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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T200000
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SUMMARY:Book event: Thomas Harding in conversation with Aviva Dautch about The Maverick – George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Join The Wiener Holocaust Library and Jewish Renaissance to mark the publication of Thomas Harding’s The Maverick – the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld\, who transformed not only publishing but the culture of ideas\, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure. \nAfter arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee\, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita\, Double Helix\, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox\, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion\, Mary McCarthy\, Golda Meir and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller\, Harold Wilson\, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. \nIn this first biography\, Thomas Harding provides a full\, unvarnished and at times difficult history of a complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career\, George Weidenfeld was written about in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Time\, Vanity Fair and other publications. Was he\, as described by some\, the ‘greatest salesperson’\, ‘the world’s best networker’\, ‘the publisher’s publisher’ and ‘a great intellectual’? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who\, in fact\, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of London and New York society? \nCovering topics such as democracy\, identity\, the plight of refugees\, globalism\, the liberal international order\, tension in the Middle East\, inter-generational trauma and reconciliation\, and dialogue between faiths\, the issues that George Weidenfeld faced are still as current and relevant today. \nPraise for The Maverick \n‘Thomas Harding has doggedly unearthed fascinating and surprising tales from George Weidenfeld’s life as he rose from poverty and Nazi persecution to become one of the world’s most powerful publishers. Harding reveals a complex personality in a richly told narrative that leaves the reader awed’ – LYNN MEDFORD\, former editor\, Washington Post Magazine \n‘The Maverick anchors George Weidenfeld as one of the foremost influencers in modern literature and a man who rose from extraordinary circumstances to lead an even more extraordinary life. \nA treasure trove of insight and history’ – ARIANNA HUFFINGTON \nAbout the speakers: \nThomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than sixteen languages. He has written for the Sunday Times\, the Washington Post and the Guardian\, among other publications. His books include Hanns and Rudolf\, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction; The House by the Lake\, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Blood on the Page\, which won the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction’ and White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery. \nAviva Dautch is a poet and the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance. She has a PhD in contemporary poetry and her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies internationally. She was recently selected as one of the winners of the Primers Prize for emerging voices and received an Authors’ Foundation Grant from The Society of Authors. She has lectured on modern Jewish culture at the University of Roehampton\, the London School of Jewish Studies and JW3.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-thomas-harding-in-conversation-with-aviva-dautch-about-the-maverick-george-weidenfeld-and-the-golden-age-of-publishing/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Sam Finkelstein on Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
DESCRIPTION:A Red Cross Telegram sent by Margarete Wiener to Alfred Wiener explaining that the family had been unable to obtain exit permits from the Netherlands. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin Daniel Finkelstein at the Library for a discussion of his family memoir with his son Sam\, who acted as the first reader of the book. The event will also be a chance to view the Library’s ninetieth anniversary exhibitions\, one of which\, The Wiener Family Story\, features some of the documents and stories that are featured in Finkelstein’s book. \nAbout the book: Daniel Finkelstein’s family experience at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century is one of miraculous survival. His mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred Wiener was the founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a decorated hero from the Great War. He is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began\, in 1933\, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam\, he relocated the Library’s predecessor organisation to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded Holland. Before long\, the family was rounded up\, robbed\, humiliated\, and sent to Bergen-Belsen camp. \nDaniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwow\, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939\, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland\, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm\, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. \nAbout the speaker\nDaniel Finkelstein is a British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times\, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-sam-finkelstein-on-hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad-a-family-memoir-of-miraculous-survival/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T160000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: The Box with the Sunflower Clasp – Jewish flight to Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Family History events series\, the Library is pleased to host Rachel Meller talking about her first book\, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp\, which relates the flight of her aunt and grandparents from Nazi-run Vienna to the unlikely haven of Shanghai. She will describe the resilience and enterprise of the 20\,000-strong Jewish community within the challenging surroundings of the war-torn Chinese port. \nRachel will be joined by Niamh Hanrahan\, a PhD student at the University of Manchester\, researching a history of movement by Jewish refugees from Europe to Asia during WWII. She will discuss the history of Jews in Shanghai and wartime Jewish journeys made to reach China\, connecting Rachel’s family story to a wider historical narrative. \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-the-box-with-the-sunflower-clasp-jewish-flight-to-shanghai/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books,Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City\, John Kampfner
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin us for an evening event to mark the publication of In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City. \nEver since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin\, he hasn’t been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past\, obsessed with memories\, a place where traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. \nOver the past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of Berlin\, delving into the archives\, and talking to historians and writers\, architects and archaeologists. He clambers onto a fallen statue of Lenin; he rummages in boxes of early Medieval bones; he learns about the cabaret star so outrageous she was thrown out of the city. \nBerlin has been a military barracks\, industrial powerhouse\, centre of learning\, hotbed of decadence – and the laboratory for the worst experiment in horror known to man.  Now a city of refuge\, it is home to 180 nationalities\, and more than a quarter of the population has a migrant background. Berlin never stands still. It is never satisfied. It never believes it has the answer. But it is now the irresistible capital to which the world is gravitating. \nIn Search of Berlin is an 800-year story\, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Kampfner is an award-winning author\, broadcaster and foreign-affairs commentator. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow (during the collapse of communism) for the Telegraph. After covering British politics for the Financial Times and BBC\, he edited the New Statesman. \nHe is a regular TV and radio pundit\, documentary maker and author of six previous books\, including the bestselling Blair’s Wars.  His most recent book\, Why the Germans Do it Better\, was a top ten bestseller\, Book of the Year in the Guardian\, Economist and the New Statesman\, and sold over 100\,000 copies in all editions.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-in-search-of-berlin-the-story-of-a-reinvented-city-john-kampfner/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230913T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230913T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Noor Inayat Khan: A Life of Courage\, An Evening of Remembrance with Pir Zia Inayat Khan in conversation with Shrabani Basu
DESCRIPTION:Noor Inayat Khan c. 1943 \nOn 13 September 1944 Noor Inayat Khan\, a WWII British secret agent\, was murdered by the Nazis in Dachau Concentration Camp. For her bravery she was posthumously awarded the George Cross by Britain and the Croix de Guerre by France. \nThe Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust & the Wiener Library invite you to an event to remember her life and courage in a rare UK conversation between her nephew Pir Zia Inayat Khan\, a Sufi scholar\, head of the Inayatiyya and founder of the Sulūk Academy\, and her biographer\, Shrabani Basu\, author of Spy Princess\, and chair of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust. \nThis event will be livestreamed on the day\, please click the link here to join us virtually. \nDoors will open at 6pm for a prompt start at 6:30pm.\nPir Zia Inayat Khan \nShrabani Basu \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/noor-inayat-khan-a-life-of-courage-an-evening-of-remembrance-with-pir-zia-inayat-khan-in-conversation-with-shrabani-basu/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230725T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230725T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Book event: Susan Ronald\, Hitler’s Aristocrats —The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941 With Amanda Foreman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Susan Ronald in conversation with award-winning author and historian Amanda Foreman about Susan’s new book\, Hitler’s Aristocrats. \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Ronald is a British-American historian\, biographer\, and acclaimed author of ten books\, four of which are about the influencers and enablers of Hitler\, the Nazis\, and appeasers in World War II: Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt\, the Nazis\, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures — A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty\, Noted Philanthropist\, and Nazi Collaborator — The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938–1940. Her tenth book is entitled Hitler’s Aristocrats—The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941. Hitler’s Aristocrats was published in March 2023 by Amberley Publishing in the U.K. and St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan in the U.S.A. \nBefore becoming a fulltime writer in 2012\, Susan was the main commercial advisor on project finance and redevelopment to English Heritage\, the National Trust\, five British government departments\, and the Palace for the restoration of historic assets to alternative use\, including St. Pancras Chambers\, Giant’s Causeway\, and HMY Britannia. She was the Chief Executive of the British Shakespeare Association from 2009-2011 and Secretary and Treasurer of the Biographer’s Club from 2007-2011. She lives in a quintessential Cotswold village near Oxford with her writer husband and has three grown children. \nAmanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers\, ‘Georgiana\, Duchess of Devonshire’\, and ‘A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided’. In 2016\, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. That same year\, her BBC documentary series\, ‘The Ascent of Woman’\, was released. In 2019 she was invited to curate a special exhibition for Buckingham Palace as part of its summer opening. \nForeman has been a columnist for The Sunday Times and the Smithsonian Magazine. Currently\, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly ‘Historically Speaking’. Her next book\, ‘The World Made by Women: A New History of Humanity’\, is scheduled to be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. She is also a CBS News royal contributor.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-susan-ronald-hitlers-aristocrats-the-secret-power-players-in-britain-and-america-who-supported-the-nazis-1923-1941-with-amanda-foreman/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230713T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230713T200000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Depravity’s Rainbow: A Dark History of Space Travel
DESCRIPTION:Depravity’s Rainbow explores the influence of imperialism\, the Holocaust\, and the Cold War on contemporary space exploration. When and where does the history of space exploration begin? For many people\, it might be in 1969\, when American astronauts landed on the moon\, for others it might be in 1953 when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite. But the first manmade object to reach space in fact arrived far earlier\, in 1944\, and it was not a peaceful scientific instrument\, but a ballistic rocket\, a violent weapon of war built by slave labourers in a German concentration camp. \nDepravity’s Rainbow examines the origins of rocketry and space exploration during the Holocaust\, when nascent space technology was mobilised by the Nazi regime as a weapon which they hoped might turn the tide of war. The book focuses on the developers of these rockets\, many of whom were not avid Nazis\, but who made a Faustian pact to pursue rocketry. After the war many of these men went on to work prominently at organisations like NASA\, and so this wartime pact and the post-war choice to utilise the knowledge that it produced continues to haunt the field of space exploration nearly a century later. \nDepravity’s Rainbow employs a mixture of contemporary photographs made during visits to key early rocket development sites across Europe\, many of them today largely forgotten\, alongside historic photographs\, documents\, and other materials from a variety of government and scientific archives. Alongside these texts\, an extended essay examines the history and politics of space technology\, and the way that the militaristic dimensions of this field have often hidden themselves behind a cloak of peaceful civilian science. \nShortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2018 and 2020\, The Kassel book award 2019\, and the Aftermath Grant 2018. \nAbout the speaker\nLewis Bush is a researcher and photographer. His photographic projects focus on the activities of powerful and often inscrutable organisations\, and the role their current or past actions play in shaping the world we know. Previous projects have focused on fields ranging from intelligence gathering to multinational property development and offshore finance. \nHis books and prints are held in national and international collections including at The Museum of London (UK)\, The Victoria & Albert Museum Library (UK)\, The Tate Library (UK)\, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)\, The Library of Congress (USA) Wende Museum (USA)\, Luma Foundation (FR)\, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DE). \nHe is senior lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London\, and a current PhD researcher at the London School of Economics department of media and communication. \nChaired By:\nJames Bulgin is Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and was previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. He has recently completed his PhD at Royal Holloway College\, University of London on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history and he has an MA (with distinction) in Holocaust Studies. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film and he has presented papers at conferences in the UK\, Germany and Israel. He is the author of the book The Holocaust and is the presenter of How the Holocaust Began for the BBC.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-depravitys-rainbow-a-dark-history-of-space-travel/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230620T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230620T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Lord Daniel Finkelstein and Professor Philippe Sands
DESCRIPTION:An event to mark the publication of Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival  \nDaniel Finkelstein’s family experience at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century is one of miraculous survival. His mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred Wiener was the founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a decorated hero from the Great War. He is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began\, in 1933\, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam\, he relocated the Library’s predecessor organisation to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded Holland. Before long\, the family was rounded up\, robbed\, humiliated\, and sent to Bergen-Belsen camp. \nDaniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwow\, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939\, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland\, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm\, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. \nAbout the speakers\nDaniel Finkelstein is a British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times\, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of Law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the former President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, was published in September 2022.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/in-conversation-lord-daniel-finkelstein-and-professor-philippe-sands/
LOCATION:Beveridge Hall\, Beveridge Hall\, Senate House\, University of London\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Public Lecture: Ari Joskowicz: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Held as part of the Symposium on New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide and in association with the Fraenkel Prize  \nJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust\, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war\, Jews’ experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts\, scholars\, educators\, curators\, and politicians\, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma was largely ignored. Responding to this imbalance\, many Roma came to rely on Jewish institutions\, funding sources\, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition for their wartime suffering. \nThis presentation charts the resulting evolving relationship between Roma and Jews since the Holocaust. During the Nazi era\, Jews and Roma were largely proximate strangers with little in common besides their experience of simultaneous persecution. Yet many decades of entwined struggles for justice have deepened Romani-Jewish relations\, which now centre not only on commemorations of past genocides but also contemporary debates over antiracism and Zionism. \nAbout the speaker\nAri Joskowicz is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the university’s Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. He is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust (2023)\, which won the Fraenkel Prize 2022\, and The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France (2014)\, and editor of Secularim in Question: Jews and Judaim in Modern Times (2015). \nChair: Dr Celia Donert\, Associate Professor in Central European History\, University of Cambridge. \nRain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust will be available to purchase on the night. \n  \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \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. \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-public-lecture-ari-joskowicz-roma-jews-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book event: A Dual Perspective: Sir Konrad Schiemann and Sir Bernard Rix in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host this conversation between one of our patrons\, The Rt Hon Sir Bernard Rix KC\, and The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann about Schiemann’s recently published memoir A Dual Perspective: the German in an English Judge \nSir Bernard\, whose father fled to England before the war was Sir Konrad’s contemporary in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and now practices as an arbitrator. \nSir Konrad\, born of German parents\, spent the war in Berlin being bombed by the British\, became an orphan\, and moved to England in 1946 and started\, in his words\, aping the manners of an English gentleman. After practicing at the bar\, he became a High Court Judge\, a Lord Justice in the Court of Appeal and finished his career as the British Judge of the European Court of Justice. After having his family and life in Germany torn apart by conflict he forged a career around his desire to help in the construction of a peaceful Europe. \nIt was only late in life that Konrad realised the extraordinary family into which he had been born including a great-great grandfather who presided over five parliaments and the first German Supreme Court and a great-grandfather who was a friend of the last Kaiser. \nPiercing together extensive correspondence in the 1930s and 40s A Dual Perspective is the moving memoir of a family which has been involved in the construction of Europe since the first half of the nineteenth century and was faced with all the challenges posed by the Third Reich. \nOne of his grandfathers who joined the Nazi Party wrote letters\, which are reproduced in the book\, in 1933 to Konrad’s father\, engaged to a lady of Jewish extraction who became Konrad’s mother\, explaining why he has joined the Nazi Party and urging his son to do the same. However\, Konrad’s father did not. That grandfather’s sister was an open opponent of the regime and has been recognised as one of the Righteous among the Gentiles. His mother worked with Count Berthold von Stauffenberg and describes the atmosphere among those who plotted to assassinate Hitler and expected to be executed when the plot to assassinate Hitler failed. Most\, including many family friends\, were. The book describes the tensions within the family which nonetheless remained united. \nThe book is a mixture of history\, family memoir\, philosophical and political reflections\, describes an English education and upbringing in the last century and ends with a summary of the evolution of Konrad’s thoughts on national sovereignty and the European Union. \nModerated by: Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of the Wiener Holocaust Library
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-a-dual-perspective-sir-konrad-schiemann-and-sir-bernard-rix-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230404T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built into our World and How You Can Change It\, by Dave Rich
DESCRIPTION:The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Wiener Holocaust Library invite you to a celebration of Dave Rich’s newly published book\, Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It. \nThere will be a conversation between David Hirsh of the LCSCA and Goldsmiths College\, and Dave Rich. \nDr Dave Rich is one of the UK’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust\, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community\, and advises the police\, the Crown Prosecution Service\, football clubs\, political parties and many others about how to tackle antisemitism. Dave is a research fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. \nHe writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media including the New Statesman\, Guardian\, New York Times and Jewish Chronicle and regularly appears on TV and radio including for BBC News\, Sky News and ITV News. This is Dave’s second book\, following The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn\, Israel and Antisemitism. \nTo attend in-person\, email centre@londonantisemitism.com to register your place. To attne donline\, please sign up via the Eventbrite link below.\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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-everyday-hate-how-antisemitism-is-built-into-our-world-and-how-you-can-change-it-with-dave-rich/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T190000
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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:Book talk: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech\, Dr Ronan Lee
DESCRIPTION:Myanmar’s Rohingya community are among the most persecuted people on earth. Following decades of human rights abuses within Myanmar\, they endured a brutally violent forced deportation to Bangladesh at the hands of the Myanmar military in 2017. This scorched earth military campaign involved the mass killing of civilians\, sickening sexual violence and the razing of hundreds of Rohingya villages by fire. Around 800\,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh on foot\, and today live in the world’s largest refugee camp complex\, adjacent to the Myanmar frontier. \nThe genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar has drawn global attention\, a case at the International Court of Justice and recently a US government genocide declaration. “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech” is a unique study drawing on extensive fieldwork including interviews and testimony from the Rohingya in Myanmar\, in their refugee camps and among the diaspora further afield to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. The book casts new light on Rohingya identity\, history and culture\, and is a significant contemporary study of the early stages of genocide. \nIn 2022\, the Myanmar junta used state media to announce a ban on the sale of “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide”\, shuttering bookshops and arresting book sellers\, indicating Rohingya fears of further crimes are well founded. \nAbout the speaker \n Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focusses on the Rohingya\, genocide\, hate speech\, migration\, and Asian politics. \nLee’s book Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech was published by Bloomsbury in 2021\, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. \nDr Lee has a professional background in politics\, media\, and public policy. He was formerly a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009) and served on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice\, Main Roads and Local Government. He has also worked as a senior government advisor\, and as an election strategist and campaign manager.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-myanmars-rohingya-genocide-identity-history-and-hate-speech-dr-ronan-lee/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Between Community and Collaboration – Laurien Vastenhout
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual book talk with Dr Laurien Vastenhout as part of our new academic book series to mark the publication of Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation. Dr Vastenhout will be led in conversation by Dr Anna Hájková. \nBetween Community and Collaboration is the first comprehensive\, comparative study of the ‘Jewish Councils’ in the Netherlands\, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period\, there was extensive focus on these organisations’ controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression\, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result\, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. \nUsing a wide range of sources including personal testimonies\, diaries\, administrative documents and trial records\, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime\, and its outlook on these bodies\, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils’ leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation\, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries. \nSpeakers: \nDr Laurien Vastenhout is researcher at the NIOD Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and coordinator of the Master’s programme “Holocaust and Genocide Studies”\, which is offered by NIOD in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In recent years\, her research has focused on the history of World War II in Western Europe\, the persecution of the Jews\, the creation and functioning of Jewish representative bodies during Nazi occupation (Jewish Councils)\, and the Jewish communities in Western Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Her research projects are comparative and transnational in nature. Her book Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation was published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 2022. \nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor 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). \nChair: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-between-community-and-collaboration-laurien-vastenhout/
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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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: The Holocaust – An Unfinished History\, by Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk event to celebrate the publication of Prof Dan Stone’s newest book\, The Holocaust – an Unfinished History. He will be led in conversation with Prof Matthew Feldman. In-person participants will have the opportunity to purchase the book for signature. \nThe Holocaust is much-discussed\, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But major aspects of its history have been overlooked and misunderstood. Spanning not just the Holocaust itself but also the decades since\, this sweeping history deepens our understanding of what the Holocaust actually was and its ongoing repercussions across the world today. \nThis new book reveals that: \n\nthe widely held image of ‘industrial murder’ in concentration camps is incomplete: many were killed where they lived\, by neighbours and in the most brutal of ways.\nthe Holocaust was a truly Europe-wide crime. The depth of collaboration across the continent – from Norway to Romania – means we must stop thinking of it as an exclusively German project.\nNazi ideology was an extreme continuation of ideas that were and remain deeply embedded across Europe\, not the deviation from Western thought that we tell ourselves it is.\nsimilarly\, the revival of the radical right today is a continuation rather than an aberration\, meaning it has never been more urgent to fully reckon with the trauma wrought by the Holocaust.\n\nDrawing on decades of research\, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents\, but also on diaries\, post-war testimonies and fiction\, urging that\, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia\, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at RHUL. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include: the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. He is the author or editor of twenty books and over eighty scholarly articles. From 2016 to 2019 he was engaged on a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project on the International Tracing Service. The resulting book\, Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust and World War II\, will be published by Oxford University Press. He is co-editing volume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust. He chaired the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries redesign\, which opened in October 2021\, and is a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group and the UK Oversight Committee for the International Tracing Service Archive. \nDescribed in The Independent as “the leading expert on the radical right” and by ITV as the ‘UK’s leading specialist in this area’\, Matthew Feldman is a consultant\, writer and Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas. He has published a dozen volumes on fascism and the radical right\, as well as dozens of chapters\, articles and comment pieces on this and other subjects. He has also consulted widely via hundreds of media interviews and more than two dozen cases as an Expert Witness on radical right terrorism\, as well as delivering keynote lectures for the G-7\, Council of Europe and many other bodies. Much of his work on radical right narratives and counter-speech is undertaken via his Oxford-based company\, Academic Consulting Services\, alongside specialist training\, reports and advisory work with a variety of public and private bodies. Professor Feldman’s third collection of essays will appear in 2023\, and his history of fascism will be published with Yale University Press in 2024. \nChaired by: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-the-holocaust-an-unfinished-history-by-dan-stone/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Julia Boyd: A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Wiener Holocaust Library for a book talk and Q&A by author Julia Boyd on her new work. \nHidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived ordinary lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime… From the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich\, an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler which shines a light on the lives of ordinary people. \nDrawing on personal archives\, letters\, interviews and memoirs\, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action\, apathy and grief; hope\, pain\, joy and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life – foresters\, priests\, farmers and nuns; innkeepers\, Nazi officials\, veterans and party members; village councillors\, mountaineers\, soci \nalists\, slave labourers\, schoolchildren\, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged ‘not worth living’. \nA Village in the Third Reich tells a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires\, of shattered dreams – but one in which\, ultimately\, human resilience triumphs. \n“Utterly absorbing’ The Times \nAbout the speaker: Julia Boyd is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People and A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism. Her previous books include A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony\, The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician and Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan. As the widow of a former diplomat\, she lived in Germany from 1977 to 1981. She lives in London. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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/book-talk-julia-boyd-a-village-in-the-third-reich-how-ordinary-lives-were-transformed-by-the-rise-of-fascism/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch - Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with The Association of Jewish Refugees\, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and Insiders/Outsiders \nAbout the event: \nJoin us for the launch of this new volume by Bea Lewkowicz and Anthony Grenville\, who will speak at the event. The event will also feature a short film screening and live interviews with some of the children of the refugees featured in the volume. \n \nIn Émigré Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s. Many of the interviewees rose to great prominence in their chosen career\, such as the author and illustrator Judith Kerr\, the actor Andrew Sachs\, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky\, the violinist Norbert Brainin\, and the publisher Elly Miller. The narratives of the interviewees tell of their common struggles as child or young adult refugees who had to forge new lives in a foreign country and they illuminate how each interviewee dealt with the challenges of forced emigration and the Holocaust. The voices of the twelve interviewees provide the reader with a unique and original source\, which gives direct access to the lived multifaceted experience of the interviewees and their contributions to British culture. \nThe event will also feature a short film screening and live interviews with some of the children of the refugees featured in the volume: Tacy Kneale (daughter of Judith Kerr)\, Julia Donat (daughter of Wolfgang Suschitzky) and Tony Balacs (son of Doris Balacs). \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Bea Lewkowicz is a social anthropologist and oral historian and is the director of two oral history archives\, the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony and the Sephardi Voices UK Archive. She is a member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, School of Advanced Study\, University of London. Her research interests include oral history; trauma and memory; diasporas and displacement; and nationalism and ethnicity. She has worked on many oral history projects and has directed and produced a wide range of testimony-based films. She has also curated several exhibitions\, such as Continental Britons\, Double Exposure\, Sephardi Voices\, and Still in Our Hands: Kinder Life Portraits. Among her publications are ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History\, Memory\, and Identity (2006) and ‘This is the Story of my LIfe’: An Interview with Julus Carlebach’ (2020). More information about Bea’s projects at bealewkowiczarchive.com. \nDr Anthony Grenville\, son of Jewish refugees from Vienna who fled to London in 1938\, was born in 1944. He lectured in German at the Universities of Reading\, Bristol and Westminster from 1971-1996. He has worked for many years with the Association of Jewish Refugees and was Consultant Editor of its monthly journal from 2006-2017. With Dr Bea Lewkowicz\, he was responsible for creating the exhibition ‘Continental Britons’ (2002) and the first part of the AJR’s ‘Refugee Voices’ collection of filmed interviews (2003-2008). He has been Chair of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London\, since 2013. He has published very widely on the history and experience of the refugees from Hitler in Britain\, including Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain\, 1933-1970: Their Image in ‘AJR Information’ (2010) and Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism (2018). \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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/hybrid-book-launch-emigre-voices-conversations-with-jewish-refugees-from-germany-and-austria/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Come to this Court and Cry: Linda Kinstler in Conversation with William Shawcross
DESCRIPTION:A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying. \nAcross the world\, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century\, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission\, so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the crime scene of history closed? \nIn this major non-fiction debut\, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound\, Come to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism\, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the stories we tell about ourselves\, our families and our nations are passed down\, how we alter them\, and what they demand of us. \nMs Kinstler will be led in conversation by William Shawcross. \nAbout the speakers:\nLinda Kinstler is a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and a Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley. Her writing appears in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, and more. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK\, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic and studied Forensic Architecture. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe\, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. Before that\, she was the managing editor of The New Republic\, where she covered the war in Ukraine. \nWilliam Shawcross was appointed Independent Reviewer of Prevent in January 2021. He was the Chair of the Charity Commission between 2012 and 2018 and became the Special Representative on UK victims of Qadhafi-sponsored IRA terrorism in March 2019. His previous roles have included membership of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Informal Advisory Panel between 1995 and 2000\, and as a member of the Council of the Disasters Emergency Committee\, 1997 to 2002. He served on the board of International Crisis Group between 1995 and 2006. Prior to 2012\, William was an independent writer and commentator\, having worked as a Foreign Correspondent and written extensively on international affairs. His book\, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia\, Holocaust and Modern Conscience\, examined the role of aid agencies in disaster relief. He has also written on the work of the United Nations in 1990s conflict zones in Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers\, Warlords\, and a World of Endless Conflict. His other works include Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg\, 9/11\, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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/hybrid-event-come-to-this-court-and-cry-linda-kinstler-in-conversation-with-william-shawcross/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
CREATED:20220419T084307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series \nIf Sir Nicholas Winton saved six percent of the Kindertransport children\, who was responsible for the other 94%? Renowned Holocaust educator Mike Levy will draw on his newly published book Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport to tell the untold stories of the quiet heroes who helped organise the famous mass rescue of children at the start of the Second World War. \n He will also describe how the enormous task of caring for the Kinder was carried out – and by whom. Brave men and women transformed the lives of the children\, among them the Dutch aunt\, the grocer\, the Quaker\, and the Rabbi. \nPublished by Lemon Soul\, £1 from every book sale will be donated to our charity partner Safe Passage.  \nAbout the speaker:\nMike Levy is a researcher for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Association for Jewish Refugees\, an educator with the Holocaust Education Trust and Chair of The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust. \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-get-the-children-out-unsung-heroes-of-the-kindertransport/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
CREATED:20220223T102850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151302Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Future of Holocaust History: An Event for the IHR's Centenary\, In Partnership with Yale University Press
DESCRIPTION:This event\, a collaboration between The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Yale University Press and The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)\, is being held to mark the IHR’s centenary year. \nChaired by Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Library\, the event will feature four Yale University Press authors\, Rebecca Clifford (author of Survivors)\, Amy Williams\, Bill Niven (author of Hitler and Film) and Dan Stone (author of The Liberation of the Camps). Each author will talk about the writing of their books to reflect on how the historiography of the Holocaust has changed and why the topic is more important now than ever. This will be followed by questions from the audience\, who can attend virtually or in person. \n  \nAbout the speakers:\nRebecca Clifford is Professor of Transnational European History at the University of Durham. She is the author of Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy (Oxford University Press\, 2013) and Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust (Yale University Press\, 2020). \nDr Amy Williams is currently working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag\, Yale University Press\, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport. She is a part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and recently appeared on the BBC series Great British Railway Journeys. She is currently working on a book\, with Bill Niven\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nProfessor Bill Niven is is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of numerous books on memory of the Nazi period. His books include Facing the Nazi Past (2001)\, The Buchenwald Child (2007)\, and\, with Yale UP\, Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion (2018). He has just published a book in Germany with Mitteldeutscher Verlag on the postwar history of the Nazi film Jud Süß. He is currently working on a book\, with Amy Williams\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His forthcoming books include Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press\, 2022) and The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin/Pelican\, 2023). \nChaired by:\nChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research is focused on postwar search and collecting initiatives\, the Nazi concentration camp system and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. She is currently writing a social history and archival biography of a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \nIf you are joining online: \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. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-the-future-of-holocaust-history-an-event-for-the-ihrs-centenary-in-partnership-with-yale-university/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Collections,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition series. \nIn this event\, Daniel Sonabend\, historian and author of We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain\, will tell the story of the militant Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 43 Group. \nIn the immediate aftermath of the Second World War\, Britain’s fascists\, led from the shadows by the pre-war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley\, sought to resurrect fascism in Britain. As part of this work\, they began holding outdoor meetings on street corners around London\, often focusing on areas with large Jewish populations. London’s Jews came under attack once again\, as many were harassed by gangs of fascists and Jewish properties were attacked and vandalised. Outraged that the British state was allowing this to happen and the Jewish establishment was barely kicking up a fuss\, Jewish veterans who had just returned from fighting Nazism on the continent realised that their days of fighting were not yet at an end. In 1946 they formed the 43 Group of Jewish Ex-Servicemen\, an organisation dedicated to active and direct confrontation with Britain’s fascists and anti-Semites. For the rest of the decade\, they waged an often bloody street war against Britain’s fascists\, taking the fight to them wherever they were and eventually beating them off the streets and back into the shadows. \nThe 43 Group was the first organization of its kind in Britain and theirs is a fascinating story full of character\, drama\, and indomitable spirit\, which Sonabend brings to life in his talk using photographs and interview footage of veterans of the Group. \nIf you are joining us online: \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/exhibition-talk-we-fight-fascists-the-43-group-and-their-forgotten-battle-for-post-war-britain/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fighting Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
CREATED:20220316T130138Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands
DESCRIPTION:The Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk with Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands on Angier’s new book\, Speak\, Silence: In Search of WG Sebald as part of our new academic book event series. \nW. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants\, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn\, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction\, history\, autobiography and photography\, addressing some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust\, memory\, loss and exile. \nThe first biography to explore his life and work\, Speak\, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War\, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich\, to his emigration to England\, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge\, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness\, saving humour\, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique\, ferociously original portrait. \nAbout the speakers \nCarole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill\, Oxford and Cambridge. She taught academic and life writing for many years and has edited several books of refugee writing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of Law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nIf you are joining online: \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. \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7247.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-carole-angier-in-conversation-with-philippe-sands/
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual talk with Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls\, authors of ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney as part of our new academic books event series. \n‘Adolf Island’ offers new forensic\, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the ‘crime scenes’ since 1945\, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps\, fortifications\, burial sites and other material traces connected to the occupation\, providing new insights into the identities and experiences of the men and women who lived\, worked and died within this landscape. The book is the culmination of ten years’ research carried out by Staffordshire University forensic archaeologists Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls. Their investigations on the island have also been the subject of a TV documentary that was screened on the Smithsonian Channel in 2019. Moving beyond previous studies focused on military aspects of the occupation\, the book argues that Alderney was intrinsically linked to wider systems of Nazi forced and slave labour. \nAbout the Speakers: \nCaroline Sturdy Colls is an Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Staffordshire University specialising in Holocaust studies. She is also the Research Lead and founder of the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution. Her research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes\, with a particular focus on forensic and archaeological techniques\, and the ethical issues that surround their implementation. She has undertaken archaeological investigations at Treblinka extermination and labour camps in Poland\, the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel Islands)\, the former Semlin Judenlager and Anhaltlager (Serbia)\, Bergen-Belsen (Germany)\, and numerous killing sites in Poland and Ukraine. \nKevin Colls is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and is the lead Archaeological Project Manager for the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University. He has directed and published archaeological projects throughout Europe and has over 20 years of experience in professional development-led archaeology. Kevin has directed several fieldwork projects at Holocaust sites\, most recently in Ukraine. \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-adolf-island-the-nazi-occupation-of-alderney/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051131
CREATED:20220202T164348Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Menachem Kaiser: Plunder
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the newest event in our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust Event Series\, which explores the meaning and legacy of family research into the Holocaust. The Library is delighted to welcome Menachem Kaiser\, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure\, who will be in conversation with Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, for this virtual event.  \nFrom a gifted young writer\, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland – and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story\, woven from improbable events and profound revelations\, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery – that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the Second World War but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast\, secret Nazi tunnel complex-leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure-seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research\, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent\, daring interrogation of inheritance – material\, spiritual\, familial\, and emotional. \nAbout the speakers: \nMenachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Atlantic\, New York\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. \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/hybrid-book-talk-menachem-kaiser-plunder/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Simon Parkin speak about his new book\, The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist\, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal. Using exclusive new archive material\, letters and diaries\, it reveals the untold story of history’s most extraordinary prison camp\, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War. \nApproximately 73\,500 German and Austrian refugees from Nazism fled to Britain when war broke out. Initially\, these refugees were received under such lauded schemes as the Kindertransport. But in the following months\, the British media stoked national paranoia that a network of spies\, posing as refugees\, lurked among their ranks. The British government embarked upon a policy of mass internment of the very same people they had welcomed to our shores\, and of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ living in Britain\, approximately 30\,000 were sent to camps indefinitely. On 13 July 1940\, Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man was declared open. Home to around 1\,200 prisoners\, by a twist of fate their number included some of the most prominent and celebrated German and Austrian artists\, musicians and academics of the day\, such as the pioneering German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters\, Ludwig Meidner (Artist)\, Paul Hamann (Artist)\, Fred Uhlman (Artist)\, Gerhard Bersu (Oxford archaeologist)\, Heinrich Fraenkel (author\, journalist\, chess-setter for New Statesman)\, Fred Weiss (film director)\, and Leo Wurmser (Conductor for BBC orchestras etc). The Austrian politician Emil Maurer survived not one but two Germany camps – Dachau and Buchenwald – only to be sent to the Isle of Man by his supposed saviours. Other internees\, like the orphan and aspiring artist Peter Fleischmann\, were barely out of school\, but found among the eminent men a community that would forever change their lives. \nLive stream tickets are also available. \nAbout the author: \nSimon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of A Game Of Birds And Wolves\, which told the little-known story of a small group of women in Liverpool who devised a war game which went on to be the thing that won the Battle of the Atlantic and has been bought for film by Steven Spielberg. He lives in West Sussex. \n  \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7242
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/
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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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event celebrates the launch of The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past and will be introduced by the co-editor\, David Clark\, and two of the contributors to the book. This event is in partnership with the Second Generation Network.\n\n\n\n\nThis book is about the long-term implications of socio-political trauma as experienced by descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees. As they recount their actual journeys of discovery in search of ‘home’\, where their parents\, grandparents lived\, they often tell us about an accompanying emotional journey. \nIt contains twenty accounts by Second-Generation authors of journeys to places connected with family history. These include Germany\, Austria\, Poland\, the Czech Republic\, Slovakia\, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys accompanied by a survivor or refugee parent\, a third without a parent\, and a third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history and impacted their identity and life choices. Another aspect touched upon is the mourning and grieving process these journeys entailed and facilitated. The book dwells on the search for belonging and identity\, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit and all that entails. \nThe epilogue draws on a body of work that suggests that as socio-political trauma is suffered within a social\, cultural and political context\, it requires society’s attention and acknowledgment beyond the individual.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-journey-home-emerging-out-of-the-shadow-of-the-past/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Living in Two Worlds: The Else Behrend and Siegfried Rosenfeld Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Living in Two Worlds\, published on 17 December 2021\, is a unique collection of personal diaries and letters describing the lives of a remarkable couple\, Else and Siegfried Rosenfeld\, during the 1930s\, then throughout the Second World War and beyond.  \nElse’s writings were first published in Switzerland in 1945\, not so long after her daring night-time escape across the border in 1944. This marks the first time that her own diaries and her letters to Eva\, close friend and confidante\, as well as of her exiled husband’s diaries\, penned in isolation in England\, have been published in English. The diaries have been interwoven in such a way as to highlight their reliance on one another throughout the long years of enforced separation and yet also to present their differing views of their country’s actions and the conduct of its people. The writing makes accessible to historians and the general reader alike the facts of persecution and deportation but is not without humour thanks to Else’s wry remarks about certain Gestapo officers with whom she had to engage in the course of her work. \nThe original researchers and editors of the diaries and letters\, Professor Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger\, have worked closely with Deborah Langton\, the translator\, and with Cambridge University Press\, to bring this volume to a wider public. \nDeborah will talk about her experience of working on the book\, picking out key themes\, people and places\, as well as reading extracts from Else’s diaries while Steve Cooper\, Else’s grandson\, will read from Siegfried’s diaries. With contributions from Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \nCUP will kindly offer discounts on the book to those registering for this event. Purchase here. \nLiving in Two Worlds: Diaries of a Jewish Couple in Germany and in Exile published by CUP (2021) and translated by Deborah Langton. \nThe original German version is ‘Leben in zwei Welten’ published by Volk (2011). Edited by Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \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-launch-living-in-two-worlds-the-else-behrend-and-siegfried-rosenfeld-diaries/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Ernst Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Dr Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Professor Natalia Aleksiun in honour of Dr Sliwa’s joint award of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Dr Sliwa’s award-winning manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published in 2021 by Rutgers University Press\, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the Second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here\, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told\, analyzed\, and treated seriously. \nSliwa scours archives to tell their story\, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities\, Polish neighbors\, Jewish community and family\, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place\, a people\, and daily life\, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. \nOffering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Joanna Sliwa is a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history. She works as Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference)\, the only NGO that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors. She has worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York\, and has taught at Kean University and at Rutgers University. She was jointly awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize in 2020 for her book manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. \nDr Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida\, Gainesville. She holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University\, Poland\, and NYU\, U.S. She specializes in the social\, political\, and cultural history of modern East European and Polish Jewry and the Holocaust. Aleksiun has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews\, the Holocaust\, Jewish intelligentsia in East-Central Europe\, Polish-Jewish relations\, and modern Jewish historiography. In addition to her 2021 book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)\, she is the author of Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (‘Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950’) (Warsaw\, 2002) and co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017) (with Brian Horowitz and Antony Polonsky) and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust (2021) (with Hana Kubátová). She also serves as co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. Currently\, she is a senior fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw. She is completing a new book about Jews in hiding in eastern Galicia during the Holocaust. \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-ernst-fraenkel-prize-lecture-joanna-sliwa-in-conversation-with-natalia-aleksiun/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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