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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau\, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in late 1940\, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec\, Poland\, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland\, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive\, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at textile work for twelve hours a day\, lived in barracks with little food\, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943\, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps\, where they were held until liberation in 1945. \nUsing a fresh approach to testimony collections\, Professor Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labour experiences of young Jewish females\, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Incorporating new source material\, the book carefully constructs survivors’ stories while also taking a theoretical approach\, one alert to socially constructed\, intersectional systems of exploitation and harm. The Weavers of Trautenau elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speakers\nJanine P. Holc is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism: Polish-Jewish Relations Today. The Weavers of Trautenau was a finalist for a US National Jewish Book Award. \nDr Anna Hájková is a Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK\, and the author of the celebrated monograph\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (OUP 2020). \n \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. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-weavers-of-trautenau-janine-holc-in-conversation-with-anna-hajkova/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Jewish Revolt by Rachel Auerbach\, with Professor Antony Polonsky
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Auerbach (1903 – 1976) was born in the Galician city of Łanowce\, and in the 1920s studied philosophy and psychology in Lviv. She then moved to Warsaw and worked as a journalist. In the 1940s\, Auerbach ran a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto\, and was involved in the creation of Emanuel Ringelblum’s underground archive Oyneg Shabes (‘The Joy of Sabbath’) in the ghetto. She witnessed the 1943 uprising\, and managed to escape\, surviving in hiding. \nAuerbach wrote Der Yidisher Oyfshtand: Varshe 1943 (The Jewish Revolt: Warsaw 1943) in 1948. it was first published in Yiddish in Warsaw. This book has now been translated and published in English for the first time. \nRachel Auerbach was one of the three post-war survivors of the underground Oyneg Shabbes. This book aimed both to commemorate the Jewish fighters who took up arms in the first major act of resistance to the Nazis and to describe the course of their revolt. \nAuerbach produced a large corpus of work on the fate of the Jews under Nazi occupation\, including Yizker\, a moving lament for the Jews of Warsaw written in 1943\, almost none of which has been translated into English. It is our hope that its publication will stimulate interest in the work of this important writer. \nAbout the Speaker\nAntony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of Global Education Outreach Project of  the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3\, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford\, 2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014)\, which has been translated into French\, Polish and Lithuanian. \nIn 1999\, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010)\, the Jagiellonian University (2014) and the Polish University Abroad (Polski Uniwersytet na obczyźnie\, 2022). \n  \nThe re-publication of The Jewish Revolt was supported by The Jewish Brand. The Jewish Brand is a charity that is building with world-beating web 3 technology a world-wide Jewish community platform. It’s a dynamic hub uniting global Jewish communities through creativity. Via new tech\, social media\, streaming\, and an interactive marketplace\, we advance Jewish culture\, promote unity\, and combat antisemitism. Join us as we make history\, leaving an indelible mark on Jewish heritage and beyond.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-jewish-revolt-by-rachel-auerbach-with-professor-antony-polonsky/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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