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Using Ruth Locke’s Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums Photograph Archive to Explore the Family’s Experiences and Intergenerational Memories.
With an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 victims, the Jasenovac concentration and death camp complex (1941–1945) was a major killing site during the Second World War and the epicentre of state-organized destruction in the fascist Independent State of Croatia. Emil Kjerte’s doctoral research focuses on the Croatian men and women stationed at the camp complex.
Using data from a new pre-/post-treatment survey of ~3600 North American teenagers, Dr Lerner argues that mandated Holocaust education interventions not only increase factual knowledge and decrease Holocaust denial in general, but that they also correspond with an increased likelihood that students will take necessary action to protect minority communities when confronted with hatred or intolerance.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Maëlle Lepitre will give an overview of the reorientation of the memorial site at Buchenwald following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Pragya Kaul will explore photographs and writings of Jewish refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society.
On 27 June 1941, the Wehrmact captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok and murdered 2,000 Jews. In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Jake Holliday will draw upon official records, survivors’ accounts and post-war criminal trial papers to try and understand what happened in Białystok that day.
In this virtual doctoral seminar, Mark Frankel will talk about two episodes in the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey's career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context.
The essayist, novelist, philosopher, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. This Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Daniel Adamson will explore how the British response to the Holocaust has been depicted in a sample of set history textbooks designed for use in schools.
In this Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Julia Eisner talks about visibility in the archive and its consequences, with a focus on Lotte Eisner, the well-known film historian and author of major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation examines the discursive strategies of the Nazi defendants throughout the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946), the first trial of Europe's denazification process.
