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Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago , IL
Dr. Ralph Pugh
Dr. Boder with wire recorder. Europe 1946.
Ralph Pugh, Assistant University Archivist and an adjunct history professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), will speak on the “Voices of the Holocaust Project” at IIT, which has created a web site that incorporates all of the audiotaped interviews (with transcriptions) that were made by IIT psychology professor David P. Boder with Holocaust survivors in European displaced persons’ camps in the summer of 1946. Pugh will discuss Boder’s career, the challenges involved in gathering documentation from various sources (most of them non-IIT), and the development of the web site.Tuesday, November 8, 2011
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Cherry Room, Galvin Library, 2nd Floor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Open to CARA and CAA members and interested guests.
Limit of 30 people
RSVP by Friday, November 3rd to jsweeney@viatorians.com