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Sept. 23, 1999
FINAL HOLOCAUST PRESENTATION SATURDAY

Pat Fitzgerald, UAS associate professor of history and geography, will lead the third and final Holocaust discussion Saturday (Sept. 25) a 5 p.m. in Egan Library. The faculty discussions are free and open to the public. They are associated with the Varian Fry exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on display at Egan Library through September.

Fitzgerald will show the video "Weapons of the Spirit" and lead a panel discussion. Panel members include Dave and Sally Donaldson who lived in Chambon while the documentary was being filmed; John Dunker, a member of the Juneau Quaker Community (Fry was also a Quaker), and Keith Levy, past President of the Juneau Jewish Community.

More than 100 attended the second faculty presentation last Saturday. Professor Priscilla Schulte from the UAS Ketchikan campus described her grandfather, industrialist Eduard Schulte, who leaked information about Nazi death campus to the Allies and had all his property confiscated by the German government. Assistant Professor of History Robin Walz presented the first faculty-led discussion on Sept. 4.

Varian Fry helped Jews and anti-Nazi escape from France after the German occupation in the early 1940s. He was the first American named "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Heroes and Martyrs Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.

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