FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2005

SCHOLAR EHRENREICH TO EXAMINE RACIAL MOTIVATIONS FOR HOLOCAUST IN POMERANTZ-SPONSORED LECTURE

CONTACT: Daniel P. Finney; (515) 271-2833, daniel.finney@drake.edu

Holocaust scholar Eric Ehrenreich will deliver a lecture titled "Racial Scientific Ideology and Motivations for the Holocaust" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, at Drake University. The event is free and open to the public and will be held at Parents Hall, Pomerantz Student Union in Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue.

Ehrenreich's talk is sponsored by the Pomerantz family through a generous grant to the United States Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Ehrenreich is the 2004-05 Douglas and Carol Cohen fellow at the Holocaust Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. His dissertation was titled "Genealogy and Genocide: The Nazi 'Proof of Ancestry' and the Holocaust."
Ehrenreich's research focuses on the history of institutions involved in implementing and rationalizing Nazi racial policies.

Marvin Pomerantz is chairman and CEO of Mid-America Group of West Des Moines and a former member of the Drake University Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Rose Lee, are frequent and generous contributors to Drake projects, including the recent renovation of the student union in Olmsted Center.

The Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies promotes the development of the field of Holocaust studies through research, fellowship programs, seminars, publications and conferences. The center is also linked with institutions of higher learning through activities that foster quality teaching about the Holocaust at American colleges and universities.

A public-private partnership, the museum is a federal institution whose educational activities and outreach are made possible through private donations. More than 250,000 individuals, foundations and corporations helped build the institution and currently support its programs and operations. For more information, visit www.ushmm.org.

For more information about the lecture, call (515) 271-2999.

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