Holocaust historian gives Skalny talk

Weiss

The talk, which is free and open to the public, also will include the screening of Weiss's internationally acclaimed film. The photos featured in the book are the only ones of their kind known to have survived the Holocaust.

An Irondequoit native and 1971 graduate of the University, Weiss is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors from Poland. She discovered the photos during a tour of Auschwitz in 1986 and then traveled the globe to uncover the lost personal histories of the people pictured.

The author of The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, she interviewed survivors in Europe, Israel, and North America to reassemble the identities of several hundred people.

"I chose to put the final punctuation on the people as they lived," says Weiss. "These are the voices Hitler could not silence."

Weiss is a historian, teacher, and documentary filmmaker, and is currently involved in Holocaust-related research and interviews.

Her visit is sponsored by the College's Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Center for Judaic Studies, the Department of Religion and Classics, and the Department of Art and Art History.

A reception will follow the talk. For information, call x5-9898.

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