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Friday, April 29, 2022

6:00 PM, Photography Exhibition begins at 5:30 PM

Assembly Hall

In partnership with The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago, join the International House Global Voices Lecture Series for a conversation with Ondřej Kundra on his book, Vendulka.

He will be joined in discussion by Professor Bożena Shallcross.

Photography exhibition begins at 5:30PM | Conversation begins at 6:00PM

This event is free and open to the public.

About the Book (Translated by Gerald Turner): So many lives were cut short by the Holocaust, many with no trace to leave behind for future generations to remember.

Vendulka tells the story of a single scrap of remembrance—a candid photograph taken in the midst of this unspeakable tragedy—and that artifact’s amazing aftermath.
Famed Czech photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943.

A friend of the Vogls, Lukas was saying goo