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This file contains recordings from two guest lectures during classes in the Germanic and Slavic Studies department at UVic. These talks, given by Julius Maslovat and Dr. Richard Kool, address the Holocaust and its effects through each speaker's research and personal narrative.

These DVD-Rs contain a recording of a guest lecture given by Julius Maslovat in October 2011, for the Germanic and Slavic Studies 353 class at UVic. The contents of the two discs are the same.

In this recording, Maslovat tells the story of Yidele, a baby born in Poland at the beginning of World War II. He relates the experiences, losses, and suffering in the tale to those of all the children who lived during the Holocaust. Through Yidele’s narrative, Maslovat talks of the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and the ghettos that Jewish people were forced into. He describes the concentration camps, including the extermination camp of Treblinka, the labour camp of Buchenwald, and the holding camp of Bergen-Belsen, where disease and famine were rampant. After the liberation of the concentration camps, Yidele was adopted by a Swedish family and given a new name: Julius Maslovat. Maslovat then talks of his research into his past and getting into contact with nurses who cared for him in Bergen-Belsen.

A question period follows, which prompts Maslovat to talk of topics including: his lack of memories from that time due to his young age, along with the sources for his story; his motivation in researching his past; his later visits to locations in Poland and Germany, including Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen; and reconnecting with people he knew as a child as well as discovering members of his biological family.