VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Physical and Social Places of Exclusion Presentation in Nazi German and the Great Plains will be held Tuesday, April 8, 2025 in the Reiland Fine Arts Center is free and open to the public.

The presenters are listed below.

Dr. Edward Westermann J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellow, Professor of History at Texas A&M University
Dr. Rebecca Carter-Chand, USHMM Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust
Dr. Elise Boxer, Director of Inst of American Indian Studies, Associate Professor at University of South Dakota

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new scholarship. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Mandel Center or the Museum.

Keynote Presenters 11:00 AM–12:30 PM Antisemitism, Racism, and Religion on the Road to Extermination, In and Beyond the Holocaust 5:00 PM–6:30 PM The Holocaust and Survival, In and Beyond Nazi Germany: Teaching Challenging Topics in the Classroom Both sessions are discussion with Q&A.