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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:20241023T075644
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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:20241023T075644
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:20241023T075644
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:20241023T075644
CREATED:20220505T095123Z
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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:20241023T075644
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:20241023T075644
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:20241023T075645
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:20241023T075645
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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:20241023T075645
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T075645
CREATED:20220223T102850Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Future of Holocaust History: An Event for the IHR's Centenary\, In Partnership with Yale University Press
DESCRIPTION:This event\, a collaboration between The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Yale University Press and The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)\, is being held to mark the IHR’s centenary year. \nChaired by Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Library\, the event will feature four Yale University Press authors\, Rebecca Clifford (author of Survivors)\, Amy Williams\, Bill Niven (author of Hitler and Film) and Dan Stone (author of The Liberation of the Camps). Each author will talk about the writing of their books to reflect on how the historiography of the Holocaust has changed and why the topic is more important now than ever. This will be followed by questions from the audience\, who can attend virtually or in person. \n  \nAbout the speakers:\nRebecca Clifford is Professor of Transnational European History at the University of Durham. She is the author of Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy (Oxford University Press\, 2013) and Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust (Yale University Press\, 2020). \nDr Amy Williams is currently working with Mitteldeutscher Verlag\, Yale University Press\, and Camden House to produce new books on the history and memory of the Kindertransport. She is a part-time lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and recently appeared on the BBC series Great British Railway Journeys. She is currently working on a book\, with Bill Niven\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nProfessor Bill Niven is is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of numerous books on memory of the Nazi period. His books include Facing the Nazi Past (2001)\, The Buchenwald Child (2007)\, and\, with Yale UP\, Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion (2018). He has just published a book in Germany with Mitteldeutscher Verlag on the postwar history of the Nazi film Jud Süß. He is currently working on a book\, with Amy Williams\, for Yale UP\, Kindertransport\, A Transnational Journey. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His forthcoming books include Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press\, 2022) and The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin/Pelican\, 2023). \nChaired by:\nChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research is focused on postwar search and collecting initiatives\, the Nazi concentration camp system and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. She is currently writing a social history and archival biography of a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \nIf you are joining online: \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. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-the-future-of-holocaust-history-an-event-for-the-ihrs-centenary-in-partnership-with-yale-university/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Collections,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime lecture: Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Published in 1935\, this pamphlet apparently advertising Nivea cream actually contains Communist writings advocating anti-fascism. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nTo mark the completion of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Project to digitise our rare collection of hidden anti-Nazi resistance writings\, Tarnschriften \nRare anti-Nazi resistance pamphlets at the Library – The Wiener Holocaust Library \nIn this talk\, Historian Dr Udo Grashoff will give an overview of Communist resistance in Nazi Germany. Although it was not successful and it hardly promoted a democratic alternative\, Communist resistance to the Nazis deserves to be considered with respect. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was the most important force among different strands of resistance against the Nazi dictatorship within the Third Reich. After Hitler’s appointment as chancellor and despite the brutal repression of political opponents\, thousands of Communists still actively supported the party. Particularly during the first three years of Hitler’s rule\, the KPD called on its members to resist heroically\, at the risk of their lives. The tragic struggle took its toll. 20\,000 German Communists died in concentration camps or were executed. Communist resistance varied in form and scope\, and was for the most part not centrally coordinated\, but it did continue until the end of the war in 1945. \nAbout the speaker\nUdo Grashoff specializes in the history of modern Germany with a focus on the history of everyday life in dictatorships\, on resistance and political taboo subjects. He is the author of a study on suicide in the GDR (“In einem Anfall von Depression…” Selbsttötungen in der DDR\, 2006) and a monograph on squatting in East Germany (Schwarzwohnen. Die Unterwanderung der staatlichen Wohnraumlenkung in der DDR\, 2011). In 2020\, he edited the volume Comparative Approaches To Informal Housing Around The Globe (UCL Press London). In 2021\, he published a book on betrayal within the Communist resistance movement in the Third Reich (Gefahr von innen. Verrat in der illegalen KPD 1933-1945). After six years at UCL in London\, he currently teaches in Leipzig. \n  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-communist-resistance-in-nazi-germany-19-may-1pm-dr-udo-grashoff/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Communist resistance
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition series. \nIn this event\, Daniel Sonabend\, historian and author of We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain\, will tell the story of the militant Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 43 Group. \nIn the immediate aftermath of the Second World War\, Britain’s fascists\, led from the shadows by the pre-war fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley\, sought to resurrect fascism in Britain. As part of this work\, they began holding outdoor meetings on street corners around London\, often focusing on areas with large Jewish populations. London’s Jews came under attack once again\, as many were harassed by gangs of fascists and Jewish properties were attacked and vandalised. Outraged that the British state was allowing this to happen and the Jewish establishment was barely kicking up a fuss\, Jewish veterans who had just returned from fighting Nazism on the continent realised that their days of fighting were not yet at an end. In 1946 they formed the 43 Group of Jewish Ex-Servicemen\, an organisation dedicated to active and direct confrontation with Britain’s fascists and anti-Semites. For the rest of the decade\, they waged an often bloody street war against Britain’s fascists\, taking the fight to them wherever they were and eventually beating them off the streets and back into the shadows. \nThe 43 Group was the first organization of its kind in Britain and theirs is a fascinating story full of character\, drama\, and indomitable spirit\, which Sonabend brings to life in his talk using photographs and interview footage of veterans of the Group. \nIf you are joining us online: \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/exhibition-talk-we-fight-fascists-the-43-group-and-their-forgotten-battle-for-post-war-britain/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fighting Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Revision: Democracy and Nazism: The Nazi Dictatorship
DESCRIPTION:Adolf Hitler at a Nazi Party rally\, c. 1930s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Library’s Summer Term educational talks and workshops. \nThe end of the First World War marked the beginning of a period of political and economic instability in Germany. As a result of this instability\, many small\, extremist political groups appeared. With the collapse of democracy\, one such party\, the NSDAP\, or Nazi Party\, rose to power in Germany. \nThis revision session\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi Dictatorship. It will explore the idea of ‘the Terror State’; the role of the SS and Gestapo; opposition to the Nazis; Nazi propaganda and the extent of totalitarianism in Germany. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following: 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-nazi-dictatorship/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220509T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion on Holocaust distortion
DESCRIPTION:Prior to murdering their victims at extermination camps\, the Nazis confiscated all their personal possessions. This photograph shows some of the shaving brushes seized by the Nazis at Auschwitz\, 1940-1945. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Fighting Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today exhibition event series. In association with Yet Again to mark the launch of their resource\, Holocaust Distortion in Europe: An Interactive Map. \nHolocaust distortion – the attempt to manipulate the historical narrative and significance of the Holocaust – is a significant problem in Europe. Holocaust distortion manifests in many ways: it can be seen in attempts to claim that the Jews are somehow responsible for the Holocaust\, or in the erasure of the culpability of some of the perpetrators. \nIn this event\, panellists will discuss some of the issues around Holocaust distortion\, including considering how Holocaust distortion should be defined; how\, when and where ideas of Holocaust distortion have developed; how Holocaust distortion differs (or not) from Holocaust denial\, and what threat Holocaust distortion poses to public discourses. \nAbout the speakers: \nAlex Maws is Head of Education and Heritage at the Association of Jewish Refugees. He is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial and served on the Board of Directors of the British Association of Holocaust Studies from 2013-2016. \nDr Juliane Wetzel is a historian and a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin and chair of the IHRA Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. She advised the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion\, created during the German presidency of the IHRA in 2020. \nDr Robert Williams is Deputy Director for International Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, on the steering committee of the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion\, and served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.\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-panel-discussion-on-holocaust-distortion/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Fighting Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220505T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands
DESCRIPTION:The Library is delighted to host a hybrid book talk with Carole Angier in conversation with Philippe Sands on Angier’s new book\, Speak\, Silence: In Search of WG Sebald as part of our new academic book event series. \nW. G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books including The Emigrants\, Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn\, he pursued an original literary vision that combined fiction\, history\, autobiography and photography\, addressing some of the most profound themes of contemporary literature: the burden of the Holocaust\, memory\, loss and exile. \nThe first biography to explore his life and work\, Speak\, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War\, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich\, to his emigration to England\, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge\, finding profound empathy and paradoxical ruthlessness\, saving humour\, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work. The result is a unique\, ferociously original portrait. \nAbout the speakers \nCarole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill\, Oxford and Cambridge. She taught academic and life writing for many years and has edited several books of refugee writing. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of Law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nIf you are joining online: \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. \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7247.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-carole-angier-in-conversation-with-philippe-sands/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a virtual talk with Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls\, authors of ‘Adolf Island’: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney as part of our new academic books event series. \n‘Adolf Island’ offers new forensic\, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War. Drawing on extensive archival research and the results of the first in-field investigations of the ‘crime scenes’ since 1945\, the book identifies and characterises the network of concentration and labour camps\, fortifications\, burial sites and other material traces connected to the occupation\, providing new insights into the identities and experiences of the men and women who lived\, worked and died within this landscape. The book is the culmination of ten years’ research carried out by Staffordshire University forensic archaeologists Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and Associate Professor Kevin Colls. Their investigations on the island have also been the subject of a TV documentary that was screened on the Smithsonian Channel in 2019. Moving beyond previous studies focused on military aspects of the occupation\, the book argues that Alderney was intrinsically linked to wider systems of Nazi forced and slave labour. \nAbout the Speakers: \nCaroline Sturdy Colls is an Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Staffordshire University specialising in Holocaust studies. She is also the Research Lead and founder of the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution. Her research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes\, with a particular focus on forensic and archaeological techniques\, and the ethical issues that surround their implementation. She has undertaken archaeological investigations at Treblinka extermination and labour camps in Poland\, the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel Islands)\, the former Semlin Judenlager and Anhaltlager (Serbia)\, Bergen-Belsen (Germany)\, and numerous killing sites in Poland and Ukraine. \nKevin Colls is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and is the lead Archaeological Project Manager for the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University. He has directed and published archaeological projects throughout Europe and has over 20 years of experience in professional development-led archaeology. Kevin has directed several fieldwork projects at Holocaust sites\, most recently in Ukraine. \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-adolf-island-the-nazi-occupation-of-alderney/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Open Day for Camden Schools
DESCRIPTION:Children with a teacher in a classroom in Eschwege Displaced Persons camp\, c. 1946-1948. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to invite you to our one-day event organised specifically for GCSE and A-Level students attending school or college in the London Borough of Camden on Thursday 28 April 2022\, 10:00am – 4:00pm.  \nRun by the Library’s experienced education team\, we have organised an exciting day of talks and workshops for students in Camden to deepen their understanding of the Nazi era and the Holocaust through engagement with the Library’s unique and historic archive; as well as hearing from guest speakers including Holocaust academic Dr Rebecca Jinks of Royal Holloway and Holocaust survivor Ruth Schwiening. Read the full programme for here.  \nThe day is an exclusive opportunity for schools in Camden and places for the day will be given on a first come first serve basis. You can either book in for the whole day or specific events\, capacity for each session is shown in the programme attached. All aspects of the programme are free. \nIf you would like to secure spaces for your students for either the day or specific sessions\, please email education@wienerholocaustlibrary.org and provide us with the following: your name and position in school\, your school’s name\, whether you would like to attend the whole day or set sessions\, the school year of the students attending and the number of students you hope to attend.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/open-day-for-camden-schools/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Education,Student Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220426T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Fellowships in Holocaust Research and Adjacent Fields
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Library’s Reading Room at its former Devonshire Street address\, c. 1959. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nNot sure where to start with Fellowship applications? Confused about budgeting? Interested in overseas opportunities\, but wondering how it all works? \nThis virtual workshop presents an opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers to hear from experts involved in the leadership and development of Fellowships and grants relating to Holocaust Studies and adjacent fields. We will consider recent and current trends in Holocaust research and the practicalities of successfully obtaining Fellowships related to the subject. Our panel will also be on hand to answer the questions you’ve always had\, but never had the chance to ask! \nThis event will be chaired and led by staff from the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). \nConfirmed Speakers \nDr Elizabeth Anthony (Director\, Visiting Scholars Program\, USHMM) \nDr Sarah Cushman (Director\, Holocaust Educational Foundation\, Northwestern University) \nMr Steffen Jost (Program Director\, Alfred Landecker Foundation) \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-workshop-fellowships-in-holocaust-research-and-adjacent-fields/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The Reorientation of the Buchenwald Memorial Site\, 1989-1999
DESCRIPTION:A sign on the memorial site revealing the “double past” of Buchenwald. Courtesy Buchenwald Memorial.  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe German reunification not only caused tremendous social and economic changes but also reshaped the memorial landscape in (East) Germany. Memorial sites like Buchenwald which were instrumentalized under the GDR as showplaces for antifascism had to be redesigned (“reoriented”) after the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to break away from their controversial communist past. This process triggered off\, especially in Buchenwald\, a highly publicized controversy that lasted for ten years. This presentation gives an overview of the reorientation of Buchenwald by naming its main actors and events\, identifying the main bones of contention and by analysing the way the interactions between the actors reshaped the memorial space. \nAbout the speaker: \nMaëlle Lepitre is a PhD candidate in History at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (Germany). Her research explores the effect of the German reunification on memory culture\, and more specifically on Buchenwald. She will publish an article about memorial sites in East Germany after 1989 in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict (forthcoming\, 2022). \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-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-reorientation-of-the-buchenwald-memorial-site-1989-1999/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220420T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: Fighting Antisemitism
DESCRIPTION:43 Group pamphlet\, c. 1947\, courtesy of the family of Mildred Levy. The 43 Group were an antifascist organisation comprised mainly of Jewish ex-servicemen and women. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Library’s Spring Term educational talks and workshops. \nIn this talk\, part of the Library’s event series for its Fighting Antisemitism exhibition\, Senior Curator Dr Barbara Warnock will explore the development of antisemitism in Western Europe from the late nineteenth century to today\, and the means by which Jewish organisations and other groups have fought back against antisemitism. The talk will draw upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections of material on antisemitism in Weimar and Nazi Germany\, British fascism in the 1930s and beyond\, and the struggle against fascism and antisemitism. The talk will cover the efforts of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s predecessor organisation in Germany\, as well as those of other organisations\, such as the 43 Group\, formed by primarily of Jewish ex-servicemen and women after the Second World War to fight back against the resurgence of fascism in Britain\, and look at the work in this area of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust. \nDelivered by Dr Barbara Warnock\, Senior Curator and Head of Education\, 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-talk-fighting-antisemitism/
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Panel: Outside the Gates of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:Since it opened in 1947\, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s mission to educate the public has focused mainly upon site-based learning\, encouraging visitors to witness and reflect in the former camp space. Over the last few years\, however\, efforts have been made to bring the history and memory of the former camp to as wide an audience as possible\, particularly in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. What are the benefits and challenges of bringing the history of Auschwitz outside its gates? What impact may this have on education and commemoration? And how might the ever-increasing reliance on digital technologies change visitors’ relationship with the physical site in years to come? \nAbout the Panel \nDr Imogen Dalziel is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, and also works as a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. Her doctorate\, obtained from Royal Holloway\, University of London in late 2020\, explored the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s adaptation to the digital museum. Imogen’s broader research interests include the history of the Auschwitz Museum; Holocaust tourism; and Holocaust memory in the digital age. \nPaul Salmons is Director of Paul Salmons Associates\, creating museum exhibitions and educational projects that explore difficult\, challenging histories. He is consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chief Curator of Seeing Auschwitz (produced for UNESCO and the United Nations); and Curator of Musealia’s award-winning Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. He is consulting on two major new permanent exhibitions that will open in New York City and St Louis\, Missouri. Paul helped create the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum; co-founded the Centre for Holocaust Education at University College London; and played a leading role in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. \nPaweł Sawicki is Press and PR Officer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum\, where he has worked since 2007. He is responsible for the Museum’s social media and his work also encompasses conducting guided tours; English-Polish translation; and photography\, the latter most notably featured in the 2012 Museum publication Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Place Where You Are Standing. Before joining the Auschwitz Museum\, Paweł worked as a presenter and journalist for Polish Radio 2\, often covering events connected with the history of the Holocaust and World War II. \nClementine Smith is Director of Programmes and Deputy Managing Director at the Holocaust Educational Trust\, where she has worked for over 10 years. During her time at the Trust\, Clementine has led the Trust’s Ambassador Programme (including the launch of the Regional Ambassador Programme in 2013)\, and now oversees the strategic development and delivery of the Trust’s core programmes. In 2020\, Clementine played an integral part in the team’s pivot towards online delivery for the Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz Project; Outreach Programme; Teacher Training offer; and youth engagement work. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-panel-outside-the-gates-of-auschwitz/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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