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Holocaust Historian's Life Detailed in Exhibit, Talk

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Painting: girl sitting on chair, looking very sad
Gela Seksztajn's "Portrait of a Young Girl From the Warsaw Ghetto" is part of the exhibition at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Shields Library through Nov. 30.

Oct. 10, Monday -- The heroic World War II work and eventual Holocaust tragedy of Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum will be brought to life with a lecture by Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn. Kassow, a specialist in the history of Russia, Germany and Eastern Europe, is completing the first biography of Ringelblum. The lecture, to be held at 4 p.m. in the Shields Library courtyard, is being held in conjunction with an exhibition in the Shields Library lobby, "Scream the Truth at the World: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto." The exhibition, which runs through Nov. 30, was created and circulated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

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