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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.
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.
This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
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.
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.
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.
This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. On the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, historian Matthias Bjørnlund will join us from Copenhagen to discuss Karen Jeppe’s unique relief and rescue methods, in the broader context of Danish humanitarian relief efforts in the aftermath of the genocide.
This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
Discover and explore a wealth of resources, titles, online access to video testimonies, references, and books in different languages, all in the heart of London, to support your studies and research projects. Focus on histories of peoples and genocide, and see how memory is preserved for future generations in these two original institutions. Open in priority to postgraduate students.
This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust.
This virtual panel will discuss how primary source documentation related to the activities of the transnational jihadist terrorist organisation, Islamic State (IS, or ISIS), has been collected, archived and made accessible for research, intelligence and other purposes over the last two decades.
