Mildred Fish-Harnack Exhibit
Exhibit runs from October 13–December 3
Location: UW Hillel/The Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life, 611 Langdon Street, Madison

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin cordially invites you to attend the opening of the Mildred Fish-Harnack exhibit on Wednesday, October 13, 2010. This moving exhibit remembers the work of an American literary scholar and proud UW-Madison alumna who was the only American woman executed on direct orders of Adolf Hitler. This exhibit chronicles her life and love of language in Nazi Germany up until the day of her execution — when she was still working on her translation of a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem, and an active member of anti-Nazi German resistance.

Additional events celebrating Mildred Fish-Harnack:

• Mildred and Arvid Harnack — Their Lives in Letters - October 15 at 3:30 p.m. Shareen Blair Brysac, author of Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra, presents a reading of the Harnack letters with UW-Madison students. Sponsored by the Division of International Studies and located at UW-Madison’s Pyle Center.
• Searching For Mildred: Wisconsin’s Nazi Fighter – October 18 at 7:00 p.m. Take a behind-the-scenes look at Wisconsin Public Television producer Joel Waldinger’s quest for information and images regarding Mildred’s amazing story. Located at UW Hillel.
• Literature of the Inner Emigration 1933-1944 by UW Professor Jost Hermand – November 18 at 7:00 p.m. Lecture sponsored by the Max Kade Institute, German Department and Center for German and European Studies and located at UW Hillel (refreshments and reception to follow).
• The UW-Madison Libraries will also present an exhibit highlighting Mildred Fish-Harnack's time as a UW-Madison student and instructor. The exhibit will be displayed in Memorial Library's west corridor, October 13-December 1.