Every second Friday of each month, we invite special guests to offer unique takes on a current exhibition at the Museum, as interpreted through their individual lenses and disciplines.

Join us Friday, August 11 at Noon as Dr. Richards Plavnieks takes us through Remembering Vilna: The Holocaust and the Art of Samuel Bak.

About the Speaker

Dr. Richards Plavnieks is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Southern College. He earned his Ph.D. in Modern German History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2013 under the supervision of Christopher R. Browning. His area of specialization is the Holocaust and postwar international law. His first book, Nazi Collaborators on Trial During the Cold War: Viktors Arajs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. A Latvian-language translation was released in 2020.