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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T183000
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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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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
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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:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220419T084307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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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:20241023T063819
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:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220303T151009Z
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UID:9111-1652293800-1652297400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220316T130138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151302Z
UID:9305-1651775400-1651780800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063819
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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:20241023T063819
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220126T122740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220112T170836Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063819
CREATED:20220107T154425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools with Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a lunchtime book talk with Helen Roche. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nDrawing on material from eighty archives in six different countries worldwide\, as well as eyewitness testimonies from over 100 former pupils\, Helen Roche presents the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich’s most prominent elite schools\, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA). The Napolas provided an all-encompassing National Socialist ‘total education’\, featuring ideological indoctrination\, premilitary training\, and a packed programme of extracurricular activities\, including school trips and exchanges throughout Europe and beyond. \nCombining all the most seductive elements of reform-pedagogy\, youth-movement traditions\, and the militaristic ethos of the Prussian cadet schools\, the schools took pupils from the age of ten\, aiming to train them for leadership roles in all walks of life. Those who successfully passed the gruelling entrance examination\, which tested applicants’ physical prowess\, courage\, and alleged ‘racial purity’ along with their academic abilities\, had to learn to live in a highly militarized and enclosed boarding school community. \nThrough an in-depth depiction of everyday life at the Napolas\, as well as systematic analysis of the ways in which different schools within the NPEA system were shaped by their previous traditions\, this study sheds light on the qualities which the Nazi regime desired to instil in its future citizens\, whilst also contributing to key debates on the political\, social\, and cultural history of the Third Reich\, demonstrating that the history of education and youth can illuminate the broader history of this era in novel ways. Ultimately\, the NPEA can be seen as the Nazi dictatorship’s most effective educational experiment. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book\, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas\, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in the press nationally and internationally\, including appearances in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Telegraph\, on the BBC and Sky News. Her first book\, Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps\, 1818-1920\, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas)\, 1933-1945\, was published in 2013. \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-the-third-reichs-elite-schools-with-helen-roche/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T183000
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CREATED:20211130T113930Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland\, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to partner with UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to launch Michael Fleming’s new book\, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nIn the midst of the Second World War\, the Allies acknowledged Germany’s ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission\, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. The book shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and\, along with others\, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later\, from the summer of 1945\, the Polish Government in Warsaw\, the book provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War. \nAbout the speakers: \nMichael Fleming is a historian at The Polish University Abroad\, London and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include Communism\, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland\, 1944-1950 (2010)\, Auschwitz\, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and (as editor) Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies and the Aquila Polonica Prize. \nDan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in the Politics Department of SOAS University of London and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row\, in London. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler. His previous books include America Hitler and the UN\, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Professor Weiss) and The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN\, War Crimes and on Disarmament. \nJulia Eichenberg is a senior lecturer at the University of Bayreuth\, and a Freigeist Fellow and principal investigator of the research project “The London Moment” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2023). In 2008\, she was awarded a PhD in Modern History by the University of Tübingen for her research on Polish First World War veterans. Since then\, she has held fellowships and lectured in Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin\, University College Dublin and Humboldt University Berlin. She has published on aspects of war\, welfare\, violence\, peace\, and international collaboration. Her next book engages with the collaboration of European governments-in-exile in London during the Second World War. \nChaired by: \nAntony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972)\, The Little Dictators (1975)\, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia\, volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History. \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-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-poland-the-united-nations-war-crimes-commission-and-the-search-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \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. \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-panel-the-problems-of-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host historian Lucy Adlington in conversation with Dr Imogen Dalziel to discuss her new book\, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. \nAt the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – mainly Jewish women and girls – were selected to design\, cut\, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. \nThis fashion workshop – called the Upper Tailoring Studio – was established by Hedwig Höss\, the camp commandant’s wife\, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here\, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz\, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. \nDrawing on diverse sources – including interviews with the last surviving seamstress – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation\, Lucy Adlington exposes the greed\, cruelty\, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers: \nLucy Adlington is a British historian and writer with more than twenty years’ specialisation in social history. Her previous non-fiction titles include Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear and Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action. Her fiction titles include the award-winning young adult novel The Red Ribbon. She runs the History Wardrobe series of costume presentations\, and has an extensive collection of vintage and antique clothing. \nDr Imogen Dalziel is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership; part-time Administrator for the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London; and a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. Her research interests include the history of the Auschwitz Museum\, Holocaust tourism and Holocaust memory in the digital age.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-dressmakers-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Musicians’ Exile in Shanghai\, 1938–1949
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual lecture\, Sophie Fetthauer will present her recently published monograph Musiker und Musikerinnen im Shanghaier Exil 1938–1949. \n \nMore than 450 musicians were among the approximately 18\,000 mostly Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who fled Nazi persecution to Shanghai from 1938. For most of them\, the Chinese port city was not a preferred destination. The situation there was marked by Japanese military occupation\, temporary ghettoization\, destructions of war\, and shortages. Against this complex background\, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of the conditions of the professional spheres of activity\, the (sub) cultural developments\, and the adaptation and demarcation of the musicians who fled to Shanghai. Topics covered by the study are the role of aid organizations in preparing the exile\, the popular music scene\, the trade union involvement\, the classical music scene and institutionalization\, the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra\, stage productions\, Jewish cantors in synagogues and concerts\, music educators and Chinese student circles\, activities of composers\, and the migration and rehabilitation after the end of the war. \nAbout the speaker: \nSophie Fetthauer studied Musicology and Literature at the University of Hamburg\, PhD in 2002; various research projects on music and musical life in the “Third Reich” and in exile with a focus on biographies\, company and institutional history\, exile in Shanghai as well as displaced person camps and remigration in the post-war period; co-editor of the “Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit”. \nwww.sophie.fetthauer.de. \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-musicians-exile-in-shanghai-1938-1949/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
DESCRIPTION:Svenja Bethke in conversation with Zoë Waxman. \nThe ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality\, tyranny\, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw\, Lodz\, and Vilna ghettos\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how under these circumstances highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. \nLooking at sources from multiple archives and countries\, this book investigates how the Jewish Councils\, set up on German orders\, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down\, taking with them pre-war notions of justice and morality\, and considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so\, this book aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks clear categories of “good” and “bad” behaviour\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation. \nAbout the speakers \nSvenja Bethke is Lecturer in Modern European History and the Deputy Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She works on themes of the Holocaust\, Modern Jewish History and Fashion History. In 2019-2021\, she held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for her new project ‘Clothing\, Fashion and Nation Building in the Land of Israel’. \nZoë Waxman is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She previously taught in the history faculty in Oxford and at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she was fellow in Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: Identity\, Testimony\, Representation (2006)\, and Anne Frank (2015)\, as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. A board member of the British Association of Holocaust Studies\, she also sits on the editorial board of Holocaust Studies and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. She is a trustee of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a member of the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust galleries. She is currently working on Women of the Holocaust: Gendering the Shoah (forthcoming with Oxford University Press) and a project on rape and sexual abuse in genocide. \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-dance-on-the-razors-edge-crime-and-punishment-in-the-nazi-ghettos/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Book Talk: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder\, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish\, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust\, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. \n \nAlex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time\, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers\, the Soviet urban population\, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals\, the mentally and physically disabled\, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. \nCombining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror\, this is a vital and groundbreaking work. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. 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. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-book-talk-empire-of-destruction-a-history-of-nazi-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil 1944-45
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic book series\, the Library is delighted to host a talk with Dr Bastiaan Willems on his book\, Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil\, 1944-45. \n \nIn the final year of the Second World War\, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil\, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory\, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht’s retreat into Germany\, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front\, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset\, developed on the Eastern Front\, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations\, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front\, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bastiaan Willems is a Leverhulme Abroad Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Formerly\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Modern European History at University College London. \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/virtual-book-talk-violence-in-defeat-the-wehrmacht-on-german-soil-1944-45/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210930T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210930T200000
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CREATED:20210809T100941Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Compromise of Return: Elizabeth Anthony in conversation with Jacqueline Vansant
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new academic book series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an in-conversation on Dr Elizabeth Anthony’s book\, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust\, led by Professor Jacqueline Vansant. \n The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to re-establish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal\, political\, and professional endeavours\, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society\, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany—clinging to a collective national identity myth as “first victim” of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories\, interviews\, memoirs\, and personal correspondence to craft a multi-layered\, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate post-war years. The Compromise of Return is the first such social history to depict how survivors—individually and collectively—navigated post-war Vienna’s political and social setting. \nAbout the speakers: \nElizabeth Anthony is a historian and serves as the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Jack\, Joseph\, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from Clark University and was co-editor of Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen\, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service\, Bd. 4 with Rebecca Boehling\, Susanne Urban\, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming. \nJacqueline Vansant is Professor Emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her work has focused on the constructions of ethnicities\, gender and national identities in post-World war II and contemporary Austrian literature\, memoirs and films. She has published Austria Made in Hollywood (Boydell & Brewer\, 2019); Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Wayne State University Press\, 2001)\, and a number of other books and articles. Among many other accolades\, she was awarded the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Distinguished Research Award in 2017. \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-the-compromise-of-return-elizabeth-anthony-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-vansant/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T063819
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Light of Days
DESCRIPTION:As part of the  Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust exhibition event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, join Judy Batalion to hear her talk about her acclaimed new book\, New York Times bestseller\, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. One of the most important stories of the Second World War\, already optioned by Steven Spielberg: a spectacular\, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full\, until now. \nWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbours and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. Powerful and inspiring\, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war\, the fight for freedom\, exceptional bravery\, female friendship\, and survival in the face of staggering odds. \nAbout the speaker: \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between and most recently The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Forward\, Vogue and many other publications. Judy has a BA in the history of science from Harvard\, and a PhD in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute\, University of London\, and has worked as a museum curator and university lecturer. Born in Montreal\, where she grew up speaking English\, French\, Hebrew and Yiddish\, she now lives in New York with her husband and three children. \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-the-light-of-days/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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CREATED:20210610T102037Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: We Share the Same Sky
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with The Ark Synagogue and The Wiener Holocaust Library.  \nTo mark the forthcoming publication of Rachael Cerrotti’s new memoir\, which follows on from her award-winning podcast\, We Share the Same Sky\, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and The Ark Synagogue to hear Rachael in conversation with Stephen D. Smith about the book and the genesis and development of the project. We Share The Same Sky documents Cerrotti’s decade-long journey to weave together the thin threads of her family history\, and\, in particular\, the story of her grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust. The project is an intergenerational diary of love\, loss and the will to move forward in the face of uncertainty. \nAbout the speakers: \nRachael Cerrotti is an award-winning photographer\, writer\, educator and audio producer as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. For over a decade\, she has been retracing her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story and documenting the echoes of WWII. In the fall of 2019\, she released her critically-acclaimed podcast\, titled We Share The Same Sky\, about this story. The podcast is now being taught in classrooms worldwide. Rachael’s memoir\, also titled ‘We Share The Same Sky’ will be published this summer and is now available for pre-order. Learn more at: www.rachaelcerrotti.com & www.sharethesamesky.com \nDr. Stephen D. Smith is Finci-Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation. He is adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California\, he is a theologian by training. Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in England and co-founded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. Smith was the project director responsible for the creation of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda and trustee of the South Africa Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. \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. \nThis event will be taking place at 7pm BST.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-we-share-the-same-sky/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210707T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210707T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Lost Cafe Schindler
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication in 2021 of Meriel Schindler’s acclaimed book The Lost Café Schindler\, join the author and Lord Daniel Finkelstein in conversation about the book and Schindler’s project to uncover the history of her father and her family. \nAbout The Lost Café Schindler: \nKurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler\, of Schindler’s List fame? Or Hitler’s Jewish doctor – Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht\, the night that Nazis beat Kurt’s father half to death and ransacked the family home? \nWhen Kurt died in 2017\, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him and to solve the mysteries he had left behind. \nStarting with photos and papers found in Kurt’s isolated cottage\, Meriel embarked on a journey of discovery taking her to Austria\, Italy and the USA. She reconnected family members scattered by feuding and war. She pieced together an extraordinary story taking in two centuries\, two world wars and a family business: the famous Café Schindler. Launched in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War\, this grand café became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis arrived. \nThrough the story of the Café Schindler and the threads that spool out from it\, this moving book weaves together memoir\, family history and an untold story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It explores the restorative power of writing and offers readers a profound reflection on memory\, truth\, trauma and the importance of cake. \n‘An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings – a journey across a long\, complex and deeply painful arc of history\, grippingly told – a wonderful melding of the personal and the political\, the family and the historical’ Philippe Sands. \nBuy The Lost Café Schindler via Bookshop.org or Waterstones.com. \nAbout the speakers: \nMeriel Schindler spent the first fifteen years of her life growing up in central London before suddenly being moved to a convent school in provincial Austria. Five years later she moved back to the UK to study French and German at university and she is now an employment lawyer\, partner and head of a team at Withers\, a law firm. Meriel is also a trustee of Arvon\, the writing charity. \nLord Daniel Finkelstein is a journalist and politician. He is the Executive Editor of The Times\, where he is also a weekly political columnist. In politics\, he has worked for John Major\, William Hague and David Cameron. He is the grandson of Dr Alfred Wiener\, Holocaust survivor and founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-lost-cafe-schindler/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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