p. Robert Jan van Pelt, an internationally prominent expert on the architects and architecture of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, will discuss his research in a public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday (Feb. 4) in Room 104 of the 91视频 of Architecture鈥檚 Bond Hall.p. Van Pelt is a professor of architecture at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and author of the recently released 鈥淭he Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial.鈥� The book is based on a highly publicized British libel trial involving contentions that the Nazi death camps did not exist. Van Pelt presented architectural evidence that Auschwitz was indeed a concentration camp where nearly 1 million Jews were killed, primarily in gas chambers. Van Pelt also will sign copies of his book at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Feb. 5) in the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore.p. Van Pelt is coauthor of 鈥淎uschwitz: 1270 to the Present,鈥� winner of a 1996 National Jewish Book Award and the 1997 Spiro Kostof Award of the Association of Architectural Historians. He also coauthored 鈥淎rchitectural Principles in the Age of Historicism鈥� with Carroll William Westfall, chair and Francesco Montana Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame.
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