Original upload date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:47:01 GMT
Dr. Sofija Grandakovska is the John Jay Research Fall 2019 Visiting Scholar from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia. She specializes in Comparative Literature and Genocide Studies, and is
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the author of several scholarly books, as well as the editor of The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust: History, Theory, Culture.
On Monday, November 4th, she spoke to an audience at John Jay College about her research unearthing archival evidence of the experience of Macedonian Jews sent to Treblinka during the Holocaust. Nearly the entire population of Macedonian Jews was murdered there, leaving scholars, historians and the world with the question: when the victims cannot speak for themselves, who tells their story? How can archives speak on behalf of "lost voices"?
