A nationally known historian and a leading authority of the Holocaust will be speaking on the campus of St. Cloud State University. Dr. Deborah Lipstadt will be speaking on campus Thursday at 7 p.m. in Ritsche Auditorium.

Lipstadt is a professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also an author of four books including her latest book “The Eichmann Trial”. The Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at SCSU Dan Wildeson said Lipstadt is a leading figure on the Holocaust and Holocaust denial. 

The event is open to students and the general public.