WORCESTER—Assumption College will host a lecture at 4 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 14 by Professor Hildegard Vieregg of the Munich School of
Philosophy in observance of the 70th anniversary of the White Rose
resistance movement against the Nazi regime. Presented by the Ecumenical
Institute at Assumption, the lecture will be held in Kennedy Memorial Hall,
Room 112.
Vieregg is also honorary professor at Barnaul State Pedagogical
University in Russia and a consultant to UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Council of Museums Advisory
Board.
Assumption’s d’Alzon Library is hosting an exhibit about the White
Rose group through Feb. 15. It highlights the student resistance movement
against the Nazis and displays the people and activities of the group, which
was founded in 1942 at the University of Munich.
The White Rose fought against the oppression of civil liberties
and the persecution of Jews and demanded an end to the war. After being
uncovered, the core members – six students and one professor – were executed by
the NS terror regime; others were jailed. The resistance group produced and
distributed six leaflets calling for resistance against the Nazis. A lawyer and
member of the resistance, Helmuth von Moltke smuggled the sixth leaflet (known
as the “Manifesto of the Students of Munich”) to Scandinavia and to the United
Kingdom in 1943. Millions of copies were dropped over Germany by the Royal Air
Force until the end of the war.
The exhibit is touring the United States courtesy of the
Munich-based White Rose Foundation. Housed at the University of Munich, the
foundation seeks to remind today’s youth of the important fight for human
rights as well as the courage of the White Rose members to stand up against
omnipresent and brutal dictatorship.
The White Rose exhibit is open to the public and will be
on display through Feb. 15 at Assumption College’s d’Alzon Library, 500
Salisbury St., Worcester, Mass. Library hours are Sunday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.;
Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For more information, contact Assumption College Professor
Christian Gobel at cgobel@assumption.edu.