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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Translating Holocaust Letters with Jenifer Ball
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nIn this hands-on lunchtime talk\, Jenifer Ball will demonstrate how she translated a German letter on display in the exhibition. She will discuss how she approaches linguistic and cultural questions in personal papers and researches references to contemporary social life to create richly contextualised texts. \nSpeaker:  \nJenifer Ball was a teacher of German and French\, and translates from both languages. Her work has ranged from Baroque music to veterinary medicine\, and she particularly enjoys translating verse.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-translating-holocaust-letters-with-jenifer-bell/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Curators’ Talk: Holocaust Letters with Christine Schmidt\, Sandra Lipner
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online.  \nJoin the curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition\, Holocaust Letters\, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition. Their talk will discuss key letters on display\, the ethics and practice of curating personal document collections\, the role of the archive in mediating the past\, and reflections on co-curating with historians and families. \nAbout the Speakers:\nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. Her current project focuses on a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \nSandra Lipner is a technē (AHRC)-funded doctoral student at Royal Holloway\, University of London and a co-curator of the Holocaust Letters exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her PhD thesis is a cultural family history based on her German family’s collection of letters and documents from the period 1933-45\, and she studies the use of family history in microhistories of the Holocaust to evaluate its place within the historiography of the Third Reich. \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-curators-talk-holocaust-letters-with-christine-schmidt-sandra-lipner/
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Letters as People: Emotion and Information in the Correspondence of German-Jewish Refugees from Nazism 1933-45
DESCRIPTION:A composite letter from members of the Böhm family in Antwerp to Theodor Hirschberg in London. University of Southampton Special Collections\, Papers of Theodor Hirschberg\, MS 314/1/77 \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nThe 1930s/40s saw thousands of German-Jewish refugees seek asylum in locations across the world\, with the by-product being the enforced fracturing of family networks and the shared world in which they inhabited. During this period\, contact between separated family members continued\, albeit minimised\, with the aim of gaining information on the health and location of loved ones being of primary importance. Abruptly\, space was injected into close familial relationships\, with letters acting as the bridge between separated parties and thus creating their own metaphysical ‘epistolary space’ often in replacement of physical spaces. Conversations on emigration efforts\, familial life and geopolitical concerns moved from within the home on to pieces of paper\, as family units dispersed. Discussions altered and adapted into a new epistolary space\, albeit one often burdened with the ineffability of their situation.   \nIn this presentation\, postgraduate researcher Charlie Knight will discuss the correspondences of five families whose archives are held in both private collections and public institutions. The presentation will touch upon a number of key research questions including: How did the writers and addressees understand the role and importance of these letters? What emotional strategies can be identified within the correspondences? How is information/knowledge disused and transferred within this new ‘epistolary space’? And what early knowledge of the Holocaust could be ascertained from these objects? Finally this presentation will reflect on the methodology and place of the researcher within this project\, as well as the letters’ hapticity and materiality.   \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 funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities for his research into German-Jewish refugees from Nazism in Britain. Charlie was the joint postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies in the 2021/22 academic year\, and currently teaches German History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at UCL. He is also the co-organiser of the international workshop ‘Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies’ held at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, and has himself spoken at conferences in the UK\, Germany and Israel. His most recent publication ‘Constructing narratives: considerations in the letters of Theodor M. W. Hirschberg and his family’ was published in Jewish Culture and History in 2022. 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-letters-as-people-emotion-and-information-in-the-correspondence-of-german-jewish-refugees-from-nazism-1933-45/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Jewish Archives\, Artefacts and Memory in Transit
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library’s current exhibition\, Holocaust Letters\, examines Holocaust-era private correspondence as sites of knowledge production as well as for their traces of the material past\, including enforced Jewish migration. \nWith the soon-to-launched virtual Holocaust Letters exhibition as a starting point\, this virtual panel will explore new ways and research into thinking about archives\, artefacts and other primary sources\, including material sources as well as those not held in traditional archives to help us gain deeper insight into the history of Jewish refugees in transit and the knowledge those migrants possessed\, produced\, transmitted\, or lost. \nThe panelists will discuss what happens when migrants leave their homes and try to convey both the sense of loss and the disorienting experience of learning to live somewhere new\, in correspondence and artefacts that capture experiences before\, during or after their migration. In terms of correspondence\, how are their words crafted and understood\, depending on who they are writing to and when? How do Holocaust-era letters\, photographs\, and other artefacts communicate experiences? What happens to the “archive” in the context of transoceanic migration or persecution\, such as the Holocaust? \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership in partnership with the German Historical Institute London\, the German Historical Institute Washington with its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley\, and the California Institute of Technology. \nSpeakers: \n\nDr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Wiener Holocaust Library: Introduction and Holocaust Letters\nProf Simone Lässig\, Director\, German Historical Institute Washington: The Research Field „In Global Transit“ – An Introduction\nDr Anna-Carolin Augustin\, Research Fellow\, German Historical Institute Washington: Jewish Ritual Objects in Transit: Archives of Knowledge or Vessels of Memory?\nDr Indra Sangupta\, Head of India Research Programme\, German Historical Institute London: Notes on The City as Refuge: Jewish Calcutta and Refugees from Hitler’s Europe. An Exhibition held in Calcutta in February 2018\nProf Christina von Hodenberg\, Director\, German Historical Institute London: Closing Remarks\n\n  \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \nVirtual Event guidelines: \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/virtual-exhibition-panel-jewish-archives-artefacts-and-memory-in-transit/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Red Cross Messages from Nazi Germany\, with Anthony Grenville
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nRed Cross messages had been introduced during the First World War\, when an urgent need developed for a means that would re-establish the communications that had been severed by the conflict\, for example between prisoners of war and their families at home. During the Second World War\, as conventional means of communication were increasingly denied to Jews trapped in the Third Reich\, Red Cross messages came to play a vital part in what remained of the contacts between those Jews and their family members who had escaped abroad; little systematic attention has\, however\, as yet been devoted to them. The restriction of those contacts to brief messages of 25 words reflected the cruel restrictions that were imposed on Jews in the Third Reich in almost all aspects of the final stage of their lives before their deportation to the east. This talk will examine as an example the communications between my mother\, Gertrude Grünfeld (Grenville)\, in London and her parents in Vienna\, as these developed from normal letters to the use of a post office box in neutral Portugal and finally to Red Cross messages.  \nAbout the Speaker  \nDr Anthony Grenville\, BA\, D.Phil (Oxford)\, lectured in German at the Universities of Reading\, Bristol and Westminster\, 1971-96. He worked for the Association of Jewish Refugees\, including as Editor of its monthly publication\, AJR Journal\, 2006-17. He is a founder member of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London\, and has been its Chair since 2013. He served on the executive committee of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (Society for Exile Studies) and was awarded honorary membership in 2021. He co-created the exhibition Continental Britons (Jewish Museum\, 2002) and co-founded the AJR’s Refugee Voices collection of filmed interviews. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of exile studies\, including Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain\, 1933-1970 (2010).  \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-lunchtime-exhibition-talk-red-cross-messages-from-nazi-germany-with-anthony-grenville/
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