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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Holocaust or Indifference? The history of the Ethiopian Jews under Italian fascist rule
DESCRIPTION:Carlo Alberto Viterbo and Tamraat Emmanuel (Viterbo’s Collection\, Central Zionist Archives\, Jerusalem) \nWithin the context of the fascist conquest of Ethiopia\, the history of the Ethiopian Jews\, the Beta Israel\, is significant. After the arrival of Italian troops in the 1930s\, the Jewish group\, which has always been divided by the Christian majority\, gained special treatment. \nHowever\, the regime’s attitude towards them changed due to the 1938 racial laws. Ethiopian Jews seemed to disappear from the focus of the fascist government\, the Italian Jewish press was forced to close down and the break-up of South African troops on the scene of World War II reshaped Ethiopia and its rule. Many years afterwards\, research on the Beta Israel resumed and some community members have called for their fates and experiences to be considered part of the Holocaust. \nIs it possible to talk about them as victims of genocide? Can we talk about Ethiopian Jews as Holocaust victims? These questions pave the way to new research fields that historiography has neglected and combine topics often neglected in Holocaust studies: racism\, antisemitism and colonialism. \nAbout the speaker\nMatteo D’Avanzo is a PhD candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and INALCO\, Paris. He is a fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoa and Yad Vashem. In 2022/2023 he is a visiting fellow of the Vidal Sassoon Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in spring 2023 he will be visiting fellow of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway University of London. His research deals with the history of Ethiopian Jews from the Italian fascist rule to the official recognition by the State of Israel. \nVirtual seminar guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-holocaust-or-indifference-the-history-of-the-ethiopian-jews-under-italian-fascist-rule/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230515T120000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Jane Haining’s Letter from Auschwitz and the Foundation of a Christo-centric Myth\, Dr Alex Sessa
DESCRIPTION:Caption: Jane Haining copyright owner\, Public domain\, via Wikimedia Commons \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThis lecture examines Jane Haining through a microhistory approach. Haining was a Scottish missionary who worked among Christian and Jewish girls in Budapest\, with the intention of bringing Jews into the Christian church. The chief conversionary tactic was to lead a ‘Christian example’. Jane Haining elected to remain in Budapest throughout the war\, which subsequently led to her arrest in March 1944. Subsequently\, she was transported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Communication from Haining is scant\, but what little information exists is frequently used to present her as a selfless ‘Christian martyr’. Haining’s letters\, including her final correspondence from Auschwitz\, tell us little about her experiences. Sessa argues that the Church of Scotland uses these letters to offer an apologetic narrative of its own missionary past\, and identifies this as a dangerous trend within the context of memory studies. \nSpeaker: \nDr Alex Sessa completed his PhD in Holocaust Studies at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Tony Kushner. His research interests include Memory Studies\, Jewish-Christian relations\, Gender Studies\, and Public History. He currently authors articles examining antisemitism and racism. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \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). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \nUnfortunately\, this event has to be postponed. It will be rescheduled and a new date announced soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-jane-hainings-letter-from-auschwitz-and-the-foundation-of-a-christo-centric-myth-dr-alex-sessa/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Day 2: Symposium: New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This two-day\, in-person symposium\, organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge\, will be held at the Library 10 – 11 May 2023. It will bring together early career researchers and senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide. \nCo-convenors: Dr Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Clara Dijkstra\, The Wiener Holocaust Library and University of Cambridge\, Dr Celia Donert\, University of Cambridge \nDay 2\n9:30 – 10:30: Keynote lecture by Volha Bartash: ‘On agency and resistance\, Roma in the Soviet partisan movement’\nChair: Barbara Warnock \n10:45 – 12:45: Panel 4\, Commemoration and transitional justice\nChair: Ian Rich\nMaëlle Lepitre: ‘Remembering the Roma genocide: The case of the Buchenwald memorial after 1989/1990’\nRenata Berkyová: ‘Searching for ways to remember the Holocaust of Czech Roma and Sinti in the 1960s and Early 1970s’\nLara Raabe: ‘Between bureaucracy and agency: Romani voices in West Berlin restitution proceedings’\nVerena Meier: ‘New perpetrator research and voices of the oppressed: The NS genocide against Sinti and Roma in Magdeburg and Transitional Justice after 1945 \n13:45 – 14:45: Panel\, 5 State perspectives\, perpetration and responses\nChair: Barbara Warnock\nAlexander Korb: ‘Genozide ante Portas? Bavarian anti-traveler legislation and practice in the 1920s’\nLászló Csősz: ‘Anti-Roma violence in Hungary during the last months of World War II’ \n14:45 – 15:45: Panel 6\, Roma children and the Holocaust\nChair: Toby Simpson\nAisling Shalvey: ‘Identification of victims and uncovering injustice in the Noma experiment on Roma children at Auschwitz’\nJustyna Matkowska: ‘Roma orphans in the southeastern area of occupied Poland during WWII’ \n16:00 – 17:00: Final roundtable: New directions in the study of the Roma genocide\nChair: Christine Schmidt\nKarola Fings\, Ari Joskowicz\, Volha Bartash \n17:00: Concluding remarks & end \n\nExplore the full Draft Programme here. \nThis symposium is generously supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund through the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge\, and the Past & Present Society.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/day-2-symposium-new-directions-in-the-study-of-the-roma-genocide/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Public Lecture: Ari Joskowicz: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Held as part of the Symposium on New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide and in association with the Fraenkel Prize  \nJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust\, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war\, Jews’ experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts\, scholars\, educators\, curators\, and politicians\, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma was largely ignored. Responding to this imbalance\, many Roma came to rely on Jewish institutions\, funding sources\, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition for their wartime suffering. \nThis presentation charts the resulting evolving relationship between Roma and Jews since the Holocaust. During the Nazi era\, Jews and Roma were largely proximate strangers with little in common besides their experience of simultaneous persecution. Yet many decades of entwined struggles for justice have deepened Romani-Jewish relations\, which now centre not only on commemorations of past genocides but also contemporary debates over antiracism and Zionism. \nAbout the speaker\nAri Joskowicz is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the university’s Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. He is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust (2023)\, which won the Fraenkel Prize 2022\, and The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France (2014)\, and editor of Secularim in Question: Jews and Judaim in Modern Times (2015). \nChair: Dr Celia Donert\, Associate Professor in Central European History\, University of Cambridge. \nRain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust will be available to purchase on the night. \n  \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \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). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-public-lecture-ari-joskowicz-roma-jews-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Day 1: Symposium: New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This two-day\, in-person symposium\, organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge\, will be held at the Library 10 – 11 May 2023. It will bring together early career researchers and senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide. \nCo-convenors: Dr Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Clara Dijkstra\, The Wiener Holocaust Library and University of Cambridge\, Dr Celia Donert\, University of Cambridge. \nDay 1 \n10:00 – 11:30: Panel 1\, Microhistory (1)\nChair: Celia Donert\nGrégoire Cousin: ‘The fate of the Roma deported to Suha-Balca farm: writing a collective history of the victims’\nAnna Míšková: “The Return Unwanted’\, the story of one family against the background of Nazi persecution in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’\nPaula Simon: ‘A mosaic of sources: Writing a microhistory of the Samudaripen in Niš\, Serbia’ \n11:45 – 13:15: Panel 2\, Microhistory (2)\nChair: Barbara Warnock\nPetre Matei: ‘Roma women’s petitions to rescue their deported families: A case study from Romania’\nMichala Lônčíková: “Detention Camp for Gypsies’ in Dubnica nad Váhom in the Romani testimonies from the compensation files of Slovakia’\nLaura Stoebener: ‘Thirteen Dossiers: Survivors of the genocide of Roma in Belgium’ \n14:15 – 16:15: Panel 3\, Testimonies as objects of analysis\nChair: Clara Dijkstra\nAleksandra Szczepan: ‘Negotiating testimonial agency: Nowa Huta Roma in Holocaust archives’\nEva Sammadar: ‘Embodying suffering of Roma in Serbia between 1941 and 1944 through arts and oral testimonies’\nHelena Sadílková and Lada Viková: ‘Experiences difficult to communicate’: Post-war testimonies by Jan Ištvan\, a Romani Holocaust survivor\, and the history of his family in the Czech lands’\nMaria Bogdan: ‘Self-Representation: Survivor interviews as trauma texts and as part of the deconstructive shift of the Romani movements’ \n18:30-19:45: Keynote lecture by Ari Joskowicz: ‘Roma\, Jews and the Holocaust’\nChair: Celia Donert \nExplore the full Draft Programme here. \nThis symposium is generously supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund through the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge\, and the Past & Present Society.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/day-1-symposium-new-directions-in-the-study-of-the-roma-genocide/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Film launch: The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90 - 'Witness' and 'An Audio Testimony'
DESCRIPTION:Filming taking place at the Library \nA still from the short film\, ‘Witness’ \nTo mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam\, we are kicking off a year of events and activities with the launch of two very short films\, commissioned to mark this important year for the Wiener Library\, the longest continuously running archive of documents on the Nazi era and the Holocaust in the world. \nInspired by the stories that the Library’s family papers’ collection contain\, Director Katia Lom has created Witness\, a powerful reflection on the impact of the Holocaust on families and individuals. \nDirector James Alexandrou was struck by the breadth and depth of the Library’s collections\, and the power of the voices of those recorded in our audio oral histories\, and he has created a dynamic visual and auditory representation of our archive in An Audio Testimony. \nJames said of the project: “As we hurtle towards a world of advanced chatbots and deep fake AI video generators\, it struck me how vital original testimony is and that an archive such as the Wiener Holocaust library is preserved and exposed to the world as much as possible. It’s been a privilege finding a voice like Leon’s and telling a tiny part of such an important story. Thank you for the continued guidance from the Library\, Venetia and the National Film and Television School\, and to our Exec\, Jonathan Glazer”. \nAward-winning writer-director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin; Sexy Beast) mentored the filmmakers during this project. \nBoth films have been produced in association with the National Film and Television School. \nWith thanks to:  \nVenetia Hawes \nAJR Refugee Voices Archive and Bea Lewkowicz \nWitness \nDirector: Katia Lom\, Producer: Shereen Ali\, Featuring: Peter Briess \nAn Audio Testimony \nDirector: James Alexandrou\, Producer: Emma Hanson\, Featuring: the voice of Leon Greenman
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/film-launch-the-wiener-holocaust-library-at-90-witness-and-an-audio-testimony-introduced-by-jonathan-glazer/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Revision: Democracy and Nazism - The Nazi Dictatorship
DESCRIPTION:Adolf Hitler with Hjalmar Schacht (right)\, laying the foundation stone of the new construction of the Reichsbank\, 5th May 1934. \nThe end of the First World War marked the beginning of a period of political and economic instability in Germany. As a result of this instability\, many small\, extremist political groups appeared. With the collapse of democracy\, one such party\, the NSDAP\, or Nazi Party\, rose to power in Germany. \nThis revision session\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi Dictatorship. It will explore the idea of ‘the Terror State’; the role of the SS and Gestapo; opposition to the Nazis; Nazi propaganda and the extent of totalitarianism in Germany. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following: \n\nKS3 History\nGCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939\nGCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955\, The People and The State\nEdexcel A-Level History: Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\nOCR History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nAQA History: Democracy and Nazism\, Germany 1918-1945
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-revision-democracy-and-nazism-the-nazi-dictatorship-2/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Book event: A Dual Perspective: Sir Konrad Schiemann and Sir Bernard Rix in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host this conversation between one of our patrons\, The Rt Hon Sir Bernard Rix KC\, and The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann about Schiemann’s recently published memoir A Dual Perspective: the German in an English Judge \nSir Bernard\, whose father fled to England before the war was Sir Konrad’s contemporary in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and now practices as an arbitrator. \nSir Konrad\, born of German parents\, spent the war in Berlin being bombed by the British\, became an orphan\, and moved to England in 1946 and started\, in his words\, aping the manners of an English gentleman. After practicing at the bar\, he became a High Court Judge\, a Lord Justice in the Court of Appeal and finished his career as the British Judge of the European Court of Justice. After having his family and life in Germany torn apart by conflict he forged a career around his desire to help in the construction of a peaceful Europe. \nIt was only late in life that Konrad realised the extraordinary family into which he had been born including a great-great grandfather who presided over five parliaments and the first German Supreme Court and a great-grandfather who was a friend of the last Kaiser. \nPiercing together extensive correspondence in the 1930s and 40s A Dual Perspective is the moving memoir of a family which has been involved in the construction of Europe since the first half of the nineteenth century and was faced with all the challenges posed by the Third Reich. \nOne of his grandfathers who joined the Nazi Party wrote letters\, which are reproduced in the book\, in 1933 to Konrad’s father\, engaged to a lady of Jewish extraction who became Konrad’s mother\, explaining why he has joined the Nazi Party and urging his son to do the same. However\, Konrad’s father did not. That grandfather’s sister was an open opponent of the regime and has been recognised as one of the Righteous among the Gentiles. His mother worked with Count Berthold von Stauffenberg and describes the atmosphere among those who plotted to assassinate Hitler and expected to be executed when the plot to assassinate Hitler failed. Most\, including many family friends\, were. The book describes the tensions within the family which nonetheless remained united. \nThe book is a mixture of history\, family memoir\, philosophical and political reflections\, describes an English education and upbringing in the last century and ends with a summary of the evolution of Konrad’s thoughts on national sovereignty and the European Union. \nModerated by: Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of the Wiener Holocaust Library
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-a-dual-perspective-sir-konrad-schiemann-and-sir-bernard-rix-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230426T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230426T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Workshop: Found! Letters! with Deborah Jaffé
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nWhen Deborah Jaffé was clearing her parents’ flat she found a pile of damp and mouldy letters and papers. The 200 letters were written in German by her father in Berlin and dated between 1937-39. Many were carbon copies of letters he had typed on the typewriter he had given her. There were replies too\, as well as telegrams\, birth certificates\, a passport\, school reports\, job references\, train tickets and numerous application forms for emigration.   Despite her almost non-existent German\, she realised they were important and a young man’s attempts to get out. This has now gone from being a pile of 200 letters to an archive with its own biography. \nIn this workshop Deborah will discuss the practicalities of conserving and archiving found letters and papers. She will look at how the material is handled including: conservation\, scanning\, translation\, storage\, cataloguing\, dealing with the content\, the intended readership\, communication\, typewriters and carbon copies\, handwriting\, and discoveries made. Ephemera like train tickets\, as well as envelopes\, letter headings\, telegrams and details in photographs are all relevant to the narrative in letters\, especially within the context of the political climate. \nUsing addresses on the letters and envelopes\, it has been possible to map the places where the family had lived around Germany. Deborah will describe how this enabled her to make installations using material in the archive that related to people\, in places where they had been born\, lived\, and worked. Using this archive and the resources of numerous organisations\, Deborah has been able to discover more about those she knew and the fates of other family members she had not been told about. This is very different to the story she had been told about the getting out.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-found-letters-with-deborah-jaffe/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: A Letter from Danzig: Understanding Jewish Family Correspondence from the First World War\, Dr Joe Cronin
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of George Fogelson \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nLetters provide insight into their writers\, but how much can we learn about them from one letter? \nThis talk examines a Jewish nurse’s letter to her brother from the opening months of the First World War. The letter is replete with allusions to the unfolding military situation on the Eastern Front\, but it also offers a glimpse into her own journey of self-discovery – a newly trained nurse\, a woman who has realised that she ‘likes working’. \nThe talk will also focus on the challenges of reading correspondence written in archaic German in a near-indecipherable script. How much meaning can we truly recover from textual artefacts that were intended for somebody who knew their author far better than we do? \nSpeaker: \nJoseph Cronin is Lecturer in Modern German History at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in modern German\, Jewish and East European history and is currently writing a book about Jews in the Free City of Danzig (1920–39). \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-a-letter-from-danzig-understanding-jewish-family-correspondence-from-the-first-world-war-dr-joe-cronin/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Last Letter\, with Karen Baum Gordon
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nBorn a German Jew in 1915\, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home\, turned on the car ignition\, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father’s attempted suicide\, Karen Baum Gordon\, Rudy’s daughter\, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich.  \nIn The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle\, a Daughter’s Quest\, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust\, Gordon explores not only her father’s life story\, but also the stories and events that shaped the lives of her grandparents—two Holocaust victims that Rudy tried in vain to save in the late 1930s and early years of World War II. This investigation of her family’s history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum\, Rudy’s mother and Karen’s grandmother\, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. In five parts\, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn\, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period and the psychological impact that reverberated from it in the generations that followed.  \nPart of the Legacies of War series\, The Last Letter is a captivating family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler’s rise to power\, through World War II and the Holocaust\, to the present-day United States. In recreating the fatal journeys of her grandparents and tracing her father’s efforts to save them an ocean away in America\, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family’s history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity. By inviting readers along on this journey\, Gordon manages to honor victim and survivor alike and shows subsequent generations—now many years after the tragic events of World War II—what it means to remember.  \nAbout the Speaker:  \nA graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School\, Karen Baum Gordon co-founded Strategic Horizons\, Inc.\, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. Karen is a Dallas native and now lives with her husband and black lab in Brooklyn\, New York\, and South Hero\, Vermont. She is an active member of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and recently served as president of the congregation.  \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:  \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n\n\nPlease 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\n\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n\n\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-the-last-letter-with-karen-baum-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230417T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230417T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Taken from the Stroop Report\, the photograph shows German troops sweeping through the Warsaw ghetto\, May 1943. \nWednesday 19th April 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, one of the largest forms of Jewish resistance to take place during the Holocaust. \nJews within the Warsaw Ghetto\, many armed with handmade weapons\, resisted the SS-led force as they entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. In response\, the Nazis destroyed the ghetto\, building by building\, forcing Jews remaining in hiding to appear or be killed. 27 days after the initial April attack\, on 16 May 1943\, the uprising was crushed. While the uprising ultimately failed\, it was an extremely significant display of resistance from Jews in Warsaw. \nThis talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the different types of resistance during the Holocaust; to study original archival material to comprehend the events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; to consider why the event was so significant and to reflect on the event 80 years on. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following:\nKS3 History \n\nEdexcel GCSE History: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939\nOCR GCSE History: Germany 1925-1955\, The People and The State\nEdexcel A-Level History: Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\nOCR History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nAQA History: Democracy and Nazism\, Germany 1918-1945
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230404T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230404T203000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
CREATED:20230321T164817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built into our World and How You Can Change It\, by Dave Rich
DESCRIPTION:The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Wiener Holocaust Library invite you to a celebration of Dave Rich’s newly published book\, Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It. \nThere will be a conversation between David Hirsh of the LCSCA and Goldsmiths College\, and Dave Rich. \nDr Dave Rich is one of the UK’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust\, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community\, and advises the police\, the Crown Prosecution Service\, football clubs\, political parties and many others about how to tackle antisemitism. Dave is a research fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. \nHe writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media including the New Statesman\, Guardian\, New York Times and Jewish Chronicle and regularly appears on TV and radio including for BBC News\, Sky News and ITV News. This is Dave’s second book\, following The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn\, Israel and Antisemitism. \nTo attend in-person\, email centre@londonantisemitism.com to register your place. To attne donline\, please sign up via the Eventbrite link below.\nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders\nPlease 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)\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-everyday-hate-how-antisemitism-is-built-into-our-world-and-how-you-can-change-it-with-dave-rich/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
CREATED:20230227T112412Z
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SUMMARY:Public Afternoon Lecture: Erin McGlothlin and Arriving at Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway University of London\, through its Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, are delighted to jointly host this programme. \nIn her discussion of Elie Wiesel’s seminal text Night\, Erin McGlothlin will explore a binaristic tension inherent to the contemporary cultural imagination of the Holocaust\, which conceives of the experience of the concentration camp and killing center Auschwitz along both historical and mythical lines.  As she will argue\, the text’s depiction of the young Eliezer’s arrival at Auschwitz and his proximate encounter with mass death\, one of the most powerful scenes in the canon of Holocaust literature\, signals the transformation of the narrator’s historical account into a mythical narrative. \nErin McGlothlin is Professor of German and Jewish Studies and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.  Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of fictional and non-fictional works of Holocaust literature and film\, including such topics as the generational discourse on the Holocaust\, the narrative structure of Holocaust literature and film\, perpetrator representation and perpetrator trauma\, and ethical questions related to Holocaust representation.  She is the author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (2006) and The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021). Further\, she has co-edited four volumes: After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Digital Media (2009\, with Lutz Koepnick)\, Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (2016\, with Jennifer Kapczynski)\, The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its Outtakes (2020\, with Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger)\, and Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust 15: The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives (2023\, with Avinoam Patt). \nMcGlothlin is co-editor (with Brad Prager) of the Camden House book series Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature\, Culture\, and Thought\, and she serves on the editorial boards of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies.  Together with Principal Investigator Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds)\, she serves as Co-Investigator for the project “Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, Circulations\,” which is funded by a $1.3 million grant from the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council. As part of this project\, McGlothlin and Taberner have been appointed co-editors of The Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature\, which will include contributions by over forty international experts in Holocaust representation and which aims to set the path of the scholarly discourse on the literature of the Holocaust for the next twenty-five years. \nChair: Professor Robert Eaglestone\, Holocaust Research Institute 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-afternoon-lecture-erin-mcglothlin-and-arriving-at-auschwitz-with-elie-wiesel/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
CREATED:20230228T094759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Reverberations and Tracings - Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \nTo mark the end of the  One Story Many Voices tour\, the Wiener Holocaust Library is hosting a panel discussion on Thursday 30th March 2023\, called Reverberations and Traces: Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources. \nThe panel will include: \n\nNicola Baldwin\, writer of the story Alone But Together for the Manchester Jewish Museum and current co-chair of the audio committee of the Writers Guild\nJames Bulgin\, Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries\nProfessor Adam Ganz\, Head of Writers Room at StoryFutures and Executive Producer on the One Story Many Voices project\n\nChair\nProfessor Bryce Lease\, of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, who led the AHRC-funded project ‘Staging Difficult Pasts’ that considered immersive and performative strategies in contemporary museums with a specific focus on Holocaust histories. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-panel-reverberations-and-tracings-using-sound-from-letters-and-archive-sources/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Holocaust Letters and Family Histories – Ariana Neumann\, Peter Bradley
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series and is also part of the Library’s Family Histories of the Holocaust series. Audiences can attend this event either in-person or online. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership are delighted to host this hybrid panel discussion with Ariana Neumann and Peter Bradley\, who will reflect on the significance of their family document collections for writing Second Generation memoirs. Ariana Neumann is the author of the award-winning When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains (2020) and Peter Bradley is the author of The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution (2022). They will be led in conversation by Sandra Lipner. \nSpeakers \nAriana Neumann is the New York Times bestselling author of When Time Stopped\, which won the Dayton Peace Prize for Non Fiction in 2021\, Best Memoir at the Jewish Book Awards in 2020 and was shortlisted for various prizes including The Wingate Prize. Ariana has a BA in History and French Literature from Tufts University\, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature from New York University and a PgDIP in Psychology of Religion from University of London. She previously was involved in publishing\, worked as a foreign correspondent for Venezuela’s The Daily Journal and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The European\, the Jewish Book Council and The New York Times. \nPeter Bradley is the author of The Last Train – A Family History of the Final Solution\, published in 2022. He was the Labour MP for The Wrekin between 1997 and 2005. More recently\, he co-founded and directed Speakers’ Corner Trust\, a charity which promotes freedom of expression\, open debate and active citizenship in the UK and developing democracies. He has written\, usually on politics\, for a wide range of publications\, including The Times\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, The New Statesman and The New European. \nModerated by: \nSandra Lipner is a technē (AHRC)-funded doctoral student at Royal Holloway\, University of London and a co-curator of the Holocaust Letters exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her PhD thesis is a cultural family history based on her German family’s collection of letters and documents from the period 1933-45\, and she studies the use of family history in microhistories of the Holocaust to evaluate the place of family history within the historiography of the Third Reich. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-holocaust-letters-and-family-histories-ariana-neumann-peter-bradley/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230321T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230321T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Talk: Dame Stephanie Shirley CH: ‘My Family in Exile’
DESCRIPTION:Dame Stephanie will also be signing copies of her new book\, So To Speak\, at the event. All proceeds from the book go to Autistica. \nDame Stephanie Shirley CH\, also known as Steve\, is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur turned ardent venture philanthropist. At 89 years old\, her story has many strands which\, woven together\, have produced a lifetime of exceptional achievements. \nDame Stephanie’s story begins with her 1939 arrival in Britain as an unaccompanied five-year-old Kindertransport refugee. This defining experience equipped her with fortitude at a very young age and made her determined to live a life worth saving. \nIn 1962\, she started a software house\, Freelance Programmers\, and pioneered radical new flexible work practices that changed the landscape for women working in technology. She went on to create a global business and a personal fortune which she shared with her colleagues\, making millionaires of 70 of her staff at no cost to anyone but herself. \nSince retiring in 1993\, Dame Stephanie’s life has been dedicated to venture philanthropy in the fields of IT and autism. She initially founded Autism at Kingwood in 1994 to support her late son Giles\, and her charitable Shirley Foundation went on to make grants of nearly £70 million.  It spent out in 2018 in favour of Autistica\, the UK’s national autism research charity founded by Dame Stephanie. In 2009/10 she served as the UK’s first ever national Ambassador for Philanthropy. \nDame Stephanie’s memoir Let It Go was first published in 2012 and re-published in 2019 for worldwide distribution. The first translated version was launched in Germany in 2020 and a Spanish translation is coming soon. Dame Stephanie is currently working with The Development Partnership\, to make a multi-part TV series with one of the major streaming services. During lockdown in 2020\, Dame Stephanie produced her second book\, So To Speak\, a collection of 29 of her speeches given over the last 40 years. All proceeds from the book go to Autistica. \nDame Stephanie has been much honoured.  In 2013\, she was named by Woman’s Hour as one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain.  In 2014\, the Science Council listed her as one of the Top 100 practicing scientists in the UK. In 2015\, Dame Stephanie was given the Women of the Year Special Award\, and in the same year her TED Talk received a standing ovation from more than a thousand of the world’s most recognised technical entrepreneurs\, thinkers\, creators and doers. It has since received 2.2m views on YouTube. In 2017\, Dame Stephanie received a Companion of Honour (CH)\, a membership limited to only 65 individuals globally\, for her services to the IT industry and philanthropy. \nFacebook: @DameStephanie  Instagram: @DameStephanie_  Twitter:  @DameStephanie_ \nwww.steveshirley.com
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/talk-dame-stephanie-shirley-my-family-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230320T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230320T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
CREATED:20230220T103556Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Correspondence between Separated Families during the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Red Cross telegram from Alice Redlich to her family in Berlin\, 17th April 1942. \nLetters were sent by post. Urgent messages arrived via telegram. When the postal routes were blocked during the war\, the Red Cross delivered messages. In the ghettos\, the Jewish councils were tasked with the organisation of the postal service and the ghetto post office. Jewish prisoners in concentration sometimes sent messages via Gestapo-controlled association. \nUsing The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archival material on correspondence to discuss the mechanics of communication between separated families during the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Head of Research) and Dr Barbara Warnock (Senior Curator and Head of Education) will explore how letters allowed separated family members to maintain connections and exchange information about the Holocaust. \nThis session is suitable for those teaching or studying the following: \n\nKS3 History\nGCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939\nGCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955\, The People and The State\nEdexcel A-Level History: Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\nOCR History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nAQA History: Democracy and Nazism\, Germany 1918-1945\n\nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-correspondence-between-separated-families-during-the-nazi-era-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230316T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230316T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
CREATED:20230126T145036Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: 85 Years on from the Anschluss
DESCRIPTION:Hitler’s visit to Vienna shortly after the annexation of Austria\, 1938 \nAn online event hosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library and Generation 2 Generation. \nTo mark the anniversary of the German takeover of Austria\, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and Generation 2 Generation to consider the significance of the Anschluss and its impact on the Jewish Community in Austria\, as well as hearing some individual stories of Austrian Jews. \nThe event will feature a panel discussion on the Anschluss\, its impact\, aftermath and memory\, as well a short film featuring some first-hand survivor testimonies provided by family of G 2 G speakers Judith Hayman (on her aunt Frieda Reisz) and Jane Curzon (mother Stella Curzon)\, Erich Schloss (Eva Schloss) and Peter Kammerling (father Walter Kammerling). \nAbout the speakers:\nMichaela Raggam-Blesch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna\, where she is working on her habilitation on “Mixed Families” during the Nazi period in Vienna. She is guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna\, Klagenfurt and Graz. She has been the recipient of various fellowships and was awarded with the Leon Zelman Prize in 2022. Michaela Raggam-Blesch is curator of several exhibitions on the Holocaust – most recently of the exhibit on the Vienna Model of Radicalization: Austria and the Shoah. \nTim Kirk is Professor of European History at the University of Newcastle. His research interests are primarily modern central Europe and in Austria and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the politics and political culture of fascism and he has published widely on the history of Austria\, and the history of Nazi Germany\, including its culture and ideology. \nEvan Burr Bukey is Emeritus Professor of History at The University of Arkansas. He has published widely on the history of Nazi Austria and other subjects. His most recent book is Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna\, 1938-1945 (Bloomsbury\, 2021). He has received numerous awards for his work and his research. \nGeneration 2 Generation\, (G2G) provides speakers to tell their family Holocaust stories integrating eyewitness survivor testimony and family artefacts. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-85-years-on-from-the-anschluss/
CATEGORIES:The Holocaust in Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230315T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073300
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SUMMARY:Author Michael Frank in conversation with Bart van Es and Paris Chronakis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, through its Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, in partnership with Jewish Renaissance and the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway\, are pleased to co-host this in-conversation event featuring the authors Michael Frank\, Bart van Es (The Cut Out Girl: a Story of War and Family\, Lost and Found)\, and modern Greek history specialist Paris Chronakis in discussion on Frank’s latest book\, One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. \nAbout this Event: \nFrank’s book features the remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes\, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community\, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale. \nOne Hundred Saturdays is a portrait of one of the last survivors of a community drawn at nearly the last possible moment\, as well as an account of a tender and transformative friendship between storyteller and listener\, offering a powerful “reminder that the ability to listen thoughtfully is a rare and significant gift” according to The Wall Street Journal\, which named it one of the ten best books of 2022. The book has received a Natan Notable Book Award\, two Jewish Book Council Awards\, and the Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature. \nAbout the Speakers: \nMichael Frank is also the author of What Is Missing\, a novel\, and The Mighty Franks\, a memoir\, which was awarded the 2018 JQ Wingate Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by The Telegraph and The New Statesman. The recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship\, he lives with his family in New York City and Camogli\, Italy. \nBart van Es is Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. His books include Shakespeare in Company\, which traces the influence of the playwright’s fellow actors on his writing style. In 2014 he began to look into his family’s wartime history\, knowing that his grandparents had been part of the Dutch resistance. This work has resulted in The Cut Out Girl: a Story of War and Family\, Lost and Found\, which was the winner of the Costa Book Awards in 2018. \nParis Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where he teaches and researches on the history and memory of the Modern Mediterranean. His work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state bringing together the interrelated histories of Jewish\, Muslim and Christian urban middle classes from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. His research and publications have recently expanded to post-imperial urban identities\, Balkan War refugees\, Zionism and anti-Zionism in interwar Europe\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry and digital Holocaust Studies. \nModerated by: \nDr Toby Simpson is the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/author-michael-frank-in-conversation-with-bart-van-es-and-paris-chronakis/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230314T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Franziska Lamp\, Controlling Female Bodies: Resettlement Procedures in Refugee Camps in Postwar Austria
DESCRIPTION:Wohnbarackenlager bei Salzburg: Frau mit Kleinkindern im Wohnraum (English: Housing barracks camp near Salzburg: woman with small children in the living quarters)\, June 1954\, ÖNB/Wien US 12.144/2. \nAfter the end of the Second World War\, hundreds of thousands of so-called Displaced Persons (DPs) lived in newly created refugee camps in Austria\, facing an uncertain future. Some of them stayed there for weeks\, others remained stranded for years. The International Refugee Organization (IRO) was responsible for the resettlement of those refugees that could not or would not return “home”. However\, with their emigration plans they encountered many obstacles\, like being pregnant or having young children to look after. \nThe importance of physical as well as psychological resilience cannot be underestimated for the resettlement process in the postwar world. Pregnant women as well as young mothers were particularly affected by this. For research on the responses to displacement in postwar Austria\, the following questions are therefore key: What role did pregnancy play in the emigration of Displaced Persons from Austria? How were pregnant women and young mothers depicted in the sources on the IRO? What special policies and care facilities existed in Austria regarding their care and emigration? \nFranziska Lamp is currently working as a project researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna (Austria) and is doing her PhD as part of a larger project on the negotiation of migration regimes in post-war Austria and beyond. In her PhD project she focuses on gender-historical perspectives on the emigration of refugee women from post-war Austria. Her previous publications include the blog posts “…ob er mit seiner Eheschließung der Volksgemeinschaft nützt” and “The ‘unmarried mother’: single-mother families in displaced persons camps in post-World War II Austria.” Before that she has studied Comparative Literature and History at the University of Vienna and St Andrews University (Scotland\, UK) and completed her Master in History at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the topic of “Matchmaking as an Instrument of National Socialist Population Policy.” \nFranziska Maria Lamp\, franziska.lamp@univie.ac.at\nWebsite \nTwitter \nEvent guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nAfter the formal presentation\, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss\, either in the chat or by raising your hand.\nBecause the seminar presents works in progress\, this event will not be recorded.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-franziska-lamp-controlling-female-bodies-resettlement-procedures-in-refugee-camps-in-postwar-austria/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230309T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: More than Parcels
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, is delighted to host this panel of contributors to the recent publication\, More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-era Camps and Ghettos\, who will reflect on the availability and significance of relief packages and other mail to prisoners in this important\, under-researched aspect of Holocaust history. \nEdited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz\, More than Parcels explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos and camps. The modest relief parcel\, often weighing no more than a few pounds and containing food\, medicine\, and clothing\, could extend the lives and health of prisoners. For Jews in occupied Europe\, receiving packages simultaneously provided critical emotional sustenance in the face of despair and grief. Placing these parcels front and center in a history of World War II challenges several myths about Nazi rule and Allied responses. \nFirst\, the traffic in relief parcels and remittances shows that the walls of Nazi detention sites and the wartime borders separating Axis Europe from the outside world were not hermetically sealed\, even for Jewish prisoners. Aid shipments were often damaged or stolen\, but they continued to be sent throughout the war. Second\, the flow of relief parcels—and prisoner requests for them—contributed to information about the lethal nature of Nazi detention sites. Aid requests and parcel receipts became one means of transmitting news about the location\, living conditions\, and fate of Jewish prisoners to families\, humanitarians\, and Jewish advocacy groups scattered across the globe. Third\, the contributors to More than Parcels reveal that tens of thousands of individuals\, along with religious communities and philanthropies\, mobilized parcel relief for Jews trapped in Europe. \n  \nSpeakers: \nJan Lambertz\, applied researcher and historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum \nJan Láníček\, Associate Professor of modern European and Jewish history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney \nPontus Rudberg\, historian and researcher in modern European and Jewish history at the Hugo Valentin Centre\, Uppsala University \nKatarzyna Person\, Associate Professor at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and editor of the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive \n  \nModerated by: \nDan Stone\, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research \nInstitute at Royal Holloway-University of London \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nHolocaust Letters is curated by Christine Schmidt and Sandra Lipner\, with advisory by Dan Stone\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP)\, an initiative of The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nThis exhibition has been generously supported by the Ernst Hecht Charitable Foundation\, the Stuart Rossiter Trust\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Techne\, and Friends and supporters of the Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-more-than-parcels/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,Holocaust Letters,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: Holding on Through Letters with Debórah Dwork
DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth Luz Letters\, Courtesy Debórah Dwork \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nJewish families in Nazi Europe tried to hold onto each other through letters. But wartime conditions applied. Letters were censored and could not be sent between countries at war with each other. How to keep in contact? And\, once contact was established\, what to say — and about what to remain silent? In her presentation\, Prof Debórah Dwork will trace how letters became threads stitching loved ones into each other’s constantly changing daily lives. \nAbout the Speaker\nDebórah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center–City University of New York. She is renowned for her scholarship on Holocaust history and her pathbreaking early oral recording of Holocaust survivors\, weaving their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include: Flight from the Reich (W.W. Norton\, 2012); Auschwitz (W.W. Norton\, 2006); Holocaust (W.W. Norton\, 2002); and Children With A Star (Yale University Press\, 1991). Debórah Dwork is also recipient of the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) and the Annetje Fels Kupferschmidt Award\, bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee (2022). \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-talk-holding-on-through-letters-with-deborah-dwork/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230301T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230301T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Petitions to Slovak President Josef Tiso about the “Jewish Question”
DESCRIPTION:Support letter from a Lutheran priest to Jozef Tiso on behalf of a young convert applying for an exemption from antisemitic legislation \nBetween 1939 and 1944\, thousands of Jews and non-Jews petitioned Josef Tiso\, President of the Slovak State\, about the “Jewish question”. \nThe authors of this correspondence came from all over the nation and all walks of life\, including priests. As authority figures\, thought leaders\, and pillars of society\, priests represent an interesting social category. For this reason\, it makes sense to look at their correspondence with Jozef Tiso\, who was himself a Roman Catholic priest. \nWhy did priests write to Tiso? What did they ask for in their letters to him? What conclusions can we draw from the correspondence? This presentation will quote extensively from the letters themselves as well as pose questions about the analysis of this material for Vadkerty’s dissertation. \nAbout the Speaker:\nMadeline Vadkerty is a Samuel P. Mandell Fellow at Gratz College (Philadelphia\, USA) in its Holocaust and Genocide studies doctoral program.  Originally from the US\, she lives in Bratislava\, Slovakia\, where she conducts Holocaust-related research at the Slovak National Archive. Madeline is a former employee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC. Her dissertation topic is “Petitions to Slovak President Jozef Tiso about the “Jewish Question” (1939 – 1944): A Systematic Analysis of how Entreaties Contextualize the Holocaust in Slovakia.” \nEvent guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nAfter the formal presentation\, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss\, either in the chat or by raising your hand.\nBecause the seminar presents works in progress\, this event will not be recorded.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-petitions-to-slovak-president-josef-tiso-about-the-jewish-question/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230228T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech\, Dr Ronan Lee
DESCRIPTION:Myanmar’s Rohingya community are among the most persecuted people on earth. Following decades of human rights abuses within Myanmar\, they endured a brutally violent forced deportation to Bangladesh at the hands of the Myanmar military in 2017. This scorched earth military campaign involved the mass killing of civilians\, sickening sexual violence and the razing of hundreds of Rohingya villages by fire. Around 800\,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh on foot\, and today live in the world’s largest refugee camp complex\, adjacent to the Myanmar frontier. \nThe genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar has drawn global attention\, a case at the International Court of Justice and recently a US government genocide declaration. “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech” is a unique study drawing on extensive fieldwork including interviews and testimony from the Rohingya in Myanmar\, in their refugee camps and among the diaspora further afield to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster. The book casts new light on Rohingya identity\, history and culture\, and is a significant contemporary study of the early stages of genocide. \nIn 2022\, the Myanmar junta used state media to announce a ban on the sale of “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide”\, shuttering bookshops and arresting book sellers\, indicating Rohingya fears of further crimes are well founded. \nAbout the speaker \n Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focusses on the Rohingya\, genocide\, hate speech\, migration\, and Asian politics. \nLee’s book Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity\, History and Hate Speech was published by Bloomsbury in 2021\, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. \nDr Lee has a professional background in politics\, media\, and public policy. He was formerly a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009) and served on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice\, Main Roads and Local Government. He has also worked as a senior government advisor\, and as an election strategist and campaign manager.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-myanmars-rohingya-genocide-identity-history-and-hate-speech-dr-ronan-lee/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: The Oppression of the Gay Community in Nazi-Occupied Europe
DESCRIPTION:Renée Sintenis\, photographed by Gerty Simon\, c. 1929\, The Bernard Simon Collection\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections \nTo mark LGBTQ+ History Month\, the Wiener Holocaust Library looks at the persecution faced by gay people in Nazi Germany\, and some of the documents in Library’s International Tracing Service digital archive that contain evidence about their experiences. \nThe documents covered in this talk will provide some information about the men and women persecuted by the Nazis on the grounds of their sexuality\, as well as insights into how Nazi persecution against gay people operated. \nWorkshop Aims:  \n\nTo gain an overview of gay history in Europe.\nTo consider Nazi policies towards the gay community.\nTo use the Library’s collection to explore the persecution and discrimination the gay community faced in Nazi-Occupied Europe.\n\nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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/student-and-teacher-talk-the-oppression-of-the-gay-community-in-nazi-occupied-europe/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230220T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230220T200000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw\, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos During World War II\, Helene Sinnreich
DESCRIPTION:The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw\, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos\, published by Cambridge University Press\, focuses on the Jews as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and\, in particular\, the genocidal famine conditions. \nDuring World War II\, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and\, most crucially for their survival\, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as ‘useless eaters\,’ and denied them sufficient food for survival. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. \nThe hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. In this book\, Helene Sinnreich explores their story\, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors. \nAbout the author\nHelene Sinnreich is endowed chair and Director of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Dr. Sinnreich serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Oxford University Press). \nShe is currently serving as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest this spring semester where she is working on a monograph about the selection process at Auschwitz. Dr. Sinnreich has previous served as a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-atrocity-of-hunger-starvation-in-the-warsaw-lodz-and-krakow-ghettos-during-world-war-ii-helene-sinnreich/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230213T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230213T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073301
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Between Community and Collaboration – Laurien Vastenhout
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual book talk with Dr Laurien Vastenhout as part of our new academic book series to mark the publication of Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation. Dr Vastenhout will be led in conversation by Dr Anna Hájková. \nBetween Community and Collaboration is the first comprehensive\, comparative study of the ‘Jewish Councils’ in the Netherlands\, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period\, there was extensive focus on these organisations’ controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression\, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result\, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. \nUsing a wide range of sources including personal testimonies\, diaries\, administrative documents and trial records\, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime\, and its outlook on these bodies\, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils’ leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation\, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries. \nSpeakers: \nDr Laurien Vastenhout is researcher at the NIOD Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and coordinator of the Master’s programme “Holocaust and Genocide Studies”\, which is offered by NIOD in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In recent years\, her research has focused on the history of World War II in Western Europe\, the persecution of the Jews\, the creation and functioning of Jewish representative bodies during Nazi occupation (Jewish Councils)\, and the Jewish communities in Western Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Her research projects are comparative and transnational in nature. Her book Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation was published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 2022. \nDr Anna Hájková is associate professor of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK\, and the author of the celebrated monograph\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (OUP 2020). \nChair: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-between-community-and-collaboration-laurien-vastenhout/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTAMP:20241023T073301
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: The Holocaust – An Unfinished History\, by Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk event to celebrate the publication of Prof Dan Stone’s newest book\, The Holocaust – an Unfinished History. He will be led in conversation with Prof Matthew Feldman. In-person participants will have the opportunity to purchase the book for signature. \nThe Holocaust is much-discussed\, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But major aspects of its history have been overlooked and misunderstood. Spanning not just the Holocaust itself but also the decades since\, this sweeping history deepens our understanding of what the Holocaust actually was and its ongoing repercussions across the world today. \nThis new book reveals that: \n\nthe widely held image of ‘industrial murder’ in concentration camps is incomplete: many were killed where they lived\, by neighbours and in the most brutal of ways.\nthe Holocaust was a truly Europe-wide crime. The depth of collaboration across the continent – from Norway to Romania – means we must stop thinking of it as an exclusively German project.\nNazi ideology was an extreme continuation of ideas that were and remain deeply embedded across Europe\, not the deviation from Western thought that we tell ourselves it is.\nsimilarly\, the revival of the radical right today is a continuation rather than an aberration\, meaning it has never been more urgent to fully reckon with the trauma wrought by the Holocaust.\n\nDrawing on decades of research\, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents\, but also on diaries\, post-war testimonies and fiction\, urging that\, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia\, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at RHUL. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include: the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. He is the author or editor of twenty books and over eighty scholarly articles. From 2016 to 2019 he was engaged on a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project on the International Tracing Service. The resulting book\, Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust and World War II\, will be published by Oxford University Press. He is co-editing volume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust. He chaired the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries redesign\, which opened in October 2021\, and is a member of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group and the UK Oversight Committee for the International Tracing Service Archive. \nDescribed in The Independent as “the leading expert on the radical right” and by ITV as the ‘UK’s leading specialist in this area’\, Matthew Feldman is a consultant\, writer and Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas. He has published a dozen volumes on fascism and the radical right\, as well as dozens of chapters\, articles and comment pieces on this and other subjects. He has also consulted widely via hundreds of media interviews and more than two dozen cases as an Expert Witness on radical right terrorism\, as well as delivering keynote lectures for the G-7\, Council of Europe and many other bodies. Much of his work on radical right narratives and counter-speech is undertaken via his Oxford-based company\, Academic Consulting Services\, alongside specialist training\, reports and advisory work with a variety of public and private bodies. Professor Feldman’s third collection of essays will appear in 2023\, and his history of fascism will be published with Yale University Press in 2024. \nChaired by: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-the-holocaust-an-unfinished-history-by-dan-stone/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230207T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073301
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition talk: Kristallnacht in Vienna: The Radicalisation of Antisemitic Policy in the Nazi State
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr Toby Simpson will discuss the reasons behind the extreme brutality of Kristallnacht in Vienna. \nCompared to other locations in the Third Reich\, even in other cities where local antisemitism was rife\, the brutal nature and long-term impact of anti-Jewish violence in the Austrian capital is striking. \nThis talk will examine collections held at The Wiener Holocaust Library and consider what insights the study of this terrible historical event might offer people today. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Toby Simpson is Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library\, the world’s oldest archival and library collection relating to the Holocaust and Nazi era. He has been in his current role since 2019. \nPreviously he led the project Testifying to the Truth: Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust which has catalogued\, digitised\, and translated over 1\,000 eyewitness accounts\, gathered by the Wiener Library between 1954 and 1961. \nDr Simpson joined the Wiener Library in 2011\, setting up a new programme of exhibitions\, tours\, and events. Between 2011 and 2016\, he curated or co-curated over a dozen exhibitions including Humanity After the Holocaust: The Jewish Relief Unit\, 1943-1950\, and Four Thousand Lives: The Kitchener Camp Rescue. \nReport of the Jewish Community of Vienna showing the use of the soup kitchen\, January – February 1939 \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-talk-kristallnacht-in-vienna-the-radicalisation-of-antisemitic-policy-in-the-nazi-state/
CATEGORIES:Collections,Genocide,The Holocaust in Austria
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