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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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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
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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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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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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:20241023T073712
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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
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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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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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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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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230228T200000
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T183000
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T193000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition talk: Portrait of Wally: Opening the floodgates for restitution\, Shauna Isaac
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Vienna Model of Radicalisation: Austria and the Shoah exhibition event series  \nOne of the most significant cases of Nazi looting took place in 1998 when the Manhattan District Attorney seized Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally under the US stolen property act. This case captured the imagination of the public and changed the international conversation on restitution. This painting was looted from Viennese art dealer Lea Bondi Jaray\, who was Shauna Isaac’s great Aunt. Shauna will talk about her family’s fight to reclaim Portrait of Wally\, which spanned several decades. She will also discuss the influence that this case has had on contemporary restitution. \nAbout the speaker:  \nShauna Isaac has been active in World War II art recovery for several years and has worked with families and government organisations to return Nazi looted art. She set up the Central Registry on Looted Cultural Property and served as a member of the Working Group for the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague. Shauna studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Smith College. She is a regular lecturer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her publications include articles for The Art Newspaper\, Times Literary Supplement and Art Quarterly. She is a contributor to the book Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Visual Culture. \nThe talk will be chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen. \nThis event is hosted in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders. \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-talk-portrait-of-wally-opening-the-floodgates-for-restitution-shauna-isaac/
CATEGORIES:The Holocaust in Austria
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20220818T112912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Workshop: Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti
DESCRIPTION:Margarete Kraus\, a Czech Roma who was sent to Auschwitz. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nOn 16 December 1942\, a decree was issued by Himmler to move all Sinti and Roma in Reich Territory to Auschwitz\, where a special camp had been built to hold them. Following the order\, more than 22\,000 Roma (most of the remaining Roma in Germany) were rounded up and sent. Just a few survived. \nThis workshop marks 80 years since that decree and yet little is known about the genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War.  Referred to as ‘the forgotten Holocaust’ by Professor Eve Rosenhaft\, this workshop draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections of material on the genocide to uncover the story of this understudied aspect of Nazi persecution. \nWorkshop Aims:  \n\nTo find out who the Roma are\nTo gain an overview of Roma history in Europe\nTo consider Nazi policies towards Roma\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/virtual-student-workshop-forgotten-victims-the-nazi-genocide-of-the-roma-and-sinti/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230130T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230130T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221205T102143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 Virtual Panel: Responses of “Ordinary People” to Persecution
DESCRIPTION:Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto\, 1943. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg\, and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are pleased to co-host a virtual panel discussion for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023. The event is organised in response to the 2023 HMD theme of ‘ordinary people’\, which acknowledges that genocide is both facilitated and experienced by ordinary people. \nThis panel of speakers highlights new thinking and research about this theme\, considering how Jewish persecutees responded to the Nazi onslaught in the Warsaw ghetto and about the various forms of protest and solidarity by “ordinary” Jews from Poland for Jews from Germany. \nSpeakers: \nDr Katarzyna Person\, author of Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation\, among many other studies\, is a historian working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. After her PhD\, awarded by the University of London in 2010\, she held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem\, the Center for Jewish History in New York City and La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She has written a number of articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath in occupied Europe\, and edited three volumes of documents from the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. A book\, based on her PhD thesis\, which deals with assimilated\, acculturated and baptised Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto\, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2014. \nDr Anne-Christin Klotz\, author of Together against Germany: Warsaw’s Yiddish Daily Press and Its Fight against National Socialism\, 1930–1941 (in German)\, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After She received her PhD from the Free University Berlin in 2021\, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. Before and during her studies she worked as a research assistant at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and volunteered at the educational department at the Holocaust memorial site Stutthof (Sztutowo\, Poland). In addition to scholarships by Yad Vashem and the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies\, she was recently awarded the “Irma Rosenberg Award for the Research of National socialism” by the Austrian Society for Modern History for her PhD thesis as well as a special distinction by the jury of the Scientific Research Award of the Polish Ambassador to Germany. Currently\, she is preparing a source edition on Yiddish travelogues through Nazi Germany and started working on a new book project that examines the role\, function and networks of Eastern European Jewish landsmanshaftn (hometown associations) as a means of migrant self-help during and after the Shoah. \n  \nChaired by: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her recent 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. She is currently writing a social history and archival biography of a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \nModerated by: \nDr Svenja Bethke is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leicester and director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Author of numerous journal articles and chapters\, in 2021 she published Dance on the Razor’s Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (University of Toronto Press).  \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\n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2023-virtual-panel-ordinary-people-in-the-warsaw-ghetto/
CATEGORIES:Genocide,Holocaust Memorial Day
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221123T161656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Jewish Life in Vienna on the Eve of Deportations\, Dr Michaela Raggam-Blesch
DESCRIPTION:The nurse Mignon Langnas at the Jewish old age home\, Vienna 1942. Courtesy of George Langnas \nThe Anschluss to Nazi Germany radically changed the lives of the Jewish population. While anti–Jewish measures had progressed in Germany over the course of five years\, they were implemented in Austria overnight. \nMany Austrian Jews therefore tried to escape the Nazi terror in the months following the Nazi take-over. Between 1938 and 1941\, more than 130\,000 Jewish Austrians fled the country\, while overcoming bureaucratic hurdles and deliberate obstructions. Around 17\,000 of them were later on caught by the Nazi regime in their countries of refuge. \nAt the beginning of 1941\, there were still around 61\,000 people living in Vienna\, who were defined as Jewish under the Nazi Race Laws. The Jewish population was now completely impoverished due to Aryanization measures and deprivation by the Nazi authorities. This lecture will focus on Jewish life under Nazi rule on the eve of deportation\, describing the living conditions in the forced collective flats and the welfare institutions of the Jewish Community\, who attempted to alleviate the most pressing needs through soup kitchens\, health services and other forms of aid. \nAbout the speaker\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\, funded by the Elise Richter grant (Austrian Science Fund) and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris). She is guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna\, Klagenfurt and Graz\, and from 1999 to 2003 she worked at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-jewish-life-in-vienna-on-the-eve-of-deportations/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Holocaust in Austria
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221101T151654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Education Workshop: Resisters and Perpetrators of The Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Lithuanian partisans\, 1944. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections \nUsing sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this workshop will critically consider commonly held perceptions of ordinary people as resisters and perpetrators during the Holocaust. \nThe workshop will use a range of contemporary documents and images to explore how these historical sources can be used to examine the actions of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. We will also examine assumptions about the choices ordinary people had and reflect upon the ways in which our understanding of the categories of ‘perpetrators’ and ‘resisters’ can influence how the Holocaust is perceived in the UK today. \nThe workshop is aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators\, and will be led by Dr Barbara Warnock\, the Library’s Senior Curator and Head of Education and Dr Ian Rich\, the Library’s Researcher of the International Tracing Service Archive  \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-education-workshop-resisters-and-perpetrators-of-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20230103T115920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:David Baddiel & Matt Lucas discuss acquiring German citizenship
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with The Association of Jewish Refugees and Ambassador Miguel Berger of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in London present an evening with David Baddiel and Matt Lucas to explore the perspectives of descendants of German-Jewish refugees on acquiring German citizenship. \nDavid Baddiel is second-generation – his mother was a child refugee from Nazi Germany. David is in the process of applying for German citizenship. Matt Lucas’ is third-generation – his grandmother fled from Nazi Germany. Matt has already received his German passport. \nJoin us at Westminster Synagogue on 19 January 2023 for what will be a fascinating evening. There will also be the opportunity to join a tour of the Czech Scrolls Musuem which is in the same building. Places are very limited so please sign up now if you would like to join the tour. The tour will begin at 5.30pm and the talk at 6.30pm. \nPlease note there will be a photographer present. By registering for this free event you acknowledge that you may appear in some of the photographs which the organisers may post on their website\, social media and send to the press. \n** In-person tickets have now sold out ** \nTo register to watch the free online live-stream\, follow this link.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/david-baddiel-matt-lucas-discuss-acquiring-german-citizenship/
LOCATION:Westminster Synagogue\, Kent House\, Rutland Gardens\, London\, SW7 1BX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221117T113030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Talk: Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe\, Dr Lisa Pine
DESCRIPTION:Edited by Dr Lisa Pine and bringing together leading scholars from across the UK\, North America and mainland Europe\, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. \nWith coverage of well-known regimes and some that are relatively underrepresented in the literature from right across the continent\, it examines the impact felt on people’s lives amidst political administrations characterised by some or all of the following: a one-party state\, in which opposition or multiple parties were banned; a cult surrounding the leader; the censorship of the press and other publications; the widespread use of propaganda and political persuasion; and the threat or use of force by the regime and its agents. \nThe chapters investigate crucial questions in relation to life under dictatorships as follows: What was the impact of censorship on access to news or entertainment? How was leisure time conducted? What was the impact of the regime on working life? What was the scope for dissent and resistance? To what extent were these possible? How much did the regime coerce the population and how much did it try to indoctrinate? What was the difference for Party leaders\, comrades and members in terms of the possibilities and opportunities that opened up\, compared to everyone else in society? With the shutting down – to a large extent – of civil society and state intrusion into private life\, what restrictions were placed on ordinary and day-to-day activities? What happened to religious life and to cultural life and the arts? How were personal choices in aspects of life such as reproduction\, education and even eating affected by these regimes? What was the impact of different political ideologies on people’s way of life – whether Fascist\, Nazi or Communist? Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe addresses these issues and more\, striking to the heart of European life in the darkest episodes of its recent history. \nAbout the speaker:\nLisa Pine is Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research\, University of London\, UK. She is the author of Nazi Family Policy\, 1933-1945 (1997)\, Hitler’s “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007\, 2017)\, Education in Nazi Germany (2010) and Debating Genocide (2018). \nShe is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (2016)\, The Family in Modern Germany (2020) and Dictatorship and Daily Life in Twentieth-Century Europe (2022).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-launch-and-talk-dictatorship-and-daily-life-in-20th-century-europe-dr-lisa-pine/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221206T142351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution\, Seventh International Multidisciplinary Conference
DESCRIPTION:United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) welfare worker\, Miss Eileen Wermig\, leads a group of young children at the UNRRA Weisbaden Camp\, where some 5\,000 children were housed\, pictured after the Second World War. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nOrganised by: Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, University of London; Imperial War Museum Institute; Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London; The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London; University of Wolverhampton. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\nEmma Kuby\, Northern Illinois University; Stephanie Schüler-Springorum\, Technische Universität Berlin and others\n\n\nDate:\n4-6 January 2023\n\n\nTime:\n9:30am -5:00pm\n\n\nLocation:\nBirkbeck\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\n\n\nTickets on sale:\nBook your place\n\n\n\n\nThis conference\, postponed from 2021\, follows six successful conferences\, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003\, 2006\, 2009\, 2012\, 2015 and at Birkbeck\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018. It builds on areas previously investigated\, and also opens up new fields of academic enquiry. \nThe conference brings together over 100 scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution and who explore its aftermath in Europe and beyond. These groups of survivors include – but are not limited to – Jews\, Roma and Sinti\, Slavonic peoples\, Jehovah’s Witnesses\, homosexuals\, Soviet prisoners of war\, political dissidents\, members of underground movements\, the disabled\, the so-called ‘racially impure’\, and forced labourers. \nFor the purpose of the conference\, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial\, political\, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945\, and who survived the Second World War. Using a variety of methodologies and highlighting work of new and more established scholars\, papers and panels will explore issues of survival\, rehabilitation\, postwar trials and justice\, and memory. \nThe programme is available here. \nThe conference is organised by:\nSuzanne Bardgett\, Imperial War Museum Institute\nDavid Feldman\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, Birkbeck\, University of London\nJessica Reinisch\, Birkbeck\, University of London\nChristine Schmidt\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\nToby Simpson\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\nJohannes-Dieter Steinert\, University of Wolverhampton\nDan Stone\, Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-current-international-research-on-survivors-of-nazi-persecution-seventh-international-multidisciplinary-conference/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20220818T112213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Teacher Workshop: Using Photography to Teach about the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Wehrmacht Soldiers film the Lvov Pogrom\, July 1941. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nUsing sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop will critically consider the use of photographs in Holocaust education. \nWorkshop Aims:  \n\nThe workshop will use a range of contemporary images taken before\, during and after the Holocaust to explore how these historical sources can be used effectively in the classroom.\nExamine the ethics of using photographs of victims; the motivations of the photographers; the context within which photographs were produced\, and issues around editing and format of images.\nHelp participants to reflect upon the ways in which photographs can be used to deepen school students’ understanding of the Holocaust without compromising the humanity of the victims.\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/virtual-teacher-workshop-using-photography-to-teach-about-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221101T112243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Tottenham Hotspur and the Y-Word: The Contested Meanings of (Anti-)Antisemitism in Football
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1970s\, Tottenham fans started to call themselves “Yid Army” – in response to antisemitic chants by rival supporters. \nIn February 2022\, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club launched its “The WhY Word” campaign\, which is calling on the fans to discontinue using the term “Yid.” Based on the analysis of numerous primary sources\, interviews\, and on-site research\, this presentation seeks to understand the various perspectives on and the contested meanings of the term in the context of Tottenham Hotspur FC and the local fan culture. \nAbout the speaker:\nPavel Brunssen is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. His dissertation is entitled The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing (Anti-)Jewishness in the Soccer Stadium and the Strange Case of “Jewish” Self-Association by Non-Jewish Soccer Fans in Europe.  \nPavel is the author of Antisemitismus in Fußball-Fankulturen: Der Fall RB Leipzig (2021\, Beltz Juventa) and the co-editor of Football and Discrimination: Antisemitism and Beyond (2021\, Routledge). \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/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-tottenham-hotspur-and-the-y-word-the-contested-meanings-of-anti-antisemitism-in-football/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20221027T091913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Holocaust Survival\, Memory and Documentation: An Event to Honour the Kaposi Family
DESCRIPTION:Please join us virtually to attend a special evening in honour of Dr Agnes kaposi\, MBE\, FREng\, celebrated engineer and survivor of the Holocaust\, to mark her family’s generous donation of their family’s document and book collection to the Wiener Holocaust Library. \nThe evening will feature Dr Kaposi in conversation with Library Director\, Dr Toby Simpson\, as well as a panel discussion including Professor Tim Cole (University of Bristol)\, Dr Borbala Klacsman (University College Dublin)\, and Dr Chris Gilley (Wiener Holocaust Library). The panel will reflect on the Kaposi family’s history and survival\, as well as the significance of family document collections in historical research. \nJoin us virtually to learn more about Agens’ remarkable story and the importance of family history and collections for research and education about the Holocaust. \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/virtual-event-holocaust-survival-memory-and-documentation-an-event-to-honour-the-kaposi-family/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T133000
DTSTAMP:20241023T073713
CREATED:20220912T135723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z
UID:11122-1669372200-1669383000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive\, including using sources freely available online. Join our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager\, Elise Bath and ITS Researcher Ian Rich as they demonstrate the uses of this important archive. \nThe workshop will also feature family research support services available from Leeds-based partner organisations\, soon to be announced. Bring along your family trees and research questions! \nParticipants will also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers. Please indicate your interest at the registration link below. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/family-history-research-workshop/
LOCATION:Leeds Central Library\, Calverley Street\, Leeds\, LS1 3AB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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