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Exhibit: Names Instead of Numbers

The Lehman Library is hosting a traveling exhibit from November 6 - 29, 2023.

"The International Traveling Exhibition “Names Instead of Numbers” shows a selection of biographies from the Dachau Book of Remembrance, in which the individual life stories of former prisoners are described, as well as background information about the Remembrance Book project and the history of the Dachau Concentration Camp... The Remembrance Book is an ongoing, extensive collection of biographies of former prisoners of the Dachau Concentration Camp. Since 1999, over 100 biographies have been written in a variety of languages. School and university students, adults and relatives of former prisoners participate in the project in order to remember the lives of individual prisoners of Dachau and to actively research the history of National Socialism..."  

(Source: Names Instead of Numbers informational brochure. Last accessed 10/31/2023. www.gedaechtnisbuch.de )

Please join us on November 14, 2023 at 5:30 PM in the first floor gallery of Lehman Library for remarks from Dr. Monika Moyrer, US Program Director, Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP).

This exhibit is made possible through the sponsorship of the Department of Global Language and Cultures, the Department of History and Philosophy, and the College of Arts and Sciences.   

For any questions regarding the exhibition, please contact Dr. David Wildermuth/Global Languages & Cultures (dwwildermuth@ship.edu)