Clark is 40 miles from Boston. Nearly a quarter of our students study abroad. We have programs in China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain. Yehuda Bauer, former Director of the International Center for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, as the Strassler Distinguished Visiting Professor during the fall semester. In addition to teaching undergraduates and mentoring graduate students, Bauer presented a three-part, public lecture series in September that covered genocide in a historical context, assessed the impact of genocidal acts in the contemporary world, and addressed the difficult question of whether or not such brutal acts can be avoided in the future.
Every victim suffers.
Using a medical analogy, Bauer explained that distinctions are important because they help to elucidate differences, just as heart disease is not the same as cancer. Both may be lethal, but they are different, and therefore the cure for each is not the same - nor are the warning symptoms. Unless we try to prevent them they will recur. We can't hide. We can't not react.