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Rachel Auerbach was one of the three post-war survivors of the underground Oyneg Shabbes. This book aimed both to commemorate the Jewish fighters who took up arms in the first major act of resistance to the Nazis and to describe the course of their revolt.
Using a fresh approach to testimony collections, Professor Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labour experiences of young Jewish females, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Janine P. Holc will be in conversation about the book with Dr Anna Hájková.
For her doctoral dissertation Gdalit Neuman researched the earliest dance repertoire of Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s founding artistic director, the late Yehudit Arnon, in the framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary in the immediate post-war period.
This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
During the First World War, nearly 300.000 refugees and prisoners of war were displaced to Turkestan, which brought the local population into direct contact with a conflict that was being waged thousands of miles away in Russia’s Western borderlands and on the Caucasus front. After the end of the war and the collapse of the Russian Empire, Central Asia once again became host to refugees fleeing catastrophe in Soviet Russia. In 1921, when famine struck the Volga region, the Soviet government transported thousands of people to remote parts of the nascent USSR.
Join Dr Becky Jinks, in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt, curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition, Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition and their curatorial choices.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood to speak about their new book, Safe Haven: The UK’s Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice, for its new academic book series.
In this talk, the historian Frank Trentmann draws on his new book Out of the Darkness to put current developments in historical perspective. Through this book Trentmann seeks to answer a central question: How have the Germans changed since 1942 and why? And who are they now?
A joint education event with the German History Society.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this hybrid event with Prof Hobson Faure in conversation with Dr Daniel Lee as part of our new academic book events series.
During the Second World War, a coalition of international aid organizations provided important humanitarian aid to the Jewish and non-Jewish internees in the internment camps of Unoccupied France from 1939 onward. That humanitarian aid extended through the summer and autumn of 1942, when the deportations to Auschwitz via Drancy began.
Please join us for this AJR 3G event, a discussion between Natasha Hausdorff and Ben M. Freeman, chaired by Michael Newman.
