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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920, cgonzal@unm.edu

Oct. 31, 2006

Roosevelt and the Holocaust Focus of UNM Lecture

Robert Rosen will present, “Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust,” on Monday, Nov. 6 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Woodward Hall room 147 on the University of New Mexico campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Rosen will talk about his book, “Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust.” Rosen disputes the conclusions of a number of scholars who argue that Roosevelt abandoned the Jews of Europe and that America failed to act in response to the Holocaust. Rosen recently delivered a talk aired on CSPAN that was sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Library and Museum

From 1976 to 1985, Rosen served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of Charleston, S.C. He was general counsel for the Charleston County School District from 1982 to 2003 and the Housing Authority of the City of Charleston from 1984 to 2003.

Rosen has lectured and written extensively for legal education programs, magazines, and “South Carolina Jurisprudence.” He is also certified as an arbitrator in family law cases by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Rosen has authored three other books: “A Short History of Charleston,” Lexikos, 1982; “Confederate Charleston,” University of South Carolina Press, 1994; and “The Jewish Confederates,” University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Rosen serves on the Board of Trustees of the Historic Charleston Foundation and is chairman of the Arts and History Commission of the City of Charleston.

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