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SUMMARY:Book talk: ‘The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation’ by Roger Moorhouse
DESCRIPTION:Between 1940 and 1943\, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable – and\, until now\, almost completely unknown – humanitarian operation. \nUnder the leadership of the Polish ambassador\, Aleksander Ładoś\, they undertook a systematic programme of forging Latin American passports and identity documents\, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. \nThe Ładoś operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the Holocaust\, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. The author\, Roger Moorhouse\, will give a short talk about this remarkable book which follows the desperate bids of Jews to obtain life-saving documents\, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be able to escape the murderous machinery of the Holocaust. After the talk\, Roger and the Director of the Library\, Dr Toby Simpson\, will conduct a conversation about the book\, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. \nAbout the speaker\nRoger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in modern German and Polish history. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw\, he is the author of Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots against the Führer\, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital\, 1939-1945\, The Devil’s Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin\, 1939-41 and\, most recently\, First to Fight: The Polish War 1939\, for which we was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s History Prize in 2019.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocausts-most-audacious-rescue-operation-by-roger-moorhouse/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch – Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Library\, in association with the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, is delighted to invite you to the launch of Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day\, Yearbook 22 of the RCGAES (Brill 2023). \nCo-editors Dr Malcolm Miller and Dr. Jutta Raab Hansen will introduce the Yearbook\, delving into its international scope\, tracing refugee musicians in Europe\, the USA\, Australia\, and Shanghai. They will explore in detail the lives and legacies of three outstanding émigré British musicians: Ferdinand Rauter\, pianist and founder of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society\, the conductor-composer Peter Gellhorn and composer-pianist Franz Reizenstein. \nContributing to the discussion we are delighted to welcome their children Andrea Rauter\, Mary Gellhorn and John Reizenstein\, as well as the singer Norbert Meyn FRCM\, Principle Investigator of the ‘Music\, Migration and Mobility’ project at the Royal College of Music\, and a contributor to the volume. Refreshments will be served. \nAbout the speakers\nMalcolm Miller is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University\, UK. He has published widely on Beethoven\, Wagner and contemporary music. His essay ‘Music as Memory: British Émigré Composers and their Wartime Experience’ appeared in The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music (ed. Erik Levi\, Böhlau Verlag\, 2014). \nJutta Raab Hansen studied musicology at Berlin Humboldt University and\, in 1988\, joined Peter Petersen’s exile music research group at Hamburg University\, resulting in her PhD thesis NS-verfolgte Musiker in England: Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Flüchtlinge in der britischen Musikkultur (Hamburg\, 1996). Research in the UK\, Australia and Jerusalem (2003–11) included a contribution to ORT’s ‘Music and the Holocaust’ project\, followed by her translation and edition of émigré singer Elena Gerhardt’s 1953 memoirs (Altenburg\, 2012). She worked as a music therapist\, between 2012–18 in Thuringia\, Germany. \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.\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/book-launch-music-and-exile-from-1933-to-the-present-day/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Debórah Dwork at the Leo Baeck Institute\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Two Roads Home\, Courtesy Doubleday Books \nThis event has passed. It can be watched in full via the Library’s YouTube channel. \nThis special event hosted in partnership with the Centre for Jewish History will see British journalist and politician\, Daniel Finkelstein OBE\, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler\, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family\, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book. Learn more about the legacy of the Wiener Library and the tragic personal histories embedded in its founding. Hosted by the US Friends of the Wiener Holocaust Library\, the talk will be followed by a light drinks reception. \nSpecial guests Chief of Staff to His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General to New York Rian Matanky-Becker and renowned journalist Sarah Wildman will open the event. \n\nAbout the Book\n\n\nIn Two Roads Home (Doubleday\, September 2023) beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials they barely survived. Daniel Finkelstein’s grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam\, where they knew Anne Frank. But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel’s mother\, Mirjam\, also still a child\, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters. \nFinkelstein’s father\, Ludwik\, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father\, Dolu was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control\, Dolu\, was deported to Siberia and Ludwik and his mother were sentenced to forced labor in Kazakhstan\, starved and housed in a stable in freezing conditions. \n\nThis event will take place in-person at the Center for Jewish History\, and will be live streamed online. \nAbout the Speakers\n\n\nDaniel Finkelstein is the grandson of the German Jewish scholar activist Alfred Wiener\, who founded the Wiener Library in 1933 in order to warn the world of the Nazi threat. He is weekly political columnist at The Times of London. Formerly an adviser to Prime Minister John Major\, he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. \n\n\nProfessor Debórah 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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-deborah-dwork-at-the-leo-baeck-institute-new-york/
LOCATION:Centre for Jewish History\, 15 West 16th Street\, New York\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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