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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220921T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220909T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220909T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220908T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T183000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220907T160000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220905T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220905T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220811T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220811T140000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075313
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220803T200000
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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
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220728T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220726T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220726T200000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220725T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220720T200000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220707T183000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220622T180000
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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
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Passion\, Frustration and Bureaucracy: British Voluntary Efforts for Refugees from Nazism
DESCRIPTION:To mark the launch of a new travelling exhibition\, Mapping Memories: Jewish Refugees to Britain\, 1933-1945. \nIn this online event\, Becky Taylor will draw from her recent book\, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain. A History (Cambridge\, 2021)\, to explore the enormous efforts made by voluntary organisations to bring refugees from Nazism to Britain. In the process\, she will show the role\, not only of passion but of self-interest\, frustration and bureaucracy in the desperate efforts to bring refugees to safety before the outbreak of the Second World War. \nDue to the planned rail strike\, this will now be an online only event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. \nAbout the speaker\nBecky Taylor is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia. She specialises in the histories of minority and marginalised populations – including refugees\, Gypsies and Travellers and the stigmatised poor – and their relationship with the state. \nEvent guidelines:\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-passion-frustration-and-bureaucracy-british-voluntary-efforts-for-refugees-from-nazism/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugee Map
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
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SUMMARY:Online Workshop: Mapping Migration and the Challenges of Digital Curation
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\n \nTo mark 2022’s Refugee Week\, The Wiener Holocaust Library’s launch of its new Refugee Map and to explore the opportunities and challenges of digital humanities projects to record\, analyse\, and commemorate the experience of forced migration\, we are pleased to host an interdisciplinary\, one-day virtual symposium that will examine themes related to the challenges of transnational digital curation and the sustainability of digital humanities resources in a new digital age for archives and heritage collections. To what extent do digital resources that map the paths of forced migration extend or subvert archival mediation? Do they democratise access to globally dispersed archives\, or reinforce national\, cultural or other barriers? What are the problems of sustainability for digital resources? The symposium will also feature a keynote lecture by Dr Simone Gigliotti (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\, as well as a hands-on workshop for postgraduate researchers to work with the Library’s new Refugee Map. \nWe welcome digital humanities scholars and practitioners\, and scholars\, postgraduate students and early career researchers in digital humanities\, migration studies\, history\, sociology\, anthropology\, information studies\, curatorial and archival studies\, and related fields to participate. We anticipate that this workshop will be useful to both users and creators of digital humanities resources.  \nProgramme\n10.00-10.15 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks  \n\nDr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Wiener Holocaust Library \nLeah Sidebotham\, Digital Asset Manager\, Wiener Holocaust Library \n\n  \n10.15 -11.30 am: Panel 1: Digital Projects and the Challenges of Curation  \nChair: Helen Lewandowski\, Assistant Curator\, Wiener Holocaust Library  \n\nDr Kristen Schuster\,  Lecturer in Digital Curation\, King’s College London \nKate Marrison\,  Lecturer in Film and Media / PhD Researcher\, University of Leeds\nPaul Dudman\, Archivist\, University of East London  \n\nDiscussant: Dr Rumana Hashem\, Living Refugee Archive  \n  \n11:30 am – 12:45 pm: Panel 2: Sustainability of Digital Humanities Resources  \nChair: Leah Sidebotham\, Digital Asset Manager\, Wiener Holocaust Library  \n\nDr Paris Chronakis\, Lecturer in Modern Greek History\, Royal Holloway\, University of London  \nProfessor Marilyn Deegan\, Professor of Digital Humanities and Honorary Research Fellow\, King’s College London \n\n  \n12:45pm – 2pm Lunch Break \n  \n2pm – 2:45 pm Keynote Lecture:   \nDr Simone Gigliotti\,  Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London\, Evaluating Geospatial initiatives as transnational Holocaust storytelling: activating archives in digital landscapes \nChair: Dr Michal Frankl\, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences\, Unlikely Refuge? \n  \n2.45-3.00 pm: The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Refugee Map: Curation and Demonstration\nHelen Lewandowski  \n3:00 – 3.30 pm: ‘Discovery’ Break to explore the Map project \n 3.30 – 4 pm:  Participants return\, voluntary presentations\, discussion chaired by Simone Gigliotti\, Helen Lewandowski\, Leah Sidebotham\, Christine Schmidt  \n  \nApplications\nTo apply to attend\, please send the following information to Dr Christine Schmidt by Friday 10 June 2022: cschmidt@wienerholocaustlibrary.org \nName: \nInstitutional Affiliation: \nDegree: \nArea of Research Interest [250-500 words]: \nWhat do you hope to gain from this workshop? [up to 200 words] \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-workshop-mapping-migration-and-the-challenges-of-digital-curation/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220615T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220420T110845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151300Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Come to this Court and Cry: Linda Kinstler in Conversation with William Shawcross
DESCRIPTION:A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead – a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last legal witnesses – were dying. \nAcross the world\, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century\, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission\, so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the crime scene of history closed? \nIn this major non-fiction debut\, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound\, Come to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism\, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the stories we tell about ourselves\, our families and our nations are passed down\, how we alter them\, and what they demand of us. \nMs Kinstler will be led in conversation by William Shawcross. \nAbout the speakers:\nLinda Kinstler is a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and a Ph.D candidate in the Rhetoric Department at U.C. Berkeley. Her writing appears in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, and more. She was previously a Marshall Scholar in the UK\, where she covered British politics for The Atlantic and studied Forensic Architecture. She has been a contributing writer at Politico Europe\, which she helped launch in Brussels in spring 2015. Before that\, she was the managing editor of The New Republic\, where she covered the war in Ukraine. \nWilliam Shawcross was appointed Independent Reviewer of Prevent in January 2021. He was the Chair of the Charity Commission between 2012 and 2018 and became the Special Representative on UK victims of Qadhafi-sponsored IRA terrorism in March 2019. His previous roles have included membership of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Informal Advisory Panel between 1995 and 2000\, and as a member of the Council of the Disasters Emergency Committee\, 1997 to 2002. He served on the board of International Crisis Group between 1995 and 2006. Prior to 2012\, William was an independent writer and commentator\, having worked as a Foreign Correspondent and written extensively on international affairs. His book\, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia\, Holocaust and Modern Conscience\, examined the role of aid agencies in disaster relief. He has also written on the work of the United Nations in 1990s conflict zones in Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers\, Warlords\, and a World of Endless Conflict. His other works include Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg\, 9/11\, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. \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-come-to-this-court-and-cry-linda-kinstler-in-conversation-with-william-shawcross/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220504T155839Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Modern Times: The Biography of Hungarian-Jewish Family
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. \n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual book talk with Prof Stephen Pogany\, led in conversation Dr Gábor Kádár. \nBeginning with the final decades of the doomed Austro-Hungarian Empire\, Prof Stephen Pogany explores the lives of his mother’s family in Budapest and in the spa town of Balatonfüred. Drawing on a wide range of historical and literary sources\, as well as extended interviews with family members and Holocaust survivors\, Modern Times examines the reality of Hungarian-Jewish life in the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to the familiar tropes that portray Jews as wealthy and privileged\, many of Hungary’s Jews\, like most of the ones we encounter in this memoir\, toiled at menial jobs for low pay while facing growing prejudice and discrimination in the years leading up to the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers:\nProf Stephen Pogany is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick\, where he specialised in international and comparative human rights law. He has written extensively on antisemitism and anti-Gypsyism in East Central Europe\, particularly in Hungary. In October 2021\, his family memoir\, Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family was published in the UK. \nDr Gábor Kádár is a recurrent visiting professor of the Jewish Studies Program at Central European University. He is former Senior Historian of the Hungarian Jewish Archives\, Budapest. He is the author and co-author of six monographs and numerous studies\, articles and encyclopedia entries regarding various aspects of the Holocaust\, the history of Jews in Hungary as well as the history of genocide and ethnic violence in Central Europe. He is the Director of the Yerusha Project\, a digital humanities initiative by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe as well as a member of the Digital Forum Advisory Board of the European Association of Jewish Studies. \n  \nEvent guidelines:\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-book-talk-modern-times-the-biography-of-hungarian-jewish-family/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220329T153517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Testimonies of the Farhud in the Sephardi Voices UK Archive
DESCRIPTION:On 1 June 1941 a pogrom\, known as the Farhud\, broke out in Baghdad. Over the course of 48 hours\, homes and businesses were looted\, and hundreds of Jews were injured and killed. The Farhud is widely recognized as an event inspired by Nazi ideology and marked a turning point in Iraqi-Jewish history. \nSephardi Voices UK documents the testimonies of Jews from the Middle East\, North Africa and Iran. In this event\, we will introduce the SVUK archive\, explore testimonies of those who lived through the Farhud\, and discuss the long-term effects of the Farhud on Baghdad’s Jews. \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 Archive. She is a member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, School of Advanced Study\, University pf 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. Her latest publication\, Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (Brill:2021)\, presents twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s. \nDaisy Abboudi has been Deputy Director of Sephardi Voices UK since 2017. She has conducted a hundred oral history interviews over the course of her career. In addition to her work at Sephardi Voices UK\, Daisy runs Tales of Jewish Sudan. Her work has been featured in the BBC\, Associated Press\, Al Arabiya English and in several Jewish 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/hybrid-event-testimonies-of-the-farhud-in-the-sephardi-voices-uk-archive/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Collections
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220531T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220419T084307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series \nIf Sir Nicholas Winton saved six percent of the Kindertransport children\, who was responsible for the other 94%? Renowned Holocaust educator Mike Levy will draw on his newly published book Get The Children Out: Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport to tell the untold stories of the quiet heroes who helped organise the famous mass rescue of children at the start of the Second World War. \n He will also describe how the enormous task of caring for the Kinder was carried out – and by whom. Brave men and women transformed the lives of the children\, among them the Dutch aunt\, the grocer\, the Quaker\, and the Rabbi. \nPublished by Lemon Soul\, £1 from every book sale will be donated to our charity partner Safe Passage.  \nAbout the speaker:\nMike Levy is a researcher for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Association for Jewish Refugees\, an educator with the Holocaust Education Trust and Chair of The Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust. \nEvent guidelines:\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-book-talk-get-the-children-out-unsung-heroes-of-the-kindertransport/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220530T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220505T095123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Stolperstein Ceremony and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On 30 May 2022 London will be the site of the installation of Britain’s first Stolperstein\, ‘stumbling stone.’  \nThe world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation\, the Stolperstein project has placed over 100\,000 stones in 26 countries. Created by German artist Gunter Demnig 25 years ago\, these small brass plaques are placed in the pavement in front of the homes or places of work of victims of Nazi persecution. \nThe stone to be installed in London commemorates Ada van Dantzig\, a young Dutch-Jewish paintings conservator who came to this country in the 1930s to work\, but later re-joined her family in the Netherlands.  She was murdered in Auschwitz on 14 February 1943. \nThis public installation will take place at 11 am on May 30\, at \n3 Golden Square\, Soho\, London\, the site where Ada worked. \nFollowing the installation\, from 2pm-4pm\, The Wiener Holocaust Library will host a panel discussion featuring the artist Gunter Demnig\, who will speak about his work.  Several scholars and practitioners will also comment on related themes of Holocaust memory\, memorialisation\, and education.  Pre-registration is required and tickets are available through this link:  Stolperstein Ceremony Tickets\, Mon 30 May 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/stolperstein-ceremony-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220526T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220316T123504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Alice's Book - Karina Urbach in conversation with Lord Daniel Finkelstein
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this hybrid in-person and virtual event in celebration of Karina Urbach’s new book Alice’s Book as part of our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. \nAlice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna\, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England\, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau\, and her older son\, having emigrated to the United States\, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis. \nReturning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s\, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else’s name. Now\, eighty years later\, the historian Karina Urbach – Alice’s granddaughter – sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook\, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime\, of a woman who\, with her unwavering passion for cooking\, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America. \nAbout the Speakers:\nDr Karina Urbach is both a historian and prize-winning novelist. She took her PhD at the University of Cambridge and since 2015 researches 20th Century History at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton and the Institute for Historical Research\, University of London. Bismarck’s favourite Englishman was Urbach’s first book and is now out in paperback. In 2015\, her monograph Go-Betweens for Hitler triggered a campaign for the release of interwar material from the royal archives. Her latest work Alice’s Book (Das Buch Alice\, Berlin 2020) illustrates for the first time how German publishing houses turned Jewish non-fiction books into ‘Aryan’ ones. Urbach worked on several documentaries for the BBC\, Channel 4\, ITV and in the US – for PBS and has written for several newspapers. \nLord Daniel Finkelstein OBE is a leading political journalist and prominent media commentator on both TV and radio. A former politician himself\, he is currently Associate Editor and Political Columnist for The Times. \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-talk-alices-book-karina-urbach-in-conversation-with-lord-daniel-finkelstein/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220525T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220203T132556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Revision: Democracy and Nazism: The Racial State
DESCRIPTION:Jewish women walking in the street with yellow Star of Davids attached to their outer clothing. France\, c. 1940s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Summer Term educational talks and workshops. \nIn the interwar period\, Germany was politically unstable. The trauma caused by the First World War and the Great Depression left many Germans disheartened and susceptible to extremist ideas. \nThe Nazi Party seemingly offered hope and solutions. The Party condemned the unpopular Treaty of Versailles and offered an explanation for Germany’s problems – the Jews. Although this was not a new idea in Germany\, where antisemitism had been growing since the start of the century\, Nazi ideology placed antisemitism and racist ideas at its centre. \nThis revision session\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi’s creation of a ‘Racial State’. It will explore the radicalisation of the state; Nazi racial ideology; increasing antisemitic policies and actions as well as the treatment of Jews in the early years of war by looking at the development of ghettos and deportations. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following: KS3 History; GCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939; GCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955: The People and The State. Edexcel A-Level History – Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89; OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963; AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945. \nEvent guidelines\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) 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-revision-democracy-and-nazism-the-racial-state/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220404T154553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151301Z
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Search Bureau for Missing Relatives was created in 1945 by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to help relatives find each other. It published lists of names in a weekly bulletin called “To the Near and Far” and broadcast names over the radio. 1957 © Central Zionist Archive. \nThis is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart 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. \nThis 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 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 Manchester-based partner organisations\, soon to be announced. \nParticipants will also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-family-history-research-workshop/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T210000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220404T154223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151302Z
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Fate Unknown Travelling Exhibition Launch and Drinks Reception
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart 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. \nTake 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 to be announced. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-fate-unknown-travelling-exhibition-launch-and-drinks-reception/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T180000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075314
CREATED:20220404T153505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151302Z
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SUMMARY:Recovery & Repair: Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Manchester Jewish Museum.\nPart of the Library’s Recovery & Repair: Supporting Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust in Britain ITS event series. \n\n\n\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.  \n\n\n\nWe welcome historians\, archivists\, family historians\, heritage practitioners\, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath. \n\nJoin the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition\, Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, who will explore the remarkable\, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Fate 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. \n\n\n\nFollowing their talk\, a panel of distinguished speakers will discuss patterns of persecution and survival found in Jewish and other archives: Elise Bath (Wiener Holocaust Library)\, on Roma and Sinti victims in the ITS archive; Niamh Hanrahan (University of Manchester)\, on humanitarian relief in Asia\, and Professor Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester)\, on the creation of the Archive of Memory\, among other speakers.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-repair-fate-unknown-the-search-for-the-missing-after-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Manchester Jewish Museum\, 190 Cheetham Hill Road\, Manchester\, M8 8LW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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