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SUMMARY:Exhibition Workshop: Found! Letters! with Deborah Jaffé
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nWhen Deborah Jaffé was clearing her parents’ flat she found a pile of damp and mouldy letters and papers. The 200 letters were written in German by her father in Berlin and dated between 1937-39. Many were carbon copies of letters he had typed on the typewriter he had given her. There were replies too\, as well as telegrams\, birth certificates\, a passport\, school reports\, job references\, train tickets and numerous application forms for emigration.   Despite her almost non-existent German\, she realised they were important and a young man’s attempts to get out. This has now gone from being a pile of 200 letters to an archive with its own biography. \nIn this workshop Deborah will discuss the practicalities of conserving and archiving found letters and papers. She will look at how the material is handled including: conservation\, scanning\, translation\, storage\, cataloguing\, dealing with the content\, the intended readership\, communication\, typewriters and carbon copies\, handwriting\, and discoveries made. Ephemera like train tickets\, as well as envelopes\, letter headings\, telegrams and details in photographs are all relevant to the narrative in letters\, especially within the context of the political climate. \nUsing addresses on the letters and envelopes\, it has been possible to map the places where the family had lived around Germany. Deborah will describe how this enabled her to make installations using material in the archive that related to people\, in places where they had been born\, lived\, and worked. Using this archive and the resources of numerous organisations\, Deborah has been able to discover more about those she knew and the fates of other family members she had not been told about. This is very different to the story she had been told about the getting out.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-found-letters-with-deborah-jaffe/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T130000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: A Letter from Danzig: Understanding Jewish Family Correspondence from the First World War\, Dr Joe Cronin
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of George Fogelson \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nLetters provide insight into their writers\, but how much can we learn about them from one letter? \nThis talk examines a Jewish nurse’s letter to her brother from the opening months of the First World War. The letter is replete with allusions to the unfolding military situation on the Eastern Front\, but it also offers a glimpse into her own journey of self-discovery – a newly trained nurse\, a woman who has realised that she ‘likes working’. \nThe talk will also focus on the challenges of reading correspondence written in archaic German in a near-indecipherable script. How much meaning can we truly recover from textual artefacts that were intended for somebody who knew their author far better than we do? \nSpeaker: \nJoseph Cronin is Lecturer in Modern German History at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in modern German\, Jewish and East European history and is currently writing a book about Jews in the Free City of Danzig (1920–39). \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/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-a-letter-from-danzig-understanding-jewish-family-correspondence-from-the-first-world-war-dr-joe-cronin/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Last Letter\, with Karen Baum Gordon
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nBorn a German Jew in 1915\, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home\, turned on the car ignition\, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father’s attempted suicide\, Karen Baum Gordon\, Rudy’s daughter\, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich.  \nIn The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle\, a Daughter’s Quest\, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust\, Gordon explores not only her father’s life story\, but also the stories and events that shaped the lives of her grandparents—two Holocaust victims that Rudy tried in vain to save in the late 1930s and early years of World War II. This investigation of her family’s history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum\, Rudy’s mother and Karen’s grandmother\, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. In five parts\, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn\, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period and the psychological impact that reverberated from it in the generations that followed.  \nPart of the Legacies of War series\, The Last Letter is a captivating family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler’s rise to power\, through World War II and the Holocaust\, to the present-day United States. In recreating the fatal journeys of her grandparents and tracing her father’s efforts to save them an ocean away in America\, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family’s history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity. By inviting readers along on this journey\, Gordon manages to honor victim and survivor alike and shows subsequent generations—now many years after the tragic events of World War II—what it means to remember.  \nAbout the Speaker:  \nA graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School\, Karen Baum Gordon co-founded Strategic Horizons\, Inc.\, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. Karen is a Dallas native and now lives with her husband and black lab in Brooklyn\, New York\, and South Hero\, Vermont. She is an active member of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and recently served as president of the congregation.  \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. \n\n\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). \n\n\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. \n\n\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-event-the-last-letter-with-karen-baum-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T140000
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SUMMARY:Public Afternoon Lecture: Erin McGlothlin and Arriving at Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway University of London\, through its Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, are delighted to jointly host this programme. \nIn her discussion of Elie Wiesel’s seminal text Night\, Erin McGlothlin will explore a binaristic tension inherent to the contemporary cultural imagination of the Holocaust\, which conceives of the experience of the concentration camp and killing center Auschwitz along both historical and mythical lines.  As she will argue\, the text’s depiction of the young Eliezer’s arrival at Auschwitz and his proximate encounter with mass death\, one of the most powerful scenes in the canon of Holocaust literature\, signals the transformation of the narrator’s historical account into a mythical narrative. \nErin McGlothlin is Professor of German and Jewish Studies and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.  Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of fictional and non-fictional works of Holocaust literature and film\, including such topics as the generational discourse on the Holocaust\, the narrative structure of Holocaust literature and film\, perpetrator representation and perpetrator trauma\, and ethical questions related to Holocaust representation.  She is the author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (2006) and The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021). Further\, she has co-edited four volumes: After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Digital Media (2009\, with Lutz Koepnick)\, Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (2016\, with Jennifer Kapczynski)\, The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its Outtakes (2020\, with Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger)\, and Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust 15: The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives (2023\, with Avinoam Patt). \nMcGlothlin is co-editor (with Brad Prager) of the Camden House book series Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature\, Culture\, and Thought\, and she serves on the editorial boards of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies.  Together with Principal Investigator Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds)\, she serves as Co-Investigator for the project “Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, Circulations\,” which is funded by a $1.3 million grant from the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council. As part of this project\, McGlothlin and Taberner have been appointed co-editors of The Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature\, which will include contributions by over forty international experts in Holocaust representation and which aims to set the path of the scholarly discourse on the literature of the Holocaust for the next twenty-five years. \nChair: Professor Robert Eaglestone\, Holocaust Research Institute 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-afternoon-lecture-erin-mcglothlin-and-arriving-at-auschwitz-with-elie-wiesel/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Reverberations and Tracings - Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \nTo mark the end of the  One Story Many Voices tour\, the Wiener Holocaust Library is hosting a panel discussion on Thursday 30th March 2023\, called Reverberations and Traces: Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources. \nThe panel will include: \n\nNicola Baldwin\, writer of the story Alone But Together for the Manchester Jewish Museum and current co-chair of the audio committee of the Writers Guild\nJames Bulgin\, Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries\nProfessor Adam Ganz\, Head of Writers Room at StoryFutures and Executive Producer on the One Story Many Voices project\n\nChair\nProfessor Bryce Lease\, of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, who led the AHRC-funded project ‘Staging Difficult Pasts’ that considered immersive and performative strategies in contemporary museums with a specific focus on Holocaust histories. \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/virtual-exhibition-panel-reverberations-and-tracings-using-sound-from-letters-and-archive-sources/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Holocaust Letters and Family Histories – Ariana Neumann\, Peter Bradley
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series and is also part of the Library’s Family Histories of the Holocaust series. 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 are delighted to host this hybrid panel discussion with Ariana Neumann and Peter Bradley\, who will reflect on the significance of their family document collections for writing Second Generation memoirs. Ariana Neumann is the author of the award-winning When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains (2020) and Peter Bradley is the author of The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution (2022). They will be led in conversation by Sandra Lipner. \nSpeakers \nAriana Neumann is the New York Times bestselling author of When Time Stopped\, which won the Dayton Peace Prize for Non Fiction in 2021\, Best Memoir at the Jewish Book Awards in 2020 and was shortlisted for various prizes including The Wingate Prize. Ariana has a BA in History and French Literature from Tufts University\, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature from New York University and a PgDIP in Psychology of Religion from University of London. She previously was involved in publishing\, worked as a foreign correspondent for Venezuela’s The Daily Journal and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The European\, the Jewish Book Council and The New York Times. \nPeter Bradley is the author of The Last Train – A Family History of the Final Solution\, published in 2022. He was the Labour MP for The Wrekin between 1997 and 2005. More recently\, he co-founded and directed Speakers’ Corner Trust\, a charity which promotes freedom of expression\, open debate and active citizenship in the UK and developing democracies. He has written\, usually on politics\, for a wide range of publications\, including The Times\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, The New Statesman and The New European. \nModerated by: \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 the place of family history 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-holocaust-letters-and-family-histories-ariana-neumann-peter-bradley/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Author Michael Frank in conversation with Bart van Es and Paris Chronakis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, through its Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, in partnership with Jewish Renaissance and the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway\, are pleased to co-host this in-conversation event featuring the authors Michael Frank\, Bart van Es (The Cut Out Girl: a Story of War and Family\, Lost and Found)\, and modern Greek history specialist Paris Chronakis in discussion on Frank’s latest book\, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. \nAbout this Event: \nFrank’s book features the remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes\, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community\, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale. \nOne Hundred Saturdays is a portrait of one of the last survivors of a community drawn at nearly the last possible moment\, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friendship between storyteller and listener\, offering a powerful “reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift” according to The Wall Street Journal\, which named it one of the ten best books of 2022. The book has received a Natan Notable Book Award\, two Jewish Book Council Awards\, and the Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature. \nAbout the Speakers: \nMichael Frank is also the author of What Is Missing\, a novel\, and The Mighty Franks\, a memoir\, which was awarded the 2018 JQ Wingate Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by The Telegraph and The New Statesman. The recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship\, he lives with his family in New York City and Camogli\, Italy. \nBart van Es is Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. His books include Shakespeare in Company\, which traces the influence of the playwright’s fellow actors on his writing style. In 2014 he began to look into his family’s wartime history\, knowing that his grandparents had been part of the Dutch resistance. This work has resulted in The Cut Out Girl: a Story of War and Family\, Lost and Found\, which was the winner of the Costa Book Awards in 2018. \nParis Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where he teaches and researches on the history and memory of the Modern Mediterranean. His work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state bringing together the interrelated histories of Jewish\, Muslim and Christian urban middle classes from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. His research and publications have recently expanded to post-imperial urban identities\, Balkan War refugees\, Zionism and anti-Zionism in interwar Europe\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry and digital Holocaust Studies. \nModerated by: \nDr Toby Simpson is the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/author-michael-frank-in-conversation-with-bart-van-es-and-paris-chronakis/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: More than Parcels
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, is delighted to host this panel of contributors to the recent publication\, More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-era Camps and Ghettos\, who will reflect on the availability and significance of relief packages and other mail to prisoners in this important\, under-researched aspect of Holocaust history. \nEdited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz\, More than Parcels explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos and camps. The modest relief parcel\, often weighing no more than a few pounds and containing food\, medicine\, and clothing\, could extend the lives and health of prisoners. For Jews in occupied Europe\, receiving packages simultaneously provided critical emotional sustenance in the face of despair and grief. Placing these parcels front and center in a history of World War II challenges several myths about Nazi rule and Allied responses. \nFirst\, the traffic in relief parcels and remittances shows that the walls of Nazi detention sites and the wartime borders separating Axis Europe from the outside world were not hermetically sealed\, even for Jewish prisoners. Aid shipments were often damaged or stolen\, but they continued to be sent throughout the war. Second\, the flow of relief parcels—and prisoner requests for them—contributed to information about the lethal nature of Nazi detention sites. Aid requests and parcel receipts became one means of transmitting news about the location\, living conditions\, and fate of Jewish prisoners to families\, humanitarians\, and Jewish advocacy groups scattered across the globe. Third\, the contributors to More than Parcels reveal that tens of thousands of individuals\, along with religious communities and philanthropies\, mobilized parcel relief for Jews trapped in Europe. \n  \nSpeakers: \nJan Lambertz\, applied researcher and historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum \nJan Láníček\, Associate Professor of modern European and Jewish history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney \nPontus Rudberg\, historian and researcher in modern European and Jewish history at the Hugo Valentin Centre\, Uppsala University \nKatarzyna Person\, Associate Professor at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and editor of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive \n  \nModerated by: \nDan Stone\, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research \nInstitute at Royal Holloway-University of London \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\nHolocaust Letters is curated by Christine Schmidt and Sandra Lipner\, with advisory by Dan Stone\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP)\, an initiative of The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nThis exhibition has been generously supported by the Ernst Hecht Charitable Foundation\, the Stuart Rossiter Trust\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Techne\, and Friends and supporters of the Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-more-than-parcels/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,Holocaust Letters,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230302T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: Holding on Through Letters with Debórah Dwork
DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth Luz Letters\, Courtesy Debórah Dwork \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nJewish families in Nazi Europe tried to hold onto each other through letters. But wartime conditions applied. Letters were censored and could not be sent between countries at war with each other. How to keep in contact? And\, once contact was established\, what to say — and about what to remain silent? In her presentation\, Prof Debórah Dwork will trace how letters became threads stitching loved ones into each other’s constantly changing daily lives. \nAbout the Speaker\nDebórah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center–City University of New York. She is renowned for her scholarship on Holocaust history and her pathbreaking early oral recording of Holocaust survivors\, weaving their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include: Flight from the Reich (W.W. Norton\, 2012); Auschwitz (W.W. Norton\, 2006); Holocaust (W.W. Norton\, 2002); and Children With A Star (Yale University Press\, 1991). Debórah Dwork is also recipient of the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) and the Annetje Fels Kupferschmidt Award\, bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee (2022). \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/virtual-exhibition-talk-holding-on-through-letters-with-deborah-dwork/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host this event as part of our of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities. \nPart of the Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series  \nThis volume of European Holocaust Studies edited by Michelle Gordon and Rachel O’Sullivan brings together a collection of peer-reviewed research articles by scholars of the Holocaust\, genocide\, and colonialism. The book explores the key concepts and themes of the historiographical challenges that scholars are grappling with in recent work connected to Hannah Arendt’s ‘boomerang thesis’ and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. This volume provides examples of how fruitful academic research can be in bridging the gap between studies of empire and the Holocaust\, but it also offers assessments of the potential analytical weaknesses and pitfalls of such an approach. Topics include colonial disease control and human experimentation in Nazi Germany; cultural genocide\, post-colonialism and Nazi genocide; US colonial violence in the Nazi imagination; cartography and post-colonialism in Holocaust Studies. \nIn conversation with Thomas Kühne\, the volume’s editors and several of its contributors\, this event will focus on the entanglements of the Holocaust and colonial histories and reflect upon more recent highly charged discussions on the Holocaust\, its legacies and debates on education and remembrance. \nThese include the ‘nationalisation’ of Holocaust history\, which informs political and public narratives and then feeds back into memory wars both within the European metropoles and the ‘peripheries’ that were once violently occupied. Such topics highlight that it is not only Germany that is engaged in debates on the Holocaust\, memorialisation\, ‘decolonisation’ and attempts to come to terms with the past (‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’). \nAbout the speakers: \nThomas Kühne the Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. His research explores the relation of war\, genocide\, and society\, long-term traditions of political culture and political emotions in Europe\, and the problem of locating the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in the continuities and discontinuities of the 20th century. His recent publications include the monographs The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers\, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the 20th Century (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, and Belonging and Genocide. Hitler’s Community\, 1918-1945 (Yale University Press\, 2010). \nRachel O’Sullivan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies\, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She has published in the Journal of Genocide Research\, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\, and Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (with Frank Bajohr). She is currently working on her first monograph on similarities and dissimilarities between colonialism and Nazi Germany’s inclusionary and exclusionary population policies in annexed Poland. \nMichelle Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Center at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and currently heads the project ‘The “Civilized” Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars.’ Gordon is the author of Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan\, published as part of Bloomsbury’s ‘Empire’s Other Histories’ series in 2020. \nAleksandra Szczepan is a literary scholar\, co-founder and member of the Research Centre for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a collaborator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in oral history projects in Poland and Spain. She authored the book “Realista Robbe-Grillet” (2015) on 20th century redefinitions of realism. She has been recipient of scholarships from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies\, the USHMM\, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and the Polish National Science Centre. She is currently working on a book project dedicated to the role of maps in Holocaust testimony. \nDorota Glowacka is Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Canada. Glowacka is the author of Po tamtej stronie: świadectwo\, afekt\, wyobraźnia (From the Other Side: Testimony\, Affect\, Imagination\, 2017) and Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials\, Ethics\, and Aesthetics (2012). She coedited Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (2007) and Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (2002)\, and edited a special issue of Culture Machine entitled “Community” (2006). Glowacka has published numerous book chapters\, journal articles\, reviews\, and encyclopedia entries in the area of Holocaust and genocide studies\, critical theory\, and theories of gender. She is a member of the Academic Committee at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the USHMM. Her current research focuses on gender and genocide\, and on the intersections of the Holocaust and settler colonial genocides in North America. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n The 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\n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-book-launch-colonial-paradigms-of-violence-comparative-analysis-of-the-holocaust-genocide-and-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Racism,Racism and Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel and Film Talkback: Complicit and The Legacy of the St Louis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host The Legacy of the St Louis Virtual Panel as part of its of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities.  This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film\, Complicit\, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary\, Robert Krakow\, Esq.\, as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis. \nViewers will have access to view the award-winning documentary beginning on 17 July. During the event\, they will have the opportunity to hear from Mr Krakow and to ask questions and hear reflections from former passengers of the MS St Louis. \nComplicit is a fascinating blend of drama\, survivor interviews\, and actual footage retelling the story of the MS St. Louis\, a German luxury ocean liner\, that set sail from Hamburg\, Germany to Havana\, Cuba in the spring of 1939. The 937 mostly Jewish passengers were attempting to escape Nazi persecution. Turned away by the Cuban government and then thwarted by American and Canadian authorities\, the captain was forced to return the ship and its passengers to Europe where more than 250 passengers perished in death camps. The Hollywood Reporter\, in reviewing the film\, observed that “A shameful piece of WWII history is recounted firsthand” and a critical history lesson—not found in students’ textbooks today—is laid bare by the filmmaker. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The 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\nAbout the speakers:\nJudith Steel evaded Nazi persecution in Germany as a child when a French Catholic family took her into their home—an experience that informed her view that love does not always fit within the neat confines of religion. She was the cantor at the New Synagogue in Manhattan.  She attended the 2009 70th Anniversary St. Louis passengers reunion in Miami Beach and signed Senate Resolution 111 which was accepted into the Treasures Vault of the National Archives.  Senate Resolution 111 was passed unanimously in May 2009 and acknowledged the importance of learning the lessons of the saga of the St. Louis.  Judith appears in the documentary film COMPLICIT\, which has been touring the US and internationally since 2014.  Judith together with Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener participated in Canada’s apology ceremony in November 2018 where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the passengers in the House of Commons and offered his heartfelt apology for Canada’s refusal to grant safe haven to the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis. \nSonja Geismar In May 1939\, Sonja’s parents\, paternal grandparents\, two great aunts\, and another great aunt with her husband were passengers on the St. Louis. In Havana harbor\, she remembers waving to cousins who came to see their grandparents who unfortunately went to Belgium and met their fate in a gas chamber.  Sonja and her parents went to  England  and when  their quota numbers were reached\, they sailed into New York harbor on February 11th 1940.  Sonja became a high school social studies teacher. Years later she changed the direction of her career by returning to graduate school for her second Master’s degree. She became a high school librarian in an inner city school and after ten years became head librarian.  Sonja together with Eva Wiener\, participated in the mission to Jerusalem where they told their stories at the Knesset\, Yad Vashem and Hebrew University. \nEva Wiener was born in Berlin during the rise of Hitler.  To escape the Nazis\, her parents were able to book passage on the St. Louis for its ill-fated voyage to Havana\, Cuba.  When the ship was forced to return its passengers to Europe\, Eva and her parents were among the fortunate ones to be accepted into the quota for England.  They immigrated to the United States in May of 1946. Eva was employed as a Budget Analyst at Fort Monmouth\, an installation of the U. S. Department of Defense. While at the Fort she was instrumental in establishing a yearly program commemorating the Holocaust.  This program grew to become the most successful program of its kind for a military installation.  She has been Past President of the Monmouth County Chapter of B’nai Brith Women and the Gibor Zimel Resnick Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom.  In November of 2006 Eva was honored by being the recipient of the Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) awarded by the Central New Jersey Women’s Branch for Conservative Judaism.  In 2012 Eva was selected by her synagogue as the Woman of the Year.  In May of 2012 Eva also received a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” for “invaluable service to the community” presented to her by Congressman Frank Pallone\, Jr. \nJohn Shilling spent the first five years of his life moving as far away as possible from the storm better known as WWII and the Holocaust.  John was born in Prague\, spent his preschool years in Holland and Ecuador\, and first and second grade in Orlando\, Florida before moving to New York.  He graduated from Forest Hills High School\, Queens College\, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and practiced general dentistry on Long Island in Copiague and lived in Melville NY.  He was in the Medical Corp as a dentist in the Air Force from 1962 to 1964. Since his retirement he has had the opportunity to share his family’s story of emigration with High School students and with organisations interested in stories and experiences such as his. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-and-film-talkback-complicit-and-the-legacy-of-the-st-louis/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Fellowships in Holocaust Research and Adjacent Fields
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Library’s Reading Room at its former Devonshire Street address\, c. 1959. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nNot sure where to start with Fellowship applications? Confused about budgeting? Interested in overseas opportunities\, but wondering how it all works? \nThis virtual workshop presents an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers to hear from experts involved in the leadership and development of Fellowships and grants relating to Holocaust Studies and adjacent fields. We will consider recent and current trends in Holocaust research and the practicalities of successfully obtaining Fellowships related to the subject. Our panel will also be on hand to answer the questions you’ve always had\, but never had the chance to ask! \nThis event will be chaired and led by staff from the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). \nConfirmed Speakers \nDr Elizabeth Anthony (Director\, Visiting Scholars Program\, USHMM) \nDr Sarah Cushman (Director\, Holocaust Educational Foundation\, Northwestern University) \nMr Steffen Jost (Program Director\, Alfred Landecker Foundation) \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-workshop-fellowships-in-holocaust-research-and-adjacent-fields/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Panel: Outside the Gates of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:Since it opened in 1947\, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s mission to educate the public has focused mainly upon site-based learning\, encouraging visitors to witness and reflect in the former camp space. Over the last few years\, however\, efforts have been made to bring the history and memory of the former camp to as wide an audience as possible\, particularly in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. What are the benefits and challenges of bringing the history of Auschwitz outside its gates? What impact may this have on education and commemoration? And how might the ever-increasing reliance on digital technologies change visitors’ relationship with the physical site in years to come? \nAbout the Panel \nDr Imogen Dalziel is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, and also works as a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. Her doctorate\, obtained from Royal Holloway\, University of London in late 2020\, explored the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s adaptation to the digital museum. Imogen’s broader research interests include the history of the Auschwitz Museum; Holocaust tourism; and Holocaust memory in the digital age. \nPaul Salmons is Director of Paul Salmons Associates\, creating museum exhibitions and educational projects that explore difficult\, challenging histories. He is consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chief Curator of Seeing Auschwitz (produced for UNESCO and the United Nations); and Curator of Musealia’s award-winning Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. He is consulting on two major new permanent exhibitions that will open in New York City and St Louis\, Missouri. Paul helped create the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum; co-founded the Centre for Holocaust Education at University College London; and played a leading role in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. \nPaweł Sawicki is Press and PR Officer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum\, where he has worked since 2007. He is responsible for the Museum’s social media and his work also encompasses conducting guided tours; English-Polish translation; and photography\, the latter most notably featured in the 2012 Museum publication Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Place Where You Are Standing. Before joining the Auschwitz Museum\, Paweł worked as a presenter and journalist for Polish Radio 2\, often covering events connected with the history of the Holocaust and World War II. \nClementine Smith is Director of Programmes and Deputy Managing Director at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, where she has worked for over 10 years. During her time at the Trust\, Clementine has led the Trust’s Ambassador Programme (including the launch of the Regional Ambassador Programme in 2013)\, and now oversees the strategic development and delivery of the Trust’s core programmes. In 2020\, Clementine played an integral part in the team’s pivot towards online delivery for the Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz Project; Outreach Programme; Teacher Training offer; and youth engagement work. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-panel-outside-the-gates-of-auschwitz/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000
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SUMMARY:Second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Holocaust History Under Siege
DESCRIPTION:Destruction of a housing block in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising. US National Archives and Records Administration. \nFor the second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture\, Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves confronted with the hostile reactions of various states pursuing the policies of Holocaust distortion. This situation has acquired particular importance and urgency in Poland\, where the authorities have introduced a series of measures intended to freeze academic debate\, hinder independent research and intimidate scholars whose writings are perceived as opposed to the official\, state-approved historical narrative. \nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership between The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway. \nRegistration and tickets:\nWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online\, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple\, free\, and only requires an email address.. Register for online lecture. \nTickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now\, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here. Book in-person tickets. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/second-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-holocaust-history-under-siege/
LOCATION:Museum of London\, 150 London Wall\, London\, EC2Y 5HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Book Talk: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder\, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish\, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust\, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. \n \nAlex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time\, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers\, the Soviet urban population\, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals\, the mentally and physically disabled\, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. \nCombining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror\, this is a vital and groundbreaking work. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. 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. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-book-talk-empire-of-destruction-a-history-of-nazi-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T180000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051107
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Talk: Role-Shifting in Atrocity Crimes: The Case of Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership event.  \nThis lecture explores the potentially problematic delineation between victims/survivors\, bystanders\, and perpetrators of genocide. Drawing on over a decade of oral historical research on the 1994 Rwandan genocide — in which approximately 800\,000 civilians\, most of whom were Tutsi\, were murdered by Hutu Power extremists — Dr Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) shows how many Rwandans’ experiences were more complex than the victim/survivor\, bystander\, and perpetrator categories permit. She argues instead for considering genocide-affected people as “complex political actors”\, at least as a starting point for engagement. Doing so facilitates understanding of the extensive role-shifting that can occur amid mass atrocities as people negotiate survival\, and may more effectively support initiatives aimed at promoting social repair by correcting the sometimes harmful overly-simplistic narratives that arise about genocide-affected people from all sides of the conflict. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Erin Jessee is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow\, where she uses oral historical and ethnographic methods to engage with people’s diverse experiences of genocide and related mass atrocities\, particularly in Rwanda. She is the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History\, co-editor of Researching Perpetrators of Genocide\, and has published articles with Medical History\, Memory Studies\, Oral History Review\, History in Africa\, and Forensic Science International\, among others. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent the day before the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-talk-role-shifting-in-atrocity-crimes-the-case-of-rwanda/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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