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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau\, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in late 1940\, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec\, Poland\, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland\, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive\, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at textile work for twelve hours a day\, lived in barracks with little food\, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943\, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps\, where they were held until liberation in 1945. \nUsing a fresh approach to testimony collections\, Professor Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labour experiences of young Jewish females\, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Incorporating new source material\, the book carefully constructs survivors’ stories while also taking a theoretical approach\, one alert to socially constructed\, intersectional systems of exploitation and harm. The Weavers of Trautenau elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speakers\nJanine P. Holc is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism: Polish-Jewish Relations Today. The Weavers of Trautenau was a finalist for a US National Jewish Book Award. \nDr Anna Hájková is a Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK\, and the author of the celebrated monograph\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (OUP 2020). \n \nVirtual Event guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis 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. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-weavers-of-trautenau-janine-holc-in-conversation-with-anna-hajkova/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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