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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition talk: Kristallnacht in Vienna: The Radicalisation of Antisemitic Policy in the Nazi State
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr Toby Simpson will discuss the reasons behind the extreme brutality of Kristallnacht in Vienna. \nCompared to other locations in the Third Reich\, even in other cities where local antisemitism was rife\, the brutal nature and long-term impact of anti-Jewish violence in the Austrian capital is striking. \nThis talk will examine collections held at The Wiener Holocaust Library and consider what insights the study of this terrible historical event might offer people today. \nAbout the Speaker\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 has been in his current role since 2019. \nPreviously 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. \nDr Simpson joined the Wiener 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 including Humanity After the Holocaust: The Jewish Relief Unit\, 1943-1950\, and Four Thousand Lives: The Kitchener Camp Rescue. \nReport of the Jewish Community of Vienna showing the use of the soup kitchen\, January – February 1939 \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-exhibition-talk-kristallnacht-in-vienna-the-radicalisation-of-antisemitic-policy-in-the-nazi-state/
CATEGORIES:Collections,Genocide,The Holocaust in Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T183000
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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 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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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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