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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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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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