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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
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:20241023T080841
CREATED:20220107T154425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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:20241023T080841
CREATED:20220107T161421Z
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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
CREATED:20220125T165529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T080841
CREATED:20220111T124345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151304Z
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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:20241023T080841
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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:20241023T080841
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:20241023T080841
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:20241023T080841
CREATED:20211213T132920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151305Z
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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:20241023T080841
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:20241023T080841
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:20241023T080841
CREATED:20211029T112428Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080841
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: The Radicalising Impact of the Fascist Past: Emotive Memories of Nazism and Fascism in Contemporary Extreme Right Politics
DESCRIPTION:As part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series\, Professor Paul Jackson will explore how the extreme right today\, in Britain and internationally\, often takes a deep interest in the fascist past. \nFront page of the fascist newspaper Action\, the newspaper of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists\, 9 July 1936. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nWhile the more moderate populist radical right has tried to disconnect itself from the legacies of fascism\, many smaller\, more overtly extremist groups in Britain\, Europe and elsewhere have sought to reconnect their activism with memories of the fascist past. This talk will interrogate fascination with aspects of the fascist past and consider how they help such groups today develop a culture that appeals to younger men especially through themes of hypermasculinity and underpin ongoing support through a politics of emotions. \nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Paul Jackson is a specialist in the contemporary history of British fascism. His books include Pride in Prejudice: Understanding Britain’s Extreme Right (MUP\, 2022). He is also the academic curator of the Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton\, a major collection of material linked to the recent history of the extreme right. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-radicalising-impact-of-the-fascist-past-emotive-memories-of-nazism-and-fascism-in-contemporary-extreme-right-politics/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jean Améry and Suicide: At Existentialism’s Limits
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe essayist\, novelist\, philosopher\, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s theory of radical\, ontological freedom provided a lifeline for Améry in the aftermath of his experience of exile\, torture\, and imprisonment in the concentration camps. Existentialism gifted Améry with the conceptual tools necessary to create himself anew. However\, Améry’s appropriation of this philosophy came up against limits in the experience of aging\, which\, in Améry’s account\, saw a past marked by suffering\, failure and regret solidify\, just as the future’s horizon began to recede. Rather than freedom\, it is a limitation that would come to define the human experience for Améry. But this gradual erosion of freedom’s potential would be interrupted by what Améry presents as the highest form of autonomy: the act of suicide. This presentation will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism. \nAbout the speaker: \nJohn Spiers is a PhD candidate in Literature\, Theology and the Arts in the Theology & Religious Studies department at the University of Glasgow. He holds a master’s degree from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. His research focuses on existential thought and he has written on Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Dostoevsky\, Shestov\, Fondane\, Beauvoir\, Sartre\, and Camus. His doctoral thesis engages with existential themes in Jean Améry’s essayistic writings. \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). \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jean-amery-and-suicide-at-existentialisms-limitspart-of-the-wiener-holocaust-librarys-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-doctoral-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \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. \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-the-problems-of-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T201500
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman: Commemorating Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online showing of the play The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman and a Q&A with the director and co-author\, Dr Erika Hughes. \nA photograph taken of the play\, The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProudly co-hosted by the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association and the Library in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the first transport to Theresienstadt ghetto on 24 November 1941. We are showing The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman\, a new play about the only lesbian Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt\, Auschwitz\, and Neuengamme to bear testimony. The play\, which takes its text from interviews conducted by historian Anna Hájková\, offers a poignant look on coming of age as a Jewish queer woman in the concentration camps and reflects on love\, choices\, sexual violence and sexual barter\, homophobia\, and survival. \nThe play is followed by a discussion between the director and co-author of the play\, Dr Erika Hughes (Portsmouth University) and Dr Chelsea Sambells (Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association). Dr Hughes\, author of the forthcoming Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance (Bloomsbury/Methuen)\, discusses the making of The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman; how it fits into the cultural life and theater production in Theresienstadt\, and how these are reflected in the archival collections of the two hosting Holocaust institutions\, whether it is the Theresienstadt staging of Faust or the homesick letters of a Viennese philatelist in the ghetto library. \nThe premiere of the play will take place at 18.30 GMT. A link will be sent to all attendees to watch (46 minutes running time). \nThe Q&A held on Zoom will follow from approximately 19.15 GMT to 20.15 GMT. \nIf joining us from a different country\, please check the timezone appropriate to where you are.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-the-amazing-life-of-margot-heuman-commemorating-theresienstadt/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: The Nazi Rise to Power
DESCRIPTION:Propaganda played an important role in the Nazi Party’s rise to power. Rallies\, like this one pictured\, were an important way of spreading the Party’s ideas. This particular photograph was taken at a rally in Nuremberg in 1934. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Autumn 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 talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi rise to power. It will explore the aftermath of the First World War\, the role of the Weimar Republic\, the early years of the Nazi Party formation and how the Nazis ultimately consolidated their power. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this talk 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-the-nazi-rise-to-power/
CATEGORIES:Student Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Textbook portrayals of Britain and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Jewish refugees take a class at the Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp\, c. 1946-1948. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe British response to the Holocaust – both at the time and in retrospect – was extremely context. It ranged from stories of rescue\, such as the Kindertransport\, to examples of obstruction and antisemitism. \nThis presentation will explore how this intricate relationship has been depicted in a sample set of history textbooks designed for use in schools. Drawing upon source material from a range of dates and authors\, this presentation will give a taste of some key research findings. Notably\, although the British response was not always glorified in textbooks\, it was rare to find depictions of the relationship which offered a truly nuanced interpretation of the issue. \nAbout the speaker: \nDaniel Adamson is a PhD student in the History Department of Durham University. His research centres on educational portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. Daniel holds an MA in History from the University of Cambridge\, an MA in History Education from UCL\, and is also a PGCE-qualified former teacher. \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-textbook-portrayals-of-britain-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: In the archive with Lotte Eisner: how she solved the problem of ‘Maria’ (the robot)
DESCRIPTION:Lotte Eisner and a model of ‘Maria’ from Metropolis (Fritz Lang\, 1927) in the museum of the Cinémathèque française. Courtesy of Mark Horowitz. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis talk is about visibility in the archive and its consequences. The focus is Lotte H Eisner\, well known as a film historian and author of three major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema: The Haunted Screen (1952)\, FW Murnau (1964) and Fritz Lang (1974). From 1945 she was also Chief Curator at the Cinémathèque Française and during her 30-year career there as a collector and archivist\, created and built a magnificent archive of material film culture including items such as scripts\, sets\, technical equipment\, costumes\, models\, posters and books. However\, this important work has tended to be overlooked by film historians and\, in some cases\, wrongly documented. Using examples of Eisner’s collecting and curation\, this talk will reveal how a lack of classification in the archive can lead to historiographical confusion and eventually invisibility. \nAbout the speaker: \nJulia Eisner is working on a PhD about her great-aunt the film historian\, writer and curator\, Lotte H Eisner\, at King’s College\, University of London. Prior to her PhD project\, Julia was a BBC Radio 4 reporter and producer for 20 years making features and documentaries. She then changed career and took an LLB and an LLM at Birkbeck\, the University of London where she taught in the Law faculty and worked as a research assistant on a European Law Project. In January 2016 Julia left Birkbeck to concentrate on researching and writing. In November 2016\, her programme The Vigil was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. \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-in-the-archive-with-lotte-eisner-how-she-solved-the-problem-of-maria-the-robot/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Holocaust History Under Siege
DESCRIPTION:Destruction of a housing block in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising. US National Archives and Records Administration. \nFor the second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture\, Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves confronted with the hostile reactions of various states pursuing the policies of Holocaust distortion. This situation has acquired particular importance and urgency in Poland\, where the authorities have introduced a series of measures intended to freeze academic debate\, hinder independent research and intimidate scholars whose writings are perceived as opposed to the official\, state-approved historical narrative. \nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership between The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway. \nRegistration and tickets:\nWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online\, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple\, free\, and only requires an email address.. Register for online lecture. \nTickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now\, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here. Book in-person tickets. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/second-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-holocaust-history-under-siege/
LOCATION:Museum of London\, 150 London Wall\, London\, EC2Y 5HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: Studying Fascist Movements Across Interwar Europe
DESCRIPTION:Hlinka Guard meeting in Bzovík\, 4 March 1939. \nPart of the This Fascist Life exhibition event series. \nCalling someone a fascist during the interwar period meant first and foremost associating them with movements\, leaders\, or regimes that embraced that name\, or which other people commonly thought were fascist. Labels like ‘fascist’ were useful for activists seeking funding or alliances abroad\, for opponents trying to identify their enemies as fifth columnists\, or as a shorthand way to highlight key attributes of a movement. But in the day-to-day bustle of politics those groups generally considered as fascist often had more in common with right-wing or ultra-nationalist parties in their own countries than with comparable groups abroad. Activists and hostile observers alike acknowledged that certain commonalities animated movements and regimes\, but they were often remarkably ambivalent about whether particular movements were or were not ‘fascist’. \nIn this talk\, Roland Clark and Tim Grady approach the word ‘fascism’ as an empty signifier that was defined by its relationships rather than its content\, grounding it in the transnational\, pan-European context within which it emerged. By drawing together examples of what people meant by fascism from a variety of countries across the continent\, we offer a promising new way of thinking about what fascism was in interwar Europe. \nAbout the speakers: \nRoland Clark is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool and the Principal Investigator on the European Fascist Movements 1919-1941 project and co-curator of the This Fascist Life exhibition. He is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and President of the Society for Romanian Studies and the author of Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (2015). \nTim Grady is Professor of History at the University of Chester and the Co-Investigator on the European Fascist Movements 1919-1941 project and co-curator of the This Fascist Life exhibition. He is the author of A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (2017) and The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory (2011).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-lecture-studying-fascist-movements-across-interwar-europe/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T150000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nA postwar Czech index revealed that Zuzana Knobloch had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 25 November 1943. It is presumed that she died there. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis two-day event series that will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nII. Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop – 12 November 2021\, 1 – 3pm\nLearn how to take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service archive of the Linen Hall Library’s resources. This workshop will provide a demonstration of the ITS archive and a skills workshop as well as the opportunity for short\, one-on-one consultations with the panellists\, who will include The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Senior ITS Researchers\, Elise Bath and Mary Vrabecz\, and the Linen Library’s Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer\, Scott Edgar. Participants can navigate the ITS archive partially from their mobile devices and are invited to bring with them their family trees and research questions. Light refreshments will be served. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-recovering-the-personal-in-difficult-histories-a-family-research-workshop/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T203000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nMissing since September 1943\, Zuzana Knobloch\, a young Czech Jew\, was arrested in Prague with her husband\, Ferdinand\, for resistance activities. Zuzana’s parents were murdered after being deported from Theresienstadt in 1942. It took her surviving family many decades to uncover her likely fate. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis two-day event series will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nI. Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust – 11 November 2021\, 7 – 8.30pm\nA pop-up exhibition\, drinks reception and talks on the history of the search for the missing after the Second World War with co-curators Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, led by Scott Edgar\, Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer. The history of the collection and what it reveals about the Second World War helps provide context for research\, both family and academic\, within the archive itself. The discussion will include themes raised by the exhibition\, including war\, migration\, rupture\, survival and victimhood. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-loss-and-renewal-tracing-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T080842
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: "The Mussolini of the North": A Transnational Look at Finnish Interwar Fascism
DESCRIPTION:The politician\, farmer Vihtori Kosola poses for the sculptor Mauno Oittinen\, 1930. Photographed by Pietinen\, Inventory ID: HK19670603:100\, Collection of Historical Images\, Finnish Heritage Agency. \nPart of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe event series. \nSimilar to most other European fascist movements\, the core of Finnish interwar fascism consisted of right-wing war veterans. As the experiences of the 1918 Finnish Civil War played a crucial role in their radicalisation\, many previous studies have focused on the domestic Finnish perspective to explain the phenomenon. Instead\, in this lecture\, Marja Jalava will follow the transnational turn within the broader field of fascist studies by focusing on the Lapua Movement and the Patriotic People’s Movement as Finnish manifestations of a European-wide\, transnational mobilisation. \nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Marja Jalava gain her PhD in 2005 in Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She works currently as Professor in Cultural History at the School of History\, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku. Her research interests lie in the modern history of Finland and other Nordic countries. Among her long-term interests is the history of nationalism and cultural radicalism. \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-the-mussolini-of-the-north-a-transnational-look-at-finnish-interwar-fascism/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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