Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Presentation
Planned at Ivy Tech on April 18
APRIL 17, 2023
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Yom HaShoah will be recognized at Ivy Tech Community College on April 18, when Todd Schoer, associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Southern Indiana, presents “Nazi Propaganda and The Theresienstadt Camp: Fooling the International Red Cross by Creating a Jewish Resettlement ‘Spa Town’.â€
The event is free, open to the public, and begins at 1 p.m. in Vectren Auditorium (Room 147).
Schroer is chair of the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Southern Indiana. He has researched deviance and social movements since the early 1990s, focusing primarily on the white supremacist movement. His publications and presentations have focused on social movements’ music and social media usage, movement tactics, and contests over “deviant†identities.
In the last decade, he has focused on current conspiracy theories, the overlap between U.S. and Nazi eugenic views and racial laws, the role of the criminal justice system in the Third Reich, and Holocaust denial and distortion.
The event is sponsored by Ivy Tech’s Study Abroad Program, Student Life Office, Welborn Foundation Wellness and Fitness Center, the School of Arts, Sciences, and Education, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging.
For additional information, please get in touch with Mary Ann Sellars, professor of humanities and director of the Study Abroad Program, at msellars2@ivytech.edu.
