Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

The American-born Deborah Dwork and the Dutch-born Robert Jan Van Pelt met in London in 1981. Dwork is an internationally renowned social historian of the Holocaust, whose classic Children With A Star gave voice to the silenced youngsters caught in the net of Nazism. She is the founding director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and show more Genocide Studies, and Rose Professor of Holocaust History, at Clark University. Van Pelt is professor of cultural history in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. He acted as an expert witness to defend history against Holocaust-denier David Irving. His definitive book, The Case for Auschwitz, presents the courtroom drama of his testimony -- which served to win the case and defeat Irving show less