Authority on the Holocaust to speak March 26 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha

LINCOLN — Jan Grabowski, an author and authority on the Holocaust, will be the speaker at a lecture series March 26 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Grabowski, a history professor at the University of Ottawa and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, will speak on the topic, “Producing a ‘Usable’ Past: Holocaust Distortion and New Threats to the Memory of the Holocaust.”

He wrote the book, “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.” His speech, according to a press release, will focus on Poland, where a majority of Holocaust victims were put to death and where “Holocaust distortion has become a quasi-official policy of the state.”

The purpose of the Richard Dean Winchell Annual History Lecture is to “enhance student, faculty, and community discourse on values and cultural heritage,” according to Danielle Battisti, who chair’s UNO’s history department.

The 7 p.m. speech, at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, is free and open to the public.