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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:20241023T080042
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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:20241023T080042
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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:20241023T080042
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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:20241023T080042
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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:20241023T080042
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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:20241023T080042
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220519T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080042
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220511T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080042
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T080042
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T080042
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220428T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220316T155916Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220420T101254Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220425T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220425T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220321T162047Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220420T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220329T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220329T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220310T113804Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations: History and Russian Instrumentalisation
DESCRIPTION:A crowd assaults and abuses Jewish women during the Lviv Pogrom\, 30 June and 1 July 1941. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nIn light of Vladimir Putin’s spurious goal of “de-Nazifying” Ukraine and to think about how historical knowledge can be applied to current crises\, the Library is pleased to host this panel which will analyse Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The panel brings together experts on the Russian Civil Wars and their aftermath\, the Second World War\, and the Euromaidan and ensuing war. They will discuss not only the history of these events but also the way in which Russia has instrumentalised them to justify its recent invasion of Ukraine. \nAmong other topics\, the panel will examine the role of Ukrainian nationalist groups in antisemitic violence in the periods 1918-1921 and 1941-1945. It will analyse and contextualise the “history wars” that erupted after the fall of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014\, which\, to a large degree\, focused on interpretations of these events. Here\, it will pay particular attention to the Russian use of Ukraine’s early twentieth-century history to delegitimise the contemporary Ukrainian state and the attempt by some Ukrainian historians to counter this through blank denial. It will not ignore\, however\, the development of a new generation of Ukrainian historians endeavouring to assess honestly the violent periods of the country’s past. \nAbout the speakers: \nProfessor Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press\, 2013)\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her new book\, entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews\, Pogroms\, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets\, was published with Oxford University Press in fall 2019 and won a National Jewish Book Award. \nProfessor John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor (with Joanna B. Michlic) of Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe (University of Nebraska Press 2013)\, as well as author of a number of books and numerous articles on Ukrainian history\, including Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust. \nSam Sokol is a reporter for the Israeli daily Haaretz. He was previously a correspondent at the Jerusalem Post and has reported for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\, the Israel Broadcasting Authority and the Times of Israel. He is the author of Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews. \nChaired by: \nDr Christopher Gilley did doctoral and post-doctoral research on Sovietophile Ukrainians in the 1920s and warlordism in Ukraine\, 1917-1922. As part of the latter project\, he also wrote about the antisemitic pogroms of the period. He then retrained as an archivist and is now working as a project archivist on The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Digital Transformation Project. \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-ukrainian-jewish-relations-history-and-russian-instrumentalisation/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Fighting Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Workshop: Source Analysis for Coursework
DESCRIPTION:This map indicates the number of Jews murdered by the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads that followed the German army) in each country. The map shows modern-day Belarus\, at the bottom\, then continuing clockwise\, Lithuania\, Latvia\, Estonia and Russia. The map was featured as part of the Stahlecker report and was used in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Library’s Spring Term educational talks and workshops. \nUsing sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop for students and teachers will explore the Library’s resources and collections and how they can be used to support with primary source analysis for coursework. \nThe workshop will show participants how to access archival material\, and use original archival materials from the Library’s collections to investigate key historical questions such as who was responsible for the Holocaust. \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-workshop-source-analysis-for-coursework/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220315T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Menachem Kaiser: Plunder
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the newest event in our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust Event Series\, which explores the meaning and legacy of family research into the Holocaust. The Library is delighted to welcome Menachem Kaiser\, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure\, who will be in conversation with Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, for this virtual event.  \nFrom a gifted young writer\, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland – and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story\, woven from improbable events and profound revelations\, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery – that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the Second World War but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast\, secret Nazi tunnel complex-leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure-seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research\, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent\, daring interrogation of inheritance – material\, spiritual\, familial\, and emotional. \nAbout the speakers: \nMenachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Atlantic\, New York\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. \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-book-talk-menachem-kaiser-plunder/
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:20220308T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220126T122740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Simon Parkin speak about his new book\, The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist\, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal. Using exclusive new archive material\, letters and diaries\, it reveals the untold story of history’s most extraordinary prison camp\, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War. \nApproximately 73\,500 German and Austrian refugees from Nazism fled to Britain when war broke out. Initially\, these refugees were received under such lauded schemes as the Kindertransport. But in the following months\, the British media stoked national paranoia that a network of spies\, posing as refugees\, lurked among their ranks. The British government embarked upon a policy of mass internment of the very same people they had welcomed to our shores\, and of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ living in Britain\, approximately 30\,000 were sent to camps indefinitely. On 13 July 1940\, Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man was declared open. Home to around 1\,200 prisoners\, by a twist of fate their number included some of the most prominent and celebrated German and Austrian artists\, musicians and academics of the day\, such as the pioneering German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters\, Ludwig Meidner (Artist)\, Paul Hamann (Artist)\, Fred Uhlman (Artist)\, Gerhard Bersu (Oxford archaeologist)\, Heinrich Fraenkel (author\, journalist\, chess-setter for New Statesman)\, Fred Weiss (film director)\, and Leo Wurmser (Conductor for BBC orchestras etc). The Austrian politician Emil Maurer survived not one but two Germany camps – Dachau and Buchenwald – only to be sent to the Isle of Man by his supposed saviours. Other internees\, like the orphan and aspiring artist Peter Fleischmann\, were barely out of school\, but found among the eminent men a community that would forever change their lives. \nLive stream tickets are also available. \nAbout the author: \nSimon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of A Game Of Birds And Wolves\, which told the little-known story of a small group of women in Liverpool who devised a war game which went on to be the thing that won the Battle of the Atlantic and has been bought for film by Steven Spielberg. He lives in West Sussex. \n  \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 7242
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220210T110650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
UID:8850-1646755200-1646758800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Holocaust Refugees in British India: Perspectives from Two “Others”
DESCRIPTION:Close-up portrait of Jewish refugee\, Esther Weeg\, wearing a sari while living in India. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives\, Photograph Number: 77107\, copyright of USHMM.   \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe construction and use of the term “refugee” in Holocaust studies\, like refugee studies\, focuses on the role of nation-states operating unilaterally or in an interdependent international refugee regime. This focus\, however\, discounts the world of empires that shaped the administration and experiences of Jewish refugees through the twentieth century. \nThis paper adopts the perspectives of two groups of people “Other-ed” in the racial hierarchy of empire. First\, it uses photographs and writings of Jewish Refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society. It highlights the ways in which Jewish refugees responded to and participated in their changing categorizations prior to and following the start of the Second World War. Second\, it reads government records against the grain to put forward the perspective of Indians encountering these new “Europeans.” In doing so\, I show that scholars ought to account for an expanded conception of Britain which includes in its “domestic” sphere its imperial boundaries when analyzing refugee movements in the Empire. This\, I will demonstrate\, allows us not only to ask new questions on the Holocaust but also\, of the archives that allow us to study them and the perspectives they represent. \nAbout the speaker: \nPragya Kaul is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan’s Department of History and a Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Y. Gitelman Fellow at Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. From 2020-2021\, she was a Leo Baeck International Dissertation Fellow. Her research uses her knowledge of German\, Hindi\, Urdu\, and Yiddish to examine the experiences of Jewish refugees in the British Empire\, and to take an imperial framework towards understanding refugees broadly. She has been awarded grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes\, and the German Historical Institute. \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/8850/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220127T140517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: The Kitchener Camp Rescue
DESCRIPTION:Residents of the Kitchener Camp standing outside the first aid station\, 1930. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Library’s Leave To Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue 1939 exhibition event series. Leave to Land was authored by Clare Weissenberg and was based on materials collected through The Kitchener Camp Project\, a unique online resource that brings together archival records and family treasures to build a moving and compelling picture of this unlikely sanctuary. \nIn this talk\, Professor Clare Ungerson will discuss how it came about that 4\,000 German Jewish refugee men moved from Greater Germany to live in an old army camp on the edge of the small town of Sandwich in East Kent in 1939. It is a remarkable story of speedy and highly effective action by Anglo Jewry who\, in 1938/9\, organised and funded two rescues – the much better known Kindertransports\, and the movement of 4000 adult men\, many from concentration camps\, from Greater Germany to the English coast. She will also discuss how the people of Sandwich\, a town the size of the camp\, reacted to this presence of 4\,000 Jewish refugees living on the edge of their town. \nAbout the speaker: \nClare Ungerson is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She retired in 2005 and moved to Sandwich in East Kent. She is the daughter and granddaughter of German Jewish refugees. On retirement\, she decided to investigate the story of the Kitchener camp. The Wiener Holocaust Library archives were an invaluable source\, as were the papers of Norman Bentwich\, lodged in the Hebrew University\, Jerusalem. Her book\, Four Thousand Lives: the rescue of German Jewish men to Britain\, 1939 was published in hardback by the History Press in 2014 and reprinted in paperback in 2019. In December 2019 it was named by one of the contributors to The Times Literary Supplement as his ‘book of the year’. \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/exhibition-talk-the-kitchener-camp-rescue/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Kitchener Camp
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220203T131401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
UID:8791-1646236800-1646240400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Teacher Workshop: Using The Wiener Holocaust Library Resources to Support Teaching About the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alfred Wiener and Ilse Wolff at The Wiener Library in Manchester Square\, 1950s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nPart of the Library’s Spring Term educational talks and workshops. \nUsing sources from the Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop for teachers will explore the Library’s resources and collections and how they can be used to support classroom practice. \nWe will explore the history of the Library\, the collections we hold\, the resources we have on offer and how these can be utilised so that students can understand and analyse contemporary material. \nThe workshop is aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators and will be led by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer. \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-teacher-workshop-using-the-wiener-holocaust-library-resources-to-support-teaching-about-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220112T170836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
UID:8462-1645727400-1645732800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event celebrates the launch of The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past and will be introduced by the co-editor\, David Clark\, and two of the contributors to the book. This event is in partnership with the Second Generation Network.\n\n\n\n\nThis book is about the long-term implications of socio-political trauma as experienced by descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees. As they recount their actual journeys of discovery in search of ‘home’\, where their parents\, grandparents lived\, they often tell us about an accompanying emotional journey. \nIt contains twenty accounts by Second-Generation authors of journeys to places connected with family history. These include Germany\, Austria\, Poland\, the Czech Republic\, Slovakia\, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys accompanied by a survivor or refugee parent\, a third without a parent\, and a third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history and impacted their identity and life choices. Another aspect touched upon is the mourning and grieving process these journeys entailed and facilitated. The book dwells on the search for belonging and identity\, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit and all that entails. \nThe epilogue draws on a body of work that suggests that as socio-political trauma is suffered within a social\, cultural and political context\, it requires society’s attention and acknowledgment beyond the individual.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-journey-home-emerging-out-of-the-shadow-of-the-past/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220128T122445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
UID:8705-1645545600-1645549200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Red Friday: The Wehrmacht\, the Order Police\, and the first wartime massacre of Białystok’s Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Market Place of Bialystok during the burning of the Synagogue. Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen Abt. Rheinland\, RWB 18256/176  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nOn 27 June 1941\, the Wehrmacht 221st Security Division captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok\, encountering very little resistance. By the end of the day\, as many as 2000 Jewish residents of Białystok had been killed\, with the Grand Synagogue\, and at least one-third of the city\, razed to the ground. What happened in Białystok that day\, and why was such an atrocious massacre allowed to happen? This talk will draw upon Wehrmacht records\, survivors’ accounts\, and post-war criminal trial papers to answer these questions. \nAbout the speaker: \nJake Holliday is a PhD Military History Student with the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham. His thesis concerns a Wehrmacht security division that was deployed on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 and focuses on security warfare\, occupational policies\, and the Holocaust. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-red-friday-the-wehrmacht-the-order-police-and-the-first-wartime-massacre-of-bialystoks-jews/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220128T104653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
UID:8699-1645122600-1645126200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: Remembering The Kitchener Camp
DESCRIPTION:Residents of the Kitchener Camp\, 1939.  \nJoin us for a talk and reception to mark the launch of the Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue\, 1939 travelling exhibition at the Library. Leave to Land was authored by Clare Weissenberg and was based on materials collected through The Kitchener Camp Project\, a unique online resource that brings together archival records and family treasures to build a moving and compelling picture of this unlikely sanctuary. \nAntony Lishak\, chief executive of Holocaust Education charity Learning from the Righteous\, will explore the significance of this remarkable act of humanitarianism. Drawing extensively from the Kitchener Camp archives held at the Library\, he will show that\, far from being a mere footnote\, Kitchener Camp’s connections to the likes of Adolf Eichmann\, Benjamin Murmelstein\, Oswald Moseley and Lord Winterton of Evian fame\, intrinsically link it to the wider Holocaust narrative. \nAlmost 4\,000 Jews found sanctuary at the Kitchener Camp\, in a quiet corner of the Kent coast\, during 1939. Conceived of and funded by activists within the Jewish community and beyond\, it was set up as a transit camp for refugees with visas for third-party countries. Sadly\, the scheme was destined to be short-lived. Yet\, for the year or so it was operational\, the foundations of thousands of futures were laid\, and the local population of sleepy Sandwich\, which had doubled in a handful of months\, extended an overwhelmingly warm welcome to their foreign guests. Its enduring legacy can be found in the contribution made by the new citizens of this country\, and their future generations. \nAbout Learning from the Righteous \nBy teaching about the events of the Holocaust through the lens of the bystander\, Learning from the Righteous works with students and teachers to highlight its contemporary relevance. \n  \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/exhibition-launch-talk-remembering-the-kitchener-camp/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Launch Event,The Kitchener Camp
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220215T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220215T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220107T155355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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SUMMARY:Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award 2022
DESCRIPTION:Jewish refugees stranded on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border\, 1938 © B. Birnbach\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nThis is an in-person event at The Wiener Holocaust Library. If you would like to register for the live stream please book here.  \nJoin The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) and The Wiener Holocaust Library for the HAF Human Rights Award and annual lecture. This year’s recipient is the Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN). The team at KRAN works with separated young refugees and asylum seekers also known as UASC’s (unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee minors). These are young people aged 16 to 24 who have arrived in Kent alone and are claiming asylum and KRAN provide them with a safe\, positive space supporting them to succeed through a range of services and pathways. \nFor 2022\, the HAF Annual Lecture will be given by award-winning journalist and author Daniel Trilling on the theme of ‘refugees in Europe then and now’. 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. \nHans Albrecht came to Britain on the Kindertransport. The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) strives to advance and promote human rights particularly in relation to children\, equalities\, disability\, children who are refugees and/or fleeing conflict and freedom from persecution on the grounds of race\, ethnicity and faith. \n  \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/hans-albrecht-foundation-annual-lecture-and-human-rights-award-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080043
CREATED:20220125T154816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
UID:8628-1644508800-1644512400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The occupied Ruhr 1923 and the Munich Agreement 1938: two episodes from the career of the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955)
DESCRIPTION:Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955).  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nT. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955) is a unique but neglected figure in British political and religious history\, a Quaker pacifist who sat in the House of Commons in both world wars. He appears in literature only for his work in the First World War when he helped introduce a system of alternative\, non-military national service for conscientious objectors. Yet he was involved in many of the domestic and international issues of the first half of the twentieth century. The talk will be about two episodes in his career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923\, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938. \nAbout the speaker: \nMark Frankel is a retired civil servant and a PhD candidate with the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies\, University of Birmingham. The provisional title of his PhD is T. Edmund Harvey\, Liberal Quaker\, Quaker Liberal. \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-occupied-ruhr-1923-and-the-munich-agreement-1938-two-episodes-from-the-career-of-the-quaker-politician-t-edmund-harvey-1875-1955/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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