Dr. Christopher R. Browning

Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Holocaust scholar, will deliver the Seventh Annual Dorothy Koppelman Memorial Holocaust Lecture on Sunday, May 20 at Rider University.

Dr. Browning will present “Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom" at 1:30 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room. Sponsored by The Julius and Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center, the lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Cavalla Room.

“Dr. Browning is, without question, one of the foremost Holocaust scholars in the world,” said Dr. Harvey R. Kornberg, director of the Koppelman Center and associate professor of political science. “His work has contributed enormously to our understanding of the origins and events of the Holocaust.”

Dr. Browning is best known for his book,” Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland,” HarperCollins, 1992, which along with “The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942” (with contributions from Jürgen Matthäus), University of Nebraska Press, 2004, were awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.

He authored five additional books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including “Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony,” University of Wisconsin Press, 2003; “Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers,”Cambridge University Press, 2000; “The Path to Genocide,” Cambridge University Press, 1992; “Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution,” Holmes & Meier, 1985; and “The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office,” Holmes & Meier, 1978.

Dr. Browning received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College. He taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington for 25 years, before moving to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1999.

Dr. Browning delivered the George Macauley Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University in 1999, and in 2002, he delivered the George Mosse Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an expert witness at various trials of accused Nazi criminals in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including participation in the “Holocaust denial” trials in 1988 of Ernst Zündel in Toronto and in 2000 Irving vs. Lipstadt in London. In 2006, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Julius Koppelman, a successful businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Dorothy, endowed the Holocaust Center at Rider University. The mission of the Koppelman Center is to gather and disseminate educational material and to explore the ramifications of the Holocaust and other genocides through conferences, discussion groups and workshops. The Center serves the university, other institutions of higher learning, secondary and primary schools, and the community.

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