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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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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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