Dr. Harry Jol, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will present “Imaging Forgotten Holocaust Sites in the Baltics” Sept. 10 as part of the Thursdays at the U series at UW-Eau Claire – Barron County.
The program will run from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Blue Hills Lecture Hall in Ritzinger Hall and also will be livestreamed at ricelaketv.com.
Dr. Harry Jol
Since 2015, Jol and dozens of student researchers have found and documented evidence of the Holocaust, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Using ground penetrating radar and other geospatial tools, they have located several mass gravesites across Eastern Europe. Jol and his students have pieced together testimony from Holocaust survivors, archived Nazi aerial photographs and subsurface radar images in hopes of finding proof of massacres beneath the soil.
Jol earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Simon Fraser University and his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. A fellow of the Geological Society of America, he has conducted research with GPR at more than 1,500 sites worldwide. He has a broad background in the geosciences, particularly geomorphology, stratigraphy and geoarchaeology. Jol’s research has led to conference presentations and publications and has been highlighted by news outlets and documentaries.
The Thursdays at the U weekly series is free and open to the public thanks to support from the UW-Eau Claire – Barron County Foundation. Neither seating reservations nor parking permits are needed for in-person attendees.
While in-person attendance is encouraged, most presentations in the series are livestreamed and archived on the Thursdays at the U webpage.
The next program in the series will be Sept. 17, with Joe Thrasher presenting “Constitution Day: America’s Founding Blueprint.”
For more information, contact Laura Holden at 715-788-6207 or holdenlk@uwec.edu.
