U-M-Dearborn and Michigan Television host Jan. 16 screening

A new PBS documentary entitled "Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State" will get its first local screening at a preview and discussion to be held at U-M-Dearborn Jan. 16.

The six-hour television series is a chronological portrait of Auschwitz, the site of the greatest mechanized mass murder in history. The program will be broadcast in three parts beginning Jan. 19 on most PBS stations across the country.

U-M-Dearborn has partnered with Michigan Television (WFUM PBS TV 28), the University's public broadcasting service, to preview the program for Detroit-area viewers. The program, and a panel discussion to follow, will begin at 1 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Social Science Building on the Dearborn campus. Parts two and three will be presented at 1 p.m. Jan. 23 and 30 at the same location.

This is the first time that Michigan Television and U-M-Dearborn have collaborated on an event of this type.

"We chose U-M-Dearborn as the site for this special screening because the campus has done so much to document this history through the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, directed by history professor Sidney Bolkosky," says Jennifer White, interim station manager of Michigan Television. "Guests attending these events will get the benefit of excellent PBS programming and access to an outstanding academic and community resource."

U-M-Dearborn's Voice/Vision project has recorded interviews with hundreds of Holocaust survivors in the Detroit area during the past 20 years. Christopher Browning, professor of history at the University of North Carolina and author of numerous books on the history of the Holocaust, has described the effort as "a model program." The recordings are available at http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/.

Bolkosky will be one of the speakers on a panel discussion and conversation following the screening. Other speakers are Jamie L. Wraight, historian and curator of the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, and Larry Wilcox, professor of history at the University of Toledo.

The program is open to the public, but reservations are requested by Jan. 12 at (866) 203-1136 or by e-mail to dheyse@umich.edu.

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