UNIVERSITY NEWS - JANUARY 2004

MEDIA CONTACT: Elfriede Lynch
561-297-3023, emlynch@fau.edu

Historian To Lecture On Nazi Persecution Of
Jewish-Christian Germans

BOCA RATON, FL (January 23, 2004) - The fate of Jewish-Christian German citizens persecuted by the Nazis will be the topic of a lecture by renowned historian James F. Tent on Tuesday, February 17 at 4 p.m. in Florida Atlantic University's Social Science Building, Room 250.

Dr. Tent, a professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, has written a number of books on the evolution of German society and politics. His presentation, the second presented in the biannual K. Frank and Rita Korf Lecture Series, is based on his latest work, In the Shadow of the Holocaust.

The lecture series, which is free and open to the public, was established by Rita Korf and her late husband K. Frank Korf, who himself was raised in a German Catholic household and whose grandmother was Jewish. Mr. Korf earned a law degree in Germany, immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He completed a second law degree following the War and worked for many years for the U.S. Justice Department. The Korfs donated their papers and memorabilia to FAU and created an endowment to support the lecture series.

FAU history professor Patricia Kollander is writing a book, titled Return of the Native: One Man's Fight Against Hitler and Nazism on Mr. Korf's experiences.

For more information on this lecture, contact Mary Dean at 561-297-3316.
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