THE PHENOMENON OF ANNE FRANK

DAVID BARNOUW

28th March 2023 – 16:30
Aula F - Palazzo Maldura (in Dutch)
Piazzetta Gianfranco Folena, 1 - Padova

4th April 2023 – 14:30
CAL1 - Palazzo Maldura (in English)
Piazzetta Gianfranco Folena, 1 - Padova

 

David Barnouw (1949) is an independent scholar and emeritus researcher at the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His areas of interest are the Second World War in Europe, documentaries, memory, representation, monuments & museums. He has written more than fifteen books and dozens of articles on World War II subjects. He has given lectures at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, UCLA, WestPoint etc. He has been visiting professor at the University of Vermont in Burlington (2008 and 2012). He is a
renowned expert on Anne Frank and follows her emergence as a global phenomenon and what this means for her historical person as well as for her legacy as a symbol of the Holocaust. The update of his book Who betrayed Anne Frank? (2003) will be published in March as Anne Frank en het verraad