The Melbourne Writer’s Festival have asked Dr Donna-Lee Frieze to host the Q and A of Philippe’s Sands’ film screening of What Our Father’s Did: A Nazi Legacy on Saturday August 27th at 3:15 pm. You can buy tickets via ACMI.

Dr Donna-Lee Frieze is a Genocide studies scholar, specializing in memory and aftermath studies. Donna is a Research Fellow and teaches the Holocaust at Deakin University and is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University  Centre for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. She was the 2013 and 2014 Prins Senior Scholar at the Centre for Jewish History in NYC. Donna has been academic advisor for several NY films and genocide exhibitions and is the Exhibition Curator Scholar for ‘Raphael Lemkin: The Quest to end Genocide’ with the Center for Jewish History for the Google Cultural Institute. In September 2015, Donna was appointed by the Australian Government to the Academia Working Group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) for two years.

Follow Donna on Twitter @donnaleef1