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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Light of Days
DESCRIPTION:As part of the  Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust exhibition event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, join Judy Batalion to hear her talk about her acclaimed new book\, New York Times bestseller\, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. One of the most important stories of the Second World War\, already optioned by Steven Spielberg: a spectacular\, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full\, until now. \nWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbours and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. Powerful and inspiring\, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war\, the fight for freedom\, exceptional bravery\, female friendship\, and survival in the face of staggering odds. \nAbout the speaker: \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between and most recently The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Forward\, Vogue and many other publications. Judy has a BA in the history of science from Harvard\, and a PhD in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute\, University of London\, and has worked as a museum curator and university lecturer. Born in Montreal\, where she grew up speaking English\, French\, Hebrew and Yiddish\, she now lives in New York with her husband and three children. \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-book-talk-the-light-of-days/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Compromise of Return: Elizabeth Anthony in conversation with Jacqueline Vansant
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new academic book series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an in-conversation on Dr Elizabeth Anthony’s book\, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust\, led by Professor Jacqueline Vansant. \n The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to re-establish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal\, political\, and professional endeavours\, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society\, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany—clinging to a collective national identity myth as “first victim” of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories\, interviews\, memoirs\, and personal correspondence to craft a multi-layered\, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate post-war years. The Compromise of Return is the first such social history to depict how survivors—individually and collectively—navigated post-war Vienna’s political and social setting. \nAbout the speakers: \nElizabeth Anthony is a historian and serves as the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Jack\, Joseph\, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from Clark University and was co-editor of Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen\, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service\, Bd. 4 with Rebecca Boehling\, Susanne Urban\, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming. \nJacqueline Vansant is Professor Emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her work has focused on the constructions of ethnicities\, gender and national identities in post-World war II and contemporary Austrian literature\, memoirs and films. She has published Austria Made in Hollywood (Boydell & Brewer\, 2019); Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Wayne State University Press\, 2001)\, and a number of other books and articles. Among many other accolades\, she was awarded the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Distinguished Research Award in 2017. \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-book-talk-the-compromise-of-return-elizabeth-anthony-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-vansant/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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