For centuries, Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews coexisted in the East Galician town of Buczacz, but the German conquest of the region in 1941 transformed it into a site of genocide. By the time the town was liberated in 1944, the entire Jewish population had been murdered by the Nazis, with help from local Ukrainians, who then ethnically cleansed the region of the Polish population. In this talk, Omer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and German Studies at Brown University, explores the dynamics of this horrifying genocidal violence, and discusses its erasure from local memory. Born and raised in Israel, Bartov is one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. This event is co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Department of History.