MARTIN DEAN PRESENTS LECTURE AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Indiana, PA. – Dr. Martin Dean, Applied Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Museum, in
Washington, D.C. will deliver a lecture titled "The Nazi Universe of Camps and Its Role in the Holocaust” on
April 14, 2016. The presentation is free and open to the public.
In 1938 some 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps, but many of these people were released within a
few months. The bulk of the Holocaust did not take place in the notorious German concentration camps, such as
Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen, but rather in a vast parallel camp universe of ghettos, forced labor
camps, transit camps, and extermination centers throughout Europe, designed specifically for Jews. The
intertwined functions of Auschwitz as both extermination center and forced labor site illustrate this duality. It
was only from the summer of 1943 that the last separate camps for Jews were dissolved and certain remnants of
the Jewish labor force were integrated into the concentration camp system before the death marches at war's end.
Dr. Dean's lecture will examine the complex relationship between the Holocaust and the much larger network of
Nazi camps.
Martin Dean, born 1962 in London, is an Applied Research Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, DC. He
received his PhD in European History from Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1989. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Dean
worked as the Senior Historian for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit based at New Scotland Yard in
London. His publications include: Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and
Ukraine, 1941-44 (London: Macmillan in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
2000); Robbing the Jews: the Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008); and The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, vol. 2 Ghettos in
German-Occupied Eastern Europe, vol. ed. Martin Dean, series ed., Geoffrey Megargee (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012).
The presentation will be held Thursday, April 14, 2016 from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Humanities and Social
Sciences Building, Room 126 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
The lecture is sponsored by Joseph P. Arpaia, MD (www.jparpaiamd.com), DRTS Tech Support, First
Commonwealth Bank, and IUP Departments, Centers, and Colleges: College of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics, Cook Honors College, Center for Student Life, Departments of Criminology, History, Music,
Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theater and Dance, and and the
Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, supported by the generosity of Alan Solomon, MD.
The Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies was established to provide college and university communities with a better understanding of
the history, lessons, and contemporary relevance of the Holocaust. Speakers are drawn from the Center’s staff
and visiting fellows from around the world and are an invaluable resource for colleges and universities seeking
to enhance Holocaust education and for communities concerned about the ongoing danger of discrimination,
antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. For more information, contact Kierra Crago-Schneider at [email protected].
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leaders worldwide to promote human dignity, confront hatred and prevent genocide. Federal support guarantees
the Museum’s permanent place on the National Mall, and its far-reaching educational programs and global
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