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SUMMARY:Virtual Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Jane Haining’s Letter from Auschwitz and the Foundation of a Christo-centric Myth\, Dr Alex Sessa
DESCRIPTION:Caption: Jane Haining copyright owner\, Public domain\, via Wikimedia Commons \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThis lecture examines Jane Haining through a microhistory approach. Haining was a Scottish missionary who worked among Christian and Jewish girls in Budapest\, with the intention of bringing Jews into the Christian church. The chief conversionary tactic was to lead a ‘Christian example’. Jane Haining elected to remain in Budapest throughout the war\, which subsequently led to her arrest in March 1944. Subsequently\, she was transported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Communication from Haining is scant\, but what little information exists is frequently used to present her as a selfless ‘Christian martyr’. Haining’s letters\, including her final correspondence from Auschwitz\, tell us little about her experiences. Sessa argues that the Church of Scotland uses these letters to offer an apologetic narrative of its own missionary past\, and identifies this as a dangerous trend within the context of memory studies. \nSpeaker: \nDr Alex Sessa completed his PhD in Holocaust Studies at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Tony Kushner. His research interests include Memory Studies\, Jewish-Christian relations\, Gender Studies\, and Public History. He currently authors articles examining antisemitism and racism. \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. \nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \nUnfortunately\, this event has to be postponed. It will be rescheduled and a new date announced soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-jane-hainings-letter-from-auschwitz-and-the-foundation-of-a-christo-centric-myth-dr-alex-sessa/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Panel: Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies – Shirli Gilbert\, Joachim Schlör
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series and is the public evening event for the Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies workshop. Audiences can attend this event either in-person or online. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership and Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton)\, are delighted to host this hybrid panel discussion with Prof Shirli Gilbert and Prof Joachim Schlör\, led in conversation by Charlie Knight\, on letters in Holocaust-related research. Both Gilbert and Schlör have conducted extensive research based on treasure troves of personal correspondence belonging to Jewish refugees. They will reflect on their significance for our understanding of everyday experiences of persecution and forced migration during the Holocaust. \nSpeakers:\nShirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London\, and a specialist in modern Jewish history\, with particular interest in the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa. She is the author of From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017) among numerous other books and essays. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Before coming to UCL\, she was Karten Professor of Modern History and Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. \nJoachim Schlör is Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations in History at the University of Southampton\, UK. He is the author of Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England (2022)\, as well as Nights in the Big City: Paris\, Berlin\, London\, 1840 – 1930 (2016). He is the editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History\, and (with Johanna Rolshoven) co-editor of the online journal Mobile Culture Studies. \nChair:\nCharlie Knight is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the recipient of the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities for his research on German-Jewish refugees in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s. His most recent article with Jewish Culture and History looks at narrative construction in the letter collection of Theodor Hirschberg. He is also co-organiser of the workshop: ‘Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies’. \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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-panel-letter-writing-in-holocaust-studies-shirli-gilbert-joachim-schlor/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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