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This series is made possible by the USI Foundation through the Edward D. and Regina Rechnic Speaker Series Endowment. The endowment was established by the late Irene C. Rechnic and honors her parents' struggle to survive the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during WWII, where 960,000 Jews were executed.
Upcoming Presentation
Check back for our upcoming presentation in Spring 2026
Past Presentations
6 p.m.
Tuesday, September 30
Carter Hall
Dr. Wolf Gruner, the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California (USC) and Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
David talks with Dr. Wolf Gruner, a Holocaust and Genocide Scholar, and Dr. Todd J. Schroer, Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at The University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Gruner is the 2025 Rechnic Holocaust speaker at USI. He tells the story of how ordinary Jews resisted the Nazis in Hitler's Germany.
7 p.m.
Thursday, January 23
Performance Center
Judy Cohen, former Chief Acquisitions Curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
7-8 p.m.
Monday, September 18
Carter Hall
Margaret McMullan, National Endowment of Arts Fellowship in literature and a Fulbright to teach and research in Hungary