A Window into Hell: Archaeological Investigations at Treblinka Extermination and Labour Camps

A Window into Hell: Archaeological Investigations at Treblinka Extermination and Labour Camps
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Event Sponsor
Taube Center for Jewish Studies, CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Archaeology Center
Location
Encina Commons, Room 123

Using a unique, interdisciplinary approach, Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls has spent more than a decade researching Nazi crimes perpetrated at Treblinka extermination and labour camps. Between 1941 and 1944, almost one million people were murdered in or close to these camps. In this lecture, she will discuss how methods drawn from forensic investigation, archaeology, history, digital humanities, art and a wide range of other disciplines have facilitated searches of this complex landscape, as well as new perspectives on the experiences of the victims and actions of the perpetrators.

Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls’ pioneering research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes. As part of this research, she has examined more than 50 Holocaust sites and has completed the first archaeological surveys of the former extermination and labour camps in Treblinka (Poland), the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel Islands), the former Semlin Judenlager and Anhaltlager (Serbia) and many killing sites across Poland and Ukraine. She has published extensively in Holocaust and forensic archaeology - including a monograph entitled Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions – and curated several exhibitions. In 2016, she was awarded the European Archaeological Heritage Prize for her contribution to modern conflict archaeology.

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