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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: 'Talking with Images': Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums
DESCRIPTION:Photographs from the Neumeyers’s family archive\, speaker’s own. \nPart of our PhD and a Cup of Tea Seminar Series. \nUsing Ruth Locke’s Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums Photograph Archive to Explore the Family’s Experiences and Intergenerational Memories. \nAlice will be examining photographs from the private collection of Ruth Locke. Ruth (née Neumeyer) and her younger brother Raimund came to England from Germany in May 1938 on the Kindertransport. They were accompanied by two photograph albums capturing their childhood in Dachau. The photographs reflect the family’s affiliation with the Lebensreform (Life Reform) movement\, their appreciation of nature\, the arts and culture. Alice will draw on oral history interviews with Ruth’s two sons and the blog they produced on their family history. Alice will examine the challenges and opportunities of looking at private photographs and oral testimony as sources to understand how German-Jewish children made sense of their life in Germany in the 1930s\, emigration to the UK\, and familial separation and loss. She will also examine how these memories were passed across generations.   \nAbout the speaker\nAlice Tofts is final year collaborative doctoral programme student with Imperial War Museums and the University of Nottingham. She holds a BA in History and French from the University of Nottingham and a Masters in Museum Studies from University College London. Her research focuses on the Imperial War Museums’ collection of photographs from private collections of Holocaust survivors. Her research explores the myriad role of private photographs in both the familial and museum sphere: as historical objects\, material and social objects\, objects of enquiry\, and memory objects. Her approach is multidisciplinary and draws on theory and methods from oral history\, anthropology\, visual culture\, memory studies and museology.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-talking-with-images-private-photographs-from-the-imperial-war-museums/
CATEGORIES:Jewish Family Photographs,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220928T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Ustaša Killing Specialists: the Personnel of the Jasenovac Concentration and Death Camp
DESCRIPTION: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. Drawing on records from post-war trials and survivor testimonies\, he studies the guards’ backgrounds and motivations for volunteering for service\, the social dynamics of the violence they perpetrated\, their interactions with civilians and state actors outside the camp complex and their post-war trajectories. \nEmil Kjerte is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University in Massachusetts. He holds a BA in History from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Uppsala University. Besides EHRI\, his research has been supported by the Central European History Society\, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. He will be a Conny Kristel European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellow at the Library in September 2022.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-ustasa-killing-specialists-the-personnel-of-the-jasenovac-concentration-and-death-camp/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Does Holocaust Education Influence Gen Z’s Likelihood to Act Against Hate?
DESCRIPTION:Around the globe\, references to the Holocaust have been used to challenge policy decisions (Bergen 2021)\, to describe animal rights abuses (Szyubel 2006; Sobel 2018)\, and to justify war. \nIt is in part a lack of understanding about the Holocaust that allows this historical mass atrocity to be distorted and leveraged for political purposes such as these. At the same time\, across Canada and in the majority of U.S. states\, genocide education is not yet a curricular requirement\, resulting in students learning about the Holocaust at disproportionate rates and through nontraditional sources\, such as on social media platforms and television shows. \nUsing 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. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Lerner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. Her research is on the intersection of authoritarianism and dissent\, with a regional focus on Russia and the post-Soviet region\, and she is also a scholar of the Holocaust. Her work has been published by Comparative Political Studies (2019)\, Holocaust Studies (2021) and the Routledge Handbook of Religion\, Mass Atrocity\, and Genocide (2022). Dr. Lerner is currently completing her book manuscript\, entitled Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in the Streets (under advance contract with University of Toronto Press)\, which demonstrates that street art is a viable tool for political communication\, and effective in circumventing autocratic censorship. She conducted the research for this draft paper in 2021 as a Presidential Data Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario (Canada)\,
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-does-holocaust-education-influence-gen-zs-likelihood-to-act-against-hate/
CATEGORIES:Education,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220425T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220425T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The Reorientation of the Buchenwald Memorial Site\, 1989-1999
DESCRIPTION:A sign on the memorial site revealing the “double past” of Buchenwald. Courtesy Buchenwald Memorial. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe German reunification not only caused tremendous social and economic changes but also reshaped the memorial landscape in (East) Germany. Memorial sites like Buchenwald which were instrumentalized under the GDR as showplaces for antifascism had to be redesigned (“reoriented”) after the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to break away from their controversial communist past. This process triggered off\, especially in Buchenwald\, a highly publicized controversy that lasted for ten years. This presentation gives an overview of the reorientation of Buchenwald by naming its main actors and events\, identifying the main bones of contention and by analysing the way the interactions between the actors reshaped the memorial space. \nAbout the speaker: \nMaëlle Lepitre is a PhD candidate in History at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (Germany). Her research explores the effect of the German reunification on memory culture\, and more specifically on Buchenwald. She will publish an article about memorial sites in East Germany after 1989 in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict (forthcoming\, 2022). \nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-reorientation-of-the-buchenwald-memorial-site-1989-1999/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Holocaust Refugees in British India: Perspectives from Two “Others”
DESCRIPTION:Close-up portrait of Jewish refugee\, Esther Weeg\, wearing a sari while living in India. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives\, Photograph Number: 77107\, copyright of USHMM.  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe construction and use of the term “refugee” in Holocaust studies\, like refugee studies\, focuses on the role of nation-states operating unilaterally or in an interdependent international refugee regime. This focus\, however\, discounts the world of empires that shaped the administration and experiences of Jewish refugees through the twentieth century. \nThis paper adopts the perspectives of two groups of people “Other-ed” in the racial hierarchy of empire. First\, it uses photographs and writings of Jewish Refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society. It highlights the ways in which Jewish refugees responded to and participated in their changing categorizations prior to and following the start of the Second World War. Second\, it reads government records against the grain to put forward the perspective of Indians encountering these new “Europeans.” In doing so\, I show that scholars ought to account for an expanded conception of Britain which includes in its “domestic” sphere its imperial boundaries when analyzing refugee movements in the Empire. This\, I will demonstrate\, allows us not only to ask new questions on the Holocaust but also\, of the archives that allow us to study them and the perspectives they represent. \nAbout the speaker: \nPragya Kaul is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan’s Department of History and a Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Y. Gitelman Fellow at Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. From 2020-2021\, she was a Leo Baeck International Dissertation Fellow. Her research uses her knowledge of German\, Hindi\, Urdu\, and Yiddish to examine the experiences of Jewish refugees in the British Empire\, and to take an imperial framework towards understanding refugees broadly. She has been awarded grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes\, and the German Historical Institute. \nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/8850/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Red Friday: The Wehrmacht\, the Order Police\, and the first wartime massacre of Białystok’s Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Market Place of Bialystok during the burning of the Synagogue. Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen Abt. Rheinland\, RWB 18256/176 \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nOn 27 June 1941\, the Wehrmacht 221st Security Division captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok\, encountering very little resistance. By the end of the day\, as many as 2000 Jewish residents of Białystok had been killed\, with the Grand Synagogue\, and at least one-third of the city\, razed to the ground. What happened in Białystok that day\, and why was such an atrocious massacre allowed to happen? This talk will draw upon Wehrmacht records\, survivors’ accounts\, and post-war criminal trial papers to answer these questions. \nAbout the speaker: \nJake Holliday is a PhD Military History Student with the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham. His thesis concerns a Wehrmacht security division that was deployed on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 and focuses on security warfare\, occupational policies\, and 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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-red-friday-the-wehrmacht-the-order-police-and-the-first-wartime-massacre-of-bialystoks-jews/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The occupied Ruhr 1923 and the Munich Agreement 1938: two episodes from the career of the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955)
DESCRIPTION:Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955). \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nT. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955) is a unique but neglected figure in British political and religious history\, a Quaker pacifist who sat in the House of Commons in both world wars. He appears in literature only for his work in the First World War when he helped introduce a system of alternative\, non-military national service for conscientious objectors. Yet he was involved in many of the domestic and international issues of the first half of the twentieth century. The talk will be about two episodes in his 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. \nAbout the speaker: \nMark Frankel is a retired civil servant and a PhD candidate with the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies\, University of Birmingham. The provisional title of his PhD is T. Edmund Harvey\, Liberal Quaker\, Quaker Liberal. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-occupied-ruhr-1923-and-the-munich-agreement-1938-two-episodes-from-the-career-of-the-quaker-politician-t-edmund-harvey-1875-1955/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: A ‘New Europe’ without Jews. Antisemitism and Fascism in Latvia 1932-1945
DESCRIPTION:Poster of the fascist organisation “Pērkonkrusts” (Thunder Cross)\, 1932/1933. Courtesy of Nacionālā enciklopēdija\, LNB. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. This event is virtual\, but it is possible that a limited number of in-person seats will become available closer to the event. \nThe Republic of Latvia was inaugurated in 1918 as a liberal democracy\, granting general suffrage and equal rights to all citizens\, and cultural autonomy to minorities. Despite these achievements\, anti-democratic and racist movements emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. In this talk\, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context. She will reveal expressions of anti-Jewish activities and discuss how the fascist organisations in Latvia fostered the fragmentation of civil society in the interwar period. Understanding of the nature of their antisemitism enables us to analyse the behaviour of the Latvian fascists during the Second World War when their reaction to the German occupation ranged from acts that can be termed collaboration to those that resemble resistance. \nAbout the speaker: \nPaula Oppermann is a PhD candidate in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the Latvian Fascist Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) Organisation\, how it developed its ultra-nationalist\, antisemitic ideology in the 1930s\, and how this influenced its members’ actions during the Second World War. Paula previously studied History and Baltic Languages at the University of Greifswald and completed an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests are the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia\, and she has published articles on the history of the Rumbula and Salaspils Memorials. She has worked as a research assistant at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Documentation Centre curating a special exhibition entitled Mass Shootings. The Holocaust Between the Baltic and the Black Sea 1941–1944\, and as a sub-editor for the online project Pogrom: November 1938. Testimonies from Kristallnacht\, developed by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, 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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-a-new-europe-without-jews-antisemitism-and-fascism-in-latvia-1932-1945/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jean Améry and Suicide: At Existentialism’s Limits
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe essayist\, novelist\, philosopher\, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s theory of radical\, ontological freedom provided a lifeline for Améry in the aftermath of his experience of exile\, torture\, and imprisonment in the concentration camps. Existentialism gifted Améry with the conceptual tools necessary to create himself anew. However\, Améry’s appropriation of this philosophy came up against limits in the experience of aging\, which\, in Améry’s account\, saw a past marked by suffering\, failure and regret solidify\, just as the future’s horizon began to recede. Rather than freedom\, it is a limitation that would come to define the human experience for Améry. But this gradual erosion of freedom’s potential would be interrupted by what Améry presents as the highest form of autonomy: the act of suicide. This presentation will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism. \nAbout the speaker: \nJohn Spiers is a PhD candidate in Literature\, Theology and the Arts in the Theology & Religious Studies department at the University of Glasgow. He holds a master’s degree from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. His research focuses on existential thought and he has written on Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Dostoevsky\, Shestov\, Fondane\, Beauvoir\, Sartre\, and Camus. His doctoral thesis engages with existential themes in Jean Améry’s essayistic writings. \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). \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jean-amery-and-suicide-at-existentialisms-limitspart-of-the-wiener-holocaust-librarys-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-doctoral-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T051122
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Textbook portrayals of Britain and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Jewish refugees take a class at the Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp\, c. 1946-1948. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe British response to the Holocaust – both at the time and in retrospect – was extremely context. It ranged from stories of rescue\, such as the Kindertransport\, to examples of obstruction and antisemitism. \nThis presentation will explore how this intricate relationship has been depicted in a sample set of history textbooks designed for use in schools. Drawing upon source material from a range of dates and authors\, this presentation will give a taste of some key research findings. Notably\, although the British response was not always glorified in textbooks\, it was rare to find depictions of the relationship which offered a truly nuanced interpretation of the issue. \nAbout the speaker: \nDaniel Adamson is a PhD student in the History Department of Durham University. His research centres on educational portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. Daniel holds an MA in History from the University of Cambridge\, an MA in History Education from UCL\, and is also a PGCE-qualified former teacher. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-textbook-portrayals-of-britain-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: In the archive with Lotte Eisner: how she solved the problem of ‘Maria’ (the robot)
DESCRIPTION:Lotte Eisner and a model of ‘Maria’ from Metropolis (Fritz Lang\, 1927) in the museum of the Cinémathèque française. Courtesy of Mark Horowitz. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis talk is about visibility in the archive and its consequences. The focus is Lotte H Eisner\, well known as a film historian and author of three major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema: The Haunted Screen (1952)\, FW Murnau (1964) and Fritz Lang (1974). From 1945 she was also Chief Curator at the Cinémathèque Française and during her 30-year career there as a collector and archivist\, created and built a magnificent archive of material film culture including items such as scripts\, sets\, technical equipment\, costumes\, models\, posters and books. However\, this important work has tended to be overlooked by film historians and\, in some cases\, wrongly documented. Using examples of Eisner’s collecting and curation\, this talk will reveal how a lack of classification in the archive can lead to historiographical confusion and eventually invisibility. \nAbout the speaker: \nJulia Eisner is working on a PhD about her great-aunt the film historian\, writer and curator\, Lotte H Eisner\, at King’s College\, University of London. Prior to her PhD project\, Julia was a BBC Radio 4 reporter and producer for 20 years making features and documentaries. She then changed career and took an LLB and an LLM at Birkbeck\, the University of London where she taught in the Law faculty and worked as a research assistant on a European Law Project. In January 2016 Julia left Birkbeck to concentrate on researching and writing. In November 2016\, her programme The Vigil was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-in-the-archive-with-lotte-eisner-how-she-solved-the-problem-of-maria-the-robot/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The Nazis speak for themselves: analysing perpetrator's narratives in The Nuremberg Trial
DESCRIPTION:The accused at the Nuremberg Trial. The Nuremberg Trial was a trial that prosecuted the major Nazi war criminals for their crimes throughout the Second World War\, including the Holocaust\, in 1945-1946. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis presentation examines the discursive strategies of the Nazi defendants throughout the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946)\, also known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT)\, the first trial of Europe’s denazification process that judged twenty-two men and served as the basis for all the subsequent Nazi trials. This paper intends to develop a set of archetypes of the ways the Nazis behave and evade responsibility during a criminal trial. Using the trials transcripts and the interviews the Nazis provide for the prison psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn and the prison psychologist G.M. Gilbert\, this paper will present a myriad of narratives: Nazis who remain Nazis even when facing death\, Nazis who deny their participation in any activity that could be seen as criminal\, and Nazis who claim to have resisted Nazism from the beginning. \nAbout the speaker: \nMaria Visconti is a Ph.D. candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil and one of the coordinators of the Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies (NEPAT). She is a member of The Perpetrator Studies Network and her dissertation\, “‘A thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased’: Nazis’ narrative constructions during the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946)” develops a set of archetypes of ways the Nazis behave and evade responsibility during a post-war trial. Thus\, these archetypes and this research can serve as a basis to better understand similar perpetrator narratives in other trials. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-nazis-speak-for-themselves-analysing-perpetrators-narratives-in-the-nuremberg-trial/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: 'A Man who Did Everything Twice’: Jewish Refugee Industrialists in Britain’s Special Areas\, 1936-1940
DESCRIPTION:Friedlander family in front of their Glasgow factory\, probably in the 1940s. Scottish Jewish Archives Centre\, Friedlander Files. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis paper will explore the Jewish refugee industrialists who settled in Britain’s ‘Special Areas’ as part of the effort to revitalize the regions hit hardest by the Great Depression. While the national legislation provided the framework for refugee industrialist migration\, it was the efforts of local British people to seek out and assist refugees that made this migration and the Special Areas projects successful. Despite the setbacks and challenges of WWII\, together refugee industrialists and local British people in the Special Areas helped rebuild and integrate their respective communities. \nAbout the speaker: \nTiffany Beebe is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation “Rebuilding Communities: Refugee Industrialists in the ‘Special Areas’ of Britain\, 1934-1945\,” explores the economic\, social\, and cultural impact of Continental Jewish refugees on Britain’s so-called ‘Special Areas\,” the efforts to recover from the Great Depression\, and their experiences acculturating to life in Britain during the Second World War. Beebe’s other research interests include immigration and migration throughout the British Empire\, Jewish studies\, gender/sexuality\, and decolonization. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-a-man-who-did-everything-twice-jewish-refugee-industrialists-in-britains-special-areas-1936-1940/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Contested Spaces: The National Holocaust Monument in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:A photograph of Weesperstraat 31-29\, Amsterdam in 1932. Weesperstraat is the location of the soon-to-be-unveiled National Holocaust Monument featuring the names of 102\,000 Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Of that number\, 175 Jews in the Weesperplantsoen neighbourhood did not return. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis presentation examines the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee’s fifteen-year-long battle to bring the country’s first national Holocaust monument to Amsterdam. Protests over location\, design\, funding and its environmental impact led to lawsuits and delayed construction for years. Despite this\, the monument\, designed by Daniel Libeskind\, is set to be unveiled on 19 September 2021. Drawing on interviews\, newspaper articles\, and city archives\, this talk delves into the complexity of the debate and demonstrates how responses to the monument are emblematic of Dutch attitudes towards Holocaust commemoration. \nAbout the speaker: \nJazmine Contreras is an Assistant Professor of European History at Goucher College in Baltimore\, Maryland. She completed her doctorate in European History at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities in summer 2020. Her dissertation\, “‘We were all in the resistance’: Historical Memory of the Holocaust and Second World War\,” examines contested cultural memories of the Second World War and the Holocaust through an analysis of the monuments\, museums\, educational programs\, and commemoration ceremonies that shape memorial culture in the Netherlands. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-contested-spaces-the-national-holocaust-monument-in-amsterdam/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Souvenirs of suffering: Taking items from the Auschwitz site
DESCRIPTION:Items taken from the Kanada section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau site by two British teenagers in 2015. Polish Regional Police Command. \nContemporary visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum mark their experience of seeing the former concentration and extermination camp in various ways. Many take photographs; others share their impressions on social media; and some purchase books\, fridge magnets or posters from the Museum shops. In recent years\, however\, a small number of visitors have made the headlines for attempting to take other ‘souvenirs’ – namely\, items and artefacts from the grounds of the former camp itself. \nIn 2015\, for example\, two English schoolboys were arrested\, fined and put on trial for attempting to take home small items they had found lying around in the former Kanada complex. Other items pocketed by visitors include bricks\, pieces of barbed wire and fragments from the Birkenau railway track. What might the average visitor hope to gain from taking ‘souvenirs’ from the Auschwitz site\, and what is the proposed final destination of these items? This talk will examine possible motivations for visitors removing artefacts from the former camp\, such as financial gain\, iconography\, the need for an ‘authentic’ experience and the fulfillment of emotional connections. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Imogen Dalziel is the 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. She obtained her PhD from Royal Holloway in October 2020 with a thesis that explored the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s adaptation to the digital museum. Her first published journal article\, ‘“Romantic Auschwitz”: Examples and Perceptions of Contemporary Visitor Photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’\, won Holocaust Studies’ inaugural Best Essay Prize in 2017. Dr Dalziel also received an ‘If Not for Those Ten…’ award for voluntary services to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 2016. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-souvenirs-of-suffering-taking-items-from-the-auschwitz-site/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210628T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210628T163000
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UID:6177-1624894200-1624897800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: "Jewish refugee 'rescue' at the interstices of Philippine independence\, 1938-1941"
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nAn eyewitness account by Sergeant Gerard Kohn\, American Liberation Forces\, of the situation of Jewish refugees in Manila. Testifying to the Truth\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis presentation gives an overview of the admission of Jewish refugees to the Philippines from 1938 to 1941. It discusses the political responses and introduces the key figures involved in two related Jewish immigration programmes to the archipelago. The first provided visas to pre-selected Jewish refugees based on ‘needed’ professions in the country. The second was the so-called ‘Mindanao Plan’\, which proposed to admit 10\,000 refugees to the southern island of Mindanao as agricultural settlers. These responses took place at the interstices of the Philippines’ independence from the United States. The presentation shows that refugees were part of the process of state-formation\, entangled in the creation of new immigration laws and development interests. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Ria Sunga has recently finished her PhD in History at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the political responses to refugees in the Philippines in the twentieth century. She focuses on the episodes of Jewish\, Russian\, and Vietnamese refugee admission. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jewish-refugee-rescue-at-the-interstices-of-philippine-independence-1938-1941/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and A Cup of Tea: Benno Gantner’s Clandestine Death March Images
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nClandestine death march image taken by Benno Gantner in 1945. USHMM. \nThis talk examines the clandestine nature and cartographical significance of a series of death march images taken by Benno Gantner from the window of his home in Percha\, just outside Munich\, as prisoners were marching southeast from Dachau after its liquidation in 1945. Via a reading of clandestine wartime photography as a critical cartographical practice that binds victims to their environments\, this talk brings Gantner’s images into dialogue with emerging scholarship on the spatial organisation of the Holocaust. In so doing\, it examines the unique tension between clandestine photographs as forensic tools with which we can verify the journeys taken by the prisoners they depict on the one hand and emotionally affective visual devices that immortalise the public suffering and humiliation of these subjects on the other. \nAbout the speaker: \nEmily-Rose Baker is a recently submitted PhD student in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis is titled ‘Postcommunist Constellations: Decolonial Cultures of Holocaust Memory in Central-Eastern Europe’\, and examines localised literary and artistic interventions into state-sponsored narratives of Holocaust revisionism and appropriation after 1989. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-benno-gantners-clandestine-death-march-image/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T150000
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DTSTAMP:20241023T051122
CREATED:20210421T105621Z
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UID:5533-1621436400-1621440000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Overt-covert recounting: deconstructing women’s personal memory narratives of sexual violence during the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nEyewitness account by Janka Galambos entitled ‘Forced Women Labourer for the Argus Aeroplane Works in Berlin-Reinickendorf’. Testifying to the Truth\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nDrawing on survivor interviews housed in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive\, this presentation will highlight a range of ways in which Jewish women recount their first-hand memories of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust within a public Holocaust ‘testimony’ sharing context. In particular\, the talk will explore the vocabulary employed by the women so as to communicate their story of assault to an interviewer (and implied audience) and consider how an ‘overt-covert’ narrative may be conceptualised as a form of protective ‘sideways’ storytelling. How do women encode stories of sexual assault in the act of recounting them? What thematic vehicles emerge when ‘speaking private memory to public power’ (Theresa de Langis\, 2018)? How may a researcher de-code them? \nPlease note this talk will contain graphic descriptions of sexual assault. \nAbout the speaker: \nLauren Cantillon is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Culture\, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her research explores the ways in which Jewish women recount personal memory narratives of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust. She is the 2020/21 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Centre for Advanced Genocide Research and a volunteer for the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her work on emotional regimes of memory and cultural production will feature in Covid-19\, the Second World War and the Idea of Britishness (forthcoming\, 2021). \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-overt-covert-recounting-deconstructing-womens-personal-memory-narratives-of-sexual-violence-during-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210512T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jews\, Christians\, and the Holocaust in a Christian Army Chaplain’s Account of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
DESCRIPTION:An eyewitness account of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by Reverend David Stewart. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe Crime of Belsen is a 58-page pamphlet in the collection of The Wiener Holocaust Library. It was written and published in Germany in July 1945 by the Reverend David Stewart\, a British army chaplain. A close reading of Reverend Stewart’s report reveals a unique account of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and the post-liberation care of Holocaust survivors. By sharing Stewart’s writing and photographs\, this talk will explore how Stewart understood what he witnessed at Belsen\, including his recording of survivor testimony. It is a revealing example of how one Christian encountered Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and how he first began to respond to its implications. \nAbout the speaker: \nRobert Thompson is a PhD student in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London. His research\, Liberators\, Occupiers\, Pastors: Christian Encounters with Holocaust Survivors in Germany\, 1945-1950\, is funded by a Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. Rob’s MA thesis was awarded Proxime Accessit by the Royal Historical Society for their 2020 Rees Davis Prize. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jews-christians-and-the-holocaust-in-a-christian-army-chaplains-account-of-the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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