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SUMMARY:Book Talk: In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City\, John Kampfner
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin us for an evening event to mark the publication of In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City. \nEver since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin\, he hasn’t been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past\, obsessed with memories\, a place where traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. \nOver the past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of Berlin\, delving into the archives\, and talking to historians and writers\, architects and archaeologists. He clambers onto a fallen statue of Lenin; he rummages in boxes of early Medieval bones; he learns about the cabaret star so outrageous she was thrown out of the city. \nBerlin has been a military barracks\, industrial powerhouse\, centre of learning\, hotbed of decadence – and the laboratory for the worst experiment in horror known to man.  Now a city of refuge\, it is home to 180 nationalities\, and more than a quarter of the population has a migrant background. Berlin never stands still. It is never satisfied. It never believes it has the answer. But it is now the irresistible capital to which the world is gravitating. \nIn Search of Berlin is an 800-year story\, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Kampfner is an award-winning author\, broadcaster and foreign-affairs commentator. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow (during the collapse of communism) for the Telegraph. After covering British politics for the Financial Times and BBC\, he edited the New Statesman. \nHe is a regular TV and radio pundit\, documentary maker and author of six previous books\, including the bestselling Blair’s Wars.  His most recent book\, Why the Germans Do it Better\, was a top ten bestseller\, Book of the Year in the Guardian\, Economist and the New Statesman\, and sold over 100\,000 copies in all editions.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-in-search-of-berlin-the-story-of-a-reinvented-city-john-kampfner/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Sam Finkelstein on Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
DESCRIPTION:A Red Cross Telegram sent by Margarete Wiener to Alfred Wiener explaining that the family had been unable to obtain exit permits from the Netherlands. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin Daniel Finkelstein at the Library for a discussion of his family memoir with his son Sam\, who acted as the first reader of the book. The event will also be a chance to view the Library’s ninetieth anniversary exhibitions\, one of which\, The Wiener Family Story\, features some of the documents and stories that are featured in Finkelstein’s book. \nAbout the book: Daniel Finkelstein’s family experience at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century is one of miraculous survival. His mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred Wiener was the founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a decorated hero from the Great War. He is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began\, in 1933\, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam\, he relocated the Library’s predecessor organisation to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded Holland. Before long\, the family was rounded up\, robbed\, humiliated\, and sent to Bergen-Belsen camp. \nDaniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwow\, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939\, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland\, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm\, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. \nAbout the speaker\nDaniel Finkelstein is a British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times\, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-sam-finkelstein-on-hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad-a-family-memoir-of-miraculous-survival/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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SUMMARY:Laurien Vastenhout: The Holocaust in the Netherlands: the ‘Dutch paradox’
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Wiener’s certificate acknowledging her registration as a person of ‘wholly or partly Jewish blood’ as required by the German occupying authorities in the Netherlands\, April 1941. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90 exhibition events series. \nAround three quarters (75%) of the Jews in the Netherlands were murdered during the Holocaust. Compared to Belgium (40%) and France (25%)\, this is by far the highest death rate in Western Europe. \nSince the Netherlands is known for its supposed tradition of tolerance towards minorities\, the question why so many Jews were deported and killed has occupied a central place in Dutch Holocaust historiography. \nIn this talk\, Dr Laurien Vastenhout presents an explanatory framework for this so-called ‘Dutch paradox’. In doing so\, she not only provides an insight into how the Holocaust unfolded in the Netherlands\, but also address some persistent misconceptions about the role of the Jewish community leadership – specifically\, the Dutch Jewish Council – in the process of isolation and deportation of the Jews during the German occupation. \nAbout the speaker\nDr Laurien Vastenhout is researcher and assistant professor at NIOD Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies / the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2020. \nIn 2022\, her book Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation was published by Cambridge University Press. Vastenhout was recently granted a Dutch Research Council (NWO) VENI award for her project ‘Intermarriage and Family: Survival during War\, Occupation and Genocide’\, which will her research focus the coming years.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/laurien-vastenhout-the-holocaust-in-the-netherlands-the-dutch-paradox/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,Wiener Library 90
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