Programs

Justice, Forgiveness and Remembrance of the Holocaust

How do families and societies move beyond an event of mass violence, such as the Holocaust? This lecture by Katharina von Kellenbach draws on personal experience to explore the moral, emotional, and legal dilemmas of living with perpetrators in the period after a genocide. Von Kellenbach explores how the practices of justice, forgiveness, and remembrance can lead beyond the devastation of the past into new relationships between perpetrators, victims and their communities. Adult and high school audiences.

Katharina von Kellenbach is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Both her M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees are from Temple University. Her areas of specialization are Christian Theology and Jewish-Christian Relations, Holocaust Studies, Feminist Theology, and Women and Religion.