The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host a panel presentation of new, cutting-edge research on the Holocaust in Hungary, in particular the role of transportation in accelerating the Final Solution there. You can register to attend this event in person or online.

Researchers will present their new findings on the deportation of Jews by train in Hungary in 1944, with specific focus on the train that left Debrecen, headed to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but that was diverted instead to Strasshof concentration camp in Vienna.

Using mixed methodologies, the researchers, including historians, engineers, educators – and a survivor of that very train, Agnes Kaposi, present their work from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

The event will include a light drinks reception.

The panel of speakers will include:

Dr László Csősz, historian

Dr Ian Pyle, Founding Professor of Computer Science, University of York

Dr David Farbey

Dr Agnes Kaposi, MBE, FREng, Dipl.Ing, Churchill Fellow, Research Fellow, LMU Munich, engineer, educator and author

Moderated by Dr Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library.

Virtual Event guidelines:

The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.

Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).

If you would like to ask a question during the event, please type your question into the chat function, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.

This event is free, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.