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In this virtual talk, Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls and Dr Kevin Colls will discuss their work 'Adolf Island' which offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives of the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.
This one-day educational event has been organised specifically for GCSE and A-Level students who attend school or college in the London Borough of Camden to help deepen their understanding of the Nazi era and the Holocaust.
This 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.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Maëlle Lepitre will give an overview of the reorientation of the memorial site at Buchenwald following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In this virtual talk, 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
This virtual panel of expert speakers will explore what the benefits and challenges of bringing the history of Auschwitz outside its gates are.
In 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 virtual panel which will analyse Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This virtual 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.
For the next event in the Library's Family Histories of the Holocaust event series, Dr Christine Schmidt will be talking to Menachem Kaiser about his new book which explores his family's journey to recover property stolen from them by the Nazis during the Second World War.
In this event, Simon Parkin will speak about his new book which uses exclusive new archival material, letters and diaries to reveal the untold story of history's most extraordinary prison camp, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Pragya Kaul will explore photographs and writings of Jewish refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society.
In this exhibition 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.
