BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Wiener Holocaust Library - ECPv6.7.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Wiener Holocaust Library X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Wiener Holocaust Library REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230228T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230228T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221205T120812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11830-1677609000-1677614400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Myanmars-Rohingya-Genocide-book-cover-002.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230222T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20230104T144609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11970-1677081600-1677085200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Ren__e_Sintenis__1888_1965___Berlin__c._1929_1932._Sculptor_and_medallist____The_Bernard_Simon_Estate__Wiener_Library_Collections..jpg450x618.75.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230220T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230220T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221123T114432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11671-1676917800-1676923200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/9781009100083.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230213T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230213T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221213T092539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11912-1676314800-1676318400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/base.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230208T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221201T115419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11780-1675881000-1675886400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/717RQiUKsL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230207T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230207T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221124T142750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11687-1675794600-1675798200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/JewishCommunityVienna.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221219T105331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151239Z UID:11929-1675189800-1675193400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Egon_Schiele_-_Portrait_of_Wally_Neuzil_-_Google_Art_Project-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230131T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220818T112912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:10932-1675180800-1675184400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Margareta_Kraus.jpg450x640.70193818753.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230130T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230130T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221205T102143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11821-1675105200-1675108800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GH-War_0154_WL1657-768x493-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230126T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221123T161656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11677-1674757800-1674763200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mignon-langnas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230125T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221101T151654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11553-1674662400-1674666000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jewish_Resistance__1.jpg650x457.34448510193.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230119T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20230103T115920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11957-1674153000-1674158400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BADDIELLUCASMERGE.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230118T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221117T113030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11655-1674066600-1674072000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/lisa-pine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230104T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221206T142351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:11844-1672824600-1672851600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_8076-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220818T112213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151240Z UID:10926-1670263200-1670268600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/he.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221205T160000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221101T112243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:11525-1670252400-1670256000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pavel_Brunssen_2020a.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221027T091913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:11482-1669833000-1669836600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/715NBjjYZ3L.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221125T133000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image034-e1680085831136.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221124T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221124T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220912T135505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:11119-1669312800-1669320000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Fate Unknown: Travelling Exhibition Launch and Drinks Reception DESCRIPTION:Take part in an exciting launch event that will feature talks by the co-curators\, Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, special guests\, a drinks reception\, and an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown travelling exhibition. \nSpeakers will include Laurence Saffer\, Director of Leeds Jewish Representative Council (LJRC) and Alex Sobel MP\, for Leeds North West. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fate-unknown-travelling-exhibition-launch-and-drinks-reception/ LOCATION:Leeds Central Library\, Calverley Street\, Leeds\, LS1 3AB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image034-e1680085831136.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221124T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221124T173000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220912T135157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:11115-1669305600-1669311000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:Join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition\, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, who will explore the remarkable\, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. \nFate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims. They will be joined by Professor Stuart Taberner (Director of the Horizons Institute\, University of Leeds) where they will discuss the development of the exhibition and reflect on some of the issues and themes it highlights. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fate-unknown-the-search-for-the-missing-after-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:Leeds Central Library\, Calverley Street\, Leeds\, LS1 3AB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image034-e1680085831136.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221004T103049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:11314-1669226400-1669233600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal\, 1940–1945 DESCRIPTION:This lecture is presented in partnership with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership between The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway. \nOur Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will highlight the experiences of Jewish refugees fleeing from antisemitic persecution and from World War II to Portugal. It describes how they were treated\, how they attempted to escape Europe\, and how they struggled in a “no-man’s land” between a painful past and an unknown future. Listening to their voices may help us to understand Jewish heartbreak and perseverance in the 1940s and encourage us to listen compassionately to refugees’ stories today. \nAbout the Speaker:\nProfessor Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. She is a three-time National Jewish Book Award winner for The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women\, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991)\, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)\, and Gender and Jewish History (with Deborah Dash Moore\, 2011) as well as a finalist for Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua (2008). Other publications include: The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany; Jewish Daily Life in Germany\, 1618-1945 (ed.). Her newest book\, published in 2020\, is Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. \nShe has edited other books on German Jewish history\, European women’s history\, and German women’s history and has taught German and European history as well as European Jewish history\, Jewish women’s history\, and German-Jewish history. \nRegister to attend this event online or in person here. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/third-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-lives-in-limbo-jewish-refugees-in-portugal-1940-1945/ LOCATION:Gresham College\, Barnard's Inn Hall\, London\, EC1N 2HH\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AW-mem-lecture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220818T145128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:10954-1669226400-1669233600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:‘Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust\,’ Curators’ Talk and Drinks Reception DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain ITS event series. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service digital archive\, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution. \nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \nJoin us at this evening drinks reception which will feature talks from co-curators Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt and the final opportunity to view their ‘Fate Unknown’ travelling exhibition at Holocaust Centre North. \nThis event is free\, but space is limited\, please sign up here. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fate-unknown-the-search-for-the-missing-after-the-holocaust-curators-talk-and-drinks-reception/ LOCATION:Holocaust Centre North\, The University of Huddersfield\, Queensgate\, Huddersfield\, HD1 3DH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Close-up-banner-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221123T173000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220818T144931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:10950-1669217400-1669224600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain DESCRIPTION:This in-person event is taking place at Holocaust Centre North in Huddersfield on 23 November 2022. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is home to the UK’s International Tracing Service (ITS) Digital Archive\, which holds millions of documents related to the Holocaust and Nazi era. The archive preserves the shared past of victims and survivors of the Holocaust and helps support family research of Nazi persecution. Our free one-day event offers the chance to view our temporary exhibition ‘Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust’\, as well as the opportunity to hear from its curators and ITS Digital Archive researchers to learn more about this remarkable collection and how it can be used to help in family research and academic work. \nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \nThis workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own research using the ITS Digital Archive\, including how to make use of sources freely available online. \nJoin our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager\, Elise Bath as she explains how the archive can be used to help in family research and academic work. Holocaust Centre North’s Archivist\, Hari Jonkers\, will also showcase examples of how the ITS archive can support those searching for information about survivors who resettled in the North of England. All welcome. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/postgraduate-and-family-history-workshop/ LOCATION:Holocaust Centre North\, The University of Huddersfield\, Queensgate\, Huddersfield\, HD1 3DH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Close-up-banner-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221115T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221115T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220727T120640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151241Z UID:10756-1668537000-1668542400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Book and Travelling Exhibition launch: Anti- Antisemitism and Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Community Security Trust. With the support of the David Berg Foundation. \nJoin us for this event to mark the publication of Anti- Antisemitism: Countering Anti-Jewish Racism in Western Europe\, 1890-2022 and the launch on the Library’s new travelling version of its Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition. \n \nThis new volume\, edited by the Library’s Barbara Warnock and Toby Simpson and with a foreword by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE\, is inspired by the Library’s exhibition\, Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today. \nThis book launch forms part of our Fighting Antisemitism event series. \nIn a range of essays\, the authors looks at the various individuals\, groups and organisations that have worked to counter antisemitism since the Dreyfus Affair polarised France in the late nineteenth century. The essays explore the methods that have been used to try to counter antisemitism\, and the impact and significance of these. \nThe authors consider a range of moments in the struggle against antisemitism\, including the campaign to exonerate Alfred Dreyfus; the anti-Nazi work of Alfred Wiener and others in Germany and Holland inter-war; post-war anti-antisemitism and anti-fascist work in Britain\, including that of those engaged in direct action such as the 43 Group and The Wiener Library’s engagement in monitoring and analysing the Holocaust and antisemitism. The situation recent decades in Britain with respects to differing forms of antisemitism\, and the consequent evolution of the struggle against it\, is also examined. \nThis event is chaired by Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE\, and will feature contributions from some of the authors including Dave Rich and Daniel Sonabend. \nAbout the speakers: \nRabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is Chair of University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. She was Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue from 2011 until March 2020 and is now Rabbi Emerita. She is a cross bench Peer in the House of Lords\, former CEO of the King’s Fund\, and a founding Trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable trust\, set up in memory of her parents. She chaired the Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients in 2013 and was Vice Chair\, Mental Health Act Independent Review 2017-2018. She is also a member of the Executive Board\, Leo Baeck Institute London and she is a Trustee of the Rayne Foundation\, she is Chair of Independent Age and is a Commissioner of the UK Commission on Bereavement. She has also recently become a Trustee of Yad Hanadiv (Charitable Foundation). Her latest book\, Antisemitism What it is. What it isn’t. Why it matters (OrionBooks) was published in May 2019. \nDr Dave Rich is Director of Policy for the Community Security Trust (CST)\, a UK Jewish charity that provides security advice and assistance to the UK Jewish community and assists victims of antisemitic hate crime. Dave is an Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, Birkbeck\, University of London; 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. Dave is the author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn\, Israel and Antisemitism and writes regularly about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism and extremism for publications in the UK and overseas. \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 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. Dr Simpson joined the 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 for the Library including Humanity After the Holocaust: The Jewish Relief Unit\, 1943-1950\, and Four Thousand Lives: The Kitchener Camp Rescue. \nDaniel Sonabend is a London based writer and historian\, with a primary focus on fascism and anti-fascism in the post-Second World War era. His first book We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle For Post-War Britain was published by Verso Books in 2019. \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, where she has curated the exhibitions Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust\, Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon\, and Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti\, amongst others. She is the author (with John March) of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019)\, a Spectator Book of the Year\, and a number of articles on refugee history and the Nazi persecution of Roma. She obtained her Doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College\, University of London\, in 2016. She was for many years a history teacher and examiner. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-launch-anti-antisemitism-countering-anti-jewish-racism-in-western-europe-1890-2022/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Antisemitism,Collections ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/anti-anti-semitism-book-cover-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20221101T111625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:11520-1668105000-1668110400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: The Vienna Model of Radicalisation. Austria and the Shoah DESCRIPTION:Farewell photo with an inscription by Maxi Reich (1928–1941/42). Maxi Reich was deported with his parents Irma and Jakob Reich to Modliborzyce on 5 March 1941. The family did not survive. © Private Collection of Martin Vogel \nThis new exhibition\, on show for the first time in Britain\, explores the significance of the Holocaust in Austria. \nBased on recent research\, The Vienna Model of Radicalisation: Austria and the Shoah highlights the role of Vienna as gateway for the radicalisation of antisemitic policy in the Nazi State. \nWith opening remarks by Dr Monika Sommer (Director\, House of Austrian History) and Dr Heidemarie Uhl (Curator\, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and the  formal opening of the exhibition by Austrian Ambassador Dr Michael Zimmermann. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-the-vienna-model-of-radicalisation-austria-and-the-shoah/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Launch Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bild-64-A-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221031T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221031T190000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220912T092126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:11098-1667239200-1667242800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: What is Jewish Photography? DESCRIPTION:The Salzmann family from Berlin\, on holiday in 1937. Ruth Salzmann Becker papers\, courtesy of the Iowa Women’s Archives\, University of Iowa Libraries. \nThrough whose eyes are we seeing the past? When it comes to the history of the Holocaust\, we often rely on perpetrator photos. To counter-balance this biased gaze\, we need to draw on Jewish photos: photos celebrating Jewish lives before 1933\, but also photos documenting lives marred by exclusion and persecution\, and photos of Jewish flight\, migration\, and lives re-built beyond Europe. \nBut what makes a photo Jewish? Is it just a question of who held the camera? A photographer is rarely in sole control: those acting in front of the camera co-create the photos; pictorial conventions are at play; and\, crucially\, a photo’s meaning also takes shape through its subsequent uses. \nThis talk takes a fresh look at a sample of ‘Jewish’ photos\, asks how we can interpret them\, and explores ways in which they might reveal aspects of Jewish experiences on which other sources remain silent. \nAbout the speaker:\nMaiken Umbach is Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham\, and currently seconded as chief academic advisor to the UK’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum. Maiken directs a multi-disciplinary research project on “Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism”\, and has published widely on photography\, Nazism and the Holocaust; recent books include “Photography\, Migration\, and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story” (with Scott Sulzener\, 2018)\, and “Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany (with Elizabeth Harvey\, Johannes Hürter\, Aandreas Wirsching\, 2019). \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-talk-what-is-jewish-photography/ CATEGORIES:Collections,Jewish Family Photographs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Salzmann-Ravensburg.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220928T084057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:11238-1666809000-1666814400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Talk: Decoding Antisemitism: analysing content\, structure and frequency of antisemitism in online comments sections DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online project \nWhat antisemitic reactions have been triggered online by recent news stories\, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, terrorist attacks in Israel\, or novelist Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israeli publishers? Which stereotypes and conspiracy theories are they fuelling? \nAntisemitic discourse on the internet provides insights into the present and future of an ideology of hate which\, due to its adaptability\, permeates all social milieus and is currently experiencing a new high – not least due to the specific character of online communication. Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online is a transnational and interdisciplinary research project analysing the content\, structure and frequency of antisemitism in online comments sections\, focusing on the mainstream media of selected European societies – the UK\, France and Germany. It is carried out by a research team at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA\, TU Berlin) in collaboration with King’s College London. \nIn this talk\, the team present findings from their most recent Discourse Report\, which focuses on online antisemitic discourses triggered by two recent major international events: the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of terrorist attacks in Israel\, analysing the differences and similarities in the way web users reacted to these discourse triggers in the UK\, France and Germany. In addition\, we discuss four national case studies which drew our attention due to the number of antisemitic reactions they elicited: novelist Sally Rooney’s boycott of Israeli publishers in the UK\, the Pegasus spyware case in France\, and the controversies around singer Gil Ofarim and the documenta 15 art exhibition in Germany. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Matthew Bolton is a researcher\, lecturer and writer focusing on conceptual history\, critical theory\, antisemitism and genocide studies. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Roehampton\, London in 2020\, with his thesis exploring the relationship between the development of the concept of justice and the capitalist state form. In 2018 his co-authored monograph on the ideological underpinnings of the Corbyn movement\, Corbynism: A Critical Approach\, was published by Emerald Books. His articles have been published in British Politics\, Political Quarterly\, the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism\, and Fathom\, and his work has received widespread media coverage in the UK. \nKarolina Placzynta is a linguist and political scientist with a background in pragmatics\, sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis\, having completed postgraduate degrees in Applied Linguistics and in Politics and International Studies. Her research centres on the mainstreaming and marginalisation of discourses in the media\, normalisation of bias\, and intersections of discriminatory discourses. She has previously examined the patterns of discursive representations of immigration in the British press\, and is a member of the DiscourseNet association. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/talk-decoding-antisemitism-analysing-content-structure-and-frequency-of-antisemitism-in-online-comments-sections/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Antisemitism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cover-as-e1664354371373.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220912T090813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:11092-1666800000-1666803600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The Deportation and Persecution of Romanian Roma ando’Bugo (at the Bug River) DESCRIPTION:Roma prisoners in a concentration camp in Transnistria. Source: Courtesy of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova \nThe Holocaust was “much more than a German affair” (Levene\, 4). While the Nazis carried out mass murder of specific ethnic groups\, Romania carried out an independent\, autonomous genocide of the Roma and Jews. Over the course of 1939 to 1945\, approximately 26\,000 Roma and 320\,000 Jews were deported under the Ion Antonescu regime to the Romanian-administered territory of Transnistria where more than 11\,000 Roma and 280\,000 Jews were victims of genocide. \nThis talk will examine the genocide of the Roma committed at the hands of the Romanian government and its actors. \nAbout the Speaker:\nCristina Teodora Stoica is a PhD candidate at Western University\, Canada. Her recent work examines the driving forces of antiziganism/ antigypsism/ antițiganism in Romania and the means to which they violently manifested in the state from the unification of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldova in 1859 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-deportation-and-persecution-of-romanian-roma-andobugo-at-the-bug-river/ CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/roma-phd-tea.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221025T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221025T190000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220818T112242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:10865-1666720800-1666724400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Event: How to Be a Refugee: Simon May in Conversation with Toby Simpson DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Institute for the History of the German Jews is delighted to co-host this event with Simon May\, author of How to be a Refugee: The Gripping True Story of How One Family Hid their Jewish Origins to Survive the Nazis. The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler’s Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another\, much rarer\, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish. \nHow to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters – his mother and his two aunts – grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism\, marriage into the German aristocracy\, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime\, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi. Even after his mother fled to London from Nazi Germany and Hitler had been defeated\, her instinct for self-concealment didn’t abate. Following the early death of his father\, also a German Jewish refugee\, May was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. \nIn the face of these banned inheritances\, May embarks on a quest to uncover the lives of the three sisters as well as the secrets of a grandfather he never knew. His haunting story forcefully illuminates questions of belonging and home – questions that continue to press in on us today. \nAbout the speakers:\nProfessor Simon May is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. Simon May’s interests lie in ethics\, philosophy of the emotions\, questions of identity and belonging\, and German 19th and 20th Century thought\, especially the work of Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche and Heidegger. He is also a devotee of the aphoristic form. His monographs include Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on “Morality” (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 1999); Love: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press\, 2011); Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, and The Power of Cute (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2019). \nDr Toby Simpson is the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nClosing remarks by:\nDr Kim Wünschmann  has been Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews since October 2021. She studied Jewish Studies\, political science\, and psychology at the Free University of Berlin and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her doctorate with a historical study at Birkbeck College\, University of London\, which was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research\, the Prix “Fondation Auschwitz – Jacques Rozenberg\,” and the Herbert Steiner Prize of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and the International Conference of Labor and Social History (ITH). \n \n\n\n\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. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-how-to-be-a-refugee-simon-may-in-conversation-with-toby-simpson/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Refugees ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/9781529042818.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074135 CREATED:20220908T121636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:11059-1666204200-1666209600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Book talk: Julia Boyd: A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Wiener Holocaust Library for a book talk and Q&A by author Julia Boyd on her new work. \nHidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived ordinary lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime… From the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich\, an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler which shines a light on the lives of ordinary people. \nDrawing on personal archives\, letters\, interviews and memoirs\, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action\, apathy and grief; hope\, pain\, joy and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life – foresters\, priests\, farmers and nuns; innkeepers\, Nazi officials\, veterans and party members; village councillors\, mountaineers\, soci \nalists\, slave labourers\, schoolchildren\, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged ‘not worth living’. \nA Village in the Third Reich tells a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires\, of shattered dreams – but one in which\, ultimately\, human resilience triumphs. \n“Utterly absorbing’ The Times \nAbout the speaker: Julia Boyd is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People and A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism. Her previous books include A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony\, The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician and Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan. As the widow of a former diplomat\, she lived in Germany from 1977 to 1981. She lives in London. \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/book-talk-julia-boyd-a-village-in-the-third-reich-how-ordinary-lives-were-transformed-by-the-rise-of-fascism/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Village-pb-cover-CMYK.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR