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The E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues welcomed the third speaker of its 2001-2002 schedule,
Anna Rosmus, on the afternoon of March 7, 2002 in the Lied Center
for Performing Arts. Rosmus' lecture was titled "Growing
Up Where Hitler Lived."
Thompson
Forum Home
2001-2002
Schedule
free and open to the public; all events in Lied
Center for Performing Arts, 12th & R Streets,
Lincoln, NE, except Terrorism Panel, in Kimball
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Andrew Nathan
"Is It Any of Our Business?"
Thursday, April 11, 3:30pm
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Russia: Retrospect and Prospect"
Thursday, March 14, 10:30am
Anna Rosmus
"Growing Up Where Hitler Lived"
Thursday, March 7, 3:30pm
Terrorism Panel
Featuring United States Senator Chuck Hagel, with
Thomas Gouttiere, Steven Hinrichs, Patrice McMahon
and Peter Tomsen
Friday, Nov. 2, 2-4pm
Meave Leakey
"The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors"
Monday, Sept. 24, 3:30pm
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As a teenager, Rosmus uncovered a deeply
buried Nazi past in her hometown of Passau, Germany. She has
located and published the stories and artwork of Jews who once
lived in the Passau area and has written five books on the Holocaust
and anti-Semitism. She has been awarded the highest honor of
the German Jewish Community, the 1995 Galinski Prize, and is
the subject of a documentary shown throughout Germany, "The
Nasty Girl in America."
Rosmus was also featured in a CBS television 60 Minutes
profile in which she reunited Holocaust survivors and liberators
in a 50th anniversary commemoration in Germany.
Her book, Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders, documents
the atrocities in Passau at the end of the war, the murder of
2,000 Soviet prisoners, and the forced abortions performed on
slave laborers, and the murder of the laborers’ infants.
The book also documents how memorials to the victims were changed
to erase the parts of the past. Her other books include Out
of Passau; Pocking: End and Renewal; Exodus: In
the Shadow of Mercy; Resistance and Persecution: Passau
1933-1939; and Robert Klein, a German Jew Looks Back.
A biography of Anna Rosmus was published in 1994 by Hans Dieter
Schütt titled Anna Rosmus - The Witch of Passau.
Rosmus has located and published
the stories and artwork of Jews who were exiled from Passau
area, and has contributed numerous essays to various magazines
and newspapers.
She has received the Conscience-in-Media Award from the American
Society of Journalists and Authors, the Sarnat Prize from the
Anti-Defamation League, and the Holocaust Survivors & Friends'
Holocaust Memorial Award.
In its fourteen-year history, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues has established itself as one of the preeminent speakers
series in higher education. Past Thompson Forum events have
featured, among many others: Holocaust survivor and peace activist
Elie Weisel; Camelia Sadat, the daughter of Anwar Sadat and
founder of the Sadat Peace Institute; Maki Mandela, daughter
of the former South African president; the Rev. Peter Gomes,
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University;
Hedrick Smith, journalist and expert on the former Soviet Union;
Kennedy Administration Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara;
and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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