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For the next event in the Library's Family Histories of the Holocaust event series, Dr Christine Schmidt will be talking to Menachem Kaiser about his new book which explores his family's journey to recover property stolen from them by the Nazis during the Second World War.
In this virtual event, translator Deborah Langton will talk about her experience of working on this 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.
Learn 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.
This event will explore the history of the ITS archive 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.
