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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: More than Parcels
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, is delighted to host this panel of contributors to the recent publication\, More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-era Camps and Ghettos\, who will reflect on the availability and significance of relief packages and other mail to prisoners in this important\, under-researched aspect of Holocaust history. \nEdited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz\, More than Parcels explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos and camps. The modest relief parcel\, often weighing no more than a few pounds and containing food\, medicine\, and clothing\, could extend the lives and health of prisoners. For Jews in occupied Europe\, receiving packages simultaneously provided critical emotional sustenance in the face of despair and grief. Placing these parcels front and center in a history of World War II challenges several myths about Nazi rule and Allied responses. \nFirst\, the traffic in relief parcels and remittances shows that the walls of Nazi detention sites and the wartime borders separating Axis Europe from the outside world were not hermetically sealed\, even for Jewish prisoners. Aid shipments were often damaged or stolen\, but they continued to be sent throughout the war. Second\, the flow of relief parcels—and prisoner requests for them—contributed to information about the lethal nature of Nazi detention sites. Aid requests and parcel receipts became one means of transmitting news about the location\, living conditions\, and fate of Jewish prisoners to families\, humanitarians\, and Jewish advocacy groups scattered across the globe. Third\, the contributors to More than Parcels reveal that tens of thousands of individuals\, along with religious communities and philanthropies\, mobilized parcel relief for Jews trapped in Europe. \n  \nSpeakers: \nJan Lambertz\, applied researcher and historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum \nJan Láníček\, Associate Professor of modern European and Jewish history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney \nPontus Rudberg\, historian and researcher in modern European and Jewish history at the Hugo Valentin Centre\, Uppsala University \nKatarzyna Person\, Associate Professor at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and editor of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive \n  \nModerated by: \nDan Stone\, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research \nInstitute at Royal Holloway-University of London \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nHolocaust Letters is curated by Christine Schmidt and Sandra Lipner\, with advisory by Dan Stone\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP)\, an initiative of The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nThis exhibition has been generously supported by the Ernst Hecht Charitable Foundation\, the Stuart Rossiter Trust\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Techne\, and Friends and supporters of the Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-more-than-parcels/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,Holocaust Letters,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230228T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech\, Dr Ronan Lee
DESCRIPTION:Myanmar’s Rohingya community are among the most persecuted people on earth. Following decades of human rights abuses within Myanmar\, they endured a brutally violent forced deportation to Bangladesh at the hands of the Myanmar military in 2017. This scorched earth military campaign involved the mass killing of civilians\, sickening sexual violence and the razing of hundreds of Rohingya villages by fire. Around 800\,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh on foot\, and today live in the world’s largest refugee camp complex\, adjacent to the Myanmar frontier. \nThe genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar has drawn global attention\, a case at the International Court of Justice and recently a US government genocide declaration. “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech” is a unique study drawing on extensive fieldwork including interviews and testimony from the Rohingya in Myanmar\, in their refugee camps and among the diaspora further afield to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. The book casts new light on Rohingya identity\, history and culture\, and is a significant contemporary study of the early stages of genocide. \nIn 2022\, the Myanmar junta used state media to announce a ban on the sale of “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide”\, shuttering bookshops and arresting book sellers\, indicating Rohingya fears of further crimes are well founded. \nAbout the speaker \n Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focusses on the Rohingya\, genocide\, hate speech\, migration\, and Asian politics. \nLee’s book Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech was published by Bloomsbury in 2021\, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. \nDr Lee has a professional background in politics\, media\, and public policy. He was formerly a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009) and served on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice\, Main Roads and Local Government. He has also worked as a senior government advisor\, and as an election strategist and campaign manager.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-myanmars-rohingya-genocide-identity-history-and-hate-speech-dr-ronan-lee/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230220T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw\, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos During World War II\, Helene Sinnreich
DESCRIPTION:The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw\, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos\, published by Cambridge University Press\, focuses on the Jews as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and\, in particular\, the genocidal famine conditions. \nDuring World War II\, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and\, most crucially for their survival\, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as ‘useless eaters\,’ and denied them sufficient food for survival. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. \nThe hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. In this book\, Helene Sinnreich explores their story\, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors. \nAbout the author\nHelene Sinnreich is endowed chair and Director of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Dr. Sinnreich serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Oxford University Press). \nShe is currently serving as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest this spring semester where she is working on a monograph about the selection process at Auschwitz. Dr. Sinnreich has previous served as a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-atrocity-of-hunger-starvation-in-the-warsaw-lodz-and-krakow-ghettos-during-world-war-ii-helene-sinnreich/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230213T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Between Community and Collaboration – Laurien Vastenhout
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual book talk with Dr Laurien Vastenhout as part of our new academic book series to mark the publication of Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation. Dr Vastenhout will be led in conversation by Dr Anna Hájková. \nBetween Community and Collaboration is the first comprehensive\, comparative study of the ‘Jewish Councils’ in the Netherlands\, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period\, there was extensive focus on these organisations’ controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression\, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result\, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. \nUsing a wide range of sources including personal testimonies\, diaries\, administrative documents and trial records\, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime\, and its outlook on these bodies\, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils’ leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation\, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries. \nSpeakers: \nDr Laurien Vastenhout is researcher at the NIOD Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and coordinator of the Master’s programme “Holocaust and Genocide Studies”\, which is offered by NIOD in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In recent years\, her research has focused on the history of World War II in Western Europe\, the persecution of the Jews\, the creation and functioning of Jewish representative bodies during Nazi occupation (Jewish Councils)\, and the Jewish communities in Western Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Her research projects are comparative and transnational in nature. Her book Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation was published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 2022. \nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor 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). \nChair: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-between-community-and-collaboration-laurien-vastenhout/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: The Holocaust – An Unfinished History\, by Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk event to celebrate the publication of Prof Dan Stone’s newest book\, The Holocaust – an Unfinished History. He will be led in conversation with Prof Matthew Feldman. In-person participants will have the opportunity to purchase the book for signature. \nThe Holocaust is much-discussed\, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But major aspects of its history have been overlooked and misunderstood. Spanning not just the Holocaust itself but also the decades since\, this sweeping history deepens our understanding of what the Holocaust actually was and its ongoing repercussions across the world today. \nThis new book reveals that: \n\nthe widely held image of ‘industrial murder’ in concentration camps is incomplete: many were killed where they lived\, by neighbours and in the most brutal of ways.\nthe Holocaust was a truly Europe-wide crime. The depth of collaboration across the continent – from Norway to Romania – means we must stop thinking of it as an exclusively German project.\nNazi ideology was an extreme continuation of ideas that were and remain deeply embedded across Europe\, not the deviation from Western thought that we tell ourselves it is.\nsimilarly\, the revival of the radical right today is a continuation rather than an aberration\, meaning it has never been more urgent to fully reckon with the trauma wrought by the Holocaust.\n\nDrawing on decades of research\, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents\, but also on diaries\, post-war testimonies and fiction\, urging that\, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia\, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at RHUL. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include: the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. He is the author or editor of twenty books and over eighty scholarly articles. From 2016 to 2019 he was engaged on a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project on the International Tracing Service. The resulting book\, Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust and World War II\, will be published by Oxford University Press. He is co-editing volume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust. He chaired the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries redesign\, which opened in October 2021\, and is a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group and the UK Oversight Committee for the International Tracing Service Archive. \nDescribed in The Independent as “the leading expert on the radical right” and by ITV as the ‘UK’s leading specialist in this area’\, Matthew Feldman is a consultant\, writer and Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas. He has published a dozen volumes on fascism and the radical right\, as well as dozens of chapters\, articles and comment pieces on this and other subjects. He has also consulted widely via hundreds of media interviews and more than two dozen cases as an Expert Witness on radical right terrorism\, as well as delivering keynote lectures for the G-7\, Council of Europe and many other bodies. Much of his work on radical right narratives and counter-speech is undertaken via his Oxford-based company\, Academic Consulting Services\, alongside specialist training\, reports and advisory work with a variety of public and private bodies. Professor Feldman’s third collection of essays will appear in 2023\, and his history of fascism will be published with Yale University Press in 2024. \nChaired by: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-the-holocaust-an-unfinished-history-by-dan-stone/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Talk: Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe\, Dr Lisa Pine
DESCRIPTION:Edited by Dr Lisa Pine and bringing together leading scholars from across the UK\, North America and mainland Europe\, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. \nWith coverage of well-known regimes and some that are relatively underrepresented in the literature from right across the continent\, it examines the impact felt on people’s lives amidst political administrations characterised by some or all of the following: a one-party state\, in which opposition or multiple parties were banned; a cult surrounding the leader; the censorship of the press and other publications; the widespread use of propaganda and political persuasion; and the threat or use of force by the regime and its agents. \nThe chapters investigate crucial questions in relation to life under dictatorships as follows: What was the impact of censorship on access to news or entertainment? How was leisure time conducted? What was the impact of the regime on working life? What was the scope for dissent and resistance? To what extent were these possible? How much did the regime coerce the population and how much did it try to indoctrinate? What was the difference for Party leaders\, comrades and members in terms of the possibilities and opportunities that opened up\, compared to everyone else in society? With the shutting down – to a large extent – of civil society and state intrusion into private life\, what restrictions were placed on ordinary and day-to-day activities? What happened to religious life and to cultural life and the arts? How were personal choices in aspects of life such as reproduction\, education and even eating affected by these regimes? What was the impact of different political ideologies on people’s way of life – whether Fascist\, Nazi or Communist? Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe addresses these issues and more\, striking to the heart of European life in the darkest episodes of its recent history. \nAbout the speaker:\nLisa Pine is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research\, University of London\, UK. She is the author of Nazi Family Policy\, 1933-1945 (1997)\, Hitler’s “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007\, 2017)\, Education in Nazi Germany (2010) and Debating Genocide (2018). \nShe is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (2016)\, The Family in Modern Germany (2020) and Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (2022).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-launch-and-talk-dictatorship-and-daily-life-in-20th-century-europe-dr-lisa-pine/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221115T183000
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SUMMARY:Book and Travelling Exhibition launch: Anti- Antisemitism and Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Community Security Trust. With the support of the David Berg Foundation. \nJoin us for this event to mark the publication of Anti- Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe\, 1890-2022 and the launch on the Library’s new travelling version of its Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition. \n \nThis new volume\, edited by the Library’s Barbara Warnock and Toby Simpson and with a foreword by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE\, is inspired by the Library’s exhibition\, Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today. \nThis book launch forms part of our Fighting Antisemitism event series. \nIn a range of essays\, the authors looks at the various individuals\, groups and organisations that have worked to counter antisemitism since the Dreyfus Affair polarised France in the late nineteenth century. The essays explore the methods that have been used to try to counter antisemitism\, and the impact and significance of these. \nThe authors consider a range of moments in the struggle against antisemitism\, including the campaign to exonerate Alfred Dreyfus; the anti-Nazi work of Alfred Wiener and others in Germany and Holland inter-war; post-war anti-antisemitism and anti-fascist work in Britain\, including that of those engaged in direct action such as the 43 Group and The Wiener Library’s engagement in monitoring and analysing the Holocaust and antisemitism. The situation recent decades in Britain with respects to differing forms of antisemitism\, and the consequent evolution of the struggle against it\, is also examined. \nThis event is chaired by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE\, and will feature contributions from some of the authors including Dave Rich and Daniel Sonabend.  \nAbout the speakers:  \nRabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is Chair of University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. She was Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue from 2011 until March 2020 and is now Rabbi Emerita. She is a cross bench Peer in the House of Lords\, former CEO of the King’s Fund\, and a founding Trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable trust\, set up in memory of her parents. She chaired the Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients in 2013 and was Vice Chair\, Mental Health Act Independent Review 2017-2018. She is also a member of the Executive Board\, Leo Baeck Institute London and she is a Trustee of the Rayne Foundation\, she is Chair of Independent Age and is a Commissioner of the UK Commission on Bereavement. She has also recently become a Trustee of Yad Hanadiv (Charitable Foundation). Her latest book\, Antisemitism What it is. What it isn’t. Why it matters (OrionBooks) was published in May 2019. \nDr Dave Rich is Director of Policy for the Community Security Trust (CST)\, a UK Jewish charity that provides security advice and assistance to the UK Jewish community and assists victims of antisemitic hate crime. Dave is an Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, Birkbeck\, University of London; a Research Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism; and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Dave is the author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn\, Israel and Antisemitism and writes regularly about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism and extremism for publications in the UK and overseas. \nDr Toby Simpson is Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library\, the world’s oldest archival and library collection relating to the Holocaust and Nazi era. He led the project Testifying to the Truth: Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust which has catalogued\, digitised\, and translated over 1\,000 eyewitness accounts\, gathered by The Wiener Library between 1954 and 1961. Dr Simpson joined the Library in 2011\, setting up a new programme of exhibitions\, tours\, and events. Between 2011 and 2016\, he curated or co-curated over a dozen exhibitions for the Library including Humanity After the Holocaust: The Jewish Relief Unit\, 1943-1950\, and Four Thousand Lives: The Kitchener Camp Rescue. \nDaniel Sonabend is a London based writer and historian\, with a primary focus on fascism and anti-fascism in the post-Second World War era. His first book We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle For Post-War Britain was published by Verso Books in 2019. \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust\, Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon\, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti\, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019)\, a Spectator Book of the Year\, and a number of articles on refugee history and the Nazi persecution of Roma. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-launch-anti-antisemitism-countering-anti-jewish-racism-in-western-europe-1890-2022/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Antisemitism,Collections
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SUMMARY:Talk: Decoding Antisemitism: analysing content\, structure and frequency of antisemitism in online comments sections
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online project  \nWhat antisemitic reactions have been triggered online by recent news stories\, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, terrorist attacks in Israel\, or novelist Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israeli publishers? Which stereotypes and conspiracy theories are they fuelling? \nAntisemitic discourse on the internet provides insights into the present and future of an ideology of hate which\, due to its adaptability\, permeates all social milieus and is currently experiencing a new high – not least due to the specific character of online communication. Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online is a transnational and interdisciplinary research project analysing the content\, structure and frequency of antisemitism in online comments sections\, focusing on the mainstream media of selected European societies – the UK\, France and Germany. It is carried out by a research team at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA\, TU Berlin) in collaboration with King’s College London. \nIn this talk\, the team present findings from their most recent Discourse Report\, which focuses on online antisemitic discourses triggered by two recent major international events: the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of terrorist attacks in Israel\, analysing the differences and similarities in the way web users reacted to these discourse triggers in the UK\, France and Germany. In addition\, we discuss four national case studies which drew our attention due to the number of antisemitic reactions they elicited: novelist Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israeli publishers in the UK\, the Pegasus spyware case in France\, and the controversies around singer Gil Ofarim and the documenta 15 art exhibition in Germany. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Matthew Bolton is a researcher\, lecturer and writer focusing on conceptual history\, critical theory\, antisemitism and genocide studies. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Roehampton\, London in 2020\, with his thesis exploring the relationship between the development of the concept of justice and the capitalist state form. In 2018 his co-authored monograph on the ideological underpinnings of the Corbyn movement\, Corbynism: A Critical Approach\, was published by Emerald Books. His articles have been published in British Politics\, Political Quarterly\, the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism\, and Fathom\, and his work has received widespread media coverage in the UK. \nKarolina Placzynta is a linguist and political scientist with a background in pragmatics\, sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis\, having completed postgraduate degrees in Applied Linguistics and in Politics and International Studies. Her research centres on the mainstreaming and marginalisation of discourses in the media\, normalisation of bias\, and intersections of discriminatory discourses. She has previously examined the patterns of discursive representations of immigration in the British press\, and is a member of the DiscourseNet association.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/talk-decoding-antisemitism-analysing-content-structure-and-frequency-of-antisemitism-in-online-comments-sections/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220420T110845Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Come to this Court and Cry: Linda Kinstler in Conversation with William Shawcross
DESCRIPTION:A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying. \nAcross the world\, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century\, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission\, so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the crime scene of history closed? \nIn this major non-fiction debut\, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound\, Come to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism\, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the stories we tell about ourselves\, our families and our nations are passed down\, how we alter them\, and what they demand of us. \nMs Kinstler will be led in conversation by William Shawcross. \nAbout the speakers:\nLinda Kinstler is a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and a Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley. Her writing appears in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, and more. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK\, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic and studied Forensic Architecture. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe\, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. Before that\, she was the managing editor of The New Republic\, where she covered the war in Ukraine. \nWilliam Shawcross was appointed Independent Reviewer of Prevent in January 2021. He was the Chair of the Charity Commission between 2012 and 2018 and became the Special Representative on UK victims of Qadhafi-sponsored IRA terrorism in March 2019. His previous roles have included membership of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Informal Advisory Panel between 1995 and 2000\, and as a member of the Council of the Disasters Emergency Committee\, 1997 to 2002. He served on the board of International Crisis Group between 1995 and 2006. Prior to 2012\, William was an independent writer and commentator\, having worked as a Foreign Correspondent and written extensively on international affairs. His book\, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia\, Holocaust and Modern Conscience\, examined the role of aid agencies in disaster relief. He has also written on the work of the United Nations in 1990s conflict zones in Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers\, Warlords\, and a World of Endless Conflict. His other works include Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg\, 9/11\, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-come-to-this-court-and-cry-linda-kinstler-in-conversation-with-william-shawcross/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220419T084307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series \nIf Sir Nicholas Winton saved six percent of the Kindertransport children\, who was responsible for the other 94%? Renowned Holocaust educator Mike Levy will draw on his newly published book Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport to tell the untold stories of the quiet heroes who helped organise the famous mass rescue of children at the start of the Second World War. \n He will also describe how the enormous task of caring for the Kinder was carried out – and by whom. Brave men and women transformed the lives of the children\, among them the Dutch aunt\, the grocer\, the Quaker\, and the Rabbi. \nPublished by Lemon Soul\, £1 from every book sale will be donated to our charity partner Safe Passage.  \nAbout the speaker:\nMike Levy is a researcher for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Association for Jewish Refugees\, an educator with the Holocaust Education Trust and Chair of The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust. \nEvent guidelines:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-get-the-children-out-unsung-heroes-of-the-kindertransport/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220316T123504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
UID:9299-1653589800-1653595200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Alice's Book - Karina Urbach in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this hybrid in-person and virtual event in celebration of Karina Urbach’s new book Alice’s Book as part of our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. \nAlice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna\, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England\, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau\, and her older son\, having emigrated to the United States\, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis. \nReturning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s\, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else’s name. Now\, eighty years later\, the historian Karina Urbach – Alice’s granddaughter – sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook\, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime\, of a woman who\, with her unwavering passion for cooking\, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America. \nAbout the Speakers:\nDr Karina Urbach is both a historian and prize-winning novelist. She took her PhD at the University of Cambridge and since 2015 researches 20th Century History at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton and the Institute for Historical Research\, University of London. Bismarck’s favourite Englishman was Urbach’s first book and is now out in paperback. In 2015\, her monograph Go-Betweens for Hitler triggered a campaign for the release of interwar material from the royal archives. Her latest work Alice’s Book (Das Buch Alice\, Berlin 2020) illustrates for the first time how German publishing houses turned Jewish non-fiction books into ‘Aryan’ ones. Urbach worked on several documentaries for the BBC\, Channel 4\, ITV and in the US – for PBS and has written for several newspapers. \nLord Daniel Finkelstein OBE is a leading political journalist and prominent media commentator on both TV and radio. A former politician himself\, he is currently Associate Editor and Political Columnist for The Times. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-alices-book-karina-urbach-in-conversation-with-lord-daniel-finkelstein/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220223T102850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151302Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Future of Holocaust History: An Event for the IHR's Centenary\, In Partnership with Yale University Press
DESCRIPTION:This event\, a collaboration between The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Yale University Press and The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)\, is being held to mark the IHR’s centenary year. \nChaired by Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Library\, the event will feature four Yale University Press authors\, Rebecca Clifford (author of Survivors)\, Amy Williams\, Bill Niven (author of Hitler and Film) and Dan Stone (author of The Liberation of the Camps). Each author will talk about the writing of their books to reflect on how the historiography of the Holocaust has changed and why the topic is more important now than ever. This will be followed by questions from the audience\, who can attend virtually or in person. \n  \nAbout the speakers:\nRebecca Clifford is Professor of Transnational European History at the University of Durham. She is the author of Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy (Oxford University Press\, 2013) and Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust (Yale University Press\, 2020). \nDr Amy Williams is currently working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag\, Yale University Press\, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport. She is a part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and recently appeared on the BBC series Great British Railway Journeys. She is currently working on a book\, with Bill Niven\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nProfessor Bill Niven is is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of numerous books on memory of the Nazi period. His books include Facing the Nazi Past (2001)\, The Buchenwald Child (2007)\, and\, with Yale UP\, Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion (2018). He has just published a book in Germany with Mitteldeutscher Verlag on the postwar history of the Nazi film Jud Süß. He is currently working on a book\, with Amy Williams\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His forthcoming books include Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press\, 2022) and The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin/Pelican\, 2023). \nChaired by:\nChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research is focused on postwar search and collecting initiatives\, the Nazi concentration camp system and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. She is currently writing a social history and archival biography of a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \nIf you are joining online: \nEvent guidelines:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-the-future-of-holocaust-history-an-event-for-the-ihrs-centenary-in-partnership-with-yale-university/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Collections,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands
DESCRIPTION:The Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk with Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands on Angier’s new book\, Speak\, Silence: In Search of WG Sebald as part of our new academic book event series. \nW. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants\, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn\, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction\, history\, autobiography and photography\, addressing some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust\, memory\, loss and exile. \nThe first biography to explore his life and work\, Speak\, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War\, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich\, to his emigration to England\, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge\, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness\, saving humour\, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique\, ferociously original portrait. \nAbout the speakers \nCarole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill\, Oxford and Cambridge. She taught academic and life writing for many years and has edited several books of refugee writing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of Law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nIf you are joining online: \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7247.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-carole-angier-in-conversation-with-philippe-sands/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual talk with Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls\, authors of ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney as part of our new academic books event series. \n‘Adolf Island’ offers new forensic\, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the ‘crime scenes’ since 1945\, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps\, fortifications\, burial sites and other material traces connected to the occupation\, providing new insights into the identities and experiences of the men and women who lived\, worked and died within this landscape. The book is the culmination of ten years’ research carried out by Staffordshire University forensic archaeologists Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls. Their investigations on the island have also been the subject of a TV documentary that was screened on the Smithsonian Channel in 2019. Moving beyond previous studies focused on military aspects of the occupation\, the book argues that Alderney was intrinsically linked to wider systems of Nazi forced and slave labour. \nAbout the Speakers: \nCaroline Sturdy Colls is an Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Staffordshire University specialising in Holocaust studies. She is also the Research Lead and founder of the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution. Her research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes\, with a particular focus on forensic and archaeological techniques\, and the ethical issues that surround their implementation. She has undertaken archaeological investigations at Treblinka extermination and labour camps in Poland\, the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel Islands)\, the former Semlin Judenlager and Anhaltlager (Serbia)\, Bergen-Belsen (Germany)\, and numerous killing sites in Poland and Ukraine. \nKevin Colls is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and is the lead Archaeological Project Manager for the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University. He has directed and published archaeological projects throughout Europe and has over 20 years of experience in professional development-led archaeology. Kevin has directed several fieldwork projects at Holocaust sites\, most recently in Ukraine. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-adolf-island-the-nazi-occupation-of-alderney/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Menachem Kaiser: Plunder
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the newest event in our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust Event Series\, which explores the meaning and legacy of family research into the Holocaust. The Library is delighted to welcome Menachem Kaiser\, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure\, who will be in conversation with Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, for this virtual event.  \nFrom a gifted young writer\, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland – and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story\, woven from improbable events and profound revelations\, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery – that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the Second World War but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast\, secret Nazi tunnel complex-leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure-seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research\, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent\, daring interrogation of inheritance – material\, spiritual\, familial\, and emotional. \nAbout the speakers: \nMenachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Atlantic\, New York\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-menachem-kaiser-plunder/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220126T122740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Simon Parkin speak about his new book\, The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist\, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal. Using exclusive new archive material\, letters and diaries\, it reveals the untold story of history’s most extraordinary prison camp\, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War. \nApproximately 73\,500 German and Austrian refugees from Nazism fled to Britain when war broke out. Initially\, these refugees were received under such lauded schemes as the Kindertransport. But in the following months\, the British media stoked national paranoia that a network of spies\, posing as refugees\, lurked among their ranks. The British government embarked upon a policy of mass internment of the very same people they had welcomed to our shores\, and of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ living in Britain\, approximately 30\,000 were sent to camps indefinitely. On 13 July 1940\, Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man was declared open. Home to around 1\,200 prisoners\, by a twist of fate their number included some of the most prominent and celebrated German and Austrian artists\, musicians and academics of the day\, such as the pioneering German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters\, Ludwig Meidner (Artist)\, Paul Hamann (Artist)\, Fred Uhlman (Artist)\, Gerhard Bersu (Oxford archaeologist)\, Heinrich Fraenkel (author\, journalist\, chess-setter for New Statesman)\, Fred Weiss (film director)\, and Leo Wurmser (Conductor for BBC orchestras etc). The Austrian politician Emil Maurer survived not one but two Germany camps – Dachau and Buchenwald – only to be sent to the Isle of Man by his supposed saviours. Other internees\, like the orphan and aspiring artist Peter Fleischmann\, were barely out of school\, but found among the eminent men a community that would forever change their lives. \nLive stream tickets are also available. \nAbout the author: \nSimon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of A Game Of Birds And Wolves\, which told the little-known story of a small group of women in Liverpool who devised a war game which went on to be the thing that won the Battle of the Atlantic and has been bought for film by Steven Spielberg. He lives in West Sussex. \n  \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7242
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220112T170836Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event celebrates the launch of The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past and will be introduced by the co-editor\, David Clark\, and two of the contributors to the book. This event is in partnership with the Second Generation Network.\n\n\n\n\nThis book is about the long-term implications of socio-political trauma as experienced by descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees. As they recount their actual journeys of discovery in search of ‘home’\, where their parents\, grandparents lived\, they often tell us about an accompanying emotional journey. \nIt contains twenty accounts by Second-Generation authors of journeys to places connected with family history. These include Germany\, Austria\, Poland\, the Czech Republic\, Slovakia\, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys accompanied by a survivor or refugee parent\, a third without a parent\, and a third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history and impacted their identity and life choices. Another aspect touched upon is the mourning and grieving process these journeys entailed and facilitated. The book dwells on the search for belonging and identity\, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit and all that entails. \nThe epilogue draws on a body of work that suggests that as socio-political trauma is suffered within a social\, cultural and political context\, it requires society’s attention and acknowledgment beyond the individual.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-journey-home-emerging-out-of-the-shadow-of-the-past/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220107T154425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Living in Two Worlds: The Else Behrend and Siegfried Rosenfeld Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Living in Two Worlds\, published on 17 December 2021\, is a unique collection of personal diaries and letters describing the lives of a remarkable couple\, Else and Siegfried Rosenfeld\, during the 1930s\, then throughout the Second World War and beyond.  \nElse’s writings were first published in Switzerland in 1945\, not so long after her daring night-time escape across the border in 1944. This marks the first time that her own diaries and her letters to Eva\, close friend and confidante\, as well as of her exiled husband’s diaries\, penned in isolation in England\, have been published in English. The diaries have been interwoven in such a way as to highlight their reliance on one another throughout the long years of enforced separation and yet also to present their differing views of their country’s actions and the conduct of its people. The writing makes accessible to historians and the general reader alike the facts of persecution and deportation but is not without humour thanks to Else’s wry remarks about certain Gestapo officers with whom she had to engage in the course of her work. \nThe original researchers and editors of the diaries and letters\, Professor Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger\, have worked closely with Deborah Langton\, the translator\, and with Cambridge University Press\, to bring this volume to a wider public. \nDeborah will talk about her experience of working on the book\, picking out key themes\, people and places\, as well as reading extracts from Else’s diaries while Steve Cooper\, Else’s grandson\, will read from Siegfried’s diaries. With contributions from Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \nCUP will kindly offer discounts on the book to those registering for this event. Purchase here. \nLiving in Two Worlds: Diaries of a Jewish Couple in Germany and in Exile published by CUP (2021) and translated by Deborah Langton. \nThe original German version is ‘Leben in zwei Welten’ published by Volk (2011). Edited by Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-living-in-two-worlds-the-else-behrend-and-siegfried-rosenfeld-diaries/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220107T161421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Ernst Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Dr Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Professor Natalia Aleksiun in honour of Dr Sliwa’s joint award of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Dr Sliwa’s award-winning manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published in 2021 by Rutgers University Press\, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the Second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here\, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told\, analyzed\, and treated seriously. \nSliwa scours archives to tell their story\, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities\, Polish neighbors\, Jewish community and family\, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place\, a people\, and daily life\, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. \nOffering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Joanna Sliwa is a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history. She works as Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference)\, the only NGO that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors. She has worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York\, and has taught at Kean University and at Rutgers University. She was jointly awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize in 2020 for her book manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. \nDr Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida\, Gainesville. She holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University\, Poland\, and NYU\, U.S. She specializes in the social\, political\, and cultural history of modern East European and Polish Jewry and the Holocaust. Aleksiun has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews\, the Holocaust\, Jewish intelligentsia in East-Central Europe\, Polish-Jewish relations\, and modern Jewish historiography. In addition to her 2021 book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)\, she is the author of Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (‘Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950’) (Warsaw\, 2002) and co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017) (with Brian Horowitz and Antony Polonsky) and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust (2021) (with Hana Kubátová). She also serves as co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. Currently\, she is a senior fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw. She is completing a new book about Jews in hiding in eastern Galicia during the Holocaust. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-ernst-fraenkel-prize-lecture-joanna-sliwa-in-conversation-with-natalia-aleksiun/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20220107T152858Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools with Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a lunchtime book talk with Helen Roche. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nDrawing on material from eighty archives in six different countries worldwide\, as well as eyewitness testimonies from over 100 former pupils\, Helen Roche presents the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich’s most prominent elite schools\, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA). The Napolas provided an all-encompassing National Socialist ‘total education’\, featuring ideological indoctrination\, premilitary training\, and a packed programme of extracurricular activities\, including school trips and exchanges throughout Europe and beyond. \nCombining all the most seductive elements of reform-pedagogy\, youth-movement traditions\, and the militaristic ethos of the Prussian cadet schools\, the schools took pupils from the age of ten\, aiming to train them for leadership roles in all walks of life. Those who successfully passed the gruelling entrance examination\, which tested applicants’ physical prowess\, courage\, and alleged ‘racial purity’ along with their academic abilities\, had to learn to live in a highly militarized and enclosed boarding school community. \nThrough an in-depth depiction of everyday life at the Napolas\, as well as systematic analysis of the ways in which different schools within the NPEA system were shaped by their previous traditions\, this study sheds light on the qualities which the Nazi regime desired to instil in its future citizens\, whilst also contributing to key debates on the political\, social\, and cultural history of the Third Reich\, demonstrating that the history of education and youth can illuminate the broader history of this era in novel ways. Ultimately\, the NPEA can be seen as the Nazi dictatorship’s most effective educational experiment. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book\, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas\, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in the press nationally and internationally\, including appearances in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Telegraph\, on the BBC and Sky News. Her first book\, Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps\, 1818-1920\, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas)\, 1933-1945\, was published in 2013. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-third-reichs-elite-schools-with-helen-roche/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20211130T113930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151305Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland\, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to partner with UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to launch Michael Fleming’s new book\, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nIn the midst of the Second World War\, the Allies acknowledged Germany’s ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission\, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. The book shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and\, along with others\, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later\, from the summer of 1945\, the Polish Government in Warsaw\, the book provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War. \nAbout the speakers: \nMichael Fleming is a historian at The Polish University Abroad\, London and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include Communism\, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland\, 1944-1950 (2010)\, Auschwitz\, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and (as editor) Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies and the Aquila Polonica Prize. \nDan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in the Politics Department of SOAS University of London and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row\, in London. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler. His previous books include America Hitler and the UN\, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Professor Weiss) and The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN\, War Crimes and on Disarmament. \nJulia Eichenberg is a senior lecturer at the University of Bayreuth\, and a Freigeist Fellow and principal investigator of the research project “The London Moment” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2023). In 2008\, she was awarded a PhD in Modern History by the University of Tübingen for her research on Polish First World War veterans. Since then\, she has held fellowships and lectured in Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin\, University College Dublin and Humboldt University Berlin. She has published on aspects of war\, welfare\, violence\, peace\, and international collaboration. Her next book engages with the collaboration of European governments-in-exile in London during the Second World War. \nChaired by: \nAntony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972)\, The Little Dictators (1975)\, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia\, volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-poland-the-united-nations-war-crimes-commission-and-the-search-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
CREATED:20210928T121651Z
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-problems-of-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Book Talk: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder\, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish\, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust\, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. \n \nAlex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time\, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers\, the Soviet urban population\, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals\, the mentally and physically disabled\, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. \nCombining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror\, this is a vital and groundbreaking work. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-book-talk-empire-of-destruction-a-history-of-nazi-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051018
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil 1944-45
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic book series\, the Library is delighted to host a talk with Dr Bastiaan Willems on his book\, Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil\, 1944-45. \n \nIn the final year of the Second World War\, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil\, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory\, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht’s retreat into Germany\, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front\, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset\, developed on the Eastern Front\, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations\, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front\, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bastiaan Willems is a Leverhulme Abroad Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Formerly\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Modern European History at University College London. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-violence-in-defeat-the-wehrmacht-on-german-soil-1944-45/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210930T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Compromise of Return: Elizabeth Anthony in conversation with Jacqueline Vansant
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new academic book series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an in-conversation on Dr Elizabeth Anthony’s book\, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust\, led by Professor Jacqueline Vansant. \n The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to re-establish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal\, political\, and professional endeavours\, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society\, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany—clinging to a collective national identity myth as “first victim” of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories\, interviews\, memoirs\, and personal correspondence to craft a multi-layered\, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate post-war years. The Compromise of Return is the first such social history to depict how survivors—individually and collectively—navigated post-war Vienna’s political and social setting. \nAbout the speakers: \nElizabeth Anthony is a historian and serves as the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Jack\, Joseph\, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from Clark University and was co-editor of Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen\, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service\, Bd. 4 with Rebecca Boehling\, Susanne Urban\, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming. \nJacqueline Vansant is Professor Emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her work has focused on the constructions of ethnicities\, gender and national identities in post-World war II and contemporary Austrian literature\, memoirs and films. She has published Austria Made in Hollywood (Boydell & Brewer\, 2019); Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Wayne State University Press\, 2001)\, and a number of other books and articles. Among many other accolades\, she was awarded the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Distinguished Research Award in 2017. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. 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). \n3. 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-compromise-of-return-elizabeth-anthony-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-vansant/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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