Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Robert E. Sullivan, Jr., Attorney and a former adjunct professor of history at Macomb Community College Tuesday, June 25 at 11:00 am Cost: Complimentary members/ $5 guests Over the past year and a half, Mr. Sullivan has delivered 16 lectures at NEXT on the History of Detroit. Last September, he visited Eastern Europe. In this presentation, he will discuss and show pictures from his visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland. This is where the Anne Frank Family, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and St. Edith Stein once resided. During World War II, the Nazis murdered an estimated 12-17 million Jews, Roman Catholics, Romanis (Gypsies), POWs, physically and mentally handicapped individuals, political opponents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gays, trade unionists, and other groups. Mr. Sullivan will also highlight other places he visited, including the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising site, and Dohany Street Synagogue, in Budapest, site of a mass grave of more than 2,000 Jews who died from Nazi abuse. Also discussed will be the heroic roles of Raoul Wallenberg, a University of Michigan graduate, who helped save the lives of thousands of Jews, and of Polish diplomat, Jan Karski, who told the disbelieving world of the then ongoing Holocaust. He will also discuss the animosity between Hitler and Pope Pius XII, and the competing plots to assassinate each of them.
Location:
Birmingham Next