BCLA | The Jewish Studies Program at LMU invites you to attend the annual Fischmann Family Distinguished Lecture. This year’s event will feature Stan Goldman, professor of law and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Genocide at Loyola Law School, reading from his pre-released book, “Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother.” A response and discussion will be led by Michael Bazyler, professor of law at Chapman University.
Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend’s daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented activities of one man’s negotiations with the Nazi’s interior minister and SS head, Heinrich Himmler, for the release of the Jewish women from the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. While looking through the pamphlet, the two discovered a picture that could have been their mothers being released from the camp. Wanting to know the details of how they were saved, Goldman set out on a long and difficult path to unravel the mystery.
After years of researching the pamphlet, Goldman learned that a German Jew named Norbert Masur made a treacherous journey from the safety of Sweden back into the war zone in order to secure the release of the Jewish women imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Masur not only succeeded in his mission against all odds but he contributed to the downfall of the Nazi hierarchy itself. This amazing, little-known story uncovers a piece of history about the undermining of the Nazi regime, the women of the Holocaust, and the strained but loving relationship between a survivor and her son.
The Fischmann Family Distinguished Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the Jewish Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University, and is made possible by the generosity of the Fischmann family. The 2018 Fischmann Family Distinguished Lecture is generously cosponsored by Loyola Law School and the Center for the Study of Law and Genocide at Loyola Law School.
7 p.m. | Monday, Oct. 1, 2018
Roski Dining Room, University Hall
Loyola Marymount University
Register and learn more here.
