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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion on Holocaust distortion
DESCRIPTION:Prior to murdering their victims at extermination camps\, the Nazis confiscated all their personal possessions. This photograph shows some of the shaving brushes seized by the Nazis at Auschwitz\, 1940-1945. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition event series. In association with Yet Again to mark the launch of their resource\, Holocaust Distortion in Europe: An Interactive Map. \nHolocaust distortion – the attempt to manipulate the historical narrative and significance of the Holocaust – is a significant problem in Europe. Holocaust distortion manifests in many ways: it can be seen in attempts to claim that the Jews are somehow responsible for the Holocaust\, or in the erasure of the culpability of some of the perpetrators. \nIn this event\, panellists will discuss some of the issues around Holocaust distortion\, including considering how Holocaust distortion should be defined; how\, when and where ideas of Holocaust distortion have developed; how Holocaust distortion differs (or not) from Holocaust denial\, and what threat Holocaust distortion poses to public discourses. \nAbout the speakers: \nAlex Maws is Head of Education and Heritage at the Association of Jewish Refugees. He is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial and served on the Board of Directors of the British Association of Holocaust Studies from 2013-2016. \nDr Juliane Wetzel is a historian and a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin and chair of the IHRA Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. She advised the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion\, created during the German presidency of the IHRA in 2020. \nDr Robert Williams is Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, on the steering committee of the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion\, and served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.\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-discussion-on-holocaust-distortion/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Fighting Antisemitism
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition series. \nIn this event\, Daniel Sonabend\, historian and author of We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain\, will tell the story of the militant Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 43 Group. \nIn the immediate aftermath of the Second World War\, Britain’s fascists\, led from the shadows by the pre-war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley\, sought to resurrect fascism in Britain. As part of this work\, they began holding outdoor meetings on street corners around London\, often focusing on areas with large Jewish populations. London’s Jews came under attack once again\, as many were harassed by gangs of fascists and Jewish properties were attacked and vandalised. Outraged that the British state was allowing this to happen and the Jewish establishment was barely kicking up a fuss\, Jewish veterans who had just returned from fighting Nazism on the continent realised that their days of fighting were not yet at an end. In 1946 they formed the 43 Group of Jewish Ex-Servicemen\, an organisation dedicated to active and direct confrontation with Britain’s fascists and anti-Semites. For the rest of the decade\, they waged an often bloody street war against Britain’s fascists\, taking the fight to them wherever they were and eventually beating them off the streets and back into the shadows. \nThe 43 Group was the first organization of its kind in Britain and theirs is a fascinating story full of character\, drama\, and indomitable spirit\, which Sonabend brings to life in his talk using photographs and interview footage of veterans of the Group. \nIf you are joining us 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-we-fight-fascists-the-43-group-and-their-forgotten-battle-for-post-war-britain/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fighting Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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