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In this virtual talk, Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls and Dr Kevin Colls will discuss their work 'Adolf Island' which offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives of the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.
For the next event in the Library's Family Histories of the Holocaust event series, Dr Christine Schmidt will be talking to Menachem Kaiser about his new book which explores his family's journey to recover property stolen from them by the Nazis during the Second World War.
In this event, Simon Parkin will speak about his new book which uses exclusive new archival material, letters and diaries to reveal the untold story of history's most extraordinary prison camp, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War.
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.
In this virtual event, translator Deborah Langton will talk about her experience of working on this 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.
We are 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, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the Second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences.
In this lunchtime talk, Helen Roche will present some of her research regarding the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich's most prominent elite schools, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA).
The Library is delighted to partner with UCL's Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to virtually launch Michael Fleming's new book, 'In the Shadow of the Holocaust'.
To celebrate the recent publication of 'The Problems of Genocide', the Library will be hosting a virtual panel to explore the themes outlined and considered in this major new work. Speakers include author Dirk Moses and guest speaker Christine Achinger. The event will be chaired by Professor Philippe Sands.
'The Dressmakers of Auschwitz' 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. Author Lucy Adlington in conversation with Imogen Dalziel.
In this virtual lecture, Sophie Fetthauer will present her recently published monograph exploring the experiences of the musicians who fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria to Shanghai from 1938 to 1949.
Svenja Bethke joins Zoë Waxman in this virtual talk to discuss her new book which explores crime and punishment in the Nazi ghettos established in Eastern Europe during the Second World War.
