LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston presents Legalizing Racism in Nazi Germany, Monday, January 9, 6:30pm-8:30pm, in the museum's Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater.

Dr. Ann Millin, (pictured)  historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), will present a public lecture that examines the Nuremberg laws, which legalized racism in Nazi Germany. Influenced in part by the Jim Crow laws of the United States, Millin will examine the formation and implementation of the laws that segregated Jewish Germans from society – economically, politically and socially – and eventually led to the devastating program in which nearly 6 million Jews were murdered.

Currently working in the USHMM’s National Institute for Holocaust Education, Millin previously was the historian in the USHMM’s photo archives, specializing in the photographs of German Jewry, the Aliyah Bet and the European Roma, as well as in the work of the Wehrmacht Propaganda Company photographers. She received her bachelor’s degree from Macalester College, a master’s in religious studies from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in Jewish history at the Hebrew Union College-JIR.

Formerly a research fellow at the University of Göttingen and an Inter-University Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she has taught Jewish history, Judaic studies, world religions and Holocaust studies at the Hebrew Union College-JIR, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Kentucky-Lexington.

Millin’s lecture is underwritten by the Spector-Warren Fellowship for Future Educators, an annual program that works with students from Syracuse University as they prepare to enter the teaching profession.