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Historian John-Paul Himka on European perceptions of the Holocaust

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Signs of death at the hands of Nazi camps
LEFT: View of a open door on one of the ovens at Auschwitz concentration camp, near Oswiecim, Poland, 1940s. The ovens were primarily used to incinerate the corpses of those inmates who were executed in gas chambers. (Photo by Gabriel Hackett/Getty Images) RIGHT: LUBLIN, POLAND: A pile of human bones and skulls is seen in 1944 at the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek in the outskirts of Lublin, the second largest death camp in Poland after Auschwitz, following its liberation in 1944 by Russian troops. (Photo credit should read AFP/Getty Images)
Gabriel Hackett, left, and AFP / Getty Images

"Week of Remembrance" to commemorate the Holocaust: Historian John-Paul Himka, author of "Bringing the Dark Past to Light." He told a University of Minnesota audience about the varied perceptions and memories of the Nazi-led Holocaust throughout Europe, and the repercussions in European politics today. Himka is professor of history at the University of Alberta. He spoke March 4th at a conference sponsored by the U. of Minn. Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.