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A group of Jewish women at the entrance to the Brody ghetto in Eastern Galicia, 1942. The sign is written in German, Ukrainian and Polish. (U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum)
The story exploded in March, when the New York Times reported that the figures behind the Holocaust may have been much worse than previously thought. Dr. Geoffrey Megargee was instrumental in a 13-year research project that discovered 42,500 camps and ghettos across Europe. He and other historians had believed that the figure would hover closer to 7,000 before delivering their shocking findings that produced a number that is more than six times higher.
Megargee will deliver his speech, “The Holocaust Just Got a Lot More Shocking” at 6:30 tonight in the McCord Auditorium of Dallas Hall on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Admission is free, but those interested are asked to RSVP to rsvp@DallasHolocaustMuseum.org. Megargee is the senior applied research scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, where he is project leader and editor-in-chief of the museum’s 7-volume Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.
This is the New York Times article.
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