will approach her lecture from both a scholarly perspective and a personal point of view as her mother and grandmother survived the war in the Netherlands in hiding while the rest of her family was deported and killed in Auschwitz and Sobibor.
The Van Thyn lecture series honors Rose and Louis Van Thyn, Holocaust survivors who dedicated themselves to retelling their stories so that people would not forget or repeat those horrors. For her extraordinary community service, Mrs. Van Thyn was awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Centenary's 2002 commencement exercises.

Friends of the Van Thyns established the Rose and Louis Van Thyn Board of Regents Endowed Lectureship in November 2009. The Van Thyn Lectureship provides educational opportunities for the students of the College and members of the surrounding community, with a goal of teaching about the history of the Holocaust, and how to recognize signs of intolerance and provide a means for preventing prejudice and hatred.