The FIU Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program presents Auschwitz as Place: Past, Present and Future - An International Symposium, Exhibition and Film Screening, Thursday, January 9 through Sunday, January 12, 2020, at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139.

Exhibition Opening: Auschwitz—A Place on Earth: The Auschwitz Album

7pm Thursday, January 9

Over one million Jewish men, women and children were murdered during the Holocaust in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest extermination camp. The so-called Auschwitz Album is the only known visual documentation of the arrival of a transport of Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The compelling photographs in this exhibition created by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem document the “processing” of Jews from the Carpatho-Ruthenia region up to but not including their mass murder.

Film Screening: Made in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10

8pm Saturday, January 11

In conjunction with the Miami Jewish Film Festival

The chilling documentary uses intimate survivor testimonies, archival footage and legal records to tell the story of over 400 young women who underwent medical experimentation in Aushwitz under Carl Clauberg, an enterprising, sadistic gynecologist. Discussion following the screening with Director Sonya Winterberg and Dr. Michaela Moura-Koçoglu of the FIU Center for Women's and Gender Studies. For more information, go to miamijewishfilmfestival.org

International Symposium: Presentations & Panel Discussion

12 noon - 5:30pm, Sunday, January 12

Experts examine the historical and symbolic significance of the Auschwitz camp network and museum, as well as the importance of Auschwitz as a tourist destination, in social media, and more. Participants include Pawel Sawicki (Auschwitz Museum and Memorial), Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt (University of Waterloo), Rabbi Avi Baumol (Krakow, Poland), and Dr. Meghan Lundrigan (Know History, Inc.).

Auschwitz as Place is presented by the the FIU Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU and the Steven J. Green School for International and Public Affairs

Cosponsored by Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series | European & Eurasian Studies Program | Center for Women's and Gender Studies | Václav Havel Program for Human Rights & Diplomacy | Miami Dade College | University of Miami, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies

All events take place at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU and are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 305-672-5044.