Fatal Months: Auschwitz and the End of the Second World War

The 2020 Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most lethal of all Nazi camps.

This lecture looks back at its final months, from the time the camp reached its murderous peak, after the mass deportations of Jews from Hungary, to the arrival of Soviet soldiers in January 1945. But liberation did not put an end to Nazi murder – it continued elsewhere, until the final German defeat in spring 1945.

This lecture is presented in partnership with the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Holocaust Research Institute (Royal Holloway), The University of Huddersfield, and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association.

A lecture by Nikolaus Wachsmann

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:

[robcampbell]

Thanks for this evocative video about this terrible event. Your calm voice allowed time to absorb and reflect.

[geoffmelnick]

Thanks for a very moving lecture about an awful piece of our history.

[marisaclark]

Does anyone know I've heard that they would Target blonde haired blue-eyed children they redeemed like more important my question is does anybody know if families went to the extremes of dying their children's hair so they would be blonde obviously they couldn't really do too much with the eye color but I'm just curious about that