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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
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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:20241023T070538
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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
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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:20241023T070538
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T190000
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T070538
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T070538
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T193000
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CREATED:20210920T093948Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T200000
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CREATED:20210726T101448Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T183000
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
DTSTAMP:20241023T070538
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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:20241023T070538
CREATED:20210702T142154Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210721T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210721T200000
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T070538
CREATED:20210618T145050Z
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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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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: To Meet In Hell
DESCRIPTION:To Meet in Hell follows Glyn Hughes\, a high-ranking British officer\, and Rachel Genuth\, a teenager from the Hungarian provinces\, as they navigate their respective forms of hell during the final\, brutal year of the Second World War. \nTheir stories converge before the war’s end\, in Bergen-Belsen\, where Hughes finds himself responsible for an unprecedented situation: 25\,000 of 60\,000 war-ravaged inmates are in need of immediate hospitalization. Rachel is among those at death’s door. Their narratives tell a larger story—about the suffering of the victims\, the struggles of liberators who strove to save lives\, and about the human capacity for fortitude and redemption. \nYou can purchase a copy of the book here. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bernice Lerner is the former dean of adult learning at Hebrew College and a senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility. \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-to-meet-in-hell/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Ravine
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership event\, part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series.  \nThe terrible mass shootings in Poland and the Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. Wendy Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence – a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them – and from it has crafted The Ravine: A Family\, A Photograph\, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed\, a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus. \nOne of the most compelling themes to emerge from her investigations in Ukraine\, Slovakia\, Germany and the USA is the identity and the surprising role of the photographer who recorded the killings. He must\, Lower assumed\, have been part of the Nazi organization of genocide. The truth was different… \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her research and teaching focus on the history of genocide\, the Holocaust and human rights. Lower is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton\, 2013) which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and has been translated into 23 languages. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. She earned her doctorate in history from Clark University in 2003. Her research has focused on the history of the International Tracing Service and early tracing efforts in Britain\, postwar research and collection initiatives\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-ravine/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Afterlives of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Laura Levitt and Dawn Skorczewski in conversation with James Young\nThis panel discussion will consider questions about life after trauma\, violence\, and loss: what makes this possible? What is the role of art and literature in doing justice to these pasts and imagining different futures? What is the relationship between trauma and art or writing? Professor Dawn Skorczewski and Professor Laura Levitt will be led in conversation by Professor James Young. \nDawn Skorczewski’s Sieg Maandag: Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen combines Sieg Maandag’s testimony and writings with his art\, giving voice to his experiences and creating a dialogue between trauma and art. Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was 7 years old when he was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Separated from his parents\, he survived the war with his sister and 50 other Dutch children. A photo of Sieg walking beside a row of bodies in liberated Bergen-Belsen shocked the world when it appeared in Life magazine on May 9\, 1945. His mother used this photo to find him in Amsterdam after the war; his father never returned. After trying his hand at the family diamond trade and clothing design\, Sieg travelled extensively\, searching for life’s meanings. He found his true love\, Karen\, and eventually discovered his other true love—painting. He devoted the rest of his life to painting and ceramics in Amsterdam. In interviews\, he often remarked\, “I was always a painter.” In his haunting and healing paintings and ceramics\, Maandag expresses the suffering and joys of life in what Lawrence Langer terms the “afterdeath” of Bergen-Belsen. When art becomes a way to depict\, manage\, and transform trauma\, the work itself informs life. \nLaura Levitt’s The Objects That Remain is equal parts personal memoir and fascinating examination of the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes inform our experience of\, and thinking about\, trauma and loss. Considering artefacts in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and evidence in police storage facilities across the country\, Laura’s story moves between intimate trauma\, the story of an unsolved rape\, and genocide. Throughout\, she asks what it might mean to do justice to these violent pasts outside the juridical system or through historical empiricism\, which are the dominant ways in which we think about evidence from violent crimes and other highly traumatic events. Over the course of her investigation\, the author reveals how these objects that remain and the stories that surround them enable forms of intimacy. In this way\, she models for us a different kind of reckoning\, where justice is an animating process of telling and holding. \nAbout the speakers:\nDawn Skorczewski is Lecturer at Amsterdam University College\, and Research Professor of English Emerita at Brandeis University. Her research interests include the Holocaust\, psychoanalysis\, pedagogy\, poetry\, writing\, and trauma. Several recent articles address the Holocaust survivors of the Dutch Diamond Industry\, the interviewer’s role in Holocaust testimonies\, and Jan Karski’s interviews. Her 2012 work An Accident of Hope positions the therapy tapes of American poet Anne Sexton at the intersections of poetry\, trauma\, pedagogy\, and testimony. \nLaura Levitt is Professor of Religion\, Jewish Studies\, and Gender at Temple University where she has chaired the Religion Department and directed both the Jewish Studies and the Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Programs. Levitt is the author of The Objects that Remain (2020); American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007); and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997) and a co-editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (2003) and Judaism Since Gender (1997). Levitt edits NYU Press’s North American Religions Series with Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State University) and David Harrington Watt (Haverford College). \nJames E. Young is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, where he has taught since 1988\, and Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst. Professor Young has written widely on public art\, memorials\, and national memory. \nEvent guidelines:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check 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-afterlives-of-trauma-laura-levitt-and-dawn-skorczewski-in-conversation-with-james-young/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Resistance Network
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with the Armenian Institute and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nKhatchig Mouradian’s newly published book\, The Resistance Network\, is the history of an underground network of humanitarians\, missionaries\, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. \nMouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism\, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts\, official documents\, and missionary records\, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. \nHe ultimately argues that\, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities\, concentration camps\, and massacre sites in this region\, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered—unarmed resistance proved an important factor in saving countless lives. \nAbout the author: \nDr Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the author of articles on genocide\, mass violence\, and unarmed resistance\, the co-editor of a forthcoming book in late Ottoman history\, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review. Mouradian holds a PhD in History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution from UMass Boston. He is the recipient of a Calouste Gilbenkian Research Fellowship to write the history of the Armenian community in China in the 19th and 20th centuries (2014). He is also the recipient of the first Hrant Dink Justice and Freedom Award of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians (2014). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Society of Armenian Studies (SAS) since 2015. \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-resistance-network/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Members of a group of refugees from German-occupied Czechoslovakia being marched away by police at Croydon airport on 31 March 1939. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn January 2021\, a week before Britain’s twentieth Holocaust Memorial Day\, the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain was published. To mark the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust\, The Wiener Holocaust Library hosted an online panel discussion exploring how Britain has engaged and disengaged with the Holocaust in the past\, how it continues to in the present\, and reflected on how it may do so in the future. \nBoth The Palgrave Handbook on Britain and the Holocaust and this panel discussion take place at a time when the Holocaust has\, arguably\, a greater and more multifarious presence in Britain than has ever been the case. It is a state of affairs that raises significant and challenging questions about history and memory\, how the two are entwined and interact\, and how they are understood and valued in the present. Panellists were invited to reflect on these and other issues\, as they consider Britain’s engagements and disengagements with the Holocaust. \nAbout the panellists:\nDonald Bloxham is Richard Pares Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at Edinburgh since 2001\, has written on history and philosophy of the discipline of history\, and is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. \nKara Critchell is Lecturer in History at the University of Chester. She has research expertise in British cultural engagement with genocide\, perpetrators of mass violence\, and political violence in contemporary society. \nHannah K. Holtschneider is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is a cultural historian of twentieth-century history with a particular focus on the Holocaust\, Jewish identities\, and non-Jewish/Jewish relations. \nMichael Rosen is Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmith’s University\, an award-winning children’s author\, and a former Children’s Laureate. Among his most recent works is The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II. \nAbout the speakers:\nTom Lawson is Professor of History at Northumbria University. He is the author and editor of several books\, co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History\, and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. \nAndy Pearce is Associate Professor of Holocaust and History education at University College London. He has written and edited books on Holocaust history and memory in Britain and Holocaust education. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-palgrave-handbook-of-britain-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Armenians of Aintab
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to launch the publication of The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day 2021. \nThe author\, Ümit Kurt\, born and raised in Gaziantep\, Turkey\, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab\, the city’s name during the Ottoman period\, had not only been destroyed—it had been replaced. To every appearance\, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city. \nKurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In particular\, he examines the population that gained from ethnic cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the prosperous Armenians—who were active in manufacturing\, agricultural production\, and trade—were ejected. Although the official rationale for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat of rebellion\, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited most—provincial elites\, wealthy landowners\, state officials\, and merchants who accumulated Armenian capital—in turn\, financed the nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along both ethnic and political lines. \nThe Armenians of Aintab draws on primary sources from Armenian\, Ottoman\, Turkish\, British\, and French archives\, as well as memoirs\, personal papers\, oral accounts\, and newly discovered property-liquidation records. Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground level. \nAbout the speakers:\nÜmit Kurt is Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow. He is the author of several books in Turkish and English\, including The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. \nStefan Ihrig is a professor of history at the University of Haifa and Director of the Haifa Center of German & European Studies. He works on various aspects of European and Middle Eastern history with an interest in the media as well as political and social discourses. He is co-editor of the Journal of Holocaust Research. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-armenians-of-aintab/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled Virtual Book Launch: The Last Ghetto – An Everyday History of Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Professor Dan Stone\nWe were delighted to launch Dr Anna Hájková’s book The Last Ghetto as part of the new Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \n \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of the Second World War. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, \nAnna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \nAbout the speakers:\nDr Anna Hájková\nDr Hájková is Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagesspiegel. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. \nProfessor Dan Stone\nProfessor 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. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Sephardi Holocaust Histories: Families Adrift
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, François Matarasso in conversation with Paris Chronakis. \n \nAs part of its Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to host a panel discussion of new works that explore Sephardi family microhistories of the Holocaust\, led by Dr Paris Chronakis. An expert on the history and memory of Greek Jewry\, Chronakis lead Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and François Matarasso in conversation. Stein spoke about her book based on the copious Levy family papers\, which helped chronicle Sephardi Jewish life across and beyond the Ottoman Empire\, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century (2020)\, and Matarasso\, discussed his father’s and grandfather’s memoirs\, published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44 (2020). \nAbout the speakers:\nParis Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway\, University of London having previously taught at Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches and researches on the history and memory of the Modern Mediterranean and his work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state by bringing together the entangled histories of Jews\, Christians and Muslims from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have 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. Paris was a member of the scientific committee developing the ‘Database of Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies’ and is on the editorial board of the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is a historian\, writer and educator whose work has reshaped our understanding of Jewish history. Her commitment to research is matched by her love of teaching. At UCLA\, she is Professor of History\, the Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, as well as the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books\, including Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers\, Jews\, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. Sarah has received many awards including the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two National Jewish Book Awards and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. \nFrançois Matarasso is a writer\, researcher and consultant with 40 years’ experience in community-based arts development. He specialises in practice-led research\, especially on the impact of culture\, and in organisational support across the cultural sector. He has worked for international agencies\, national and local governments\, foundations and cultural organisations in some 30 countries. His work has been widely published and translated. His father and grandfather’s accounts have been published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44. \nWatch back now:\n \nHosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with the Hellenic Institute\, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-sephardi-holocaust-histories-families-adrift/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Drunk on Genocide - Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edward Westermann in conversation with Professor Dan Stone. \nIn Drunk on Genocide\, Edward B. Westermann reveals how\, over the course of the Third Reich\, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps\, ghettos\, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated “performative masculinity\,” expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file\, celebrating at the gravesites of their victims. Westermann argues that\, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers\, they were\, in fact\, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. \nDrunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity\, drinking ritual\, sexual violence\, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset\, motivation\, and mentality of killers as they prepared for\, and participated in\, mass extermination. \nAbout the speakers:\nEdward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio\, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission\, and author\, most recently\, of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. His areas of expertise include modern European history\, the Holocaust\, and war and society. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. 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. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-drunk-on-genocide-alcohol-and-mass-murder-in-nazi-germ/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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