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SUMMARY:Book Talk: I Seek a Kind Person\, Julian Borger
DESCRIPTION:In 1938\, Jewish families were scrambling to get out Vienna. In desperation\, children were advertised in the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. \nI Seek a Kind Person: My Father\, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped them Escape the Holocaust is a powerful and personal investigative memoir of survival and loss\, spanning generations within families shaped by the long shadow of history. \nIn 2021\, Julian Borger discovered that his father\, Robert\, was the ‘intelligent boy\, aged eleven’ in an advert featured in the Manchester Guardian\, a revelation that leads to a global investigation into the secrets of his family’s past and the remarkable stories of the other advertised children. Travelling to Vienna and his father’s foster home in Caernarfon\, Wales\, he retraces Robert’s escape\, whilst searching for the other children and their family members\, unearthing unpublished memoirs that reveal what happened after the adverts were placed to escape the Nazis. \nFrom Viennese archives to the Shanghai ghetto\, internment camps and family homes across Britain\, forests and concentration camps in Germany\, escape routes and refugee hostels in Holland\, a secret Austrian cell within the French Resistance\, and a surprising discovery in New York\, Borger follows a kaleidoscope of lives at the mercy of the hands of fate\, uncovering unbelievable stories from around the world and revelations about members of his own family. \nAbout the Author\nJulian Borger is the Guardian’s World Affairs Editor and was part of the team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Snowden files. He was also awarded an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal in 2013\, the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award and the One World Media Press Award in 2016 for a feature story on war crimes in Syria.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-i-seek-a-kind-person-julian-borger/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Online Book talk: Michael Lipkin\, translator of An Ordinary Youth\, by Walter Kempowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the seminal All For Nothing\, comes An Ordinary Youth: an astonishing autobiographical novel and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library for a talk by the translator of Walter Kempowski’s important work. Growing up in Rostock\, in the north of Germany\, Kempowski had a comfortable upbringing. But\, as the country rolled toward war\, the attitudes of his teachers\, peers and family began to slide\, and it wasn’t long before the roar of falling bombs\, charged silences and mounting intolerance begin to puncture Walter’s carefree youth. \nFollowing the Kempowski family from the months before the outbreak of war through to the fall of Berlin\, An Ordinary Youth is the fascinating story of an ordinary childhood in extraordinary times. All the while\, the horrors of Nazism loom in the peripheries – communicated in furtive looks or hushed conversations – running alongside the Kempowski family’s daily life. \nWritten in a richly layered choir of voices – referencing songs\, advertisements\, literature\, films and political slogans of the time – it weaves an impressionistic\, expansive and hugely evocative portrait of war-time Germany\, and reveals the many forms that complicity can take. A bestseller upon publication in Germany\, it remains one of the most successful and acclaimed works by this leading post-war writer. \nAbout the author\nWalter Kempowski (1929 – 2007) was one of Germany’s most important post-war writers\, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of the Second World War\, including Swansong 1945. He is also the author of many novels\, including Homeland and All For Nothing\, which was a bestseller in both Germany and the UK. \nAbout the speaker\nMichael Lipkin is a writer\, translator\, and professor of German literature. He was born in Riga and came to New York City with his family as refugees from the Soviet Union in 1989\, thanks to the efforts of the Hebrew International Aid Society. He received his Ph.D at Columbia University and currently teaches in the Department of German at Hamilton College\, where his work focuses on literary realism as a lived practice and form of life. His writing and criticism has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S.\, the U.K.\, and Germany\, including for the Times Literary Supplement\, The New Left Review\, The Nation\, The Paris Review\, and the Merkur.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-book-talk-michael-lipkin-translator-of-an-ordinary-youth-by-walter-kempowski/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Online Book Talk: A “Jewish Marshall Plan”\, Laura Hobson Faure in conversation with Daniel Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this online event with Prof Hobson Faure in conversation with Dr Daniel Lee as part of our new academic book events series. In the US National Jewish Book Award Winner\, A Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan: the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France\, Lau­ra Hob­son Fau­re ana­lyses the post­war encounter between Amer­i­can Jews and the French Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in the after­math of the Holo­caust. \nThe judges of the National Jewish Book Week said: \n“Uti­liz­ing sources from six­teen archives in France\, Israel\, and the Unit­ed States\, Hob­son Fau­re crafts a metic­u­lous­ly detailed transna­tion­al social his­to­ry of the inter­ac­tion between Amer­i­can Jews asso­ci­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly with the JDC (Joint Dis­tri­b­u­tion Com­mit­tee) and the US Army that high­lights the vast sums of phil­an­thropic assis­tance that char­ac­ter­ized the Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan\, based in deeply held feel­ings of transna­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty\, which were nonethe­less tan­gled in com­plex social and polit­i­cal dynam­ics. \nHob­son Faure’s painstak­ing approach to archival research leaves almost no page unturned\, incor­po­rat­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion\, oral his­to­ry\, press accounts\, mem­oirs\, and more to craft an inno­v­a­tive\, indeed path-break­ing\, his­to­ry of the post­war recon­struc­tion of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in France and the lead­ing role played by the JDC\, in a work that will sure­ly become the new stan­dard in the field.” \nLaura Hobson Faure is a full professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1\, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life during the 20th century.  She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (Armand Colin\, 2013 in French; Indiana University Press\, 2022) which won a National Jewish Book award and will soon publish Rescue: The Story of Kindertransport to France and America. She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin\, 2014) and Enfants en guerre. « Sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle (éditions CNRS\, 2023). \nDr Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. His first book\, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime\, 1940–42 (OUP\, 2014) explored the coexistence between young French Jews and the Vichy regime. His second book\, The SS Officer’s Armchair (Jonathan Cape\, 2020)\, examines the life of a low-ranking SS officer from Stuttgart whose personal documents were recently discovered sewn into the cushion of an armchair. He is working on a history of the Jews of Tunisia during the Second World War\, and is also the Principal Investigator on a British Academy GCRF Sustainable Development Programme project entitled\, “Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia”. \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/hybrid-book-talk-a-jewish-marshall-plan-laura-hobson-faure-in-conversation-with-daniel-lee/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Frank Trentmann - “Out of the Darkness: The Germans from 1942 to the Present”
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism . \nGermany today is undergoing a crisis of identity. The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz to announce a “Zeitenwende”\, an era of change\, but Germany’s place in the world remains unclear. \nHamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023 were followed by declarations of firm solidarity with Israel from the German government and all parties but also by a dramatic rise in anti-semitism and a lack of empathy within German society. \nIn this talk\, the historian Frank Trentmann draws on his new book Out of the Darkness to put current developments in historical perspective. Through this book Trentmann seeks to answer a central question: How have the Germans changed since 1942 and why? And who are they now? \nAbout the speaker: Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck\, University of London\, and at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation\, was a Moore Scholar at Caltech and has been awarded the Whitfield Prize\, the Austrian Science Book Prize\, the Humboldt Prize for Research and the 2023 Bochum Historians’ Prize. He grew up in Hamburg and lives in London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-frank-trentmann-out-of-the-darkness-the-germans-from-1942-to-the-present/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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