Press Releases
2013 Holocaust Awareness Week 11-14 March 2013
From 11 to 14 March 2013, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the History Society jointly organised the second Holocaust Awareness Week at the University of Leicester. Many students and members of the public followed the invitation to listen to two Hungarian Holocaust survivors, John Dobai and George Pogány, and Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dr Sarah Hodgkinson.
2011 Conference on Genocidal Intent
Following the Sixth Aubrey Newman Lecture on 21 September 2011 by Prof. William Schabas, sixteen speakers from around the globe gathered for the two-day conference 'A Contextual View of Genocidal Intent'.
2011 Holocaust Awareness Week 24-27 October 2011
From 24 to 27 October, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies organised the Holocaust Awareness Week at the University of Leicester. Large numbers of students and members of the public accepted the Centre's invitation to listen to Holocaust survivors Ruth David and Imre Rochlitz, film director Joseph Rochlitz and Holocaust scholar Prof. David Cesarani.
