too How Do You Explain The Holocaust? Upscale Consignment & Auction House ICONIC 20 th CENTURY FURNITURE, FINE-ART, HOME DECOR & LIGHTING Noted author and historian slated to speak at Holocaust Memorial Center. JUDY GREENWALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER A man of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial s part of its ongoing series of Museum’s Academic Committee. lectures designed to further Series organizer Gina Horwitz, WSU understand the Holocaust, the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in associate director of Philanthropy and Farmington Hills will welcome award- Alumni Relations, said the university partnered with the HMC to garner winning professor of history, author a larger audience for these and lecturer Dr. Peter Hayes lectures, part of a series that as guest speaker at a Sunday, began in 2013. June 10, program sponsored “There’s a fascination with by Wayne State University’s the Holocaust, and the goal (WSU) College of Liberal Arts is for us to continue to learn and Sciences, the Guy Stern about it from scholarly sourc- Endowment in Exile and es,” she said. “Dr. Guy Stern, a Holocaust Studies, the Jewish revered Wayne State professor News, the Cohn-Haddow emeritus who serves as direc- Center for Judaic Studies and Dr. Peter Hayes tor of the Harry and Wanda Hillel of Metro Detroit. Zekelman International Why did the Holocaust Institute of the Righteous at HMC, happen? Why were Jews persecuted, helps choose the guest speakers, instead of another ethnic group? Why people like Dr. Hayes who can offer did such a swift extermination occur? new insights and new information on Why didn’t the Jews get more help? Holocaust studies.” Seemingly unanswerable questions HMC Events Director Sarah like these will be fielded by Hayes, Saltzman said its mission is to engage, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and educate and empower through Oxford and Yale universities and recently retired Holocaust Educational Holocaust remembrance. “The partnership between the HMC Foundation professor at Northwestern and WSU is integral to honoring Dr. University, whose newest book, Why? Explaining the Holocaust, describes the Stern’s achievements and further- ing the goal of providing educational circumstances that led to this tragic lectures about the Holocaust in the event and challenges the accepted Metro Detroit community,” Saltzman explanations for its occurrence. He said. has published numerous articles and “Dr. Hayes is one of the most presti- books on the Holocaust, and his latest gious scholars of the history of WWII work educates readers about the hor- and the Holocaust. He has a deep, crit- rors perpetrated by the Nazi regime ical knowledge of Holocaust literature on Jews and non-Jews alike. and English and German history. His “I’m a child of the 1960s, who grew up watching the civil rights movement experience teaching college students about the Holocaust gives him unique on television,” said Hayes, 71. “I was insight; his background makes him appalled by the segregation and racial eminently qualified for this special violence and wanted to grasp where lecture series.” such hatreds came from. I was drawn Hayes said, “I am always glad to back to the cataclysmic example engage audiences with the com- of ‘racial’ violence in 20th-century plexities of and new discoveries in Europe, namely the Holocaust, and I Holocaust studies. Mine is a fascinat- set out to understand how and why that catastrophe could have occurred.” ing and enduringly relevant field, and I am grateful for every opportunity to Although not Jewish (he is an agnostic of Irish Catholic and Scottish demonstrate that.” The public is welcome to attend this Protestant descent), Hayes, who lives event, featuring a 10:30 a.m. breakfast in Chicago, has lectured in Denmark, of bagels and coffee with the lecture France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and a Q&A session following at 11:15 Scotland and Mexico, and at more a.m. There is a $5 charge for HMC than 50 U.S. colleges and universities members; $10 for non-members. as well as many Holocaust memorial Seating is limited, so RSVP by June 6 and study centers. He supports the to (248) 536-9612 or rsvp@ work of the Jewish Foundation for holocaustcenter.org. • the Righteous and serves as chair- NOW BUYING AND ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS Tues-Sat 12-6, Sun 12-4 3325 Orchard Lake Rd, Keego Harbor, MI 248-481-8884 WWW.LESHOPPETOO.COM CHANGING HANDS ESTATE SALES We specialize in mid-century modern estate sales Let our experienced team handle all of your estate needs: ǵLjǵHands free-hassle free estate sales Call Leslie Weisberg today for a free consultation 248-709-9648 changinghandsestates.com JOIN US ON WEDNESDAYS FOR APPRAISALS WITH TERRI STEARN! DFAA: 248-672-3207 DetroitFAA.com DetroitFineArtAppraisals@gmail.com jn May 31 • 2018 23