The Monadnock Food Co-op (MFC) Community Book Club aims to create a space for community engagement amongst Co-op Member-Owners and the larger community through thoughtful connections. We strive to be a space that will engage and foster civil dialogue through reading and discussion.

To learn what the group has been reading since early 2022 visit, monadnockfood.coop/co-op-updates/bookclub/

This month the group will attend a free and open to the public event being offered by the Cohen Center. This 2024 Holocaust Memorial Lecture – “From Treblinka and Trawnkiki: Forensic Archaeological Investigations at Sites of Nazi Persecution” will be held at the Mabel Brown Room at Keene State College or via Livestream on Tuesday, September 24 from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. it will feature Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls

Lecture Description : The crimes perpetrated at Treblinka death camp are well documented by historians. However, despite its notoriety, investigations of the physical evidence connected to the camp and those who encountered it have historically been limited. Similarly, its wider landscape, comprising a labor camp, execution and work sites, has been poorly understood. In this lecture, Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls will demonstrate how forensic archaeological approaches have revealed new information about the mechanisms of mass murder at Treblinka and, in particular, how new understandings of the fates and experiences of the victims have emerged from the analysis of the material traces that they left behind. Professor Sturdy Colls will also discuss how her work at Treblinka led her to investigate the camp at Trawniki, where the “foot soldiers” who assisted the SS were trained.