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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (April 6, 2010) – Dr. Ted Thomas will present an encore lecture about an unsung hero of the Holocaust to a multigenerational audience on Monday, April 12, at 10 a.m. in Milligan College’s Gregory Center for the Liberal Arts. The event is free and open to the public.
Approximately 100 members of the Johnson City Seniors’ Center, Kingsport Senior Center and the Jonesborough Area Senior Center will join students from Happy Valley High School for the lecture, titled “Hermann Maas, an Under-reported Holocaust Hero.”
Thomas, associate professor humanities, history and German at Milligan, spent his sabbatical last year studying the life of Maas, a little-known German who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Maas was a Christian Zionist pastor who began ministries of reconciliation between the Jews and Gentiles and Germans and Israelis during the tumultuous times during and after World War II.
In January, Thomas delivered a similar lecture at Milligan. He looks forward to sharing Maas’s story again with an audience that includes people who remember the Holocaust from their lifetime and a generation of students who know of it only from what they have read and learned in school.
For more information, visit www.milligan.edu.