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To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, in partnership with Blavatnik School of Government, the Alfred Landecker Foundation hosted the Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture.

Dan Diner, Chair of the Alfred Landecker Foundation and its Governing Council and Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a thought-provoking lecture on ‘Auschwitz: reflecting on the meaning of absolute death’.

The lecture told the story of an awkward encounter between a Jewish woman prisoner and a female SS-guard in a slave-labour camp close to Dresden. The encounter took place in the night of the infernal firestorm unleashed by Allied bomber squadrons on that city. An emerging short dialogue between the two women, between victim and victimizer, unraveled a challenging question: can different deaths have different meanings and moral significance?

The lecture was followed by a panel discussion featuring Dan Diner, Jonathan Wolff (Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy), Dapo Akande (Professor of Public International Law) and Marietta van der Tol (Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow).

The discussion was moderated by Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government.

The Alfred Landecker Foundation: https://www.alfredlandecker.org/en/
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/​