ARC Interview: "Never let this happen to anyone, anywhere" - Professor Steven Robbins
ARC31 Heinä 2025

ARC Interview: "Never let this happen to anyone, anywhere" - Professor Steven Robbins

In his book Letters of Stone professor Steven Robbins tells the deeply moving story of his quest to find out what happened to the family members he only knew from a picture on the wall of his childhood home in South Africa.


In this interview Steven reveals the surprising connections between his family members murdered in nazi death camps, the race science done by people like Rudolf Pöch in the Kalahari and the connections between struggles of land and identity across time and space. All of which is connected to the sleepy town of Williston in the middle of the Karoo.


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