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Wednesday 28 November
1.15pm

FREE 

Therese C. Masson, nee Klara Alter, was born in Golub, Poland, 13 June 1937. She passed away in 2016. Before she died Therese began, at the age of 67, to write her memoir. In this Lunchtime Lecture, Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet, Jacqui Wasilevsky, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Dr Ari Lander will reflect on the importance of Holocaust memoirs, as well as the contradictions and questions that Holocaust memoirs confront academics, publishers and readers with.

Bios

Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet is a German-born historian and child survivor of the Holocaust. Formerly the Pratt Foundation Professor in Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at The University of Sydney and the Chief historian of the Australian War Crimes Commission. He works as the Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum.

Dr Ari Lander is an Education Officer at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He completed his doctorate on the History at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2012. At UNSW he taught a range of subjects including Zionism, Modern Jewish History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Jacqui Wasilewsky is Manager of Community Stories at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Her department has recorded more than 150 interviews and published 76 biographies. Jacqui completed a BA/LLB in 1987 and MA (History) in 1998 at UNSW and Certificate of Interactive Multimedia in 2004 at the University of Technology Sydney.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson was Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto from 1970-1979. During this time he qualified as a fully trained clinical psychoanalyst and became director of the Freud Archives.  Research there led to a world-wide debate about Freud and child sexual abuse.  He was fired from his position at the Archives and turned to animals, writing several best-selling books about the emotions of animals, such as When Elephants Weep, and Dogs Never Lie About Love.  He lives in Sydney with his wife, Leila, a paediatrician, and their son Manu.