The Hoover Institution Press and Hoover Library & Archives host a discussion of 485 Days at Majdanek on Friday, October 1, 2021 at 11:00 am PT.
In this recently published memoir, Jerzy Kwiatkowski describes in stark detail the sixteen months he spent in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland. Written in 1945, Kwiatkowski’s manuscript provides a documentary-caliber look at prisoner life—from the mundane to the hopeful—and a first-person view on the Nazi regime’s darkest excesses. Norman Naimark, who wrote an introduction to the volume, moderates.
SPEAKERS
John Connelly is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California–Berkeley. He studies modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, the history of nationalism and racism, and the history of Catholicism.
Timothy Garton Ash, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is an internationally renowned historian focused on Europe’s history since 1945. He is professor of European studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
Katherine R. Jolluck is senior lecturer in modern East European history at Stanford. A specialist on the history of 20th-century Eastern Europe and Russia, she focuses on the topics of women and war, women in communist societies, the Soviet Gulag, nationalism, antisemitism, and human trafficking.
Dorota Niedziałkowska is a publishing specialist and curator in the Exhibition Department of the State Museum at Majdanek, Poland.
MODERATED BY
Norman M. Naimark (moderator) is senior fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution and of the Freeman Spogli Institute and McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford. His most recent book is Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Struggle for Sovereignty in Postwar Europe.
