In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education presents a Zoom program by Professor Oren Stier, a religious studies scholar. The event is scheduled for Wednesday Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Visit (mchekc.org/ihrd/) to register for the Zoom presentation
The railway cars, the Arbeit Macht Frei signs, the number six million and Anne Frank all have become enduring icons of the Holocaust. Stier will discuss how and why these icons — an object, a phrase, a number and a person — have come to stand in for the Holocaust. He will explore their origins, how they have been used and reproduced, how they are under threat, and what the future holds for Holocaust memory.
Stier received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in religious studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a B.A. with honors in religion from Princeton University. He was a research fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003-2004. He is a professor of religious studies and director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at Florida International University.
Stier’s presentation is supported by the MCHE Jack Mandelbaum Holocaust Education Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
