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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
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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:20241023T080427
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220414T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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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:20241023T080427
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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:20241023T080427
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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
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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
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220210T110650Z
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220127T140517Z
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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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DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220112T170836Z
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220128T122445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151303Z
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220128T104653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220107T155355Z
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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:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220125T154816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Living in Two Worlds: The Else Behrend and Siegfried Rosenfeld Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Living in Two Worlds\, published on 17 December 2021\, is a unique collection of personal diaries and letters describing the lives of a remarkable couple\, Else and Siegfried Rosenfeld\, during the 1930s\, then throughout the Second World War and beyond.  \nElse’s writings were first published in Switzerland in 1945\, not so long after her daring night-time escape across the border in 1944. This marks the first time that her own diaries and her letters to Eva\, close friend and confidante\, as well as of her exiled husband’s diaries\, penned in isolation in England\, have been published in English. The diaries have been interwoven in such a way as to highlight their reliance on one another throughout the long years of enforced separation and yet also to present their differing views of their country’s actions and the conduct of its people. The writing makes accessible to historians and the general reader alike the facts of persecution and deportation but is not without humour thanks to Else’s wry remarks about certain Gestapo officers with whom she had to engage in the course of her work. \nThe original researchers and editors of the diaries and letters\, Professor Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger\, have worked closely with Deborah Langton\, the translator\, and with Cambridge University Press\, to bring this volume to a wider public. \nDeborah will talk about her experience of working on the book\, picking out key themes\, people and places\, as well as reading extracts from Else’s diaries while Steve Cooper\, Else’s grandson\, will read from Siegfried’s diaries. With contributions from Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \nCUP will kindly offer discounts on the book to those registering for this event. Purchase here. \nLiving in Two Worlds: Diaries of a Jewish Couple in Germany and in Exile published by CUP (2021) and translated by Deborah Langton. \nThe original German version is ‘Leben in zwei Welten’ published by Volk (2011). Edited by Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \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-launch-living-in-two-worlds-the-else-behrend-and-siegfried-rosenfeld-diaries/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Ernst Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Dr Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Professor Natalia Aleksiun in honour of Dr Sliwa’s joint award of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Dr Sliwa’s award-winning manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published in 2021 by Rutgers University Press\, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the Second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here\, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told\, analyzed\, and treated seriously. \nSliwa scours archives to tell their story\, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities\, Polish neighbors\, Jewish community and family\, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place\, a people\, and daily life\, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. \nOffering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Joanna Sliwa is a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history. She works as Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference)\, the only NGO that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors. She has worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York\, and has taught at Kean University and at Rutgers University. She was jointly awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize in 2020 for her book manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. \nDr Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida\, Gainesville. She holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University\, Poland\, and NYU\, U.S. She specializes in the social\, political\, and cultural history of modern East European and Polish Jewry and the Holocaust. Aleksiun has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews\, the Holocaust\, Jewish intelligentsia in East-Central Europe\, Polish-Jewish relations\, and modern Jewish historiography. In addition to her 2021 book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)\, she is the author of Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (‘Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950’) (Warsaw\, 2002) and co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017) (with Brian Horowitz and Antony Polonsky) and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust (2021) (with Hana Kubátová). She also serves as co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. Currently\, she is a senior fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw. She is completing a new book about Jews in hiding in eastern Galicia during 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). \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-ernst-fraenkel-prize-lecture-joanna-sliwa-in-conversation-with-natalia-aleksiun/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools with Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a lunchtime book talk with Helen Roche. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nDrawing on material from eighty archives in six different countries worldwide\, as well as eyewitness testimonies from over 100 former pupils\, Helen Roche presents the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich’s most prominent elite schools\, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA). The Napolas provided an all-encompassing National Socialist ‘total education’\, featuring ideological indoctrination\, premilitary training\, and a packed programme of extracurricular activities\, including school trips and exchanges throughout Europe and beyond. \nCombining all the most seductive elements of reform-pedagogy\, youth-movement traditions\, and the militaristic ethos of the Prussian cadet schools\, the schools took pupils from the age of ten\, aiming to train them for leadership roles in all walks of life. Those who successfully passed the gruelling entrance examination\, which tested applicants’ physical prowess\, courage\, and alleged ‘racial purity’ along with their academic abilities\, had to learn to live in a highly militarized and enclosed boarding school community. \nThrough an in-depth depiction of everyday life at the Napolas\, as well as systematic analysis of the ways in which different schools within the NPEA system were shaped by their previous traditions\, this study sheds light on the qualities which the Nazi regime desired to instil in its future citizens\, whilst also contributing to key debates on the political\, social\, and cultural history of the Third Reich\, demonstrating that the history of education and youth can illuminate the broader history of this era in novel ways. Ultimately\, the NPEA can be seen as the Nazi dictatorship’s most effective educational experiment. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book\, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas\, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in the press nationally and internationally\, including appearances in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Telegraph\, on the BBC and Sky News. Her first book\, Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps\, 1818-1920\, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas)\, 1933-1945\, was published in 2013. \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-the-third-reichs-elite-schools-with-helen-roche/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220202T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220125T165529Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: The Day of 'Liberation'
DESCRIPTION:Former women inmates of Bergen-Belsen after liberation\, April 1945. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nAs the German Army started to lose the war\, they were pushed into retreat towards Germany by the Allies. The Allies then began to liberate the hundreds of camps that the Nazis had constructed across occupied Europe. \nFor many prisoners\, liberation was only the beginning of their journey to freedom. \nThis talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the topic of ‘liberation’. It will contextualise the final events of the Holocaust\, explore the concept of ‘liberation’\, consider life after ‘liberation’ in DP camps and frame why it is so important that we remember the Holocaust today. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this talk is suitable for those studying the following: \n\nYear 9 – as required by the National Curriculum\nGCSE: OCR Explaining the Modern World\, Germany 1925-1955\nA-Level: Edexcel Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\,\nA-Level: OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nA-Level: AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945\nOther non-history courses (Religion and Philosophy\, Politics\, English Literature)\n\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 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-the-day-of-liberation/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T193000
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CREATED:20220111T124345Z
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: Remembering the Day of Deportation
DESCRIPTION:Jewish deportees from the ‘Polenaktion’ in a makeshift camp in Polish-German border town Zbąszyń (Bentschen)\, November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 with the Mayor of Camden Sabrina Francis and Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller. \nThis year’s event will focus on the experiences of victims of Nazi genocide on the day that they were deported to ghettos and camps and will include readings from the Library’s collection of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust on this theme. The event will also feature a talk by Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller exploring the significance of the contemporary photographs taken of deportations of Jews during the Holocaust. \nWith remarks by Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library and readings by a Camden Youth MP. \nWe ask that audience members take a lateral flow test in the 24 hours before attending. \nIf you would like to join us virtually please register for a live stream ticket here. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Christoph Kreuzmüller is a Berlin-based curator\, educator and historian. In the new research project last seen\, he is currently designing an educational tool for a close reading of deportation photos. His acclaimed study Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity 1930-1945 was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books and presented at The Wiener Library. His latest study Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz (together with Tal Bruttmann und Stefan Hördler) has been published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in 2019. \nSabrina Francis is a Labour councillor for Bloomsbury\, currently serving her second term. She has lived in Camden for her whole life and attended Brecknock Primary School and Camden School for Girls. First elected in 2014\, Sabrina is Camden Labour’s first black woman councillor. In 2020 she launched and chaired a Youth Engagement Group\, giving young people from Camden the opportunity to co-design policy that tackles racial inequality in the criminal justice and education systems. Alongside being a councillor\, Mayor Francis currently works in digital engagement and has previously held digital roles at an agency and on a political campaign. In 2017 she was recognised on the New Year’s Honours List for services to the University of London. \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/holocaust-memorial-day-2022-the-day-of-deportation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Genocide,Holocaust Memorial Day
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220125T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220125T210000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20220107T155645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: The Holocaust in Public
DESCRIPTION:In his final book\, The Fate of the Jews\, 1933–49\, the British historian David Cesarani lamented the ‘yawning gulf’ between popular understanding of the Holocaust and academic scholarship. This public event provides an opportunity to evaluate the continued relevance of Cesarani’s critique\, as new initiatives are launched (the Imperial War Museum’s new Holocaust Galleries opened to the public in October 2021) and others undergo continued refinement (development of UK secondary school teaching on the Holocaust by UCL’s Institute of Education; plans for a UK Holocaust Memorial alongside Parliament). \nWhat is the value of academic involvement in processes of public education and commemoration? To what extent is such involvement a reality\, particularly in the UK? What are the prospects for further growth in collaborative initiatives\, and what are the obstacles? And how far does our expanded digital world impact this relationship? \nThe event will be moderated by Professor Shirli Gilbert (UCL\, Academic Director of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre) and Dr Andy Pearce (Institute of Education\, UCL). Offered in collaboration with the British Association for Holocaust Studies. \nTo find out more about this event and to register please click here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-the-holocaust-in-public/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220120
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20211203T101213Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Conference: Echoes of Fascism: The Radical Right in the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Students at the University of Vienna saluting in a torchlight parade together with the Rector\, Hans Übersberger\, in 1931. ÖNB Bildarchiv. H 780 B \nA one-day conference organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The European Fascist Movements 1918-1941 project\, the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right and HOPE not hate. \nThis academic conference is part of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Movements in Interwar Europe exhibition and will explore the Radical Right in the twenty-first century. View the full conference schedule here. \nAlthough fascism was defeated militarily at the end of the Second World War\, neo-fascist and radical right movements have continued to spread racial hatred and to challenge liberal democracies ever since. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen right-wing political parties\, white supremacist scenes\, extremist organisations\, and governments promoting ultranationalist chauvinism in various forms. By interrogating the frames\, repertoires\, mobilisation strategies\, and activities of the radical right\, this conference seeks to understand how the radical right functions in today’s world so that we might be better equipped to combat it in the future. \nVirtual Conference Schedule: \nPlease note that this programme does not include all aspects of the conference. Some elements involve conference participants only and will not be live-streamed. \nYou will receive individual zoom links to join the conference on Tuesday 18 November via email\, please check junk folders. \n11.30am: Panel discussion: Fighting Fascism Today  \nChair: Matthew Feldman (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \nSpeakers: Joe Mulhall (HOPE not hate); Dave Rich (Community Security Trust); Bethan Johnson (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \n1.30-2.45pm: Keynote lecture (online): Ruth Wodak\, Lancaster University/ the University of Vienna\, Collective amnesia: Normalizing a rhetoric of exclusion \nChair: Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library \n5.30-7pm: Keynote public lecture: Julie Gottlieb\, University of Sheffield\, Memory Boom and Bust: Radical Right Women and the Politics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Britain  \nChair: Roland Clark\, University of Liverpool
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-conference-echoes-of-fascism-the-radical-right-in-the-twenty-first-century/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20211130T113930Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland\, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to partner with UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to launch Michael Fleming’s new book\, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nIn the midst of the Second World War\, the Allies acknowledged Germany’s ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission\, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. The book shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and\, along with others\, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later\, from the summer of 1945\, the Polish Government in Warsaw\, the book provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War. \nAbout the speakers: \nMichael Fleming is a historian at The Polish University Abroad\, London and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include Communism\, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland\, 1944-1950 (2010)\, Auschwitz\, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and (as editor) Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies and the Aquila Polonica Prize. \nDan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in the Politics Department of SOAS University of London and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row\, in London. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler. His previous books include America Hitler and the UN\, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Professor Weiss) and The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN\, War Crimes and on Disarmament. \nJulia Eichenberg is a senior lecturer at the University of Bayreuth\, and a Freigeist Fellow and principal investigator of the research project “The London Moment” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2023). In 2008\, she was awarded a PhD in Modern History by the University of Tübingen for her research on Polish First World War veterans. Since then\, she has held fellowships and lectured in Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin\, University College Dublin and Humboldt University Berlin. She has published on aspects of war\, welfare\, violence\, peace\, and international collaboration. Her next book engages with the collaboration of European governments-in-exile in London during the Second World War. \nChaired by: \nAntony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972)\, The Little Dictators (1975)\, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia\, volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History. \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-launch-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-poland-the-united-nations-war-crimes-commission-and-the-search-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20211213T132920Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: A ‘New Europe’ without Jews. Antisemitism and Fascism in Latvia 1932-1945
DESCRIPTION:Poster of the fascist organisation “Pērkonkrusts” (Thunder Cross)\, 1932/1933. Courtesy of Nacionālā enciklopēdija\, LNB. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. This event is virtual\, but it is possible that a limited number of in-person seats will become available closer to the event. \nThe Republic of Latvia was inaugurated in 1918 as a liberal democracy\, granting general suffrage and equal rights to all citizens\, and cultural autonomy to minorities. Despite these achievements\, anti-democratic and racist movements emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. In this talk\, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context. She will reveal expressions of anti-Jewish activities and discuss how the fascist organisations in Latvia fostered the fragmentation of civil society in the interwar period. Understanding of the nature of their antisemitism enables us to analyse the behaviour of the Latvian fascists during the Second World War when their reaction to the German occupation ranged from acts that can be termed collaboration to those that resemble resistance. \nAbout the speaker: \nPaula Oppermann is a PhD candidate in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the Latvian Fascist Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) Organisation\, how it developed its ultra-nationalist\, antisemitic ideology in the 1930s\, and how this influenced its members’ actions during the Second World War. Paula previously studied History and Baltic Languages at the University of Greifswald and completed an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests are the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia\, and she has published articles on the history of the Rumbula and Salaspils Memorials. She has worked as a research assistant at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Documentation Centre curating a special exhibition entitled Mass Shootings. The Holocaust Between the Baltic and the Black Sea 1941–1944\, and as a sub-editor for the online project Pogrom: November 1938. Testimonies from Kristallnacht\, developed by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London. \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-a-new-europe-without-jews-antisemitism-and-fascism-in-latvia-1932-1945/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20211201T105457Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: Between fanaticism and mediocrity: Swedish and Dutch fascism\, 1923-1940
DESCRIPTION:NSB leader Anton Mussert together with party members at an annual congress in The Hague\, 1935. The image is out of copyright\, originally produced by the NSB Photo Service\, which was criminalised and dissolved in 1945. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series. \nThe Netherlands and Sweden were better known in the interwar period for the stability of their democracies and their relative liberalism than fascism. Yet there too fascist parties emerged: tens of thousands of people joined the Dutch National Socialist Movement and the Swedish National Socialist Workers Party among many others and fought for a new fascist state. They did so fortunately without ultimate success – marginalised into oblivion\, these groups can appear as only mediocre imitations of more successful models. This begs the question of why so many thousands of people not only joined\, but persisted in a fanatical devotion to their cause\, sometimes for decades far beyond any hope for victory. This lecture will explore the rise and decline of fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands\, explain their appeal to ordinary fascists in spite of unfavourable conditions and the mediocrity of the objects of their devotion. \nDr Nathaniël Kunkeler is a historian of fascism and the far-right in interwar Europe\, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Right-Wing Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. They did their PhD at Cambridge University on the subject of Swedish and Dutch fascism\, which has now been published as a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic: Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability\, 1931-40. They are currently working on a research project about military volunteers and the transnational counter-revolutionary Right in north-western Europe 1917-40. \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-exhibition-talk-between-fanaticism-and-mediocrity-swedish-and-dutch-fascism-1923-1940/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220105T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220105T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
CREATED:20211117T114308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151305Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Virtual Symposium: New initiatives and debates around Holocaust memorialisation
DESCRIPTION:United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) welfare worker\, Miss Eileen Wermig\, leads a group of young children at the UNRRA Weisbaden Camp\, where some 5\,000 children were housed\, pictured after the Second World War. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn organisation with Imperial War Museum Institute\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London and the University of Wolverhampton. \nTo mark the postponed seventh international multidisciplinary conference\, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour\, the conference organisers are pleased to announce a virtual symposium that will explore new international debates in Holocaust memorialisation. In the spirit of the conference\, we hope that the debate and discussion generated by the panel presentations will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines engaged in research on themes of the ‘life after’ and memory\, as well as the interested public. We are looking forward to hosting the next Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference in January 2023. \nVirtual Event Programme: (All times GMT) \n6.00pm            Welcome and introduction by Suzanne Bardgett\, Head of Research and Academic Partnerships\, Imperial War Museum Institute \n6.05pm            New museum initiatives in the UK and the Netherlands \nChair: Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director\, Wiener Library \nJames Bulgin\, Content Lead on the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums London \nEmile Schrijver\, Director\, Jewish Historical Museum\, Amsterdam \nDiscussion/ Questions \n6.45pm            Recent debates on Holocaust memorialisation in Germany and Poland \nChair: Professor David Feldman\, Director\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism \nProfessor Jennifer Evans\, Professor of History at Carleton University\, to reflect on developments and debates in Germany \nProfessor Dariusz Stola\, Professor of History\, Institute of Political Studies\, Polish Academy of Sciences\, and former Director of POLIN\, museum of the history of Polish Jews\, Warsaw\, to reflect on developments and debates in Poland \nDiscussion/Questions \n7.25                 Concluding words from Professor Dieter Steinert\, Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies\, University of Wolverhampton \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/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-virtual-symposium-new-initiatives-and-debates-around-holocaust-memorialisation/
CATEGORIES:Symposiums
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211213T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211213T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080427
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion: Antisemitism\, Race and Violence in the Russian Empire
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nFuneral held for desecrated Torah scrolls following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903\, in which 49 Jews were murdered and hundreds of women raped (public domain). Kishinev was then in the Russian Empire. \nDiscussions about the mass violence and racism perpetrated by European empires during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries do not always consider the situation in the Russian Empire\, where genocide was committed against Muslim Circassians from the 1830s-1860s\, and where the Jewish population suffered repeated waves of state-orchestrated discrimination\, persecution and violence. This event will consider these events and the significance of racism and antisemitism in Imperial Russia. It will examine the legacies of these acts of ethnic mass violence during the Russian Civil War and in Nazi Germany. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Polly Zavadivker is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Jewish Studies programme at the University of Delaware. She is the author of A Nation of Refugees: World War I and Russia’s Jews (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming) and 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front (2016). \nDr Brendan McGeever is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck\, University of London where he is also a Research Associate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of the prize-winning Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2019). \nDr Andrew Sloin is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College\, City University of New York. He has expertise in Russian\, East European\, Soviet\, and Jewish history. He is the author of The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy\, Race\, and Bolshevik Power (2017). \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-antisemitism-race-and-violence-in-the-russian-empire/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Colonialism and Genocide,Racism and Antisemitism
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