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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 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:20241023T074932 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:20241023T074932 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:20241023T074932 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:20241023T074932 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:20241023T074932 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221019T164500 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220817T140945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:10891-1666195200-1666197900@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: The Oppression of the Black Community in Nazi-Occupied Europe DESCRIPTION:A Postwar Displaced Persons Card for Theodor Michael\, a Black German born in Berlin in 1925. Courtesy of the Wiener Holocaust Library \nBlack people experienced persecution and discrimination before\, during and after the Third Reich in Germany and elsewhere. This workshop will utilise the Library’s valuable collections to crucially explore how the persecution of the black community by the Nazi regime was not straightforward and followed a different timeline to the persecution of other groups. \nTalk Aims: \n\nTo gain an overview of black history in Europe.\nTo consider Nazi policies towards black people.\nTo use the Library’s collection to explore the persecution and discrimination the black 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/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-the-oppression-of-the-black-community-in-nazi-occupied-europe/ CATEGORIES:Education ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/he-black-people.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220519T160427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151242Z UID:9904-1665685800-1665691200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid Talk: Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish: Maria Chamberlain DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. Join online or in person at the Library by registering to attend below. \nMaria Chamberlain’s book\, Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish is a story of two assimilated Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Poland in the eye of the Holocaust. The two families were joined by marriage after the war and Maria was born soon after. Not surprisingly her mother initially urged her to hide her Jewishness. Later\, in old age\, she relented\, recognising that testimonies make history\, and that the lives of those who perished deserve to be celebrated. The material in the book is compiled from recounted memories of the survivors\, unfinished memoirs\, letters\, photographs\, and historical archives. \nThe book tells of Maria’s paternal grandfather\, whose appointment to the impossibly compromised post of President of the Kraków Judenrat ultimately led to his downfall\, of her aunt Lula\, who was denounced and shot\, of her maternal grandmother\, who died in the gas chambers of Belzec\, and of Kuba\, the gifted pianist\, who was told to dig his own grave. There are uplifting stories too: her great uncle’s survival on Schindler’s List\, and her charismatic\, heel-clicking maternal grandfather’s survival hiding in plain sight in a quasi-Nazi organisation. \nMaria documents the kindness of strangers\, miraculous escapes\, courage\, guile\, strength\, and resilience. Her parents adopted different strategies for survival\, and afterwards responded very differently to the traumas they had suffered. The last part of the book covers Maria’s early life in Stalinist Poland and her family’s emigration to Edinburgh\, where she and her parents led fulfilled lives as scientists. Despite this\, the traumas continue to ripple through her life and following generations. \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-event-never-tell-anyone-youre-jewish-maria-chamberlain/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Family Histories of the Holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/9781803710143_large.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220929T093807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:11206-1665676800-1665680400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: 'Talking with Images': Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums DESCRIPTION:Photographs from the Neumeyers’s family archive\, speaker’s own. \nPart of our PhD and a Cup of Tea Seminar Series. \nUsing Ruth Locke’s Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums Photograph Archive to Explore the Family’s Experiences and Intergenerational Memories. \nAlice will be examining photographs from the private collection of Ruth Locke. Ruth (née Neumeyer) and her younger brother Raimund came to England from Germany in May 1938 on the Kindertransport. They were accompanied by two photograph albums capturing their childhood in Dachau. The photographs reflect the family’s affiliation with the Lebensreform (Life Reform) movement\, their appreciation of nature\, the arts and culture. Alice will draw on oral history interviews with Ruth’s two sons and the blog they produced on their family history. Alice will examine the challenges and opportunities of looking at private photographs and oral testimony as sources to understand how German-Jewish children made sense of their life in Germany in the 1930s\, emigration to the UK\, and familial separation and loss. She will also examine how these memories were passed across generations.   \nAbout the speaker\nAlice Tofts is final year collaborative doctoral programme student with Imperial War Museums and the University of Nottingham. She holds a BA in History and French from the University of Nottingham and a Masters in Museum Studies from University College London. Her research focuses on the Imperial War Museums’ collection of photographs from private collections of Holocaust survivors. Her research explores the myriad role of private photographs in both the familial and museum sphere: as historical objects\, material and social objects\, objects of enquiry\, and memory objects. Her approach is multidisciplinary and draws on theory and methods from oral history\, anthropology\, visual culture\, memory studies and museology. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-talking-with-images-private-photographs-from-the-imperial-war-museums/ CATEGORIES:Jewish Family Photographs,PhD and a Cup of Tea ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220818T100809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10916-1665081000-1665084600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Photographs and Family History Research DESCRIPTION:Photograph from an album compiled by Louis Linton (né Ludwig Liebermann)\, with caption added by him in the 1970s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nTo coincide with our exhibition ‘There was a time…’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939\, join members of The Wiener Holocaust Library staff as they discuss the importance of photographs in family research. \nPhoto Archivist Torsten Jugl and International Tracing Service Archive Team Manager Elise Bath lead this event\, where they discuss the uses of images in family history\, as well as their limitations\, and offer practical tips on how to care for and fully explore your photographs. \nThis event is also part of the ‘Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust’ programme. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The 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-talk-photographs-and-family-history-research/ CATEGORIES:Collections,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Jewish Family Photographs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1851_album-excerpt.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221004T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221004T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220817T141030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10887-1664899200-1664902800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Workshop: What was the Holocaust? An Overview DESCRIPTION:Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto\, 1943. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn this talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students and teachers\, the Library’s Education Officer\, Kiera Fitzgerald\, will draw upon the Library’s rich and diverse collections of original historical material to provide an introduction to the key events and the main features of the Holocaust. She will explore the murders of Jews and Roma by killing squads in eastern Europe\, and the transportations to extermination camps. The session will consider Jewish and Roma victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide\, examine who the perpetrators and collaborators were\, and consider the historical evidence that allows historians to understand the Holocaust. \nTalk Aims: \n\nTo gain an understanding of the key events and main features of the Holocaust.\nTo consider Jewish and Roma victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide\nTo examine who the perpetrators and collaborators were\nTo assess the historical evidence that allows historians to understand the Holocaust URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-workshop-what-was-the-holocaust-an-overview/ CATEGORIES:Education ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GH-War_0154_WL1657.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220928T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220928T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220801T092850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10770-1664380800-1664384400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Ustaša Killing Specialists: the Personnel of the Jasenovac Concentration and Death Camp DESCRIPTION:With an estimated 90\,000 to 100\,000 victims\, the Jasenovac concentration and death camp complex (1941–1945) was a major killing site during the Second World War and the epicentre of state-organized destruction in the fascist Independent State of Croatia. Emil Kjerte’s doctoral research focuses on the Croatian men and women stationed at the camp complex. Drawing on records from post-war trials and survivor testimonies\, he studies the guards’ backgrounds and motivations for volunteering for service\, the social dynamics of the violence they perpetrated\, their interactions with civilians and state actors outside the camp complex and their post-war trajectories. \nEmil Kjerte is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Clark University in Massachusetts. He holds a BA in History from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Uppsala University. Besides EHRI\, his research has been supported by the Central European History Society\, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University\, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. He will be a Conny Kristel European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellow at the Library in September 2022. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-ustasa-killing-specialists-the-personnel-of-the-jasenovac-concentration-and-death-camp/ CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1395.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220922T170000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220818T114411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10924-1663860600-1663866000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Mass Killing DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host this event as part of our of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities. \nPart of the Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series \nThis volume of European Holocaust Studies edited by Michelle Gordon and Rachel O’Sullivan brings together a collection of peer-reviewed research articles by scholars of the Holocaust\, genocide\, and colonialism. The book explores the key concepts and themes of the historiographical challenges that scholars are grappling with in recent work connected to Hannah Arendt’s ‘boomerang thesis’ and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. This volume provides examples of how fruitful academic research can be in bridging the gap between studies of empire and the Holocaust\, but it also offers assessments of the potential analytical weaknesses and pitfalls of such an approach. Topics include colonial disease control and human experimentation in Nazi Germany; cultural genocide\, post-colonialism and Nazi genocide; US colonial violence in the Nazi imagination; cartography and post-colonialism in Holocaust Studies. \nIn conversation with Thomas Kühne\, the volume’s editors and several of its contributors\, this event will focus on the entanglements of the Holocaust and colonial histories and reflect upon more recent highly charged discussions on the Holocaust\, its legacies and debates on education and remembrance. \nThese include the ‘nationalisation’ of Holocaust history\, which informs political and public narratives and then feeds back into memory wars both within the European metropoles and the ‘peripheries’ that were once violently occupied. Such topics highlight that it is not only Germany that is engaged in debates on the Holocaust\, memorialisation\, ‘decolonisation’ and attempts to come to terms with the past (‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’). \nAbout the speakers: \nThomas Kühne the Strassler Colin Flug Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. His research explores the relation of war\, genocide\, and society\, long-term traditions of political culture and political emotions in Europe\, and the problem of locating the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in the continuities and discontinuities of the 20th century. His recent publications include the monographs The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers\, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the 20th Century (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, and Belonging and Genocide. Hitler’s Community\, 1918-1945 (Yale University Press\, 2010). \nRachel O’Sullivan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies\, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. She has published in the Journal of Genocide Research\, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\, and Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (with Frank Bajohr). She is currently working on her first monograph on similarities and dissimilarities between colonialism and Nazi Germany’s inclusionary and exclusionary population policies in annexed Poland. \nMichelle Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Center at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and currently heads the project ‘The “Civilized” Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars.’ Gordon is the author of Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan\, published as part of Bloomsbury’s ‘Empire’s Other Histories’ series in 2020. \nAleksandra Szczepan is a literary scholar\, co-founder and member of the Research Centre for Memory Cultures at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a collaborator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in oral history projects in Poland and Spain. She authored the book “Realista Robbe-Grillet” (2015) on 20th century redefinitions of realism. She has been recipient of scholarships from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies\, the USHMM\, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and the Polish National Science Centre. She is currently working on a book project dedicated to the role of maps in Holocaust testimony. \nDorota Glowacka is Professor of Humanities at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Canada. Glowacka is the author of Po tamtej stronie: świadectwo\, afekt\, wyobraźnia (From the Other Side: Testimony\, Affect\, Imagination\, 2017) and Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials\, Ethics\, and Aesthetics (2012). She coedited Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (2007) and Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (2002)\, and edited a special issue of Culture Machine entitled “Community” (2006). Glowacka has published numerous book chapters\, journal articles\, reviews\, and encyclopedia entries in the area of Holocaust and genocide studies\, critical theory\, and theories of gender. She is a member of the Academic Committee at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the USHMM. Her current research focuses on gender and genocide\, and on the intersections of the Holocaust and settler colonial genocides in North America. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n The 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/online-book-launch-colonial-paradigms-of-violence-comparative-analysis-of-the-holocaust-genocide-and-mass-killing/ CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Racism,Racism and Antisemitism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/book-cover-HGRP-event.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220906T162113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:11035-1663783200-1663790400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Exhibition opening: ‘There was a time...’: Jewish Family Photographs Before 1939 DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of our new exhibition that brings together over 100 never-before-seen portraits and snapshots from twelve Jewish families in the 1890s through the 1930s. \n \nDrawn from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archives\, these private family photographs uncover a hidden history of pre-Nazi era Jewish life in Germany and Austria. Captions reveal the fates of some of the individuals depicted: persecution\, deportation\, annihilation\, or escape. \n‘There was a time…’ builds upon a growing public interest in vernacular photography: commonplace photographs made and bought by ordinary people. The images on display document everyday\, intimate moments and expressions of culture and identity\, creating a physical record of how the subjects wished to be seen and remembered. \nThe evening will include a drinks reception and brief remarks from the Library’s director and the exhibition’s curator.  \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-opening-there-was-a-time-jewish-family-photographs-before-1939/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,Launch Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ThereWasATime_WebBanner_800x600px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T160000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220817T110943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10885-1663502400-1663516800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Open House Festival 2022 DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that the Wiener Holocaust Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings\, landscapes and neighborhoods across London. As the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and Britain’s largest\, this event gives the opportunity for visitors to enter and explore the Library and its collections. \nThe dates that we will be participating in the festival are Friday 9th September and Sunday 18th September from 12pm – 4pm on both dates. As part of this event\, tours of the library will be conducted every half hour with the first  at 12pm and the last at 3pm. The Tour will encompass the Library’s main archive space where you’ll have the opportunity to view fascinating and rare historical documents from the Holocaust whilst also being able to take a look around the Wolfson Reading Room. \nThere is no pre-booking for this event\, just turn up and we’ll be delighted to welcome you in and show you around. We are excited and looking forward to welcoming you to the Library. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/open-house-festival-2022-2/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Open-House-festival-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220719T142831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10694-1663266600-1663272000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch - Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria DESCRIPTION:In partnership with The Association of Jewish Refugees\, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and Insiders/Outsiders \nAbout the event: \nJoin us for the launch of this new volume by Bea Lewkowicz and Anthony Grenville\, who will speak at the event. The event will also feature a short film screening and live interviews with some of the children of the refugees featured in the volume. \n \nIn Émigré Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s. Many of the interviewees rose to great prominence in their chosen career\, such as the author and illustrator Judith Kerr\, the actor Andrew Sachs\, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky\, the violinist Norbert Brainin\, and the publisher Elly Miller. The narratives of the interviewees tell of their common struggles as child or young adult refugees who had to forge new lives in a foreign country and they illuminate how each interviewee dealt with the challenges of forced emigration and the Holocaust. The voices of the twelve interviewees provide the reader with a unique and original source\, which gives direct access to the lived multifaceted experience of the interviewees and their contributions to British culture. \nThe event will also feature a short film screening and live interviews with some of the children of the refugees featured in the volume: Tacy Kneale (daughter of Judith Kerr)\, Julia Donat (daughter of Wolfgang Suschitzky) and Tony Balacs (son of Doris Balacs). \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Bea Lewkowicz is a social anthropologist and oral historian and is the director of two oral history archives\, the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony and the Sephardi Voices UK Archive. She is a member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, School of Advanced Study\, University of London. Her research interests include oral history; trauma and memory; diasporas and displacement; and nationalism and ethnicity. She has worked on many oral history projects and has directed and produced a wide range of testimony-based films. She has also curated several exhibitions\, such as Continental Britons\, Double Exposure\, Sephardi Voices\, and Still in Our Hands: Kinder Life Portraits. Among her publications are ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History\, Memory\, and Identity (2006) and ‘This is the Story of my LIfe’: An Interview with Julus Carlebach’ (2020). More information about Bea’s projects at bealewkowiczarchive.com. \nDr Anthony Grenville\, son of Jewish refugees from Vienna who fled to London in 1938\, was born in 1944. He lectured in German at the Universities of Reading\, Bristol and Westminster from 1971-1996. He has worked for many years with the Association of Jewish Refugees and was Consultant Editor of its monthly journal from 2006-2017. With Dr Bea Lewkowicz\, he was responsible for creating the exhibition ‘Continental Britons’ (2002) and the first part of the AJR’s ‘Refugee Voices’ collection of filmed interviews (2003-2008). He has been Chair of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London\, since 2013. He has published very widely on the history and experience of the refugees from Hitler in Britain\, including Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain\, 1933-1970: Their Image in ‘AJR Information’ (2010) and Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism (2018). \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-book-launch-emigre-voices-conversations-with-jewish-refugees-from-germany-and-austria/ 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/2022/07/81JpRGNjZL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220909T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220909T160000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220817T110806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10881-1662724800-1662739200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Open House Festival 2022 DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that the Wiener Holocaust Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings\, landscapes and neighborhoods across London. As the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and Britain’s largest\, this event gives the opportunity for visitors to enter and explore the Library and its collections. \nThe dates that we will be participating in the festival are Friday 9th September and Sunday 18th September from 12pm – 4pm on both dates. As part of this event\, tours of the library will be conducted every half hour with the first  at 12pm and the last at 3pm. The Tour will encompass the Library’s main archive space where you’ll have the opportunity to view fascinating and rare historical documents from the Holocaust whilst also being able to take a look around the Wolfson Reading Room. \nThere is no pre-booking for this event\, just turn up and we’ll be delighted to welcome you in and show you around. We are excited and looking forward to welcoming you to the Library. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/open-house-festival-2022/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Open-House-festival-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220726T130424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151243Z UID:10742-1662661800-1662665400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid Talk: Rebuilding Lives? Displaced Persons in the post-war period DESCRIPTION:Part of the Excavation – Confrontation – Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series \nIn this talk\, Elise Bath\, International Tracing Service Archive Team Manager at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, will explore some of the documents in the Library’s collections that give an insight into the lives of Holocaust survivors in the immediate post-war period\, and show how the ITS Digital Archive can be used to research the experiences of survivors of Nazi persecution as they tried to rebuild their shattered lives. \nThis event is part of B’Nai B’rith UK’s Jewish Heritage Festival taking place 1 September to 31 December. \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-rebuilding-lives-displaced-persons-in-the-post-war-period/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/JRU-A3_0053_WL6370.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T183000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220819T153259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10963-1662570000-1662575400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Shocking Photos: Holocaust Memorialisation\, Research and Teaching DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture in partnership with Queen Mary\, University of London. This event is open to all and will take place in the David Sizer Lecture Theatre\, Bancroft Building\, Queen Mary University of London. \nAbout the Speaker:\nWendy Lower is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II. Since 2012\, she holds the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont\, California\, and in 2014 was named the director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-lecture-shocking-photos-holocaust-memorialisation-research-and-teaching/ LOCATION:Queen Mary University of London\, Bancroft Building\, Queen Mary University of London\, Mile End Road\, London\, E1 4NS CATEGORIES:Genocide ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Fac_qOjXEAEZ9eW.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T160000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220822T132452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10983-1662562800-1662566400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Does Holocaust Education Influence Gen Z’s Likelihood to Act Against Hate? DESCRIPTION:Around the globe\, references to the Holocaust have been used to challenge policy decisions (Bergen 2021)\, to describe animal rights abuses (Szyubel 2006; Sobel 2018)\, and to justify war. \nIt is in part a lack of understanding about the Holocaust that allows this historical mass atrocity to be distorted and leveraged for political purposes such as these. At the same time\, across Canada and in the majority of U.S. states\, genocide education is not yet a curricular requirement\, resulting in students learning about the Holocaust at disproportionate rates and through nontraditional sources\, such as on social media platforms and television shows. \nUsing data from a new pre-/post-treatment survey of ~3600 North American teenagers\, Dr Lerner argues that mandated Holocaust education interventions not only increase factual knowledge and decrease Holocaust denial in general\, but that they also correspond with an increased likelihood that students will take necessary action to protect minority communities when confronted with hatred or intolerance. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Lerner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. Her research is on the intersection of authoritarianism and dissent\, with a regional focus on Russia and the post-Soviet region\, and she is also a scholar of the Holocaust. Her work has been published by Comparative Political Studies (2019)\, Holocaust Studies (2021) and the Routledge Handbook of Religion\, Mass Atrocity\, and Genocide (2022). Dr. Lerner is currently completing her book manuscript\, entitled Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in the Streets (under advance contract with University of Toronto Press)\, which demonstrates that street art is a viable tool for political communication\, and effective in circumventing autocratic censorship. She conducted the research for this draft paper in 2021 as a Presidential Data Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario (Canada)\, URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-does-holocaust-education-influence-gen-zs-likelihood-to-act-against-hate/ CATEGORIES:Education,PhD and a Cup of Tea ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JRU-A4-34_WL1563_WL15062_001-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220905T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220905T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220531T100603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10106-1662402600-1662408000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid Lecture: 2021 Ernst Fraenkel Prize Winner – Franziska Exeler\, Ghosts of War DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an evening lecture by the winner of our 2021 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. The jury has awarded Franziska Exeler’s book\, Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus the prize. \n \nThe judges noted that they “found it to be an ambitious – and successful – deep dive\, exploring questions of wartime compliance\, complicity\, and collaboration and the post-war toll that these exacted. It is strikingly original in exploring issues that many have acknowledged but few have investigated and is a very worthy winner of this prestigious prize.” \nHow do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation\, and what do truth\, guilt\, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts of War\, Franziska Exeler examines people’s wartime choices and their aftermath in Belarus\, a war-ravaged Soviet republic that was under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. After the Red Army reestablished control over Belarus\, one question shaped encounters between the returning Soviet authorities and those who had lived under Nazi rule\, between soldiers and family members\, reevacuees and colleagues\, Holocaust survivors and their neighbors: What did you do during the war? \nGhosts of War analyses the prosecution and punishment of Soviet citizens accused of wartime collaboration with the Nazis and shows how individuals sought justice\, revenge\, or assistance from neighbours and courts. The book uncovers the many absences\, silences\, and conflicts that were never resolved\, as well as the truths that could only be spoken in private\, yet it also investigates the extent to which individuals accommodated\, contested\, and reshaped official Soviet war memory. The result is a gripping examination of how efforts at coming to terms with the past played out within\, and at times through\, a dictatorship. \nAbout the Speaker: \nFranziska Exeler is Assistant Professor of History at Free University Berlin. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics\, Magdalene College\, University of Cambridge. \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-lecture-2021-ernst-fraenkel-prize-winner-franziska-exeler-ghosts-of-war/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ghost-of-War-cover.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220811T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220811T140000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220425T091600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:9716-1660222800-1660226400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Curator’s Talk: Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today DESCRIPTION:An Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) speaker\, c. late 1940s. Courtesy of the Community Security Trust. \nPart of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition events series. \nIn this talk\, the curator of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s latest exhibition will discuss the genesis of the exhibition project and the process of curation. She will explore some of the key documents\, photographs and artefacts on display in the exhibition\, including rare printed materials relating to the Dreyfus affair from France in the 1890s; pamphlets produced in Weimar Germany refuting Nazi antisemitic ideas; documents and photographs collected by the Library’s predecessor organisation in the 1930s highlighting the antisemitic policies of the Nazi regime; photographs documenting the work of Jewish anti-fascist street speakers in East London in the 1950s\, and a tool kit designed to help those seeking to campaign against the BNP in elections in Britain. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/curators-talk-fighting-antisemitism-from-dreyfus-to-today/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Collections,Fighting Antisemitism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/An-Association-of-Jewish-Ex-Servicemen-and-Women-AJEX-speaker-c.-late-1940s.-Courtesy-of-the-Community-Security-Trust..jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220624T133341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10425-1659551400-1659556800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Film Screening - Proof of Identity DESCRIPTION:UK premiere of Mikołaj Grynberg’s documentary film Proof of Identity\, followed by  Q & A with the director\nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism event series. \nIn Proof of Identity\, Mikołaj Grynberg talks to Polish Jews across the generations about the experience of being a Jew in Poland today. It’s an intimate\, revelatory insight into a traumatic history\, filmed on the stage of POLIN museum in Poland. Following the screening\, director Mikołaj Grynberg will talk to Jo Glanville from Warsaw on Zoom about the inspiration for the film and his work as a writer exploring the history of Polish Jews. Antonia Lloyd-Jones will translate the discussion. \n  \nProof of Identity\, 2021 \nWriter/director: Mikołaj  Grynberg \nProducer: POLIN Museum \nExecutive director: IDFX \nAbout the speakers:\nMikołaj Grynberg is a distinguished writer\, reporter and photographer\, shortlisted for the Nike Literary Award (one of the most prestigious awards for Polish literature) and  laureate of the Warsaw Literary Premiere Award. He is best known for his exceptionally incisive and honest conversations with the so-called second-generation\, the children of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. His books include the short story collection I’d Like to Say Sorry\, but There’s No One to Say Sorry to (The New Press) and The Book of Exodus (Wydawnictwo Czarne). His essay ‘Family Stories’ is published in Looking for an Enemy (Short Books/WW Norton). \n  \nJo Glanville is a journalist\, editor and radio producer. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian\, London Review of Books\, New York Times and Jewish Quarterly\, among other publications. She is the editor of Looking for an Enemy (Short Books/WW Norton). \n  \nAntonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by several of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists (including Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk) and reportage authors\, as well as crime fiction\, poetry and children’s books. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme\, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/film-screening-proof-of-identity/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/photo-for-3-August-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220728T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220728T193000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220531T133423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10131-1659033000-1659036600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Antisemitism on Social Media DESCRIPTION:Antisemitism on Social Media https://www.routledge.com/Antisemitism-on-Social-Media/Hubscher-Mering/p/book/9781032059693\, published in March 2022 by Routledge\, is a book for all who want to understand this phenomenon. \nThe interdisciplinary volume addresses how social media with its technology and business model has revolutionised the dissemination of antisemitism and how this impacts not only victims of antisemitic hate speech but also society at large. The book gives insight into case studies on different platforms such as Twitter\, Facebook\, TikTok\, YouTube\, and Telegram. It also demonstrates how social media is weaponized through the dissemination of antisemitic content by political actors from the right\, the left\, and the extreme fringe\, and critically assesses existing counter-strategies. \nAbout the speakers:\nEditors \nMonika Hübscher is a PhD Candidate at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa\, Israel\, and Research Associate at the project “Antisemitism and Youth” at the University of Duisburg-Essen\, Germany.  She researches and lectures on antisemitism\, hate speech and disinformation on social media\, and social media literacy. \nSabine von Mering\, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, a core faculty member with the Environmental Studies Program\, and Director of the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at Brandeis University in Waltham\, Massachusetts\, USA. Her prior co-edited volumes include Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US with Timothy Wyman-McCarty (2013)\, Russian-Jewish Emigration after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany\, Israel\, Canada\, and the United States with Olaf Gloeckner and Evgenija Garbolevsky (2006). \nContributing Authors: \nJakob Guhl is a Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)\, London\, UK. His research focuses on the far-right\, Islamist extremism\, hate speech\, disinformation and conspiracy theories. He is a frequent commentator on German radio and broadcast. He has been invited to present his research about online hate to the German government. \nArmin Langer\, Ph.D. is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham\, MA\, USA. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin and rabbinic ordination by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. He is author of two monographs\, editor of an anthology and several articles on antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, integration and migration in Europe\, including “The eternal George Soros: rise of an antisemitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theory\,” in A continent of conspiracies (Routledge\, 2021) and “Dog-whistle politics as a strategy of the US American alt-right\,” in Nationalism and Populism (De Gruyter\, 2022). \nThis will be an online only event. \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/antisemitism-on-social-media/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Fighting Antisemitism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Antisemitism-on-social-media-9781032059693-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220726T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220726T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220525T084033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10000-1658860200-1658865600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Antisemitism Today DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Natasha Lehrer\, Daniel Trilling\, Olga Grjasnowa \nChair: Jo Glanville \n© Blake Ezra \nPart of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition events series. \nIn this event\, the panel\, all contributors to a recent volume\, Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism (Jo Glanville ed.\, 2021)\, will consider the situation with respects to antisemitism in various countries in Europe today. More than 75 years after the Holocaust\, antisemitism is on the rise again on the left as well as the far right. Our speakers have expertise on antisemitism in France\, Britain and Germany\, and amongst the topics that they will consider are recent manifestations of antisemitism in these countries; the connections that current day antisemitism has with antisemitism in the past\, and the reasons why antisemitism persists. \nAbout the speakers:\nOlga Grjasnowa’s debut novel Der Russe ist einer\, der Birken liebt was awarded the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize\, the Hermann Lenz Grant and the Anna Seghers Prize. Her novels Die juristische Unschaerfe einer Ehe\, Gott ist nicht schuechtern and Der verlorene Sohn followed in 2014\, 2017 and 2020. All her books have been dramatised for the stage and translated into a total of 15 languages. \nNatasha Lehrer is a writer\, translator and editor. Her journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, the Observer\, the Times Literary Supplement\, The Nation\, Haaretz\, and Fantastic Man\, among others. Her full-length translations include Suite for Barbara Loden\, by Nathalie Léger (Les Fugitives / Dorothy) Memories of Low Tide\, by Chantal Thomas (Pushkin Press)\, Chinese Spies\, by Roger Faligot (Hurst)\, and A Call for Revolution\, by the Dalai Lama (Rider). \nDaniel Trilling is and award-winning journalist and author. He has recently been short-listed for the 2022 Orwell Journalism Prize. His latest book\, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe\, won Italy’s inaugural Libri contro la Fame (“Books against Hunger”) literary prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Trilling is also currently a regular contributor to The Guardian’s Long Read and Opinion sections and writes for the London Review of Books\, among other publications. \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/panel-discussion-antisemitism-today/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BLAKE_EZRA_TRICYCLE_PROTEST_HR-66-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220627T150127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:10453-1658775600-1658779200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Virtual Panel and Film Talkback: Complicit and The Legacy of the St Louis DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, are delighted to host The Legacy of the St Louis Virtual Panel as part of its of Holocaust and Genocide Partnership activities. This free online event will follow a screening of the documentary film\, Complicit\, and will include the creator and producer of the documentary\, Robert Krakow\, Esq.\, as well as former child refugee passengers on the MS St Louis. \nViewers will have access to view the award-winning documentary beginning on 17 July. During the event\, they will have the opportunity to hear from Mr Krakow and to ask questions and hear reflections from former passengers of the MS St Louis. \nComplicit is a fascinating blend of drama\, survivor interviews\, and actual footage retelling the story of the MS St. Louis\, a German luxury ocean liner\, that set sail from Hamburg\, Germany to Havana\, Cuba in the spring of 1939. The 937 mostly Jewish passengers were attempting to escape Nazi persecution. Turned away by the Cuban government and then thwarted by American and Canadian authorities\, the captain was forced to return the ship and its passengers to Europe where more than 250 passengers perished in death camps. The Hollywood Reporter\, in reviewing the film\, observed that “A shameful piece of WWII history is recounted firsthand” and a critical history lesson—not found in students’ textbooks today—is laid bare by the filmmaker. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\n\n  The 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\nAbout the speakers:\nJudith Steel evaded Nazi persecution in Germany as a child when a French Catholic family took her into their home—an experience that informed her view that love does not always fit within the neat confines of religion. She was the cantor at the New Synagogue in Manhattan.  She attended the 2009 70th Anniversary St. Louis passengers reunion in Miami Beach and signed Senate Resolution 111 which was accepted into the Treasures Vault of the National Archives.  Senate Resolution 111 was passed unanimously in May 2009 and acknowledged the importance of learning the lessons of the saga of the St. Louis.  Judith appears in the documentary film COMPLICIT\, which has been touring the US and internationally since 2014.  Judith together with Sonja Geismar and Eva Wiener participated in Canada’s apology ceremony in November 2018 where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the passengers in the House of Commons and offered his heartfelt apology for Canada’s refusal to grant safe haven to the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis. \nSonja Geismar In May 1939\, Sonja’s parents\, paternal grandparents\, two great aunts\, and another great aunt with her husband were passengers on the St. Louis. In Havana harbor\, she remembers waving to cousins who came to see their grandparents who unfortunately went to Belgium and met their fate in a gas chamber.  Sonja and her parents went to  England  and when  their quota numbers were reached\, they sailed into New York harbor on February 11th 1940.  Sonja became a high school social studies teacher. Years later she changed the direction of her career by returning to graduate school for her second Master’s degree. She became a high school librarian in an inner city school and after ten years became head librarian.  Sonja together with Eva Wiener\, participated in the mission to Jerusalem where they told their stories at the Knesset\, Yad Vashem and Hebrew University. \nEva Wiener was born in Berlin during the rise of Hitler.  To escape the Nazis\, her parents were able to book passage on the St. Louis for its ill-fated voyage to Havana\, Cuba.  When the ship was forced to return its passengers to Europe\, Eva and her parents were among the fortunate ones to be accepted into the quota for England.  They immigrated to the United States in May of 1946. Eva was employed as a Budget Analyst at Fort Monmouth\, an installation of the U. S. Department of Defense. While at the Fort she was instrumental in establishing a yearly program commemorating the Holocaust.  This program grew to become the most successful program of its kind for a military installation.  She has been Past President of the Monmouth County Chapter of B’nai Brith Women and the Gibor Zimel Resnick Chapter of American Friends of Magen David Adom.  In November of 2006 Eva was honored by being the recipient of the Eishet Chayil (Woman of Valor) awarded by the Central New Jersey Women’s Branch for Conservative Judaism.  In 2012 Eva was selected by her synagogue as the Woman of the Year.  In May of 2012 Eva also received a “Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition” for “invaluable service to the community” presented to her by Congressman Frank Pallone\, Jr. \nJohn Shilling spent the first five years of his life moving as far away as possible from the storm better known as WWII and the Holocaust.  John was born in Prague\, spent his preschool years in Holland and Ecuador\, and first and second grade in Orlando\, Florida before moving to New York.  He graduated from Forest Hills High School\, Queens College\, and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and practiced general dentistry on Long Island in Copiague and lived in Melville NY.  He was in the Medical Corp as a dentist in the Air Force from 1962 to 1964. Since his retirement he has had the opportunity to share his family’s story of emigration with High School students and with organisations interested in stories and experiences such as his. \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-and-film-talkback-complicit-and-the-legacy-of-the-st-louis/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Genocide,HGRP,Refugees ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/450px-StLouisHavana.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220524T164516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:9993-1658428200-1658433600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid book talk: Deborah Cadbury: The School that Escaped the Nazis DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Insiders/Outsiders and the Association of Jewish Refugees.\nDeborah Cadbury \nIn 1933\, as Hitler came to power\, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Essinger had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fuelled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. \nBut the safe haven that Essinger struggled to create in a rundown manor house at Bunce Court in Kent would test her to the limit. As the news from Europe continued to darken\, she rescued successive waves of fleeing children and\, when war broke out\, she and her pupils faced a second exodus. One by one countries fell to the Nazis and before long unspeakable rumours began to circulate. Red Cross messages stopped and parents in occupied Europe vanished. In time\, Anna Essinger would take in orphans who had given up all hope; the survivors of unimaginable horrors. Her school offered these scarred children the love and security they needed to rebuild their lives\, showing them that\, despite everything\, there was still a world worth fighting for. \nDeborah Cadbury will discuss her book on the school\, which features moving first-hand testimony\, letters\, diaries and present-day interviews. The School That Escaped the Nazis is a dramatic human tale that offers a unique child’s-eye perspective on Nazi persecution and the Holocaust. It is also the story of one woman’s refusal to allow her beliefs in a better\, more equitable world to be overtaken by the evil that surrounded her. \nWe will also hear from former Bunce Court pupil Ruth Boronow Danson\, supported by her daughter Jacqueline Boronow Danson\, speaking about her memories\, based on her letters from the school. Also Evan Oliner\, the grandson of survivor and former pupil\, Sam Oliner\, will speak about how Bunce Court helped his grandfather. The event will also feature excerpts from the AJR Refugee Voices archive. \nAbout the speaker\nDeborah Cadbury is the author of ten acclaimed books including Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking\, Princes at War\, Chocolate Wars (under option for television drama with Fable Pictures)\, The Dinosaur Hunters\, Space Race\, The Lost King of France and Seven Wonders of the Industrial World\, for which her accompanying BBC series received a BAFTA nomination and which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Before turning to writing full-time she worked for 30 years as a BBC TV producer and executive producer. She has won numerous international awards including an Emmy. \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-deborah-cadbury-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/scan0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220524T162817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:9986-1658341800-1658347200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Joe Mulhall: The Rise of the Today’s Far Right DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition events series. \nIn 2017 nearly two billion people lived in countries with radical or far-right governments. This included three of the five most populous countries on earth: the United States under President Donald Trump\, Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro and India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meanwhile\, the radical right was and is represented in parliamentary chambers across the continent of Europe. \nSimultaneously we have seen the rise of new transnational far-right movements\, such as the alt-right\, that have embraced the internet and rewritten the manual of far-right activism. Recent years have also seen a wave of far-right terrorism on a scale hard to imagine just a decade ago. \nEven in countries like Britain\, where the traditional far-right remains small\, their politics have entered the mainstream. \nSo how did we get here? \nJoe Mulhall’s dramatic experiences on the front line of anti-fascist activism\, including infiltrating far-right events in both Europe and America\, coupled with his academic research\, will clearly explain the roots of both elected and non-elected far-right movements across the globe and seek to explain how we got here and where we could be headed. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Joe Mulhall is one of the UK’s leading experts on far-right extremism. Director of Research at the UK’s largest anti-fascism organisation\, HOPE not hate\, his books include Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right\, British Fascism After the Holocaust and The International Alternative Right (Co- Author). He has written for The Guardian\, Independent and New Statesman and appears regularly on broadcast media including the BBC News at Ten\, Radio 4’s Today programme\, The Moral Maze and Channel 4 News\, among others. URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-joe-mulhall-the-rise-of-the-todays-far-right-2/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Web-Banner-Still-800x600-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220707T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220707T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220524T160843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151244Z UID:9978-1657218600-1657224000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Exhibition talk: Conspiracy and Antisemitism: combatting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 100 years ago and why this remains significant today DESCRIPTION:In Association with Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\nA selection of some of the copies of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ held in the Library’s collections. \nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today event series. \nAntisemitism entered the political mainstream in Britain in 1920 when a national newspaper\, the Morning Post\, published 18 long articles loosely based on the forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This newspaper series was the most prominent expression of a widespread tendency among conservatives at the time\, who repurposed deep-rooted anti-Jewish stereotypes as they reacted to global crisis and the Bolshevik Revolution. The challenge of combatting antisemitism produced significant divisions among Jews who not only disagreed over what the causes of antisemitism were but also argued over whether education or\, indeed\, anything could help improve matters. In this lecture David Feldman explores the appeal of conspiracy theory in these postwar years and the responses of British Jews to the threat they faced. He asks how this history can illumine the challenges we face combatting antisemitism today. \nAbout the speaker:\nDavid Feldman is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor at Birkbeck College\, University of London. He joined Birkbeck in 1994 having previously held lectureships at Christ’s College\, Cambridge and the University of Bristol. He specialises in the history of antisemitism\, Jewish history\, the history of migration in modern Britain and the history of racialization. \nDavid provides expertise and advice on antisemitism to a wide range of political\, philanthropic and cultural organisations. His writing on the politics of antisemitism has appeared in The Guardian\, Financial Times\, Haaretz\, History Workshop Online and The Independent. \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/exhibition-talk-conspiracy-and-antisemitism/ LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/A-selection-of-some-of-the-copies-of-The-Protocols-of-the-Elders-of-Zion-held-in-the-Librarys-collections.-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T200000 DTSTAMP:20241023T074932 CREATED:20220520T161949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151245Z UID:9908-1655920800-1655928000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org SUMMARY:Hybrid event: Panel discussion for Refugee Week 2022: What does it mean to welcome refugees? DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Waging Peace\nReception: 6-6.30pm \nEvent: 6.30-8pm \nDoes when or how you arrive in the UK matter when it comes to seeking sanctuary if you’ve fled persecution in your home country? What about the unavoidable circumstances of your birth\, the passport you hold\, your age\, or the colour of your skin? Who is deserving of our protection\, and who gets to decide? \nThese are the questions an expert panel will seek to answer during this event. Speakers will draw from their own personal experience at the hands of our asylum and immigration system\, whether their relatives fled past persecution at the hands of Nazi Germany; or they themselves escaped ongoing genocidal violence in Darfur\, Sudan. Speakers will also consider the legal frameworks underpinning our asylum and immigration systems\, especially considering recent legislative changes under the Nationality and Borders Bill\, and decisions to remove certain individuals to Rwanda. \nThe event falls during Refugee Week (20-26 June 2022)\, which takes as its theme ‘healing’ -#RefugeeWeek2022 #HealingTogether \nThis will be a hybrid event (both in person and online).  \nSpeakers:\nRobin Lustig\, former BBC presenter and journalist \nAfaf Mohammed\, representative of Massaleit community from Darfur\, Sudan \nCharlotte McLean\, lawyer at Duncan Lewis Solicitors \nChair:\nBarbara Warnock\, Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library \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. \n  URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/panel-discussion-for-refugee-week-2022-what-does-it-mean-to-welcome-refugees/ 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/2022/05/89252525_2981443898635429_8518757135545270272_n.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR