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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Photographs and Family History Research
DESCRIPTION:Photograph from an album compiled by Louis Linton (né Ludwig Liebermann)\, with caption added by him in the 1970s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nTo coincide with our exhibition ‘There was a time…’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939\, join members of The Wiener Holocaust Library staff as they discuss the importance of photographs in family research. \nPhoto Archivist Torsten Jugl and International Tracing Service Archive Team Manager Elise Bath lead this event\, where they discuss the uses of images in family history\, as well as their limitations\, and offer practical tips on how to care for and fully explore your photographs. \nThis event is also part of the ‘Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust’ programme. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The 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-talk-photographs-and-family-history-research/
CATEGORIES:Collections,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Jewish Family Photographs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Exhibition opening: ‘There was a time...’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of our new exhibition that brings together over 100 never-before-seen portraits and snapshots from twelve Jewish families in the 1890s through the 1930s. \n \nDrawn from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archives\, these private family photographs uncover a hidden history of pre-Nazi era Jewish life in Germany and Austria. Captions reveal the fates of some of the individuals depicted: persecution\, deportation\, annihilation\, or escape. \n‘There was a time…’ builds upon a growing public interest in vernacular photography: commonplace photographs made and bought by ordinary people. The images on display document everyday\, intimate moments and expressions of culture and identity\, creating a physical record of how the subjects wished to be seen and remembered. \nThe evening will include a drinks reception and brief remarks from the Library’s director and the exhibition’s curator.  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-opening-there-was-a-time-jewish-family-photographs-before-1939/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Talk: Rebuilding Lives? Displaced Persons in the post-war period
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Excavation – Confrontation – Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series \nIn this talk\, Elise Bath\, International Tracing Service Archive Team Manager at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, will explore some of the documents in the Library’s collections that give an insight into the lives of Holocaust survivors in the immediate post-war period\, and show how the ITS Digital Archive can be used to research the experiences of survivors of Nazi persecution as they tried to rebuild their shattered lives. \nThis event is part of B’Nai B’rith UK’s Jewish Heritage Festival taking place 1 September to 31 December. \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-talk-rebuilding-lives-displaced-persons-in-the-post-war-period/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Proof of Identity
DESCRIPTION:UK premiere of Mikołaj Grynberg’s documentary film Proof of Identity\, followed by  Q & A with the director\nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism event series. \nIn Proof of Identity\, Mikołaj Grynberg talks to Polish Jews across the generations about the experience of being a Jew in Poland today. It’s an intimate\, revelatory insight into a traumatic history\, filmed on the stage of POLIN museum in Poland. Following the screening\, director Mikołaj Grynberg will talk to Jo Glanville from Warsaw on Zoom about the inspiration for the film and his work as a writer exploring the history of Polish Jews. Antonia Lloyd-Jones will translate the discussion. \n  \nProof of Identity\, 2021  \nWriter/director: Mikołaj  Grynberg \nProducer: POLIN Museum \nExecutive director: IDFX \nAbout the speakers:\nMikołaj Grynberg is a distinguished writer\, reporter and photographer\, shortlisted for the Nike Literary Award (one of the most prestigious awards for Polish literature) and  laureate of the Warsaw Literary Premiere Award. He is best known for his exceptionally incisive and honest conversations with the so-called second-generation\, the children of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. His books include the short story collection I’d Like to Say Sorry\, but There’s No One to Say Sorry to (The New Press) and The Book of Exodus (Wydawnictwo Czarne). His essay ‘Family Stories’ is published in Looking for an Enemy (Short Books/WW Norton). \n  \nJo Glanville is a journalist\, editor and radio producer. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian\, London Review of Books\, New York Times and Jewish Quarterly\, among other publications. She is the editor of Looking for an Enemy (Short Books/WW Norton). \n  \nAntonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by several of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists (including Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk) and reportage authors\, as well as crime fiction\, poetry and children’s books. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme\, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/film-screening-proof-of-identity/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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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:20220613T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Modern Times: The Biography of Hungarian-Jewish Family
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. \n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual book talk with Prof Stephen Pogany\, led in conversation Dr Gábor Kádár. \nBeginning with the final decades of the doomed Austro-Hungarian Empire\, Prof Stephen Pogany explores the lives of his mother’s family in Budapest and in the spa town of Balatonfüred. Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources\, as well as extended interviews with family members and Holocaust survivors\, Modern Times examines the reality of Hungarian-Jewish life in the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to the familiar tropes that portray Jews as wealthy and privileged\, many of Hungary’s Jews\, like most of the ones we encounter in this memoir\, toiled at menial jobs for low pay while facing growing prejudice and discrimination in the years leading up to the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers:\nProf Stephen Pogany is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick\, where he specialised in international and comparative human rights law. He has written extensively on antisemitism and anti-Gypsyism in East Central Europe\, particularly in Hungary. In October 2021\, his family memoir\, Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family was published in the UK. \nDr Gábor Kádár is a recurrent visiting professor of the Jewish Studies Program at Central European University. He is former Senior Historian of the Hungarian Jewish Archives\, Budapest. He is the author and co-author of six monographs and numerous studies\, articles and encyclopedia entries regarding various aspects of the Holocaust\, the history of Jews in Hungary as well as the history of genocide and ethnic violence in Central Europe. He is the Director of the Yerusha Project\, a digital humanities initiative by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe as well as a member of the Digital Forum Advisory Board of the European Association of Jewish Studies. \n  \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-modern-times-the-biography-of-hungarian-jewish-family/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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:20220530T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Stolperstein Ceremony and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On 30 May 2022 London will be the site of the installation of Britain’s first Stolperstein\, ‘stumbling stone.’  \nThe world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation\, the Stolperstein project has placed over 100\,000 stones in 26 countries. Created by German artist Gunter Demnig 25 years ago\, these small brass plaques are placed in the pavement in front of the homes or places of work of victims of Nazi persecution. \nThe stone to be installed in London commemorates Ada van Dantzig\, a young Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator who came to this country in the 1930s to work\, but later re-joined her family in the Netherlands.  She was murdered in Auschwitz on 14 February 1943. \nThis public installation will take place at 11 am on May 30\, at \n3 Golden Square\, Soho\, London\, the site where Ada worked. \nFollowing the installation\, from 2pm-4pm\, The Wiener Holocaust Library will host a panel discussion featuring the artist Gunter Demnig\, who will speak about his work.  Several scholars and practitioners will also comment on related themes of Holocaust memory\, memorialisation\, and education.  Pre-registration is required and tickets are available through this link:  Stolperstein Ceremony Tickets\, Mon 30 May 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/stolperstein-ceremony-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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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:20220524T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Search Bureau for Missing Relatives was created in 1945 by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to help relatives find each other. It published lists of names in a weekly bulletin called “To the Near and Far” and broadcast names over the radio. 1957 © Central Zionist Archive. \nThis is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart of the Library’s Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain ITS event series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service digital archive\, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution. \nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \nThis workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive\, including using sources freely available online. Join our ITS Archive Team Manager\, Elise Bath and ITS Researcher Ian Rich as they demonstrate the uses of this important archive. \nThe workshop will also feature family research support services available from Manchester-based partner organisations\, soon to be announced. \nParticipants will also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-family-history-research-workshop/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T210000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Fate Unknown Travelling Exhibition Launch and Drinks Reception
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart of the Library’s Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain ITS event series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service digital archive\, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution. \nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \nTake part in an exciting launch event that will feature talks by the co-curators\, Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, special guests\, a drinks reception\, and an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown travelling exhibition. \nSpeakers to be announced. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-fate-unknown-travelling-exhibition-launch-and-drinks-reception/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T180000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063857
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart of the Library’s Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain ITS event series. \n\n\n\nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service digital archive\, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution.  \n\n\n\nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \n\nJoin the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition\, Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, who will explore the remarkable\, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Fate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims. \n\n\n\nFollowing their talk\, a panel of distinguished speakers will discuss patterns of persecution and survival found in Jewish and other archives: Elise Bath (Wiener Holocaust Library)\, on Roma and Sinti victims in the ITS archive; Niamh Hanrahan (University of Manchester)\, on humanitarian relief in Asia\, and Professor Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester)\, on the creation of the Archive of Memory\, among other speakers.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-fate-unknown-the-search-for-the-missing-after-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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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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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:20211112T130000
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nA postwar Czech index revealed that Zuzana Knobloch had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 25 November 1943. It is presumed that she died there. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nThis two-day event series that will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nII. Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop – 12 November 2021\, 1 – 3pm\nLearn how to take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service archive of the Linen Hall Library’s resources. This workshop will provide a demonstration of the ITS archive and a skills workshop as well as the opportunity for short\, one-on-one consultations with the panellists\, who will include The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Senior ITS Researchers\, Elise Bath and Mary Vrabecz\, and the Linen Library’s Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer\, Scott Edgar. Participants can navigate the ITS archive partially from their mobile devices and are invited to bring with them their family trees and research questions. Light refreshments will be served. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-recovering-the-personal-in-difficult-histories-a-family-research-workshop/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nMissing since September 1943\, Zuzana Knobloch\, a young Czech Jew\, was arrested in Prague with her husband\, Ferdinand\, for resistance activities. Zuzana’s parents were murdered after being deported from Theresienstadt in 1942. It took her surviving family many decades to uncover her likely fate. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nThis two-day event series will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nI. Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust – 11 November 2021\, 7 – 8.30pm\nA pop-up exhibition\, drinks reception and talks on the history of the search for the missing after the Second World War with co-curators Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, led by Scott Edgar\, Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer. The history of the collection and what it reveals about the Second World War helps provide context for research\, both family and academic\, within the archive itself. The discussion will include themes raised by the exhibition\, including war\, migration\, rupture\, survival and victimhood. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-loss-and-renewal-tracing-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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